Entertainment

Kids and teens

A staple of summer distraction programming for much of this century, “Big Brother” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-PG) returns for a 26th season with a two-night premiere event.

With the possible exception of fireflies (or is that lightning bugs?), nothing says summer quite like the MLB All-Star Game (8 p.m., Fox).

Write about entertainment long enough and confusing themes emerge. Is adolescence a nightmare to be endured and transcended? Or a permanent state? Just watching the past week’s new and returning series may leave one bewildered.

Had enough junk food? After a week of, well, Shark Week, a cheeky tabloid take on nature documentaries, it’s time for the real thing. A return to “Planet Earth,” if you will.

It doesn’t take a genius (or a critic) to assume that a 10-episode sci-fi series named “Me” is going to be self-absorbed. Did I mention that it’s about a 12-year-old? Who learns he has superpowers?

Not all hero(ines) wear capes. While its title might suggest just another true-crime docuseries, the new Hulu miniseries “Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer” is a refreshing departure. It celebrates psychiatric nurse and professor Dr. Ann Burgess, an unassuming woman who pretty much invented the science of profiling killers, rapists and serial predators.

Kids and teens

The new mystery series “Sunny” arrives on Apple TV+. Endowed with an ironic title and perhaps one too many unsettling elements, “Sunny” must be admired for its inventive audacity.

An already nationally released coffee table book on the extensive story of Columbus and its Modernist architectural foundation could help the city turn the page on a whole new group of devotees to the community’s design stature.