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What’s on TV Monday: The MTV Movie & TV Awards and the Monterey Pop Festival
“Black Panther” leads at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards. And the Monterey Pop Festival streams on its 51st anniversary.
What’s on TV
2018 MTV MOVIE & TV AWARDS 9 p.m. on MTV. The comedian Tiffany Haddish will host this awards show, with performances from the R&B duo Chloe x Halle and Nick Jonas, who will appear alongside the producer DJ Mustard. “Black Panther” leads with seven nominations, including best movie.
IT WILL BE CHAOS (2018) 8 p.m. on HBO. This documentary, directed by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo, features multiple perspectives on the experiences of refugees in the Mediterranean. While an Eritrean man seeks asylum and a pair of Syrian refugees journey from Turkey to Germany, citizens in southern Italy grapple with the arrival of thousands.
RUNNING WILD WITH BEAR GRYLLS 8 p.m. on NBC. Don Cheadle has played many tenacious roles: a metal-clad superhero in Marvel films, the jazz musician Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead” and an undercover bomb-maker in “Traitor,” to name a few. He’ll add “rugged outdoorsman” when he appears on Bear Grylls’s adventure show, in which Mr. Grylls brings celebrities into the wild. In one scene, Mr. Cheadle picks up a worm from the forest floor and presents it to Mr. Grylls, offering that it would be useful “to catch fish with.” Mr. Grylls’s response will surprise only those unfamiliar with his shows: “Or to mix in with our omelet.”
QUEST (2017) 10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). This Jonathan Olshefski documentary follows a black family in Philadelphia through Barack Obama’s eight years as president. Mr. Olshefski is a fly on the wall as Christopher and Christine’a Rainey raise their teenage daughter and mentor those around them. “They take pride in the normalcy of their lives,” A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. “I’ve rarely seen a movie about citizenship as quietly eloquent.”
What’s Streaming
THE COMPLETE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL on FilmStruck. In the spring of 1967, the record producer Lou Adler met with Paul McCartney and the Mamas and the Papas to discuss what would become the Monterey International Pop Festival in California. “The conversation drifted toward the fact that rock ’n’ roll was not considered an art form in the way that jazz was,” Mr. Adler told The Times last year. “With the possibility of doing something at Monterey, at the same place as the jazz festival, it just seemed like a validation to us.” Two years before Woodstock, the three-day Monterey festival hosted a smorgasbord of artists, including Simon and Garfunkel, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who, Ravi Shankar and Otis Redding, who came armed with Booker T. and the M.G.’s as his backing band. D. A. Pennebaker’s “Monterey Pop” film is extended here with the addition of the films “Jimi Plays Monterey” and “Shake! Otis at Monterey,” as well as Mr. Pennebaker’s additional footage from festival performances. Guitar aficionados should be warned that these shows include six-stringed instruments both smashed and set aflame.
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