Americas Got Talent, Not Suitable for Work, Anthony Anderson Kicks off Password Season, Love Island USA

The Golden Buzzers — and a few of the dreaded red “X” buzzers — get quite the workout in the Season 21 premiere of the variety competition that traditionally dominates the ratings during the summer months. Simon Cowell leads the judging panel, which includes Sofia Vergara, Mel B, and Howie Mandel, several of whom vie for the privilege of hitting that buzzer when acts blow them away. “I wasn’t prepared for this,” Vergara says early on when presented with a puzzling performance artist. But she and the others are much more jazzed by two dance routines that are likely to go viral for very different reasons. Fans will find their own favorites as auditions continue, with live shows scheduled to begin on Aug. 18.

“That is the clue of the year!” This is high praise coming from the hyper-competitive Jimmy Fallon, the guiding spirit of the classic game show’s high-energy revival. With Keke Palmer presiding at the podium, Fallon welcomes black-ish star Anthony Anderson as his celebrity frenemy rival for the Season 3 premiere, where strategic wordplay (plus some exaggerated head movements and clue readings) pays off for their eager-to-win partners.

Reminiscent of many a Friends clone from the 1990s and early 2000s that hoped to capture the lightning of that peerless ensemble comedy, creator Mindy Kaling’s frenetic and way-too-familiar rom-com introduces a diverse cast of five 20-something Gen-Z Manhattan dwellers who, um, live across the hall from each other in tony Murray Hill. The newbie of the group is AJ (Ella Hunt), a recent Boston transplant and finance analyst, rooming with her bestie Abby (Avantika), who works as an assistant for a toxic stylist (Constance Wu). Across the hall is nepo baby Josh (Jack Martin), who uses his name to get a job as a production assistant for a legendary news anchor (Victor Garber). His roomies include aspiring actor and queasy med student Kel (Nicholas Duvernay) and love-starved Davis (Will Angus), who’s thrilled to learn that the fetchingly neurotic AJ is working alongside him, both hoping to impress their arrogant billionaire boss (Insecure‘s Jay Ellis). The series, launching with three episodes, also features The Gilded Age‘s Harry Richardson as an Aussie hunk whose claim to fame is being Cate Blanchett‘s nephew. Which I think is supposed to be amusing.

Guilty pleasure alert: A new group of islanders looking for love, or at least a lust connection, is moving into the villa for Season 8 of the hook-up hit hosted by Bravo alum Ariana Madix. The season has already created some controversy when the initial hot dozen scrapped one member, Vasana, who was booted shortly after the cast announcement when videos surfaced of her using a racial slur. But one of the guys is named Sincere, so maybe it balances out. New episodes drop daily (except Wednesdays beyond premiere week), with the Aftersun companion series airing on Saturdays at 9 pm/ET starting June 13, hosted by Summer House‘s Ciara Miller and Tefi Pessoa.

The penultimate episode of the soccer docuseries, anticipating this month’s World Cup, finds U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Mauricio Pochettino continuing to reshape the team’s roster in the buildup to 2025’s Gold Cup tournament, leading to a pivotal match against Mexico. Also nearing its end: Vice TV‘s historical docuseries Soccer’s American Dream (10/9c), which finds the women’s 1999 World Cup team enjoying fame after their triumph and hoping to use that success to build a professional league. In the three-part finale of the travelogue Last Train to North America (8/7c, ESPN2), the show heads to more cities preparing to host games during the World Cup, from Houston, Dallas, and Kansas City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, with final stops in Seattle and Vancouver.

INSIDE TUESDAY TV:

• Stanley Cup NHL Finals (8 pm/ET, ABC): The Vegas Golden Knights, which swept its conference finals against the Colorado Avalanche, heads to Raleigh to play the Carolina Hurricanes (4-1 against the Montreal Canadiens) in Game 1 of the finals.
• Farmer Wants a Wife (8/7c, Fox): It’s meet-the-families time for the farmers and their chosen partners.
• Baylen Out Loud (9/8c, TLC): Christmas festivities don’t slow down Baylen and her fiancé, Colin, from making more wedding decisions.
• Bear Grylls Is Running Wild (9/8c, Fox): Comic actor Rhys Darby‘s (Our Flag Means Death) prior experience in the New Zealand army may have prepared him to keep up with adventurer Bear Grylls as they navigate the rugged Canyonlands of Utah.
• Bodies in the Water (10/9c, Investigation Discovery): Following the return of People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer (9/8c), a new true-crime series dredges up mysteries involving victims found in watery graves, opening with the discovery of a Michigan high-school athlete’s body under a bloodied dock.

ON THE STREAM:

• Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal(streaming on Paramount+): A three-part docuseries explores the patriarchal fundamentalist community on Gloriavale in New Zealand, where allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up threaten to upend the society’s rigid gender rules.
• Sea Shadows (streaming on MHz Choice): A six-part French thriller follows the investigation by Abigail, a marine scientist, into a shipwreck that reveals the presence of a mysterious entity under the sea.
• Death in Paradise (streaming on BritBox): The poison pen of a local newspaper’s “agony aunt” advice columnist leads to the author’s actual poisoning.