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TOTAL DIVAS 9 p.m. on E! WWE’s recent surge into mainstream consciousness got another boost when John Cena proposed to Nikki Bella at WrestleMania this April. As the drama races forward both inside and out of the ring, this reality show provides a behind-the-scenes look at wrestling’s biggest female stars — including Ms. Bella and her sister, Brie, along with Maryse and Natalya. Think of it as E!’s real-life, high-budget answer to Netflix’s “GLOW.”
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STAN AGAINST EVIL 10 p.m. on IFC. On this show’s first season, the crotchety former sheriff Stan Miller (John C. McGinley) fought all sorts of demons in his tiny town, one bitter quip at a time. “It’s a gruesome, deadpan delight,” Neil Genzlinger wrote in his year-end list of his favorite new shows. The second season begins with Stan meeting the descendants of a Wiccan coven. They give him clues about the plight of Sheriff Evie Barret (Janet Varney), who in Season 1 seemed to be constantly on the verge of death at the stake.
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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS (2006) on Netflix, YouTube and Amazon. The 19-year-old Jaden Smith occupies so many disparate lanes — fashion maven, Twitter philosopher, recording artist — that it’s easy to forget his first film role was relatively conventional. As an 8-year-old, he portrayed the adorable, tender son of the hapless yet resolute salesman Chris Gardner, played by his father, Will Smith; the pair wanders the streets and shelters of San Francisco in search of a big break, or at least a hot meal. “The filmmaking is seamless, unadorned, transparent, the better to serve Mr. Smith’s warm expressiveness,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her Times review.
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