New this week: ‘Ice Age,’ Kevin James and ‘The Gilded Age’

This picture launched by BMG exhibits a self-titled album by Anaïs Mitchell.

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Right here’s a set curated by The Related Press’ leisure journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming companies and music platforms this week.

MOVIES

— “Ice Age” hasn’t fairly lasted eons, however the animated franchise is now a decade previous. And it’s been a really busy prehistoric interval. “The Ice Adventures of Buck Wild,” premiering Friday on Disney+, is the sixth function movie within the sequence, which additionally encompasses TV specials, a load of videogames and an ice present. This installment, the primary launched by Disney after taking up twentieth Century Fox, facilities on Simon Pegg’s one-eyed weasel, Buck Wild, who was first launched in “Ice Age: Daybreak of the Dinosaurs.”

— Netflix’s Adam Sandler industrial complicated by no means sleeps. The most recent providing is: “Residence Group,” a brand new Sandler-produced sports activities comedy starring Kevin James as NFL head coach Sean Payton. “Residence Group,” which debuts Friday on Netflix, is predicated on the true story of when Payton was suspended from New Orleans Saints’ 2012 season as a result of Bountygate scandal, and used that point to teach his son’s Pop Warner crew. In the meantime, Sandler, whose final Netflix movie, “Hubie Halloween,“ got here out in 2020, can have his personal sports activities comedy later this yr, enjoying a former NBA scout attempting to signal an abroad participant to the NBA.

— A digital Sundance Movie Pageant continues to unspools on-line in it second week. Regardless of the Park Metropolis, Utah, competition having to cancel its in-person occasions as a result of omicron-propelled surge in COVID-19 instances, a variety of recent impartial movies will be streamed at dwelling with the acquisition of a ticket. Films premiering starting Monday embody Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne’s friendship comedy “AM I OK?,“ with Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno; “The Janes,” a documentary concerning the Nineteen Seventies underground abortion collective; “Emily the Prison,” with Aubrey Plaza as a debt-saddled Los Angeles lady pulled right into a felony underbelly; and “Piggy,” a Spanish horror movie a few picked-on teenager.

— AP Movie Author Jake Coyle

MUSIC

— Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, who gained a Tony Award for the musical “Hadestown,” returns to her personal music with a brand new self-titled album, out Friday. Made with members of Bon Iver and The Nationwide, it’s Mitchell’s first assortment of all-new materials underneath her personal identify since 2012’s “Younger Man in America.” Firstly of the pandemic, she retreated to her native Vermont, gave start and reconnected to her previous. The songs that got here are very autobiographical and that’s why she selected to self-title the album. “It felt like after so a few years of engaged on telling different tales, now listed below are a few of mine,” she says.

— The Temptations are all the time in type and haven’t stopped making music. Their new album “Temptations 60” options tracks written and produced by Narada Michael Walden, hip-hop producer Ok. Sparks, longtime group member Ron Tyson, founding member Otis Williams and the legendary Smokey Robinson, whose basic songs launched the group’s authentic hit streak. “Temptations 60” options the lead single with Robinson “Is It Gonna Be Sure Or No.” Get able to snap your fingers on Friday.

— AP Leisure Author Mark Kennedy

TELEVISION

— “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes has a brand new sequence. That’s sufficient for his admirers, however for these in want of extra element: HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” written by Fellowes and Sonja Warfield, opens in 1882 amid wrenching U.S. financial change that sees the constructing of large fortunes. Louisa Jacobson stars as a younger lady who leaves the nation for New York Metropolis and life together with her old-money aunts — certainly one of whom is warring with a new-money tycoon. Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski are among the many stars within the nine-episode drama debuting Monday.

— There are horror tales and tales concerning the horrors of highschool, after which there’s “Astrid & Lilly Save the World,” a Syfy sequence that mixes the 2. Shut friends Astrid and Lilly (Jana Morrison, Samantha Aucoin) are social outcasts and, so as to add to their woes, have unintentionally opened a portal to a “terrifyingly quirky monster dimension,” because it’s defined. However the duo might be able to flip unhealthy luck into good and understand their hero potential by taking over the creatures. The sequence debuts Tuesday on Syfy (with a USA simulcast for the premiere).

— A highschool reunion plus homicide equals “The Afterparty,” an Apple TV+ mystery-comedy sequence from filmmakers Chris Miller and Phil Lord (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “The Lego Film”). Described as “a genre-defying sequence” concerning the reunion night that led to loss of life, every of the eight episodes focuses on one character’s account of occasions. Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao and Ilana Glazer are a part of the ensemble forged for the sequence that debuts with three episodes on Friday. The remaining episodes shall be launched on consecutive Fridays.

— AP Tv Author Lynn Elber

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