Battle of the Buskers

The Top 16 contestants will be split into four groups, each battling for a spot in the Top 10, at various venues, starting at The Hougang Central Hub. How far they go will be decided by public voting. With Yes 933 DJ Jeff Goh, singer-host Karyn Wong and Lee Teng as hosts. Will Jeff Ng be watching?

Watch it on: meWATCH & Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube Channel, 4.30pm, Sun

The Bear, Season 2

Now that Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) has accepted (more or less) his role as the owner of The Beef, what’s his next move? Try upgrading the diner into a fine-dining establishment. Time to renovate the place and send the crew to culinary school! The workplace dramedy — which is up for 11 Emmys in September — returns with a host of guests, including Will Poulter, Bob Odenkirk, Olivia Colman, Sarah Paulson, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Watch it on: Disney+, Wed

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Downey's Dream Cars

Inspired by Robert Downey Jr’s eco-activist group Footprint Coalition, this six-part docu-series sees the Iron Man actor — currently in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer — enlisting experts to transform his collection (about 20) of traditional gas-powered cars into electric vehicles.

Watch it on: HBO Go, Thur

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Superpowered: The DC Story

Three-part documentary about DC Comics (it started out as National Comics Publications in 1934 and later National Periodical Publications in 1961), the ancestral home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and 30,000 characters.  Featuring interviews with past and present writers and artists as well as the storytellers (including DC Studios head honcho James Gunn) adapting the IPs into movies and TV shows.
 

Watch it on: HBO Go, Thur

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They Cloned Tyrone

Sci-fi comedy thriller starring Jamie Foxx, John Boyega and Teyonah Parris as a pimp, a hustler, and a prostitute, who stumble upon a clandestine cloning laboratory in their deprived neighbourhood. Fans of Get Out and Us should enjoy this.

Watch it on: Netflix, Fri

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Confess, Fletch

Jon Hamm stars as investigative reporter Irwin M ‘Fletch’ Fletcher — a character popularised by Chevy Chase in two movies in the 1980s — embroiled in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. Directed by Greg Mottola (Superbad), the movie also stars Kyle MacLachlan, John Slattery, Roy Wood Jr and Marcia Gay Harden.

Watch it on: HBO Go, Sat

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Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs

Follow a team of palaeontologists to a mass dinosaur graveyard in Wyoming, USA, in this two-part series that was shot over four years.

Watch it on: BBC Earth (Singtel Ch 203, StarHub Ch 407), 8.05pm, Fri; BBC Player

Photo: BBC Studios