Going Gaga at iHeartRadio Music Awards, ‘Anora’ Begins Streaming, Boston True Crime (‘The Trial of Karen Read’) and Sports History (‘Celtics City’)

Having had two weeks to recuperate from the Oscars, L.A.’s Dolby Theatre hosts at the moment’s largest music stars in a celebration of the 12 months’s most-played performers and songs. Special honors go to Lady Gaga (iHeartRadio Innovator Award), Mariah Carey (iHeartRadio Icon Award), Nelly (iHeartRadio Landmark Award), and Gracie Abrams (iHeartRadio Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award). To acknowledge the “Tour of the Century Award” to (who else) Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour, which launched two years in the past on this date, an unique efficiency from that opening night time can be proven. Scheduled performers embody the aforementioned Nelly and Abrams, plus Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, Kenny Chesney, GloRilla, Tori Kelly, and extra.

Director-writer Sean Baker‘s Oscar darling makes its streaming debut, with Better Things alum Mikey Madison in her star-making and multiple award-winning title role of a Brooklyn sex worker with a heart of gold and a championship boxer’s angle. Anora’s darkly humorous Cinderella-as-stripper story begins when she attracts a Russian oligarch’s spoiled son, Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), who sweeps her off her ft and elopes together with her—to the dismay of the boy’s dad and mom. Oscar nominee Yura Borisov steals his scenes as Igor, a henchman who interrupts their honeymoon and acknowledges a warrior spirit within the defiant bride.

One of the extra sensational court docket circumstances in recent times will get the complete ID remedy, with a five-part true-crime docuseries airing over three nights (persevering with Tuesday and Wednesday). The collection follows the investigation into the January 2022 dying of Boston police officer John O’Keefe, his physique discovered on a fellow officer’s garden, together with his girlfriend Karen Read accused of backing into him together with her SUV and leaving him to die. Her protection of a cover-up was revealed in a 2024 court docket case that led to a mistrial, with a retrial scheduled for this spring. The collection boasts “unprecedented access” to Read and her authorized crew in addition to different key figures concerned within the case.

The historical past of the Boston Celtics basketball dynasty strikes into the Nineteen Seventies, with town experiencing racial tensions after a busing mandate but discovering unity in cheering on a successful crew led by John Havlicek. The Celtics’ fortunes wouldn’t final, however as the last decade ended, a brand new star emerges when Indiana State powerhouse Larry Bird joins the crew.

In the final episode earlier than Grant makes his remaining selection, the bachelor takes his final three bachelorettes (Juliana, Litia, and Zoe) to the Dominican Republic for the all-important and notorious in a single day dates. Bonding workouts embody an ATV experience, a yoga session and a zipline journey, and the ladies get recommendation from Bachelor Nation alums Daisy Kent, Rachel Nance, and Kaity Biggar.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• Patrick’s Day Movie Marathon (begins at 6 am/5c, Turner Classic Movies): Get your inexperienced on with a 24-hour stew of Irish-themed films, beginning with 1940’s Little Nellie Kelly, and night options together with 1947’s thriller Odd Man Out (6/7c) starring James Mason and 1952’s rambunctious romance The Quiet Man (8/7c) starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara.
• All American (8/7c, The CW): Amina (Alexis Chikaeze) celebrates her Student Council win with a celebration, however her pretend relationship with KJ (Nathaniel McIntyre) may blow up when he brings Tori (Lauryn Hardy) with him.
• The Hunting Party (10/9c, NBC): The newest psycho on the unfastened is named “the Widower,” who killed three consecutive wives earlier than turning into a prisoner of The Pit. His new bride-to-be is performed by Brooke Smith, who as soon as ran afoul of an much more fiendish serial killer within the traditional The Silence of the Lambs.
• The Calling (10/9c, PBS): A documentary follows eight medical college students over a grueling but rewarding 12 months of coaching at Albert Einstein College of Medicine within the Bronx.