What’s on TV This Week: ‘Landscapers’ and ‘Live in Front of a Studio Audience’

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Dec. 6-12. Details and times are subject to change.

Monday

LANDSCAPERS 9 p.m. on HBO. Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star in this British true-crime mini-series. Mixing drama and dark humor, it centers on Susan and Christopher Edwards (Colman and Thewlis), a married couple who in 2014 were found guilty of the 1998 murder of Susan’s parents, whose bodies they had buried in the garden of their home in an English village.

Tuesday

LIVE IN FRONT OF A STUDIO AUDIENCE: ‘THE FACTS OF LIFE’ AND ‘DIFF’RENT STROKES’ 8 p.m. on ABC. This latest entry in ABC’s series of live recreations of classic sitcoms resuscitates two shows from the 1980s — “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes” — with the help of celebrity guests, including Jennifer Aniston, Gabrielle Union, Kathryn Hahn, Allison Tolman and Ann Dowd.

A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS (2011) 5:15 p.m. on FXM. How should one introduce Kal Penn? “The comic actor Kal Penn?” “The former White House staffer Kal Penn?” Last month, Penn reminded the world of how novel his career has been with the release of a memoir, “You Can’t Be Serious,” which has anecdotes about his time working for President Barack Obama and his experiences acting opposite John Cho in the “Harold & Kumar” stoner comedy movies. This holiday-themed entry in that series is a case point: Penn took a pause from his Washington role to film it, swapping the White House Office of Public Liaison for a hot-boxed sedan.

Wednesday

DIRTY TRICKS (2021) 8 p.m. on Showtime. This documentary from Daniel Sivan (“The Oslo Diaries”) explores a scandal among elite competitive bridge players. At the film’s center is Lotan Fisher, an Israeli bridge champion who became the focus of a cheating scandal in 2015. The documentary looks at both that scandal and at the world of high-stakes bridge playing more broadly. It has a surprising and inviting sense of humor.

Thursday

ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998) 6 p.m. on BBC America. Will Smith had an early dramatic starring role in this thriller from Tony Scott. Smith plays Robert Clayton Dean, a lawyer who gets framed for the murder of a congressman and teams up with a former intelligence agent (Gene Hackman) to prove his innocence. The congressman’s killing is orchestrated by a corrupt N.S.A. officer (Jon Voight), and carried out because of the congressman’s opposition to a piece of legislation that would expand the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies. In other words, the premise rests on the idea that “privacy is imperiled by runaway electronics,” Janet Maslin wrote in her review for The New York Times in November 1998, during the impeachment inquiry against President Bill Clinton. “In a week that finds the nation listening to surreptitiously taped Washington telephone calls,” Maslin wrote, “who’s to say that ‘Enemy of the State’ doesn’t have a point?” Obviously, the potential problem of tech privacy has completely died down in the decades since and is no longer a concern — nothing to see here.

Friday

LIMBO (2021) 8:10 p.m. on HBO. A Syrian musician seeks asylum in Britain and is sent to a very remote, very weird Scottish island to wait for a verdict on his request in this sweet satire. Directed by Ben Sharrock, the film follows Omar (Amir El-Masry), a talented oud player, whose experiences on the island include a comically elementary “Cultural Awareness” course and a somewhat lopsided friendship with a new housemate, Farhad (Vikash Bhai), who aspires to be for Omar what Brian Epstein once was for the Beatles. While many recent films about the migrant and refugee situation in Europe take a gritty approach grounded in the real tragedy, this one “takes an insinuating, poetic and often wryly funny approach,” Glenn Kenny wrote in his review for The Times. The results, he said, are “both heartbreaking and heartlifting.”

WEST SIDE STORY (1961) 8 p.m. on TCM. “Nothing short of a cinematic masterpiece.” That’s how Bosley Crowther characterized this original big-screen adaptation of “West Side Story” in his review for The Times after the film debuted in midtown Manhattan in 1961. Make it part of a double feature this weekend by pairing this classic version — which stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer and Rita Moreno — with the new version from Steven Spielberg and the playwright Tony Kushner, which is set to hit theaters on Friday.

Saturday

THE REVENANT (2015) 7:30 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. on FXM. Leonardo DiCaprio will return to theaters this week in Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” a climate satire that stars DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists trying to save earth from destruction. That role is a bit of a reversal from DiCaprio’s character in “The Revenant”: Hugh Glass, a early-19th-century frontiersman whom Mother Earth does her best to kill. In this flashy period drama, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, an injured Glass is betrayed and left for dead by a fellow fur trapper, John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), and hobbles his way through the wilderness bent on revenge. It’s a movie packed with “butchered animals, muddled ideas, heart-skippingly natural landscapes and moment after moment of visual and narrative sizzle,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. It’s “an American foundation story,” Dargis said, “by turns soaring and overblown.”

Sunday

A FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA DOUBLE FEATURE 8 p.m. on TCM. See two pre-“Godfather” Francis Ford Coppola movies on Sunday night. Up first, at 8 p.m.: FINIAN’S RAINBOW (1968), a musical fantasy with Fred Astaire and Petula Clark. Then, at 10:30 p.m., YOU’RE A BIG BOY NOW (1966), a comedy based on the David Benedictus novel of the same name about a romance between a New York Public Library clerk and a go-go dancer.