What's On Tonight (Saturday): Tommy and Tuppence are Partners in Crime

Partners in Crime

Pip pip cheerio and all that other bad gibberish and inaccurate English greetings! Tonight, we are back to Ovation for its latest Saturday Night Mysteries offering: Partners in Crime. The show is named after the second Agatha Christie novel that featured her detective duo of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. This short-lived British series, which originally aired in 2015, stars David Walliams and Jessica Raine (OG Call the Midwife!) as the suburban amateur sleuths, who are struggling to make ends meet in their ordinary lives. The show switches the setting to the 1950s Cold War era but mines the source material for its plots. The first three episodes adapt The Secret Adversary and the final three adapt N or M?.

Elsewhere, My Hero Academia (finally) returns with a new episode, Dylan is back on Nickelodeon, Carson Kressley gets into dog-grooming, Daniel Mays joins Line of Duty, and SNL digs up an episode with both a Black host and musical guest. So if your Mom is my Mom and my Dad is your Dad... and we're both born on October 11th, then you and I are... like... sisters, here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, June 20!

STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME

It's Okay to Not Be Okay (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. The latest Korean import. This one is a romance story between two people who end up healing each other’s emotional and psychological wounds.

⭐ Partners in Crime (Ovation, 7 p.m.): Tommy and Tuppence go undercover. He as a member of Brown's gang and she as a maid to a potential suspect. They are trying to find Jane Finn, who they briefly met on a train before she disappeared under mysterious circumstances. While mostly ordered to stay out of the investigation, which is trying to locate an unknown but lethal Soviet assassin that is poised to strike at any moment, but... the often bumbling couple still gets involved. It's good background television, but the chemistry and writing leave something to be desired.

Tour of Duty 📺 (Heroes & Icons, 7 p.m.): In the first season finale, Goldman has a brief R&R with his former girlfriend on China Beach (not China Beach), but she refuses to marry him. When he returns to base, he finds out his unit has been assigned to help take Hill 1000, which they've taken before and lost.

FOR THE RECORD: Accident, Suicide or Murder (Oxygen, 6 p.m.)

🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL

Birthmother's Betrayal 🎥 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): A woman becomes suspicious when her adopted daughter's birth mother reenters her life and starts to display increasingly erratic behavior.

Ford v Ferrari 🎥 (HBO, 8 p.m.): In this fantastic Academy Award-winning movie, car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for the Ford Motor Company in order to defeat the dominant Ferrari racing team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.✔️

La La Land 🎥 (HBO 2, 8 p.m.): The masterpiece musical that should have won Best Picture!

Svengoolie: The Man with Nine Lives 🎥 (MeTV, 8 p.m.): A medical researcher visits the deserted home of pioneer in cryogenic science Boris Karloff who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive. He awakens him in hopes he can find his cure for cancer, but old forces against him emerge. I watched this on AMC way back in the day. I don't recall anything about it.

Young Dylan (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): After failing to get approval to go to the school dance, Rebecca tells her date that she can't go because her grandmother has died, a lie that leads to a series of misunderstandings within the family.

FOR THE RECORD: Group Chat: The Show (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m.); Heartland Docs, DVM (Nat Geo Wild); The Zoo (Animal Planet)

Ford v Ferrari (via Disqus)

🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL

Love Under the Olive Tree 🎥 (Hallmark Channel, 9 p.m.): Two white people fall in love.

This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately?

FOR THE RECORD: Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN, special); Saved by the Barn (Animal Planet); Terror in the Woods (Travel Channel)

Car 54, Where Are You? (via Giphy)

🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL

Car 54, Where Are You? 📺 (Decades, 10 p.m.): Spend the weekend with classic TV officers Toody and Muldoon as they occasionally patrol the streets of New York. Usually they are bickering and having classic sitcom misunderstandings and hijinks that relate to their job, but not necessarily the stuff that happens while on the clock. In this episode, an artist gives Toody one of his paintings, and Toody doesn't realize its value until it's too late.✔️

The Great American Groom-A-Long (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.): SPECIAL. Carson Kressley pairs dog-grooming professionals with friends and celebrities, including Apolo Ohno, Dennis Quaid, and Aubrey O'Day. Together, they and the rest of America learn how to transform shaggy canines into fabulous pooches.

The Parent Trap 🎥 (Freeform, 10:50 p.m.): Lil Lindsay Lohan playing twins that, yes, has a rather awful premise, but does a darn good job of navigating it.✔️

GUEST DIGEST:

The Johnny Cash Show 📺 (getTV, 10 p.m.): The Carpenters, Fredric Lane, Bob Luman, and Charley Pride (24 Mar 1971)

FOR THE RECORD: Girlfriends Check In (OWN, finale)

The Parent Trap (via Disqus)

🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL

Hill Street Blues 📺 (Heroes & Icons, 11 p.m.): Cpt. Furillo's conscience is in knots when he learns that his father’s shooting death resulted not from robbery but suicide. Later, Furillo is sworn to silence and puts his word on the line in an attempt to placate his restive black officers, especially Washington, when a white cop kills his black partner under questionable circumstances.

Line of Duty (AMC, 11 p.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. On to series 3! Sergeant Danny Waldron (Daniel Mays) and his armed response team shoot dead a hardened criminal.

GUEST DIGEST:
The Johnny Cash Show 📺 (getTV, 11 p.m.): Linda Ronstadt, Eddie Albert, Jerry Reed, Charlie Callas, and Roy Orbison (21 Jun 1969)

FOR THE RECORD: My Paranormal Nightmare (Travel Channel)

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Black Clover (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Asta's Black Asta form does him no favors as Damnatio Kira demands his execution. It's up to a powerful few to save Asta's head from the chopping block.

Cyanide & Happiness (Syfy, 1:26 a.m.): A family meets a bookworm... a couple has a life or death battle... a man has a rough day.

Dr. Havoc's Diary (Syfy, 12:46 & 1:31 a.m.): Newly single, Havoc finds some joy on his new submarine until Brock shows. Later, Havoc recalls first meeting Kim; she was his hostage.

Gary and His Demons (Syfy, 12:33 a.m.): The anniversary of his fiancée's death has Gary more down in the dumps than usual, but a chance encounter with a friend may be just what the doctor ordered -- or not.

Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): Dr. Smith's cousin Jeremiah Smith shows up to kill him for his inheritance.

My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, midnight): The academy begins looking after Eri when she has nowhere else to turn. The students and pro heroes focus on the semi-annual hero rankings.

Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m.): Temari leads the attack on the Third Raikage using Wind Style.

Paranoia Agent 📺 (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): A woman talking with her neighbors about Lil' Slugger finds out later that her husband has been attacked by him.

My Hero Academia (via Giphy)

LATE-NIGHT TV

The Greg Gutfeld Show (Fox News, 10 p.m.): Charles Hurt, Dagen McDowell, Kat Timpf, and Tyrus
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Jamie Foxx and Ne-Yo (8 Dec 2012)

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Note: All times are Eastern.

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Happy watching, everyone!