What's On Tonight (Saturday): Time for a Nightcap

Nightcap with Carlos King

You're traveling through another dimension! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, July 2!

Our Top Pick tonight is the season finale of the late-night talk show The Nightcap with Carlos King (OWN, 10 p.m.). The talk show is OWN's answer to Watch What Happens Live with host and reality show creator Carlos King, who helms many of OWN's reality slate that have started franchising. In the near future, Carlos King might be a Jeopardy answer!

Elsewhere, the Doctor fights the War Machines, Transplant's in turmoil, Chris Pine is a contractor, and a the Jailhouse has a smuggling operation 

(All times are Eastern. All listings are new unless otherwise stated. For more listings, visit The Futon Critic or Zap2it.)

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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.): A Perfect Murder

STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME

📺 Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Paramount+, now): Season 3 of the second revival begins soon on Nickelodeon, but if you wanna keep it old school, the original 5-season youthful anthology series about creeps, spooks, and the supernatural is available. I was an occasional back in the day, but I don't remember too much other than the kids who told the stories were part of The Midnight Society.

📺 Doctor Who (Retro TV, 6 p.m.): The Doctor and his friends must stop the self-thinking computer WOTAN from invading London with the deadly War Machines. Goodbye, Dodo. Hello, Ben and Polly.

🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL

🎥 Jailbreak Lovers (Lifetime): When Toby loses her job and starts a nonprofit to rehabilitate abused, rescued dogs at the local prison, she hatches a plan to break her lover out of prison by smuggling him out in one of the dog crates, sparking a federal manhunt. The good puppers better not be accessories to crimes!

Transplant (NBC): "As shakeups force major turmoil at the hospital, Bash and Amira take a trip."✔️

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Dynasties (BBC America): Season finale

Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN): Season finale

Superstar Racing Experience (CBS)

🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): Attack of the Puppet People

Transplant (via Giphy)

🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL

📺 The Twilight Zone (Decades): Spend the holiday weekend with the traditional showing of the fifth dimension. It's a binge that is as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. In this episode, Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's witch doctor puts a curse on him.

🎥 The Contractor (Showtime): Discharged U.S. Special Forces sergeant Chris Pine risks everything for his family when he joins a private contracting organization. Everything!✔️

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Love & Marriage: D.C. (OWN)

🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL

⭐ The Nightcap with Carlos King (OWN): SEASON FINALE. Tonight's guests are Ms. Wanda and Marsau Scott, two people you will most likely know if you watch OWN's reality shows.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Heartland Docs, DVM (National Geographic Wild)

Portals to Hell (Travel Channel): Season finale

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📺 Star Trek (MeTV, 11 p.m.): The Enterprise collides with a black hole and is thrown back to Earth in the 20th century, where they must find a way back to their timeline while erasing any trace of their presence.

📺 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (MeTV, 1 a.m.): While smuggling defecting red agent Anton Koslow to the U.S. aboard the Seaview, Admiral Nelson becomes aware that there is another agent aboard planning to kill Kaslow.

The Contractor (via Tumblr)

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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it

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Happy watching, everyone!