What We’re Watching This Week! BET+ New Series: Bigger/First Wives Club. Plus: Season Finale of SYTYCD On FOX!

By Delaina Dixon | September 16, 2019 | Entertainment

BET+, its new streaming service, premieres two of its highly anticipated series this week! Bigger follows a single-black-woman who is dealing with the threat of marriage to a boring-in-bed boyfriend and the sudden, random death of a college acquaintance. It explores how her close-knit clan of friends handle the situation in their East Atlanta neighborhood, Little Five Points. First Wives Club is a modern television remake of the classic 1996 revenge comedy with an African American cast including Jill Scott, Ryan Michelle Bathe and our pal Michelle Buteau. The three women band together as they navigate music superstar Hazel’s tabloid-ridden divorce, campaign manager Ari’s unsatisfying marriage and orthopedic surgeon Bree’s cheating husband. Both premiere Thursday, Sept. 19.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 16 ends this week. No matter who wins, we know that all these younger dancers’ lives have been changed forever! SYTYCD, season finale airs live Monday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. on FOX.

For those who need another dose of a dancing fix, Dancing with the Stars — season 28! — commences with its two-hour season premiere at 8 p.m. on ABC. See Fifth Harmony’s Ally Brooke, Lamar Odom, Queer Eye‘s Karamo Brown, #WBWD James Van Der Beek and more compete for the trophy!

Need a little life motivation? Self-help speaker and author Mel Robbins launches her own talk show this week. Check local listings for times.

Feel like going back to the eighties? American Horror Story kicks off another gruesome analogy with a bunch of teens being slaughtered by a madperson in 1984. Catch the premiere Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 10 p.m. on FX.

Black Jesus is back on Cartoon Network with new episodes starting Friday, Sept. 20.

photo credit: BET, Amanne Media