What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (July 20–26)

This week’s “What To Watch” picks include yet another aging-athlete comedy (“The Dink,” Apple TV), a new season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” (Paramount+), and two spinoffs: one sprouted from “Rick and Morty” (“President Curtis,” Adult Swim) and the other from “The Big Bang Theory” (“Stuart Fails to Save the Universe,” HBO Max).

What else do we got for you and your eyeballs? How about another adult animated series (“Breaking Bear,” Tubi), or the drama “Gone” (BritBox)?

And if you’re in the mood to rent a movie, check out “Sour Party,” which arrives at video-on-demand (VOD) retailers this Friday. Let’s hit the couch!

“Gone” | BritBox | Drama

Series premiere, Thursday, July 23: This six-episode BritBox original series is inspired by the true crime book “To Hunt A Killer” by former Detective Julie Mackay and ITV Crime Correspondent Robert Murphy. When a Bristol music teacher goes missing, her husband (David Morrissey, “The Walking Dead”) goes to the police. In doing so, he piques the suspicions of the detective (Eve Myles, “Torchwood”), who wonders, “Is that grief he’s feeling? Or guilt?” After tonight’s three-episode premiere, expect a new episode weekly through August 13.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” | Paramount+ | Science fiction, drama

Season 4 premiere, Thursday, July 23:

The fourth, and penultimate, season of this “Star Trek” series finds the U.S.S. Enterprise, its captain (Anson Mount) and crew setting off on a new adventure. Paramount+ promo materials promise “a series of thrilling and emotional adventures across the stars. As they journey to strange new worlds, they will battle inner demons and external threats, encounter colorful new characters, reunite with familiar faces and confront terrifying aliens.” After tonight’s premiere episode, nine more eps will arrive weekly.

“Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” | HBO, HBO Max | Comedy, sci-fi

Series premiere, Thursday, July 23: Some people want more of the geekiest comedy that ever geeked — “The Big Bang Theory.” Others (like stupid Chads), not so much. So why am I even talking about them? Anyway, comic book store owner Stuart Sussman gets hold of a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, and accidentally causes a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart tries, and fails, to fix things. Along the way, he’s aided by his girlfriend Denise (Lauren Lapkus), buddy Bert (Brian Posehn), everyone’s favorite jerk/frenemy Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie) — and possibly multiverse versions of other TBBT characters. We get one episode tonight, and the other nine weekly thereafter.

“Breaking Bear” | Tubi | Animation, comedy

Series premiere, Friday, July 24: “Breaking Bad,” “The Sopranos,” “Scarface,” “Goodfellas,” Yogi Bear. One of those things is not like the other, but it’s the hook for this adult animated series from Julien Nitzberg (“The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”) and blink-182 frontguy/conspiracy theorist Tom DeLonge. Yup, it’s that simple: putting a dysfunctional Yogi-type character (Brendan Fraser) and his family/friends (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Josh Gad, Annie Murphy) in the same situations you see in those hardboiled crime shows and movies. So there will be no thievery of pic-a-nic baskets, but rather encounters with psychotic wolf packs, biker gangs, an egomaniacal news anchor, and their own ineptitude. I’m here for it, especially because Nitzberg’s movie shows an eye for beautiful weirdness, giving me hope that “Breaking Bear” will be smarter than the average adult-animated comedy. The first two episodes premiere tonight, followed by six more eps on July 31.

“The Dink” | Apple TV | Comedy

Movie premiere, Friday, July 24: Seems like just last week (’cause it was) that I was writing a blurb about an aging athlete comedy (“The Hawk,” Netflix). In this film from producer Ben Stiller (“Dodgeball,” coincidence?) and director Josh Greenbaum (“Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar”), former tennis prodigy Dusty “Da Hammer” Boyd (Jake Johnson) turns to pickleball for injury rehab and actually likes it. Then, because something like this always happens in these movies, Dusty has to win at pickleball to save a local country club. Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Chloe Fineman, Patton Oswalt, Stiller, and tennis stars Andy Roddick and John McEnroe also star.

“President Curtis” | Adult Swim, HBO Max | Adult animation, comedy

Series premiere, Sunday, July 26, 11:30 p.m. ET: Ready for another “Rick and Morty” spinoff? This one, from Dan Harmon and James Siciliano, is all about President Andre Curtis (Keith David, “The Thing”) and his eccentric staff “as they tackle the kinds of crises that Rick Sanchez could never be bothered with — from interdimensional diplomacy to paranormal investigations and unexplained phenomena.” Stephanzie Beatriz (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Jim Rash (“Community”) also star.

After airing live — right after the “Rick and Morty” season finale — on Adult Swim this Friday night, the premiere episode will stream the next day on HBO Max. New episodes come weekly.

To watch “The Dink,” you’ll have to subscribe to Apple TV ($12.99/mo.).

You can stream “Gone” with a BritBox subscription ($7.99/mo.).

To watch “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” and stream “President Curtis,” you’ll need to sign up for HBO Max ($10.99–$22.99/mo.).

You can find “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” and other Trek shows on Paramount+ ($8.99–$13.99/mo.).

All you gotta do to watch “Breaking Bear” is sign up for a free Tubi account.

You’ll need a live TV provider to watch “President Curtis” live on Adult Swim. YouTube TV ($82.99/mo.) is the best overall.