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| Trayvon Martin: 10 Years Later |
Hey-o! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, February 26!
Our Top Pick tonight is the CBS News-produced documentary special Trayvon Martin: 10 Years Later (Smithsonian Channel, 10 p.m.), which serves as a follow-up to the activism sparked by the Black teenager's murder 10 years ago today.
Elsewhere, The Weeknd has a weekend special, the NAACP hands out awards, Murdoch is back with new Mysteryies, Lifetime adapts Abby Hernandez's kidnapping, Reelz investigates I Love Lucy and Gilligan's Island, Shenmue starts finding answers, the Abyss has a relic revelation, and SNL dances itself clean.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
Elsewhere, The Weeknd has a weekend special, the NAACP hands out awards, Murdoch is back with new Mysteryies, Lifetime adapts Abby Hernandez's kidnapping, Reelz investigates I Love Lucy and Gilligan's Island, Shenmue starts finding answers, the Abyss has a relic revelation, and SNL dances itself clean.
(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)
ON THIS SITE
This Weekend in Pop Culture (9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? This is our weekly thread for you talk about it.
Thoughts On (The Films of 1998) (9 a.m.): Hush
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
📺 Magnum, P.I. (The Roku Channel / IMDb TV, now): Before reverse mortgages and starring in a terrible cop-loving TV show, Tom Selleck was the ultimate cool as private investigator Thomas Magnum throughout the 1980s in the by Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson series. Forget that bland by-the-numbers remake. The entire classic series is available on Roku and a couple seasons are on IMDb TV.✔️
Murdoch Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): SEASON PREMIERE. The Black Hand are in pursuit of Anna Fulford and Murdoch's son. An Asian family is in turmoil after their daughter was murdered at the hands of her Caucasian husband. George Crabtree has been kidnapped by two deranged twin sisters.
Profiled: The Black Man (Discovery+, 3 a.m.): Deconstructing the stereotype that "Black Men Devalue Black Women"
🎥 A Streetcar Named Desire (HBO Max, now): CLASSIC MOVIE QUOTES for $400: In this film Vivien Leigh cracked, "Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age" (21 Feb 1997)
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Ghost Hunters (Discovery+, 3 a.m.)
The Weeknd x The Dawn FM Experience (Amazon Prime, midnight): Special
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| Magnum, P.I. (via Giphy) |
🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL
53rd NAACP Image Awards (most ViacomCBS Paramount Global networks): "The virtual ceremonies will recognize winners in more than 80 non-televised award categories in the fields of television and streaming, music, literature, film, and podcasts."
Attenborough's Global Adventure (BBC America): SERIES FINALE. From the ancient tropics of China to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef.
🎥 Free Guy (HBO): In this Academy Award-nominated movie, bank teller Ryan Reynolds discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.✔️
🎥 Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez (Lifetime): Fourteen-year-old Abby Hernandez vanishes while walking home from school in North Conway, N.H. Held captive in a soundproof container, Abby endures psychological, sexual, and emotional abuse while keeping hope alive that authorities will find her.
🎥 Welcome to Mama's (Hallmark Channel): After inheriting an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, a woman teams up with a master chef to relaunch the establishment and make her loved ones proud.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
Crikey! It's the Irwins (Animal Planet)
Great Chocolate Showdown (The CW)
Holmes Family Rescue (HGTV)
Lone Star Law (Discovery Channel)
Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN)
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): Devil Doll (1964)
The Unknown Story (Reelz): I Love Lucy
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| Free Guy (via Giphy) |
🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL
📺 The Flying Nun (Decades, 9 p.m.): Decades wants us to endure a day of The Flying Nun, a show even its star, Sally Field, hated. "The show just made no sense to me," she once said of it. In this episode, "a little boy believes Sister Bertrille is his mother returning from heaven."
WHAT ELSE IS ON
The Incredible Dr. Pol (Nat Geo Wild)
Mysterious Creatures with Forrest Galante (Animal Planet)
The Unknown Story (Reelz): Gilligan's Island
World's Funniest Animals (The CW)
🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL
📺 Kojak (Get TV): The key witness in a robbery/murder trial is murdered just before he was about to testify, seriously damaging the prosecution's case. Kojak's hopes are either to use less reliable witnesses or find another way to nail the killers.
⭐ Trayvon Martin: 10 Years Later (CBS Reports) (Smithsonian Channel): Gayle King hosts this one-hour special that revisits the 17-year-old's fatal shooting in Florida by George Zimmerman and its part in what would become the Black Lives Matter movement. It is available at 8 p.m. on the CBS News app and will air on BET on Monday.
48 Hours (CBS)
The Dead Files (Travel Channel)
DJ Cassidy's Pass the Mike (BET / BET Her)
Pop Goes the Vet with Dr. Jova (National Geographic Wild)
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Anya Taylor-Joy, Lil Nas X (22 May 2021)
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Assassination Classroom (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): E class competes with the rest of the school for the highest sales totals at the school's festival.
Attack on Titan (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): Colt pleads with Zeke to not use his scream and turn Falco into a Titan. Soldiers and Titans clash in battle as Eren struggles to make contact with his brother.
Made in Abyss (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Riko finds out that she was revived by the relic.
Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 3 a.m.): Obito completely absorbs the giant Ten Tails and becomes the Ten Tails' Jinchuriki.
One Piece (Adult Swim, 2 & 2:30 a.m.): The Straw Hats finally make it to Fish-Man Island, but their reputation precedes them, leading to trouble with the New Fish-Man Pirates. Later, when Sanji gets up close and personal with a mesmerizing mermaid, his extreme fondness for the female form lands him in a life and death situation.✔️
Shenmue (Adult Swim, midnight): To chase Lan Di, Ryo decides to go to Hong Kong but realizes he does not have enough money to go. Ryo enters Mad Angels' territory, seeking information on Lan Di.
📺 That Girl (Antenna TV, 11 p.m.): Everyone has helpful suggestions when Ann tries to decide how to spend a large sum of money.
WHAT ELSE IS ON
🎥 Hustlers (Freeform, 11:30 p.m.)
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): John Mulaney, LCD Soundsystem
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| One Piece (via Giphy) |
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Happy watching, everyone!
(NOTICE: Saturday Night Live is tomorrow night, so the Sunday WOT will go up a few minute early.)
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