George Clooney Reside on Broadway, the Tony Awards, Attenborough’s Deep Ocean Dive, ‘Lifeless’ Reckoning

Good Evening, and Good Luck

SATURDAY: On the night time earlier than he takes his remaining bow on Broadway, Tony-nominated star and co-author George Clooney presents a reside efficiency of the SRO present from the stage of the Winter Backyard Theatre. This uncommon broadcast, which just about screams “See It Now,” will air on CNN, CNN Worldwide and stream reside on cnn.com and on Max in addition to linked TVs and cell apps. (If you happen to knew how a lot folks had been paying to see Clooney reside, you’d know what a cut price that is.) Primarily based on his 2005 movie, Good Evening stars Clooney as legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow as he faces political and company stress in his journalistic campaign to reveal the excesses of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (proven solely on TV screens). Following the well timed play, Anderson Cooper hosts a particular discussing the play’s success and the state of world journalism. (If this leaves you wanting extra, Sunday’s 60 Minutes repeats its section about Clooney’s Broadway debut at 7/6c.)

Tony Awards

SUNDAY: It’s fairly a TV weekend for theater lovers. Clooney is among the many nominees gathering at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor for the celebration of Broadway’s greatest, with Tony winner and Depraved star Cynthia Erivo internet hosting. Highlights embody a ten^th-anniversary reunion of the unique forged of Hamilton, which swept the Tonys with 11 wins and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and a particular Kennedy Middle Honors quotation. The ceremony can also be a smorgasbord of showstopping numbers from nominated musicals and revivals, together with Possibly Comfortable Ending (that includes Darren Criss), Dying Turns into Her, Lifeless Outlaw, Buena Vista Social Membership, Operation Mincemeat, Floyd Collins (that includes Jeremy Jordan), Gypsy (that includes six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald), Sundown Blvd. (that includes Nicole Scherzinger) and Pirates! The Penzance Musical and particular performances from Simply in Time (that includes Jonathan Groff), Actual Girls Have Curves and Broadway Inspirational Voices. Earlier than the CBS broadcast begins, Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry host The Tony Awards: Act One (6:40 pm/ET), a pre-show that streams reside on Pluto TV’s Reside Music channel.

Ocean with David Attenborough

SATURDAY: “Crucial place on Earth will not be on land,” declares the famend nature historian Sir David Attenborough in a deep-diving and dazzlingly photographed documentary that remarkably represents his first collaboration in his lengthy profession with Nationwide Geographic. Now 99, Attenborough reveals new discoveries within the interconnected waters of the planet’s oceans, advocating for his or her safety and preservation. “If we save the ocean, we save our world,” he says.

The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis

SUNDAY: Collection star Lauren Cohan directs an episode that options her character, Maggie, going through one in every of her most daunting foes so far. (Let’s simply say that proximity to a devastated Central Park Zoo might issue into the showdown.) Her nemesis — or is he now frenemy? — Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has his personal battles to combat, having engineered the demise of the dreaded Dama (Lisa Emery). “What occurs with me?” he wonders. Most likely nothing good.

Inside Weekend TV:

• French Open (Saturday and Sunday, 9 am/ET, TNT and truTV): Coco Gauff takes on No. 1 ranked Aryna Sabalenka within the girls’s remaining on Saturday, with the lads’s remaining between Carlos Alcaraz and top-ranked Jannik Sinner on Sunday.
• To Barcelona, With Love (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): I can attest that this Spanish metropolis, with its architectural marvels, is among the many world’s most romantic. Which makes this the right technique to launch the channel’s “Passport to Love” June film collection. Hallmark regulars Alison Sweeney and Ashley Williams star as a translator and writer who cross paths with Barcelona bookstore proprietor Nico (Alejandro Tour) at a guide signing. A sequel, To Barcelona, Eternally airs subsequent Saturday.
• Kidnapped by a Killer: The Heather Robinson Story (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Rachel Stubington stars within the title function of a docudrama a few lady whose world is rocked when she discovers her adoptive uncle John (Steve Guttenberg) is a serial killer whose victims included her personal organic mom.
• Thoughts Your Enterprise (Saturday, 8/7c, Bounce TV): The household comedy set in Chicago returns for a second season.
• Storage Wars (9/8c, A&E): What’s in these storage items? Let the bidding start as Season 16 will get underway.
• NBA Finals (Sunday, 8 pm/ET, ABC): After Thursday’s heart-stopping end within the first bout, the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder hopes to tie the collection towards the Indiana Pacers within the second sport.
• Tucci in Italy (Sunday, 8/7c, CNN): Within the culinary travelogue’s season finale, Stanley Tucci heads to the countryside of Lazio outdoors Rome to savor rustic dishes.
• The Mortician (Sunday, 9/8c, HBO): Within the engrossing true-crime collection, a crematorium hearth results in extra allegations of mortician David Lamb’s unscrupulous enterprise practices, and his subsequent arrest reveals proof that he could also be linked to a rival’s homicide.