Queen Latifah Hosts the American Music Awards, Tom Hanks on World War II, a Historic D-Day Reunion, Nicolas Cage in ‘Spider-Noir’

Queen Latifah, who co-hosted the AMAs back in 1995, returns for this year’s ceremony at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Highlights include Billy Idol performing and receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, with Karol G accepting the International Artist Award of Excellence. Acknowledging the timing on Memorial Day and during Military Appreciation Month, Darius Rucker receives the Veterans Voice Award for his work supporting the Military Warriors Support Foundation and other organizations. Rucker performs with his Hootie & the Blowfish band on a roster that includes Keith Urban, New Kids on the Block, Teddy Swims, Busta Rhymes, Teyana Taylor, The Pussycat Dolls, and BTS in the Korean boy band’s first awards-show gig in four years. Taylor Swift leads the field of nominees with eight.

“The grim reality of the war is almost impossible to comprehend,” says Tom Hanks as he introduces the first night of a 20-part series that examines all aspects of the global conflict from the European and Pacific theaters. Hanks, who produced the epic HBO series Band of Brothers and The Pacific and memorably starred in Saving Private Ryan, is executive producer and narrator of the docuseries, which opens with three episodes. In “The Beginning,” the series depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party in the 1930s, which shocks the world with its invasion of Poland in 1939. Germany’s campaign to conquer Europe and invade the Soviet Union continues in “Blitz” and “Barbarossa.”

Like its subjects, it’s impossible not to get choked up watching this moving documentary that follows some of the last surviving members of the historic D-Day invasion in 1944, most approaching or surpassing the 100-year milestone, as they travel back to Normandy to attend the 80th anniversary of the landing. “The more I talk about it, the more I remember,” says one of the veterans, a group that includes a military nurse. Another rightfully describes himself as “a living history. … My life is a miracle.”

Nicolas Cage goes full Bogart in a stylish homage to classic 1930s film noir, adapting the Marvel comic that meshes super heroics with the tone of a Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) caper. Cage stars as the morose Ben Reilly, formerly known to New York as the web-slinging Spider, who hung up his suit five years earlier after a personal tragedy and now barely gets by as a private eye in Depression-era Manhattan. The luxuriant black-and-white photography helpfully seduces the viewer through a familiar tale of corruption and seduction, with Brendan Gleeson as mob boss Silvermane, Jack Huston as his “Sandman” enforcer, and Li Jun Li as femme fatale torch singer Cat Hardy. When the series premieres on Wednesday on Prime Video, a colorized alternate version will be made available. Stick to the gorgeous black-and-white.

The light mystery introduces Robert Bazzocchi as Allie’s (Brooke Shields) son Oliver, who’s part of a wedding party being staged on the mystery writer’s seaside property. Big mistake, because Allie’s a murder magnet, and sure enough, the best man drops dead during the “I do’s,” courtesy of a peanut allergy and a doctored EpiPen. To Allie’s dismay, Oliver hits it off with Allie’s new podcasting writing partner Andi (Amalia Williamson), who wasn’t invited to the ceremony but attends as Oliver’s guest. Which comes in handy when the ladies get to work solving the latest crime.

INSIDE MONDAY TV:

• NBA Eastern Conference Finals (8 pm/ET, ESPN): The New York Knicks play the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4.
• NHL Eastern Conference Finals (8 pm/ET, TNT, truTV, and HBO Max): The Carolina Hurricanes play the Montreal Canadiens in Game 3 of their series.
• Sullivan’s Crossing (8/7c, The CW): Maggie (Morgan Kohan) sorts out her feelings for her ex, Liam (Marcus Rosner), after hearing his story, but duty calls when she helps her current beau, Cal (Chad Michael Murray), look for Ben (Colby Frost) and Tracy (Emerson MacNeil).
• The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle (9/8c, Investigation Discovery): A four-part docuseries (concluding Tuesday) unravels a bizarre mystery, in which filmmakers encounter a man who claims to have amnesia, but the more they probe, the more they suspect he’s actually hiding a criminal past.
• Foul Play with Anthony Davis (9/8c, TBS): In the hidden-camera prank show’s season finale, victims include former NFL star Gerald McCoy, whose movie audition goes sideways, and the L.A. Lakers’ Austin Reaves in a stunt involving a charity endurance contest.
• Maine Cabin Masters (9/8c, Magnolia Network): Builder Chase Morrill and his team are back at work in a new season of rustic renovations, starting with a homeowner’s desire to spiff up her lakeside cabin to honor her late husband’s memory.
• Food Network’s Top 10 (10/9c, Food Network): A new series surveys top chefs to count down the best bites across the country, opening with a list of the best pizza from coast to coast.
• The Chef’s Garden (10/9c, FYI): Farmer Lee Jones welcomes fellow chefs into his industrial kitchen at the Culinary Vegetable Institute to explore the wonders of garden-grown produce. The second season opens with back-to-back episodes focusing on early-season tomatoes and squash blossoms.
• Summerwater (streaming on Acorn TV): It’s anything but a jolly holiday for residents of a Scottish cabin resort when tensions build among neighbors in a six-part psychological drama.