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BRAVE NEW WORLD Stream on Peacock. Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel, “Brave New World,” has been ripped from the hands of your high school English teacher and thrown onscreen with this new TV adaptation. One of the highest-profile titles from NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, Peacock, the show brings to life the futuristic New London, a city where crime and disease are in the past, and residents spend their time popping happy pills and having orgies. At the story’s center are Bernard (Harry Lloyd) and Lenina (Jessica Brown Findlay), two New Londoners who bring a pair of outsiders, played by Alden Ehrenreich and Demi Moore, into the city. While the creators of the series make an effort to cook up a version of Huxley’s vision that feels fresh to 21st-century audiences, James Poniewozik wrote in his review for The New York Times that the show ultimately “transmutes a provocative warning into a vision of a sci-fi world that feels neither brave nor new.”
LITTLE VOICE Stream on Apple TV+. The musician Sara Bareilles and the filmmaker Jessie Nelson — the pair behind the Broadway musical “Waitress” — are the creators of this new series, which follows a young songwriter (Brittany O’Grady) trying to make it in New York. In his review for The Times, Mike Hale wrote that the show, a dramedy with music, “is not, on the surface, anything like ‘Friends,’ but it weds the mechanics of that kind of glib New York sitcom with the grittier, but still fanciful, aesthetic of John Carney’s musical films like ‘Once’ — dressing up the former, but not capturing much of the energy or the spirit of the latter.”
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BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) 7:30 p.m. on Showtime 2. In a recent video published on YouTube, the performer Josh Gad hosted a discussion with members of the cast and creative team behind the “Back to the Future” trilogy, including Michael J. Fox (who starred as the time-traveling protagonist Marty McFly), Lea Thompson (who played Marty’s mother) and the director Robert Zemeckis. Among the questions Gad asked the team: What would they pitch as a story for a possible fourth installment? “I’d like it to go back to, like, January,” Thompson said, “where they could warn us about the coronavirus.” In lieu of that fictional sequel, consider revisiting this original installment in the series, in which Marty’s greatest worry is whether he can save himself from being stranded in the past.
30 ROCK: A ONE-TIME SPECIAL 8 p.m. on NBC. It’s been about seven and a half years since the final episode of “30 Rock” debuted, which means that the show has been off the air for longer than it was on it. But many will surely still flock to this hourlong special, which will remotely reunite members of the show’s cast including Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer. NBC is using the special as a virtual industry “upfront event” to promote its next year of programming, so expect a heavy dose of forward-looking marketing alongside the nostalgia.
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