Final Term of ‘Sex Education,’ Taye Diggs as ‘Atlanta Playboy,’ Max’s ‘Young Love,’ MTV’s ‘All Star Shore’

Season Premiere

The U.K.’s saucy but heartfelt coming-of-age sex dramedy where nearly everything seems like an innuendo returns for a fourth and final season, with the students of Moordale in for a culture shock as they adjust to their new school at Cavendish Sixth Form College. For junior sex therapist Otis (Asa Butterfield), it’s an especially tough patch, with Maeve (Emma Mackey) across the pond in the U.S. for a study program. (Schitt’s Creek’s Dan Levy recurs as one of her teachers.) For Otis’ professional sex therapist mom Jean (Gillian Anderson), new motherhood presents its own challenges. As for the rest of the gang? There’s a reason the show is titled Sex Education.

Movie Premiere

Taye Diggs (All American) stars in a two-part true-crime docudrama, concluding next Thursday, as Lance Herndon, an Atlanta businessman and entrepreneur who gained fame in the 1990s when President Clinton appointed the tech consultant to the White House Conference on Small Business. Locally, Herndon was just as renowned for his womanizing—which led to his brutal and shocking murder in 1996. The film looks back at his life from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

Series Premiere

Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning 2019 animated short Hair Love focused on an African-American dad’s attempt to do his young daughter Zuri’s hair. Young Love, also animated, expands on that vignette in a family comedy about millennial parenthood, marriage and career, with Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi taking over the role of Zuri’s dad, with Insecure’s Issa Rae reprising the role of her mom. The voice cast includes Loretta Devine, Harry Lennix, Tamar Braxton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Debra Wilson and Brooke Monroe Conaway as Zuri Young Love.

Season Premiere

9/8c

In case you hadn’t noticed, MTV’s Shore brand (as in Jersey) has gone global, and 12 “all stars” from various versions—as well as from the Too Hot to Handle and FBOY Island franchises—converge on a shore house on an island near Cartagena, Columbia to compete in party-style challenges, with a $150,000 prize. Vinny Guadagnino represents Jersey Shore (with Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi narrating the series) alongside contestants from the U.K.’s Geordie Shore, Germany Shore, Rio Shore, Acapulco Shore and Warsaw Shore. Is no place safe from these shore rats?

INSIDE THURSDAY TV:

• Generation Gap (8/7c, ABC): Charo brings her “cuchi cuchi” magic to the multigenerational game show’s season finale as the surprise celebrity guest. Followed by the season finale of The Prank Panel (9/8c).
• Buddy Games (9/8c): A game of human cornhole challenges the teams of friends as new alliances form in the competition’s second round.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (streaming on Paramount+): Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and T’Lyn (Gabrielle Ruiz) gain new insight into their idealistic colleague Tendi (Noël Wells) when they accompany her after she is summoned back to her home planet Orion for her sister’s wedding.
• Impact X Nightline (streaming on Hulu): The second season of ABC News’ Nightline brand extension opens with multiplatform reporter Ashan Singh revisiting the life and unsolved death, 27 years ago this month, of famed rapper Tupac Shakur.