SHERMAN’S SHOWCASE: BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECTACULAR
IFC, 10:00 p.m. ET
The IFC series Sherman’s Showcase, a time-warp comedy parody of a “vintage” African-American TV variety show from the early 1970s, showed how irreverent, and very funny, it could be in its first season. Season 2 doesn’t arrive with weekly installments for a while – but as a treat, the series presents this special one-shot Black History Month Spectacular program, featuring such wildly imaginative segments as a panel show about bad blood between bad blood vampires – with Blade arguing with Blacula and Queen Akasha. And the really amazing thing about this Sherman’s Showcase special: it was intentionally scheduled, months ago, to premiere on Juneteenth, long before that holiday percolated to a wider – or at least whiter – level of pop culture consciousness.