Agenda is Tablet Magazine’s weekly listing of upcoming cultural events.
Maya Rudolph, the former Saturday Night Live actress and the impressively multitalented spawn of musicians Richard Rudolph and Minnie Riperton, plays the boss of Christina Applegate’s character in a new parenting sitcom, Up All Night, which debuts Wednesday night. The Los Angeles Times calls the show “unexpectedly, almost nervily touching,” and Rudolph told the New York Times she gets anxious as a parent, citing “that lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry” (premiere: Sept. 21; then airing Wednesdays, 8 p.m., NBC). The film David, playing Saturday night as part of the 17th annual Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival in Southern California, looks at the complicated friendship between the young son of a Brooklyn imam and a Jewish student at a local yeshiva (Sept. 17, 5 p.m., $5). And The Big Lebowski ’s rabid fans abide at Lebowski Fest Los Angeles at The Wiltern—with a screening Friday (Sept. 23, 8 p.m., $25.50) and bowling party Saturday (Sept. 24, 9 p.m., Cal Bowl, $25).