New this week: Documentaries on Bieber, Fauci and 'Buried'

Here’s a postulation curated by The Associated Press’ amusement journalists of what’s arriving connected TV, streaming services and euphony platforms this week.

MOVIES

—John Hoffman and Janet Tobias’ “Fauci” is the first big-screen documentary of the nation’s apical infectious illness expert and ubiquitous look of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s an intimate representation of a longtime nationalist servant whose notoriety successful the past 18 months has risen dramatically — and with that, brought heaps of far-right scorn connected the seasoned of 7 White House administrations. The Nation Geographic’s film, which premieres this week connected Disney+ aft a three-week tally successful theaters, surveys the doctor’s vocation but focuses peculiarly connected however the AIDS situation formed him arsenic a nationalist wellness official.

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—It’s a comic quirk that 1 of the highest grossing documentaries ever belongs to Justin Bieber. “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” made much than $73 cardinal astatine the container bureau successful 2011, a non-fiction full bested lone by “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “March of the Penguins.” A batch has changed successful the intervening decennary for some Bieber and the movies. “Justin Bieber: Our World,” which debuts Friday connected Amazon Prime, tracks immoderate of those changes successful the present 27-year-old popular prima portion focusing connected his preparations for his archetypal afloat performance successful 3 years — a New Year’s Eve 2020 amusement successful Beverly Hills.

— Bieber isn’t the lone popular prima trotting retired a caller documentary this week. The performance movie “Madonna: Madame X” premieres Friday connected Paramount+, showcasing the 63-year-old singer’s latest persona, an planetary concealed cause astir whom she framed her 2019 medium of the aforesaid name. The movie chronicles her “Madame X” medium tour, successful which Madonna played a drawstring of smaller, much intimate venues for the archetypal clip successful decades.

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—AP Film Writer Jake Coyle

MUSIC

— Grammy-winning songwriter Natalie Hemby has made a sanction for herself successful Nashville arsenic a sought-after hitmaker, penning with everyone from Lady Gaga, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves and Little Big Town. After stepping further into the spotlight arsenic a subordinate of the radical The Highwomen, Hemby is releasing her 2nd solo grounds “Pins and Needles,” connected Friday. The medium features her intricate and crisp lyrics acceptable implicit ’90s-era state stone influenced melodies. Think Sheryl Crow and Sarah McLachlan with the play and sass of Lambert. “Pins and Needles” includes co-writes from Lambert, Brothers Osborne and Maren Morris.

— Country radical Old Dominion made their people arsenic fantabulous songwriters and energetic performers with aggregate hits for different artists, arsenic good arsenic their ain chart-topping singles. The five-piece band, led by vocalist Matthew Ramsey, wrote each the songs unneurotic for their caller medium “Time, Tequila and Therapy,” retired Friday, during a weeklong travel to Asheville, North Carolina. While signaling successful the Blue Ridge Mountains town, the radical discovered that legendary psyche vocalist Gladys Knight besides lived successful town. So people they recruited her to sing with them connected “The Lonely Side of Town,” melding the group’s backing harmonies with Knight’s creaseless vocals.

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— AP Entertainment Writer Kristin M. Hall

TELEVISION

— CBS' “United States of Al” it tackling a somber story, 1 it’s uniquely positioned to do. The buddy drama centers connected the relationship of Riley, a combat seasoned who fought successful the Mideast, and Awalmir, aka Al, the Afghanistan translator helium helped bring to the U.S. In the second-season debut airing Thursday (8:31 p.m. EDT), Al and Riley are scrambling to get Al’s sister retired of Kabul aft the Afghanistan capital’s fall. CBS said the occurrence was inspired by the experiences of the show’s veterans and Afghan writers who teamed to evacuate household members. The occurrence past streams Friday connected Paramount+.

— Showtime’s docuseries “Buried” examines the fallout from a 1969 California execution lawsuit that was prosecuted based connected a assertion of recalled memory. Eileen Franklin alleged that her begetter had raped and killed a puerility friend, Susan Nason, astir 2 decades before, erstwhile Susan was 8 years old. The four-part documentary, debuting 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, recounts the statement the lawsuit provoked successful the ineligible and intelligence wellness fields astir the legitimacy of specified memories. Family members, neighbors and experts connection their perspectives connected the calamity that ended with an overturned verdict.

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— Brothers Ilmar and Aldo López-Gavilán, calved successful Cuba successful the 1970s, are musicians whose occurrence was accompanied by separation. Ilmar near Cuba arsenic a teen and became a enclosure violinist successful the United States (by mode of studies successful the Soviet Union). Pianist Aldo, tutored by his Cuba’s jazz and classical artists, gained respect successful his location country. What was missing was the accidental to collaborate, the unfortunate of U.S.-Cuban relations. The Afro Cuban siblings’ travel is told successful the acclaimed documentary “Los Hermanos/The Brothers,” directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider and streaming done October connected PBS.org and the PBS app.

— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber

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