On TV this Saturday: SNL gets Strange, Melissa Leo plays a crime boss and Rita Moreno is honored in this year’s Inspiring America special. Here are nine programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern. (Also check out our weekly TVLine-Up of premieres and finales, plus our monthly streaming guide.)
Five hours: The 148th annual race — aka “The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports” — takes place live from Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
Christmas at an idyllic country estate turns potentially deadly for Murdoch and his crew.
TV-movie premiere: A woman (Passions‘ Jade Harlow) tries to take down a dangerous self-improvement program that keeps its all-female members trapped; Steve Richard Harris (Another World) co-stars.
TV-movie premiere: A fitness expert (V.C. Andrews’ Heaven‘s Cindy Busby) must get a movie star (Love in the Forecast‘s Christopher Russell) into shape before he shoots his next film.
Guests include Bridget Everett (Somebody Somewhere), Dylan Baker (Hunters), Ali Wentworth (In Living Color) and Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer).
Premium cable premiere: Wyatt Walker (Penny Dreadful‘s Josh Hartnett) tries to pull off one last heist in an attempt to free his crime boss mother Ida “Red” (I’m Dying Up Here‘s Melissa Leo) from prison; Frank Grillo (Kingdom) and Deborah Ann Woll (Daredevil) co-star.
The one-hour special honors Broadway legend Rita Moreno (West Side Story), Olympians Nathan Chen, Erin Jackson and Mikaela Shiffrin, and fashion icon Christy Turlington Burns; Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Lester Holt co-host.
Former cast member Molly Shannon hosts this Season 32 throwback from May 12, 2007; Linkin Park performs.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘ Benedict Cumberbatch hosts; Arcade Fire performs. (Who’s hosting next week? Plus, readers rank Season 47!)
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