What's On Tonight (Sunday): Westies side story

The Westies

Go Westies, young man! Here's what's on television for tonight, Sunday, July 12!

Our Top Pick tonight is the series premiere of The Westies (MGM+, 9 & 10 p.m.). This crime drama with J. K. Simmons (crime) and Titus Welliver (cop) as childhood friends now on opposite sides of the law, follows the real NYC crime family of the Westies in the 1980s. The creator is the same guy who did Hotel Cocaine and Godfather of Harlem.

Elsewhere, Love Island docks, First Sight still marries, Lestat has an album release party, CNN investigates the Salisbury Poisonings, and crackers Built America.

(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Gracenote.)

EARLY STREAMING & EVENING

Married at First Sight (Peacock, 3 a.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. Entering its 20th season, this long-running cable favorite is now a Peacock property, which makes sense as Peacock has found success in the reality TV market space.

The Vampire Lestat (AMC+, 3 a.m. / AMC, 9 p.m.): The newly released The Vampire Lestat album makes the charts. Lestat and Louis debate whether to meet an old neighbor with potential to reveal some painful truths.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
🎥 Transformers (The CW, 7 p.m.)

Married at First Sight

🕗 PRIMETIME 🕚

House of the Dragon (HBO & HBO Max, 9 p.m.): Last week was a great politics episode. This week, HBO offers no clues. There might be blood. Or Dragons. Or both.

Love Island (Peacock, 9 p.m.): SEASON FINALE. A couple will be selected as the winner, but then will the one who gets the $100,000 check choose to split it with their partner or take it all for themselves? The kids love Love Island.

The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door (CNN, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. "Through firsthand testimony from senior intelligence leaders, journalists and victims, this film details the events of the 2018 Novichok nerve agent attack that transformed a quiet English city into the epicenter of a geopolitical crisis."

🎥 Somebody's Always Watching (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): When recorded audio from a murder starts playing on a woman's sound system from an unknown device, she doesn't know if it's a prank or if one of her guests or neighbors is actually a killer looking to snare their next victim.

⭐ The Westies (MGM+, 9 & 10 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. "In 1980s Hell's Kitchen, the Westies crime gang eyes profits from the Javitz Center construction. Though vastly outnumbered by Italian mafia, their brutality earns them a share. Generational tensions rise as FBI probes deepen." It stars J. K. Simmons and Titus Welliver as childhood friends who are now opposing one another.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
100 Cooks (Food Network, 9 p.m.)
90 Day Fiancé (TLC & HBO Max, 8 p.m.)
Big Brother (CBS, 8 p.m. / Paramount+, Monday)
📡 The Chi (Showtime, 9 p.m. / Paramount+ Premium, now)
The Food That Built America (History, 10 p.m.): Crackers
📡 Grantchester (PBS, 9 p.m. / PBS Passport, now)
In the Eye of the Storm (Discovery Channel, 10 p.m. / HBO Max, Monday)
Naked & Afraid: The Global Showdown (Discovery Channel, 8 p.m. / HBO Max, Monday)
📡 Patience (PBS, 8 p.m. / PBS Passport, now)
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo, 8 p.m. / Peacock, Monday)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo, 9 p.m. / Peacock, Monday): Eva Marcille, Phaedra Parks
🎥 What About Bob? (The Wonderful World of Disney) (ABC, 8:30 p.m. / Disney+, now)
🏀 WNBA on NBC (NBC, 9 p.m.): Indiana Fever at Las Vegas Aces

Love Island

💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤

Rick and Morty (Adult Swim, 11 p.m.): Hold still bro. It'll make you nice bro.

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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; Gracenote; IMDb; TV Passport
⭐: Top Pick
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📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
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Happy watching, everyone!