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Blade Runner 2049

Week in entertainment: 'Black Lightning' premieres, 'Blade Runner 2049' released on DVD

Mary Cadden
USA TODAY

Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones:

Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a man wrestling with a secret on the CW's 'Black Lightning.'

TV

Tune-in: The new series Black Lightning premieres on the CW Tuesday. The series, based on the characters from the DC Comic of the same name, follows Jefferson Pierce, played by Cress Williams, a high school principal who mistakenly thought his superhero days were behind him. 

Ryan Gosling stars as Officer K in 'Blade Runner 2049.'

DVD/BLU-RAY

ViewBlade Runner 2049, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, is out Tuesday.  According to USA TODAY's Brian Truitt, who gave the flim **** out of four, the film is "super-stylish and deeply human ...  the spectacular follow-up takes the detective story of the first film and turns it into a grand mythology of identity, memory, creation and revolution."

"Detectorists" returns for season three on Acorn TV.

STREAMING

Watch: The Detectorists returns to Acorn TV for a third season Monday. This six-episode season continues to follow Andy (Mackenzie Crook) and Lance (Toby Jones), two friends who share a devotion to metal detecting and their continued quests for love and gold.

Musicians Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy attends the Z100's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2017 in New York City.

MUSIC

Listen: Fall Out Boy's latest album Mania is out on Friday.  Several of the albums' singles have been released, including Young and Menace, Champion, The Last of the Real Ones and Hold Me Tight or Don't. The band is currently on a worldwide tour in support of the album. 

Chris Hemsworth as Captain Nelson in '12 Strong.'

FILM                                  

Go-to12 Strong, starring Chris Hemsworth, opens nationwide Friday. The film tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11 and is based on the book Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton.

 

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