Jake Johnson in a Pickle(Ball), ’72 Hours’ With Kevin Hart & Marcello Hernández, Leslie Jones Roasts Rentals, ‘Jeopardy!’ Signs Off

The Dink

The worlds of tennis and pickleball collide in a genial comedy starring Jake Johnson (New Girl) as Dusty “The Hammer” Boyd, a long-ago tennis prodigy now coaching kids at his unimpressed dad’s (Ed Harris) snooty country club, which resists opening more courts to the scourge of pickleball, seen as “the novel coronavirus of sports.” After Dusty reinjures the wrist that sidelined him years ago, his doctor (Ben Stiller in a cameo) suggests he take up, you guessed it, pickleball. As luck would have it, recently divorced and utterly charming Candace (Mary Steenburgen) needs a partner, and thus begins a mostly platonic friendship that culminates in an unlikely tournament involving Dusty and his nemesis, actual tennis star Andy Roddick (spoofing himself). The movie features one of the final performances of Lynne Marie Stewart (Miss Yvonne of Pee-wee’s Playhouse fame) as one of Dusty’s new pickleball pals.

72 Hours

Imagine the hangover after Kevin Hart spends a lost weekend in Miami with a bunch of Gen Z dudes with Saturday Night Live pedigrees. That’s the premise of a slapstick comedy in which Hart, as 40-year-old ad exec Joe, decides to prove to his boss that he can still relate to today’s youth by crashing a weekend-long bachelor party to which he was mistakenly invited on a group text. The revelers include SNL regulars Marcello Hernández, Ben Marshall, and Kam Patterson, plus Scream star Mason Gooding, who challenge Joe to keep up with their antics. (Guess they’ve never seen any of Hart’s movies.)

Roast My Rental

One of SNL‘s more outspoken alums, Leslie Jones, isn’t known for keeping her opinions to herself. Which makes HGTV’s latest renovation show the perfect vehicle, as Jones visits short-term rental properties that fall way short of the hype. After Jones delivers her “oh hell no” takes, it’s time to get down to business. Jasmine Roth (Help! I Wrecked My House) steps in with a design team to turn these places around in a mere 72 hours. First stop: a cottage in California wine country that has seen far better days.

Jeopardy!

What is separation anxiety? Answer: That feeling when a daily ritual goes dark for several weeks, which happens every summer around this time when Jeopardy! takes its annual break until after Labor Day. If repeats of Season 42’s Champions Wildcard tournament (starting Monday) don’t do it for you, consider checking out the new ESPN Jeopardy! series starting July 31 on Disney+ and Hulu, hosted by Joe Buck. And in about a month, Ken Jennings will be back in prime time on ABC to host the fourth annual edition of Jeopardy! Masters featuring fan-favorite champions.

The Chi

After eight seasons, the urban drama set in Chicago’s South Side reaches its climax, with series creator Lena Waithe returning as co-writer of “The Last Dance” series finale. The main event is a happy occasion: the long-awaited marriage of Emmett (original cast member Jacob Latimore) and Keisha (Birgundi Baker). But don’t be surprised if some serious drama breaks out to cloud the honeymoon. The finale makes its linear premiere on Showtime Sunday at 9/8c.

INSIDE FRIDAY TV:

• WNBA Shooting Stars (8 pm/ET, ESPN, streaming on Disney+ and the ESPN app): Former and current players of teams representing Minnesota, Seattle, Washington and Dallas/Detroit kick off the WNBA’s All-Star Weekend with a two-round, timed shooting competition, in which teams get 70 seconds to sink baskets from all around the court.
• Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness (9/8c, HBO): Larry David‘s Zelig-like fractured-history tour includes stops in Tombstone for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and inside the Lincoln White House before and after the assassination in a double-length segment.
• Dateline NBC (10/9c, NBC): Blayne Alexander reports on the 2020 murder in Indiana of newlywed David Fouts, found on a rural road with poisonous mushrooms in his system.
• Life in the W (10/9c, ESPN2): Another highlight of the WNBA All-Star Weekend is the launch of a six-part docuseries following star players A’ja Wilson, Napheesa Collier, and DeWanna Bonner on and off the court during the league’s 30th anniversary season. (All six episodes can be streamed on the ESPN app.)

ON THE STREAM:

• Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi (streaming on Netflix): An affectionate documentary goes behind the scenes of the romantic teen drama from its first season through this month’s movie finale.
• Breaking Bear (streaming on Tubi): Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie Murphy, and Josh Gad are among the voices in a raunchy, graphic animated Breaking Bad spoof about a family of bears who turn to drug-dealing to try to stop the frackers destroying their forest.
• Apple (TV) Watch: Pick your intrigue. On the penultimate episode of Cape Fear, Anna (Amy Adams) heads to Cape Fear to dig into Max’s (Javier Bardem) past while her own family falls apart. On the sci-fi drama Silo, Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) makes a shocking discovery while going deep into hiding in the underground silo. And on the neo-noir Sugar, the alien private eye (Colin Farrell) goes down a slippery slope in his attempt to thwart corrupt sheriff Ray Vega (Tony Dalton).
• Nirvanna The Band The Show (streaming on Hulu): The cult mockumentary comedy from Canada stars Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol as themselves as they scheme to book a gig at Toronto’s Rivoli club. Also available for streaming: Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie, which expands the premise into a full-length feature film involving accidental time travel.
• Pressure (streaming on Peacock): The historical drama makes its streaming debut, starring Andrew Scott (Ripley) as a meteorologist working with General Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) to chart weather favorable to 1944’s D-Day landings in Normandy.
• Mortal Kombat II (streaming on HBO Max): The martial arts fantasy sequel makes its streaming debut, premiering on HBO Saturday at 8/7c (preceded by 2021’s Mortal Kombat at 6:10/5:10c).