Welcome to Now See This, THR chief TV critic Daniel Fienberg’s weekly viewer guide newsletter dedicated to cutting through the daunting clutter of the broadcast, cable and streaming TV landscape! Comments and suggestions welcome at daniel.fienberg@thr.com.

Lil' Kimmel

The 96th Academy Awards will air on Sunday evening on ABC, with Jimmy Kimmel returning as host. The show is expected to honor the top movies of 2023, which is mostly expected to mean Oppenheimer. Be sure to adjust your clock, because the telecast is set for 7 p.m. ET and 4 p.m. PT, an hour earlier than usual. Also be sure to read Mikey O'Connell's conversation with the show's producers discussing the new time, that Barbie -centric promo and hopes for viral moments. Also-also be sure to listen to this week's TV's Top 5 podcast for more discussion and predictions.

If I Had a 'Heimer

You probably don't have time to watch every nominee before Sunday, but with strategic planning, you can stream many of the winners. Start with Oppenheimer, obviously, since it's streaming on Peacock and it's a best picture lock. Peacock also has The Holdovers, which is going to win for Da'Vine Joy Randolph. Barbie, on Max, is probably going to win for original song, while Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is on Netflix and probably will win for animated feature. Best actress is down to Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon on Apple) or Emma Stone (Poor Things on Hulu), and though I think Gladstone has the edge, Poor Things is MUCH shorter. Dunno what's gonna win for doc, but  The Eternal Memory is on Paramount+ and Bobi Wine: The People's President is on Disney+. And remember: It's Scott *Feinberg* who's the THR awards guru. I'm just a TV critic!

Rags to Ritchie

When I am officially appointed Lord High Executioner of Television, I will demand that if a streamer or network is going to do a series based on a movie, that original movie must be available on that service simultaneously. This will not be my first demand. No, my first demand will be that John Oliver stop misusing "begs the question" But eventually I'll address my frustration that Netflix has a new series based on Guy Ritchie's reasonably successful 2019 film The Gentlemen, but Guy Ritchie's 2019 film The Gentlemen isn't streaming anywhere. You don't actually need to see the movie — a generally so-so exercise in style over substance elevated by an obscenely good cast — to understand the series. But still! Our Angie Han liked some of the performances — Vinnie Jones, Michael Vu, Kaya Sodelario — but felt that Ritchie's familiar moves were perfunctory. I enjoyed the two episodes I watched much more than the movie, but I've been fooled into liking the first half of Ritchie films, only to be disappointed by the way things ultimately played out.

Taking Care of Jizz-ness

Emma Moran's British superhero comedy Extraordinary was an under-the-radar gem for Hulu when it premiered last winter. The second season is a solid follow-up, carried by the wonderfully loopy performances from Máiréad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham and, especially, Luke Rollason as a man-cat shapeshifter named Jizzlord. Season two ups the ante on relationship farce (and even actual emotions) with the addition of Rosa Robson as Nora, Jizzlord's original owner (or, rather, wife), plus it introduces a bunch more very odd "special" powers for characters in a universe that's a lot like the one in Amazon's  Invincible, only much funnier. Plus, I continue to be impressed with how well Extraordinary handles a production budget that I assume must be lower than the oversized penis budget on The Boys. 

Beyond 'Boarders'

Is it just me or does Tubi have a new design every week? And does it keep becoming harder and harder to find the random, obscure TV failures and B movies that used to be the service's bread and butter? While you're checking out the latest redesign — it's like Barney and Grimace were put through a woodchipper — take a gander at Boarders, a British boarding school drama that should appeal to fans of Dear White People, All American and Sex Education . The young ensemble cast — led by Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Myles Kamwendo, Sekou Diaby and Arena Jalloh — is full of talent on the rise!

Human Millie-Pede

Oscar weekend may be about looking backward at last year's best, but with new streaming movies it's all about looking forward to NEXT year's Academy Awards. Our Lovia Gyarke praises Millie Bobby Brown's performance in Netflix's otherwise uneven Damsel, but she honestly had me with "dragon voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo." Of Oscar winner Peter Farrelly's Ricky Stanicky , our David Rooney writes, "[T]his film has so many penis jokes you feel like you're being clobbered with them." That's on Amazon! And finally, it's on to Roku Channel's First Time Female Director, from writer-director-star Chelsea Peretti, which Lovia says starts strong but ends up only "mildly acerbic."