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| We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert |
Come aboard. we're expecting you! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, August 21!
Tonight's Top Pick is a bit of a cheat for me. We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert begins at 5 p.m., an hour before primetime begins. But the Central Park-set concert will carry well into the primetime hours. The concert, which will be seen by a vaccinated live audience, celebrates New York City and its resilience during the pandemic. You know, celebrate just as a new waves grips the nation.
Elsewhere, celebrities of all types Stand Up to Cancer, Eden goes to Patagonia, a lizard fights a monkey, The Children of God gets docuseries treatment, Young Dylan fights over a scooter, Fena finds clues about his past, Decades finds Love exciting and new.
STREAMING & PRE-/EARLY PRIMETIME
Burger Truck Brawl (Discovery+, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. A competition program amongst food trucks that specialize in burgers.
Children's of the Cult (Discovery+, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. The story of the notorious and prolific cult The Children of God as seen through the stories of three British women who escaped its clutches. "The series tracks the dramatic rise and fall of the cult alongside the unfolding criminal investigation to bring its members to justice." This was almost Top Pick, but the trailer doesn't have much visually to offer. And I could only find it on Discovery+.
📺 Doctor Who (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): On Pluto, the Doctor (Tom Baker), Leela, and K9 start a revolution among the humans against a corporation that has an economic hold over humanity.
⭐ We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert (CNN, 5 p.m.): SPECIAL. "Live from Central Park comes an all-star concert, celebrating the resilience of a city and the nation at large after a challenging year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic." Scheduled performers include Jon Batiste, Andrea Bocelli, Kane Brown, LL Cool J, Elvis Costello, Lucky Daye, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Cynthia Erivo, Jimmy Fallon, Jennifer Hudson, Wyclef Jean, Journey, JP Saxe and Julia Michaels, The Killers, Gayle King, Don Lemon, Barry Manilow, Maluma, New York Philharmonic, Polo G, Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, and Rob Thomas.
BRIEFLY: Heartbreak Island (Discovery+, 3 a.m.); Love Island UK (Hulu, 3 a.m.)
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| Doctor Who (via Tumblr) |
🕗 8:00 EASTERN / 🕖 7:00 CENTRAL
Eden: Untamed Planet (BBC America, 8 p.m.): At the far tip of South America lies a magical realm that seems frozen in time and known as "the end of the world." What is Patagonia!
🎥 Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Reelz, 8 p.m.): In this 2005 documentary, Sam Dunn, a 30-year old anthropologist, decided to study the plight of a different culture, one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year-old: the culture of heavy metal.
Stand Up to Cancer (Broadcast nets, various cable nets, 8 p.m.): Celebrities support research into the disease. Anthony Anderson, Ken Jeong, Tran Ho and Sofia Vergara co-host. Scheduled performers include Common and Brittany Howard.
🎥 Svengoolie: House of Horrors (MeTV, 8 p.m.): An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Young Dylan (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m.): Rebecca wants to use her new scooter to make social media posts, and Dylan wants to use it in a rap video, but both need to hide it from their parents if they want to keep it.
🕘 9:00 EASTERN / 🕗 8:00 CENTRAL
🎥 Godzilla vs. Kong (HBO, 8 p.m.): Lizard fights monkey: the movie! Us humans are necessary collateral damage. I enjoyed the movie enough.
🎥 A Little Daytime Drama (Hallmark Channel, 9 p.m.): "Hoping to save her daytime soap opera, a writer tries to convince a popular actress and her real-life boyfriend to return to the show."
This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? This is our weekly thread for you talk about it.
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| Godzilla vs. Kong (via Tumblr) |
🕙 10:00 EASTERN / 🕘 9:00 CENTRAL
📺 The Love Boat (Decades, 10 p.m.): Spend the weekend where love is always exciting and new! In this episode, a "friend's wife makes passes at Doc. A man records his friend's romances. An engaged woman meets an old school chum." Guest stars include Gina Hecht, Ron Palillo, Jill St. John, and Time Tunnel star James Darren.
BRIEFLY: Family or Fiancé (OWN); Hatcher Family Dairy (Nat Geo Wild)💤💤😴💤💤
Black Clover (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): The Dark Triad's Vanica enters the Heart Kingdom. Dante visits the Black Bulls' hideout to meet Yami but finds Asta and friends instead.
Fena: Pirate Princess (Adult Swim, midnight): Determined to inherit her father's journey, Fena and the samurai embark from Goblin Island. They stop by the free town of Bar-Baral to procure resources where Fena comes across a product identical to the stone her father had left behind.
Food Wars! (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Kuga, Megishima, and Mimasaka face off against Tsukasa, Rindou, and Saitou. Megishima reflects on joining the rebels.
My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): Ryukyu brings her work study students with her when Selkie asks her to team up with him.
Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Moroha battles Sakyo, who is revealed to actually be the demon Yotsume in disguise.
📺 The Rookies (Heroes & Icons, 2 a.m.): "A brilliant young felon holds Terry and three women, one of whom is pregnant, hostage in a bank vault in order to free his partner from jail."
📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): Ann almost ruins a surprise birthday party Don has arranged for her.
📺 The Time Tunnel (MeTV, 3 a.m.): In 19th-century India, Tony and Doug join forces with Rudyard Kipling to forestall an uprising by mountain tribesmen.
BRIEFLY: Sell This House! (FYI, 11:30 p.m.)
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| The Love Boat (via Decades) |
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Note: All times are Eastern.
Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it⭐: Top Pick
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