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Welcome to WOT, where the lineups are predetermined and the CL points do matter! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, January 8!
Our top pick tonight is veteran improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW, 8 p.m.). It's been nearly 25 years, so maybe tonight is the night American find out whose line it really is. Like all recent episodes, the show is running on unused footage. I don't think the show has shot new material in 2 or 3 years.
Elsewhere, Assassination Classroom is back in session, Austin City Limits gives its honors, Toonami serves three new Narutos, HGTV has some Unfinished Business, the bodyguard protects the wife of the hitman, A&E enjoys a murderer, and Get TV loves ya, baby.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
Elsewhere, Assassination Classroom is back in session, Austin City Limits gives its honors, Toonami serves three new Narutos, HGTV has some Unfinished Business, the bodyguard protects the wife of the hitman, A&E enjoys a murderer, and Get TV loves ya, baby.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
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STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
🎥 The Defiant Ones (Peacock, now): Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis are escaped convicts chained together and must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
🎥 In the Heat of the Night (Cinemax / Roku Channel, now): In this Academy Award-winning movie, Philadelphia police detective Sidney Poitier is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
🎥 Lilies of the Field (Amazon Prime / Pluto TV / Tubi, now): Travelling handyman Sidney Poitier becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert. This is the movie that won him an Academy Award.
🎥 Mandela and de Klerk (Roku Channel, now): Sidney Poitier never won an Emmy, but he did garner two nominations, one of which was this Showtime movie. Poitier is Nelson Mandela, who is negotiationing with F.W. de Klerk (Michael Caine ) to end South African apartheid. It's a good movie.
📺 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Decades, 6:30 p.m.): Decades celebrates Betty White with a Mary Tyler Moore Show marathon. In this quality Sue Ann-focused episode, "Mary is forced to attend a news convention with Sue Ann and gets a peek behind the curtain at the not-so-happy homemaker."
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Ghost Hunters (Discovery+, 3 a.m.)
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| In the Heat of the Night (via Imgur) |
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
🎥 The Dry (Showtime): Federal agent Eric Bana investigates the decades-old death of a teenage girl in his drought-stricken hometown.
🎥 The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (HBO): Bodyguard Ryan Reynolds continues his friendship with assassin Samuel L. Jackson as they try to save his wife Kitty Softpaws Salma Hayek from Puss in Boots Antonio Banderas.
🎥 Labor, Lies and Murder (Lifetime): A pregnant woman hires a doula to assist with her home birth, but then must stay ever alert to the threat of someone stealing her baby.
🎥 Wedding Veil (Hallmark Channel): After discovering a long-lost painting, museum curator Avery and new board member Peter investigate the artwork's origins as they plan to unveil it at a gala.
⭐ Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW): Jonathan Mangum sits in the fourth chair. Like recent seasons, there is no special guest star. I expect some scenes from a hat, and if we can repeat something as funny as the above gif'd hoedown, I also want that.
🎥 The Winter Palace (GAC Family): "A novelist with a severe case of writer's block is given the chance to finish her book at an empty winter chateau."
WHAT ELSE IS ON
AEW Dynamite (TNT): Special
Crikey! It's the Irwins (Animal Planet)
Friends Speak (Reelz): Ethan Couch
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): Frogs (1972)
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| Crikey! It's the Irwins |
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
BTK: Confession of a Serial Killer (A&E, 9 & 10 p.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Examine the horrific crimes and psyche of notorious serial killer Dennis Rader.
Unfinished Business (HGTV): SERIES PREMIERE. Home-renovation coach Tom Reber comes to the rescue of homeowners who've taken on DIY projects that have gotten out of control.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
American Pickers (History)
🎥 The Hurt Locker (Starz)
The Incredible Dr. Pol (National Geographic Wild)
World's Funniest Animals (The CW)
🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
📺 Kojak (Get TV, 10 p.m.): Captain McNeil's wife is kidnapped by a major drug merchant (Mark Stevens) facing prosecution.
48 Hours (CBS)
Kindred Spirits (Travel Channel)
Pop Goes the Vet with Dr. Jova (National Geographic Wild)
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): David Alan Grier, Silverchair (9 Dec 1995)
🎥 Spider-Man: Far From Home (Freeform, 10:20 p.m.)
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| The Hurt Locker (via Luju Bar) |
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Assassination Classroom (Adult Swim, 12:30 & 1 a.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. E class and Koro Sensei try matchmaking at the end of their trip. Later, E class plays a game of Cops and Robbers and Koro Sensei is accused of a crime.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus (Adult Swim, midnight): Elle goes after the final target, the man responsible for the doll hunt, to complete her mission of revenge.
Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 1:30 & 2 & 2:30 a.m.): Sasuke returns to the Hidden Leaf Village seeking answers. Then, two youths talk about their hopes for the future without revealing their true identities. Later, Madara and Hashirama eventually become the leaders of their respective clans. Hashirama approaches Madara about an alliance.
📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): "Don refuses to shave his new beard."
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Hall of Fame honors
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| Assassination Classroom (via Giphy) |
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