Week in entertainment: New Miranda Lambert music, Anna Kendrick book
Plan your week in entertainment with these highlights and pop-culture milestones:
MONDAY, 11/14
Watch: Set both in the future and in the present day, MARS, executive-produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and directed by Everardo Gout, will showcase space exploration in our time and envision a future attempt at colonizing of the Red Planet through scripted drama and documentary sequences. The six-part series premieres on National Geographic and Nat Geo Mundo at 9 ET/PT.
TUESDAY, 11/15
Read: Academy and Tony Award-nominated actress Anna Kendrick's autobiographical essay collection, Scrappy Little Nobody, hits bookstores (and her 10-city book tour kicks off, too). In it, the social-media-savvy actress — she has more than 5 million Twitter followers and 9 million Instagram followers — recounts memorable moments from her middle-class upbringing to her Hollywood success and all the absurdities she has experienced in and out of the spotlight.
WEDNESDAY, 11/16
Watch:Duck Dynasty returns for an 11th season on A&E at 9 ET/PT. In the premiere episode, Willie and Jase run against each other to become president of their neighborhood HOA while Jep, Jess and Miss Kay work on a Duck Commander-themed display for the local zoo.
THURSDAY, 11/17
Stream: Season 2 of Lovesick, a British sitcom featuring Johnny Flynn as Dylan, a man who must track down all his past sexual partners after learning he has contracted an STD, launches on Netflix.
FRIDAY, 11/18
Listen: Country star Miranda Lambert's latest release, the double album The Weight of These Wings, is out today. The single Vice landed at No. 19 on Billboard's Country Airplay chart. And the singer's Highway Vagabond Tour kicks off Jan. 26 in Evansville, Ind.