Hamilton & Hip-Hop, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Return to Netflix, Katharine Graham Doc

Still drawing audiences after more than a decade on Broadway, on the road and (somewhat ironically) in London’s West End, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s landmark 2015 musical Hamilton remains an astonishing creation, fusing the energy of hip-hop onto a stunningly diverse historical tapestry. As part of a special collectors’ edition (including a 4K UHD Blu-Ray) of the filmed version of the stage production released in 2020, a new documentary explores the hip-hop influences that inspired the Tony-winning composer and star to follow the Grammy-winning original cast album with an acclaimed Hamilton Mixtape recording. Miranda is joined by artists including Busta Rhymes, Questlove, Nas, and Common to reflect on the phenomenon.

The docuseries’ third season raises the stakes for the 2025-26 NFL cheerleading squad when only six coveted slots are available for contenders during auditions and training camp. “Everyone would do anything to be on this team,” says a squad member, and they’re not talking about the Cowboys, because the cheerleaders have become icons themselves. The seven-episode season also depicts the pressures and social-media scrutiny on the women who’ve already made it as they go on tour for the first time.

Meryl Streep played her in the 2017 film The Post, but Katharine Graham (1917-2001) was already a legend in the world of journalism, having steered The Washington Post (with editor Ben Bradlee) through the turbulent era of the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration in the 1970s and was immortalized in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein‘s All the President’s Men. A documentary profile depicts Graham’s unlikely journey from when she took over the publishing reins of the Post after her husband Phil Graham’s suicide in 1963. Her transformation from a so-called “doormat wife” to a powerful advocate of the First Amendment is captured in archival footage and interviews with Woodward and Bernstein, joined by New Yorker editor David Remnick, Warren Buffett, Gloria Steinem, with son Don Graham and daughter Lally Weymouth providing personal memories.

The auditions continue for a third week, and while calling an act “young and strange” wouldn’t typically be seen as a compliment, Young and Strange are the names of a British comedy magic duo (Richard Young and Sam Strange) who are among those expected to try to win the judges’ favor during this round. Also being teased: the breakthrough of Bety, a 17-year-old singer from Spain, who woos the judges after overcoming her nerves.

There’s obviously something romantic about having a house by a lake. (Latest case in point: last week’s Every Year After streaming on Prime Video.) This home renovation reality series, returning for a sixth season, features couples and families seeking just such an idyllic retreat to make their own, starting with a young buyer and his fiancée touring the lakes of New Jersey’s Delaware River to find a first home.

INSIDE TUESDAY TV:

• FIFA World Cup: The New York New Jersey (aka Met Life) stadium is the stage for France’s match against Senegal (3 pm/ET, Fox), with the team from Iraq facing Norway in Boston (6 pm/ET, Fox), Argentina playing Algeria in Kansas City (9 pm/ET, Fox) and Austria vs. Jordan in the San Francisco Bay Area (aka Levi’s) Stadium (midnight/ET, FS1).
• Password (10/9c, NBC): The New York Knicks’ Josh Hart faces off against Jimmy Fallon in thegood-natured word game.
• Welcome to Plathville (10/9c, TLC): The reality series ends its eighth season with Lydia and Zac coming to terms with their family, who gather to honor their brother Joshua 18 years after his passing.