Best-bets for Aug. 30: Streamers soar with “Fall Guy.” more

1) “The Fall Guy,” Peacock. This has it all – great action, clever dialog, likable stars and a solid plot. Still, it had so-so box-office ($178 million worldwide), not enough for its budget. Ryan Gosling (shown here) plays a stunt man, with Emily Blunt as his director and ex-lover. The stunts are great – and you can choose a version with 20 minutes extra Read more…

1) “The Fall Guy,” Peacock. This has it all – great action, clever dialog, likable stars and a solid plot. Still, it had so-so box-office ($178 million worldwide), not enough for its budget. Ryan Gosling (shown here) plays a stunt man, with Emily Blunt as his director and ex-lover. The stunts are great – and you can choose a version with 20 minutes extra.

2) More streaming. Lee Daniels has soared as a movie director (“The Butler”) and TV producer (“Empire”). Now his “The Deliverance” horror film debuts on Netflix. It wraps a great streaming week, after Amazon Prime’s “Lord of the Rings” prequel and Hulu’s “After Baywatch” and terrific “Only Murders in th Building.”

3) “Inside the NFL” season-opener, 9 p.m., CW. Six days before the pro football season starts, here’s a preview. Bill Belichick is new, joining Ryan Clark, Chad Johnson and Chris Long – whose dad, Howie, does similar work for Fox.

4) “Blue Bloods,” 10 p.m., CBS. Anthony is going after a crooked lawyer and Jamie wants to bust scammers who defraud the elderly. Also, Danny and Baez probe mysterious deaths at a hospital.

5) ALSO: Fox is down to its last two Fridays of wrestling (8-10 p.m.). After that, wrestlers move to the USA Network and Fox tries Friday football – a crowded field. Today, ESPN has Temple-Oklahoma at 7 p.m. ET and TCU-Stanford at 10:30.CBS Sports Network has Lehigh-Army at 6; Fox Sports1 has Western Michigan-Wisconsin at 9.

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