This weekend, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Omari Hardwick team up for Power, a new show on Starz that features a drug kingpin James “Ghost” St. Patrick trying to go legit. OK, you’ve seen it before, but it’s summer and there’s not much else on until fall TV kicks off again.
(Of course, if you have Netflix, the second season of Orange is the New Black is available starting today.) And if you remember Hardwick’s hard body and love scenes on BET’s Being Mary Jane, we’re happy to let you know there’s just as much of it, if not more on display on Power. We’re just here for the tatts, Omari.
This weekend also features the Tony Awards, the annual awardsfest for excellence on Broadway with Patti Labelle, Fantasia and Gladys Knight performing. The next Miss USA will be chosen this weekend, the Spurs or Heat will move closer to the championship trophy and Tom Cruise heads into theaters with his latest Edge of Tomorrow. Read on for the rest of the weekend’s highlights.
HOT ON TV:
All Times Eastern
Friday, June 6
The Sixties
9 p.m., CNN
Cultural experts, observers, writers and prominent figures discuss the significance of this era in a new 10-part CNN series
Saturday, June 7
Iyanla: Fix My Double Life
OWN, 9 p.m.
A pastor has to get real with his wife and his family about living a double life
Power
10 p.m., Starz
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is the creator of a show about James “Ghost’ St. Patrick and his struggle to reconcile his legitimate club business with his main business as a drug dealer
With Naturi Naughton, La La Anthony and Joseph Sikora
June 8
The Tony Awards
8 p.m. CBS
Hugh Jackman hosts; Fantasia, Patti Labelle and Gladys Knight are among the performers
NBA Finals Game 2
San Antonio vies for the title against the defending champs the Miami Heat
ABC, 8 p.m.
The Miss USA Pageant
NBC, 8 p.m.
Giuliana Rancic and Thomas Roberts host, Nelly and Florida Georgia Line will perform
Author Marcus Burke writes about a young man growing up in a Boston suburb who must choose between basketball and drug-dealing for the Team Seven gang.
SEE IT:
Edge of Tomorrow
Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in futuristic thriller
PG-13
The Fault in Our Stars
The adaptation of the popular John Green young adult book that became a crossover hit with adults
