New this week: 'Sopranos' prequel, Jon Stewart and Carlile

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

— Jake Gyllenhaal teams up with manager Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto (“True Detective”) for the tense thriller “The Guilty,” which is acceptable wholly wrong a 911 telephone halfway successful Los Angeles. Hitting Netflix connected Friday, Gyllenhaal plays a disgraced bull relegated to fielding exigency telephone calls connected the overnight shift. Although a cleanable conceit for a pandemic production, the claustrophobic environs really preceded COVID-19 protocols — that came from the 2018 Danish movie that they’re remaking. The ever compelling Gyllenhaal carries the movie adjacent though his country partners are mostly machine screens, telephones and disembodied voices.

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— Nearly a 4th period aft “The Sopranos” wrapped its six play tally connected HBO, David Chase has brought his champion known quality backmost successful “The Many Saints of Newark.” The film, which debuts successful theaters and connected HBO Max connected Friday, follows a young Tony Soprano (played by the precocious James Gandolfini’s lad Michael Gandolfini) successful 1960s Newark, New Jersey, amid the contention riots and convulsive corruption successful the city. Jon Bernthal plays his begetter and Alessandro Nivola plays a charismatic mobster who takes an involvement successful Tony.

— Filmmaker Erin Lee Carr couldn’t person known that Britney Spears would erstwhile again beryllium successful the regular quality rhythm erstwhile she started connected her secretive Netflix documentary “Britney vs Spears,” disposable starting Tuesday, but the timing could not beryllium amended for different in-depth look astatine the beingness of the popular star. Carr has said that the movie is antithetic from “Framing Britney Spears,” the New York Times-produced documentary that came retired earlier this twelvemonth and prompted wide reconsideration of however Spears was treated successful the media astatine the tallness of her fame. Carr’s investigates the conservatorship. She told the Los Angeles Times that she wants her film, “to beryllium the definitive spot to recognize the beginning, mediate and hopefully what we volition find retired arsenic the extremity of this saga.”

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— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

MUSIC

— Six-time Grammy-winner Brandi Carlile has been engaged during the pandemic, releasing a memoir and present a highly anticipated caller album, “In These Silent Days,” connected Friday. Carlile said she was inspired by David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and her 2 adjacent philharmonic friends, Elton John and Joni Mitchell, on the caller record. It’s a follow-up to her acclaimed, breakout grounds “By The Way, I Forgive You” released successful 2018. Recorded during quarantine successful Nashville, Tennessee, she teamed up again with producers Shooter Jennings and Dave Cobb, arsenic good arsenic her longtime bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth.

— The Doobie Brothers are celebrating their 50th day successful their 51st twelvemonth with a postponed tour and a caller album. “Liberté” is retired Friday, featuring founding members Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons, on with guitarist John McFee. The circuit kicked disconnected successful August with erstwhile subordinate Michael McDonald aft being delayed a twelvemonth due to the fact that of the pandemic. It’s the archetypal medium of caller archetypal songs since 2010 for the recently inducted Rock & Roll Hall of Famers.

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— One duets medium wasn’t capable for popular diva Lady Gaga and icon Tony Bennett. The brace are releasing their 2nd collaborative medium “Love For Sale,” connected Friday, which focuses connected the 2 singers taking connected Cole Porter classics, specified arsenic “I Get A Kick Out of You.” Their erstwhile medium together, “Cheek to Cheek” debuted astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Album charts successful 2014 and earned them a Grammy for “Best Traditional Pop Vocal.” Bennett, who turned 95 this year, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s illness and canceled his scheduled circuit dates this year. But fans of the 2 New York singers tin inactive spot them execute unneurotic successful a livestream connected Sept. 30.

— AP Entertainment Writer Kristin M. Hall

TELEVISION

— Jon Stewart is back, and Apple TV+ has him. “The Problem With Jon Stewart” debuts Thursday, with episodes released connected an every-other-week basis. Details are scant, but it’s been described arsenic an exploration of issues of nationalist involvement arsenic good arsenic Stewart’s advocacy work. He’s an outspoken protagonist of subject veterans and 9/11 archetypal responders, and helium and his wife, Tracey, are carnal rights proponents. There’s a proposition that wit is involved: successful a promotional trailer, Stewart shrieks erstwhile helium looks successful the mirror, past mutters, “Why would I spell backmost to a ocular medium? I could person done a podcast.” Unsurprisingly, determination is simply a companion podcast.

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— Here’s a contention with a difference: “The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet,” a five-part Discovery series, volition item 15 finalists and their solutions to a quintet of the planet’s top biology problems, including aerial and water quality. Debuting Sunday connected the discovery+ streaming service, the bid features David Attenborough and Britain’s Prince William, who successful 2020 launched the contention whose sanction evokes President John F. Kennedy’s “moonshot” program. The afloat bid volition aerial connected the Discovery Channel connected Oct. 16 (4 p.m. EDT), with the grant ceremonial carried Oct. 17 connected Discovery’s Facebook page.

— The place: Los Angeles. The disaster: A elephantine sinkhole opens mid-city, plunging hundreds of radical and buildings into its depths. That’s the commencement of NBC’s “La Brea,” successful which “down under” refers not to Australia but a primeval satellite that tests its reluctant caller inhabitants’ endurance skills. Meanwhile, folks who are above-ground, inactive coping with postulation and smog, hunt for answers and a rescue plan. The formed includes Natalie Zea, Eoin Macken, Jon Seda, Nicholas Gonzalez and Chiké Okonkwo. The bid premieres 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday connected the network, and volition beryllium disposable Wednesday connected the Peacock streaming service.

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— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber

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