CBS
Grammy Awards
SUNDAY: Music’s largest night time takes on further significance as the primary main awards present to be staged in L.A. because the devastating wildfires. Trevor Noah hosts for the fifth time, with a mandate to honor first responders and lift funds for wildfire help efforts. Past the same old performances, segments pays tribute to the resilience of Los Angeles. One other spotlight: an all-star tribute to the late Quincy Jones. Beyoncé leads the pack of nominees with 11, with Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Publish Malone, and Charli XCX following with seven every, and Taylor Swift tied with Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan with six. Carpenter and Roan compete within the Finest New Artist class in opposition to Benson Boone, Doechii, Khruangbin, RAYE, Shaboozey, and Teddy Swims. Carpenter and Roan are also up for the coveted Album of the 12 months award, alongside Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Eilish, Swift, André 3000, and Jacob Collier. Confirmed performers embrace Roan, Carpenter, Eilish, Boone, Doechii, Swims, Depraved’s Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Lainey Wilson, Shakira, John Legend, and Sheryl Crow.
Helen Williams / Playground Leisure and MASTERPIECE
All Creatures Nice and Small
SUNDAY: Skeldale Home is getting awfully crowded, not simply with the animals underneath the veterinarians’ care, however within the dwelling quarters. Newly returned from the struggle, Tristan (Callum Woodhouse) is lower than impressed in his first encounter with “substitute” rent Richard Carmody (James Anthony-Rose), who he sees as a “mini-killjoy,” and is much more disgruntled once they’re pressured to share tight sleeping preparations. The unusual bedfellows get an opportunity to ascertain a extra skilled rapport once they’re despatched to Pumphrey Manor to discover a snake on the unfastened in Mrs. Pumphrey’s (Patricia Hodge) sprawling property, now serving as a convalescent house for troopers. Seems Tristan is second solely to Indiana Jones in his antipathy towards these slithering creatures.
Everett Assortment
31 Days of Oscar
SATURDAY: Dave Karger hosts the monthlong countdown to the Academy Awards, with each film proven between Saturday and the March 2 ceremony on ABC both an Oscar winner or contender. Saturday’s opening lineup begins with 1937’s Finest Image winner The Lifetime of Emile Zola and continues in prime time with a salute to “Oscar Worthy Actors,” led by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter from 1950’s scintillating Finest Image winner All About Eve (8/7c). (Each actresses misplaced that yr to Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday.) Sunday’s prime-time schedule focuses on “Oscar Worthy Academics,” with Richard Dreyfuss in 1995’s Mr. Holland’s Opus (8/7c) and Oscar winner Anne Bancroft in 1962’s The Miracle Employee (10:30/9:30c).
Grownup Swim
Widespread Facet Results
SUNDAY: Cult vibes are already greeting this offbeat animated comedy-thriller hybrid from the highly effective producing partnership of Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign), Steve Hely (Veep) and govt producers Mike Choose and Greg Daniels (King of the Hill). Launching with two episodes, that is the story of supernerd Marshall (voiced by Dave King), who discovers a magic mushroom within the Peruvian forest that may miraculously treatment absolutely anything—which makes him a chief goal of Large Pharma, greater enterprise and even the DEA. He turns to his former lab companion Frances (Emily Prendergast) for assist in bringing the brand new drug to the individuals who want it most — in the event that they stay lengthy sufficient.
CNN
Tremendous/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
SUNDAY: In case you missed it when it aired on HBO in December, this transferring documentary makes its CNN premiere. Tremendous/Man attests to the almost superhuman resilience of Superman celebrity Christopher Reeve, who nearly died in a 1995 horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed—but emboldened to spend the remainder of his life, with spouse Dana, devoted to the reason for analysis and visibility for the disabled. His youngsters recall the shadow forged by Reeve’s movie star but in addition his endurance and Dana’s devotion. (After his loss of life 20 years in the past, she succumbed to lung most cancers in March 2006.) The movie additionally reveals his Juilliard classmate and finest pal Robin Williams standing by the Reeves by way of their ordeal. Alongside the best way, the actor revised his idea of heroism: “I believe a hero is an atypical particular person who finds the energy to persevere and endure regardless of overwhelming obstacles.”
INSIDE WEEKEND TV:
- Can You Really feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Latina singer Lisa Velez, who loved fame within the Nineteen Eighties with the band Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, stars as her personal mom in a biopic that includes Jearnest Corchado as Lisa, an bold teenager from Hell’s Kitchen who turned an inspiration for future Latina feminine superstars. All American’s Bre-Z co-stars as her finest pal and backup singer, Toni Ménage.
- An Sudden Valentine (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Community favorites Lacey Chabert and Robert Buckley star in a Valentine’s Day romance as strangers who navigate New York Metropolis to return a misplaced engagement ring to some.
- For the Love of Chocolate (Saturday, 8/7c, Nice American Household): Competing in a Masters of Chocolate Competition, Aria (Rhiannon Fish) finds a brand new companion in an enthralling single dad (Jesse Hutch) who’s received all the suitable mocha strikes.
- True Crime Watch: On 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS), Erin Moriarty studies on the 2021 disappearance of Michigan businesswoman Dee Warner, presumed useless for 3 years till her physique was found final August in a fertilizer tank. Her husband Dale faces trial later this yr. A 3rd season of Oxygen’s New York Murder (Saturday, 9/8c) opens with retired NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Ok. Boyce presenting the case of a well-liked Staten Island instructor discovered stabbed in her house. Investigation Discovery follows the season finale of Very Scary Folks with the particular Very Scary Lovers (Sunday, 10/9c), hosted by Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, which follows the thrill-kill spree of Benjamin and Erika Sifrit.
- 60 Minutes (Sunday, 7/6c, CBS): Political segments embrace Lesley Stahl’s profile of former Senate Majority Chief Mitch McConnell and Scott Pelley’s interview with Robert Lighthizer, an advisor to President Trump who served as his prime commerce negotiator throughout his first time period. Anderson Cooper studies on army veterans exploring psychedelic therapies to deal with PTSD.
- Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): Issues get supernaturally wacky when Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) confronts Julian (Ted Levine) from inside his magic Victrola to be taught the place Lasher (Jack Huston) has been taken.
- Humorous Girl (Sunday, 10/9c, PBS): A second season of the British show-biz comedy follows rising TV star Sophie Straw (Gemma Arterton) by way of extra skilled and private ups and downs. All 4 episodes shall be accessible to stream on PBS Passport for binge-watching.