What's On Tonight (Wednesday): Archer is awake and coming for the bad guys

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Danger zone! In case you forgot or didn't realize, Archer is still a show on the air. Tonight it is back for season 11 and after three seasons of various dream seasons while Archer was in a coma, Archer has awoken. He and the somehow-capable team of dysfunctional secret agents comin' for ya, evil spies!

Elsewhere, Robert Pattinson is after Tom Holland, country music picks its best, jaguars, Madagascar, and slime get nature spotlights, the Challenger space mission is profiled, Tituss Burgess hosts a karaoke contest, ABC updates us on Notre-Dame de Paris, and Hacking Your Mind explores the science of social media algorithms.

Holy shitsnacks, here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, September 16!

STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME

Baby (Netflix 3 a.m.): SERIES FINALE. Third and final season of this Italian teen drama.

Challenger: The Final Flight (Netflix, 3 a.m.): COMPLETE SERIES. A docuseries about the the ill-fated 1986 space shuttle launch.

Criminal: UK (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SEASON TWO. Season two of the UK branch of Netflix's international police anthology arrives.

The Devil All the Time 🎥 (Netflix, 3 a.m.): In a in a postwar town and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters — unholy preacher Robert Pattinson, twisted couple Jason Clarke and Riley Keough, and crooked sheriff Sebastian Stan — converge around Tom Holland as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.✔️

MeatEater (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SEASON NINE. Steven Rinella is still hunting animals and eating them.

The Paramedic 🎥 (Netflix, 3 a.m.): In this Spanish thriller, after a tragic accident, Angel's personal life begins to deteriorate as he becomes more and more suspicious of his partner Vane.

Quantum Leap 📺 (Comet, 7 p.m.): Sam leaps into Al's life as a young Navy pilot and must prevent his execution after he is wrongly accused of rape and murder.

Signs (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SEASON TWO. A second helping of the neo-murder-mystery from Poland.

Sing On! (Netflix, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Tituss Burgess hosts this karaoke competition series.

Staged (Hulu, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Because of the COVID-19 shutdown, David Tennant and Michael Sheen's West End play has been put on hold, but their director has persuaded them to carry on rehearsing online.

QUICK HITS:
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 📺 (Decades, 7 p.m): Leonard Nimoy, Buddy Hackett, Dinah Shore, Inga Neilson, and Connie Stevens (4 Mar 1968)

FOR THE RECORD: 60 in 6 (Quibi, 3 a.m.); Married at First Sight: Unfiltered (Lifetime, 7:30 p.m.); Singled Out (Quibi, 3 a.m.); Tooning Out the News (CBS All Access, 3 a.m.)

🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL

55th Academy of Country Music Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. "Honoring achievement in country music at three iconic country music venues in Nashville."

The 100 (The CW, 8 p.m.): Clarke and her friends reckon with all that has happened only to find an unexpected threat looming.

House of Payne (BET, 8 p.m.): Jazmine is pressured to have sex before she is ready. Later, Lisa and Malik disagree about relationship roles.

In the Cut (Bounce, 8 p.m.): Kenny's famous, favorite aunt visits with her new boyfriend. Meanwhile, Wade lists his apartment on a vacation rental property site.

Jaguarland (Smithsonian Channel, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. Follow the lives of these big, pretty kitties and where they hunt caiman and capybara -- and draw in tourists.

Madagascar: Islands of Wonder (PBS, 8 p.m.): SPECIAL. Madagascar, the strangest and oldest island on Earth, has seen more unique wildlife than any other island.✔️

FOR THE RECORD: AEW: Dynamite (TNT); America's Got Talent (NBC); Catfish: The TV Show (MTV); Expedition Unknown (Discovery Channel); Married at First Sight (Lifetime); WWE NXT (USA)

🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL 

Assisted Living (BET, 9 p.m.): Sandra has a less than favorable reaction to her new circumstances. Later, Leah tries to convince Jeremy to reach out to Mr. Brown for help.

Coroner (The CW, 9 p.m.): Jenny becomes isolated from her team when the building goes under lockdown. McAvoy searches for a newly released killer.

Notre-Dame: Our Lady of Paris (ABC, 9 p.m.): SPECIAL. A firsthand look into the fire that ravaged Notre-Dame in 2019, including firsthand accounts and footage from within the inferno.

Nova (PBS, 9 p.m.): New research on extremely primitive life forms called slime molds, which navigate through life without a brain, could reveal the fundamental rules underlying all decision making. It is the same stuff that Nickelodeon shows drop on people, right?

FOR THE RECORD: Brother vs. Brother (HGTV); Crimes Gone Viral (Investigation Discovery); Dodgeball Thunderdome (Discovery Channel); Extreme Ice Machines (Science, special); Food Paradise (Cooking Channel); Ghosted: Love Gone Missing (MTV); Guy's Grocery Games (Food Network); The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo, special); Restored (DIY Network); Wheeler Dealers (MotorTrend)

🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL

⭐ Archer (FXX, 10 p.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. Archer is alive! He's alive! He's alive! And in this one-hour season 11 opener, his first mission is to guard a priceless statue. Then, he must tell Lana his true feelings and get blind drunk. Later, Archer and the gang attend a martial arts tournament to capture an international arms dealer.✔️

Chaos in Court (Investigation Discovery, 10 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Courtroom cases gone wild.

Hacking Your Mind (PBS, 10 p.m.): Politicians, social media companies, and corporate marketers use big data to hack an auto-pilot decision-making system. So another social media take like Frontline's "The Facebook Dilemma" and The Great Hack but with science.

FOR THE RECORD: Cari & Jemele (Viceland); Donkmaster (Viceland, 10:30 p.m.); House Hunters/House Hunters International (HGTV); Impossible Fixes (Science, special); Marrying Millions (Lifetime); Resto My Ride (Motor Trend)

🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL 

QUICK HITS:
The Carol Burnett Show 📺 (MeTV): Jack Weston (20 Oct 1973)

FOR THE RECORD: Helicopter ER (Science); Nightly Pop (E!, 11:30 p.m.); Ridiculousness (MTV); The Soup (E!); Vice News Tonight (Viceland)

LATE-NIGHT TALK & SATIRE

Conan (TBS, 11 p.m.): Kiersey Clemons
The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central, 11 p.m.)
The Dick Cavett Show 📺 (Decades, 9 p.m.): Rae Dawn Chong, Richard Gere, and Charles Clements (30 Sep 1986)

Johnny Carson 📺 (Antenna TV, 10 p.m.): Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters, and Park Overall (19 Sep 1991)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS, 12:37 a.m.): John David Washington, Michael McIntyre, and Glass Animals
Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC, 12:36 a.m.): Cynthia Nixon, Michael Stipe, and Larry Wilmore
A Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS, 11:35 p.m.): Drew Barrymore
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:34 p.m.): Sharon Stone, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kylie Minogue
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen: @ Home (Bravo, 10 p.m.): Ben Mandelker, Ronnie Karam, Amy Phillips, Ira Madison III, and Danny Pellegrino

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Note: All times are Eastern.

Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it
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Happy watching, everyone!