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Best-bets for June 27: Swayze, spies, soccer

1) “I Am Patrick Swayze” (2019), 8-10 p.m., CW. Growing up in Houston, Swayze (shown here) jumped from football to theater to his mom’s dance studio. All served him well, in a strong movie career. Here’s a profile of Swayze, who died of cancer at 57, in 2009. Also, IFC is showing two of his films — “Red Dawn” (1984) ar4:40 p.m. and “Point Break” (1991) at 7:30. Read more…

1) “I Am Patrick Swayze” (2019), 8-10 p.m., CW. Growing up in Houston, Swayze (shown here) jumped from football to theater to his mom’s dance studio. All served him well, in a strong movie career. Here’s a profile of Swayze, who died of cancer at 57, in 2009. Also, IFC is showing two of his films — “Red Dawn” (1984) ar4:40 p.m. and “Point Break” (1991) at 7:30.

2) “The Agency,” noon to 10 p.m., Showtime. Here’s the entire second season in one gulp. (It also arrived this week on Paramount+.) “Martian” (Michael Fassbender) has rescued his lover by agreeing to leak information to Richardson (Hugh Bonneville). Now the chief of the CIA’s London bureau (Richard Gere) searches for the leak.

3) World Cup. This is the final day of the first stage, which decides the 32 teams (out of 48) that reach the “knockout” stage. Today, Fox and Fox Sports1 both have games at 5, 7:30 and 10 p.m. ET.

4) “9-1-1: Nashville,” 8-11 p.m., ABC. In the first rerun, there are emergencies at a water park and a sorority house. In the second, Blue — nudged by the others — finally takes his firefighter exam. In the third, Taylor gets a chance to record with a major star.

5) Movies. AMC has the original “Star Wars” trilogy. at 4, 7 and 10 p.m.; TruTV has the recent “Dune” ones at 4 and 7:15. And you can choose a Disney cartoon — “Coco,” 7 p.m., Disney Channel; “Monsters, Inc.,” 7:20, Freeform; “Monsters University,” 9:25, Freeform.

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