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Hungry for some movie franchise entertainment? Or maybe your teen kids are? Today on Freeform, 2012’s The Hunger Games is being televised at 1:15 p.m. ET, followed immediately, and sequentially, by all three sequels. Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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This space launch from Cape Canaveral, the first such U.S.-based mission in a decade, was originally scheduled for last Wednesday, in the late afternoon – but I didn’t even list it in my Best Bets that day, because I grew up in Florida, and the idea of a late afternoon in late May without a rainstorm just seemed hugely against the odds. And yes, as easily predicted, cloud cover and rain scrubbed the launch that day – but the private-government partnership of SpaceX and NASA has
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Sumptuous photography, beautiful choreography, and a fabulous story worthy of the fable that inspired it, this 1948 film, starring Moira Shearer as a magically driven ballerina, is a wonder. And if you’ve never seen it, today should be the day. It’s one of the few positive side effects of a lengthy shelter-at-home stretch: finally getting around to reading some of those literary classics and catching up on some classic music and TV. That’s the theory, anyway…
 
 
 
  
 
 
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The cast outshines the story in Space Force, a new Netflix comedy that launches on Friday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SERIES PREMIERE: Central Park is a new series from Apple TV+, and one that, at first, may sound eminently skippable. It’s an animated series about a wacky family in Central Park, where the patriarch works as a park manager. But the more you learn about this Central Park, the more intriguing it gets. It’s from the creators of Fox’s Bob’s Burgers – and when that network passed on this new series idea, Apple TV+ scarfed it up. And the show
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SEASON FINALE: If you’ve been watching this mystery drama from the start, as Apple TV+ has been rolling out weekly episodes, tonight is the season finale. And if you haven’t been watching – well, that’s still the case.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 3 for Somebody Feed Phil, which follows Everybody Loves Raymond co-creator Phil Rosenthal as he travels around the world making new friends and trying new foods. Previous seasons of this series have been life-affirming, funny, and the sort of show that makes you want to start making travel plans. This year, watching this season that was filmed pre-pandemic, the first two elements remain true. The last one, not so much. When there’s a pote
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SERIES PREMIERE: This new series is co-created by Greg Daniels, who already scored an out-of-this-world home run this month with Amazon’s Upload, and Steve Carell, his former star of NBC’s The Office. Carell also stars here, playing the newly appointed head of the new Space Force arm of the armed forces. It’s a little too much like HBO’s Avenue 5, which also transplanted bureaucratic clashes and egos to outer space. In Space Force, 
 
 
 
  
 
 
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Beginning today and running through June 7, the TriBeCa Film Festival is combining with other film festival organizations around the world, similarly prevented from holding their annual cinematic showcases in physical spaces with large crowds, to present their wares online – and for free. Today’s opening-day offerings, listed on its website and available on the We Are One YouTube channel, include Traveling While Black, a film that couldn’t be more timel
 
 
 
  
 
 
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DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: From today through all of June, local PBS member stations can opt to show the TV premiere of An Accidental Studio, which would generate a lot more initial enthusiasm had it included George Harrison in its title. That’s because the studio in question is Handmade Films, which the former Beatle formed simply so he could rescue, finance, distribute and, most of all, watch a movie in the works from his friends at Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The first rele