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"American Ninja Warrior" returns for its 10th season this summer and its seventh full season on NBC. The action-packed series follows competitors as they tackle a series of challenging obstacle courses in both city qualifying and city finals rounds across the country. Those that successfully complete the finals course in their designated region move on to the national finals round in Las Vegas, where they face a stunning four-stage course modeled after the famed Mt. Midoriyama course in Japan. The winner will take home a grand prize of $1 million. Jessie Graff sat down with BUILD to chat about the series and the insanely intense obstacle course.

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry and every burger we grill. Check out Foer & filmmaker Christopher Dillon Quinn of "Eating Animals" as they discuss the environmental, economic and public health consequences of factory farming.

Join Kate Robertson, co-founder of One Young World as she talks with One Young World Ambassadors who are successful entrepreneurs respectively: Ben Conard, Founder or Five North Chocolate; Shilpa Yarlagadda, Founder of Shiffon Co; Amir Ashour, Founder/Executive Director of IraQueer; and Bozhanka Vitanova, Entrepreneur. OYW Ambassadors have collectively impacted the lives of 17.5 million people since 2010.

Laura is a single mother living in Seattle, who has a constant need to put others & animals before her. When her estranged, criminally-minded father Jack is kicked out of his retirement home, Laura agrees to drive him down the coast to live with her sister JoJo in LA. Along for the ride is her bright but troubled son Henry, and an assortment of animal charity cases. Without telling Laura, Jack convinces Henry to help him sell off his copious supply of marijuana at every stop of their journey, resulting in unexpected reunions with old friends and family. Vera Farmiga, Lewis MacDougall, Peter Fonda and director Shana Feste took the BUILD stage to discuss the film, "Boundaries."

A girl, a potato, and a very sad flamingo star in this charming sequel to "I’m Bored" by New York Times bestselling author and comedian Michael Ian Black and celebrated illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Everyone feels sad sometimes—even flamingos. When Flamingo announces he’s feeling down, the little girl and Potato try to cheer him up, but nothing seems to work. Flamingo learns that he will not always feel this way and his friends learn that sometimes being a friend means you don’t have to cheer someone up. You just have to stick by your pal no matter how they feel.

Dyllón Burnside stars as Ricky in the new FX series, "Pose." The dance musical series comes from creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals and the show explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in 1980s New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.

"The Bold Type" reveals a glimpse into the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for the global women’s magazine, Scarlet. The rising generation of Scarlet women leans on one another as they find their own voices in a sea of intimidating leaders. Together they explore sexuality, identity, love and fashion. Stars Katie Stevens, Meghann Fahy and Aisha Dee joined BUILD to tell us about the new season of the Freeform series.

Netflix's "Set It Up" follows Harper and Charlie who are overworked, underpaid assistants wasting their 20s slaving away for bosses who treat them like dirt and work them ‘round the clock. When they realize that they would have much more free time if the people they worked for weren’t single, they concoct a plan to lure their bosses into a faux-romance. Joan Smalls dropped by BUILD to talk about the new film and her new swimsuit collection, Smart and Sexy.

Netflix's "Set It Up" follows Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell) who are overworked, underpaid assistants wasting their 20s slaving away for bosses who treat them like dirt and work them ‘round the clock. When they realize that they would have much more free time if the people they worked for weren’t single, they concoct a plan to lure their bosses into a faux-romance.

One month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they’ve been playing since the first grade—risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take each other down. This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they’re coming…and he’s ready. Based on a true story, “Tag” shows how far some guys will go to be the last man standing. Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner & Hannibal Buress stopped by BUILD to talk about the new comedy, "Tag."