SHOW OF THE WEEK: Wynonna Earp (July 26, 10 p.m., CTV Sci-Fi Channel)

Melanie Scrofano as Wynonna and Katherine Barrell as Nicole in “Wynonna Earp.”
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Come for the supernatural shenanigans; stay for the ass-kicking action and smart-as-a-whip dialogue. That’s how this Canadian-made cult hit rolls.

If you’re an Earper, a hardcore fan of “Wynonna Earp,” you’ve been waiting an awfully long time for this Season 4 debut, since September 2018. The good news is it’s finally here; the bad news is that only six episodes are in the can.

The coronavirus pandemic touched down just as the series took a hiatus from shooting, so a one-week break turned into four months. But production resumed last week in Calgary, so be assured the final six are on their way.

In the meantime, we’ve got Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano), great-great-granddaughter of Wyatt Earp, doing what she does best: fighting, saying funny things and stepping up for her family and friends. The first order of business is to retrieve her sister Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) and her lover Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon) from the Garden of Eden and bring them back to their hometown of Purgatory.

Change seems to be a theme this season: changes in Purgatory once the trio returns and a reckoning for Wynonna now that the Earp family curse has been broken and she’s no longer a demon hunter.

You don’t have to be up to speed on the series mythology to enjoy it; underneath the talk of demons and angels and vampires and magical weapons it’s about people who love each other and would do anything for each other. But if you do want to catch up, seasons 1 to 3 are on Crave.

Stella & Co. (July 25, 4:30 p.m., PBS)

Estelle Craig, the “Stella” in the documentary “Stella & Co.”
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The star of this documentary is 103-year-old Estelle “Stella” Craig, a former Toronto resident who was a pioneering journalist and radio host, and the mother of filmmaker Robin Baker Leacock. Leacock uses interviews with Stella and seven of her friends at her Florida seniors residence to make a point that isn’t new but is worth reinforcing: that old people have more to offer than society gives them credit for. The take-aways from the octagenarians, nonagenarians and centenarians in the doc is that age is just a number and that they feel far younger than their years. It’s a message that has added poignancy given that the coronavirus pandemic exposed the deadly gaps in the way we care for our elderly, here in Ontario and elsewhere.

Odds and Ends

Aunjanue Ellis and Cuba Gooding Jr. in a scene from “The Book of Negroes.”
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CBC is rerunning the 2015 miniseries “The Book of Negroes” (July 26, 8 p.m.) in honour of Emancipation Day, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in the British empire on Aug. 1, 1834. The series tells the story of Aminata Diallo (Aunjanue Ellis) and her eventual escape from slavery in the United States, and is based on the Lawrence Hill novel of the same name, which in turn is based on the real “Book of Negroes,” containing the names of Black loyalists who were shipped to Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. See cbc.ca for a full list of special Emancipation Day programming.

I can’t say I’m a fan, but the Duplass brothers’ odd anthology series “Room 104” returns to HBO for its fourth and final season, July 24 at 11 p.m.

Disney Plus has “Rogue Trip” (July 24), in which former ABC News foreign correspondent Bob Woodruff and his son Mack travel to nations with bad reputations for one reason or another to seek the beauty within.

If you’d like to know what an episodic series looks like on Instagram you can check out “1 of Those Days” (July 23), which was shot on iPhones, and written and directed by Argentinian actor Andy Gorostiaga. It’s in Spanish with English subtitles.