Friday, January 27, 2023

What's On Tonight (Saturday): Family Dinner without the copaganda

Family Dinner

GONG! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, January 28!

Our Top Pick tonight is the culinary show Family Dinner (HBO Max & Discovery+, 3 a.m. / Magnolia, 8 p.m.). Each week, host Andrew Zimmern visits a family and joins them in the kitchen and at the dinning table. He explores the many facets of American life and the American experience through the food that is being prepared.

Elsewhere, Michael B. Jordan is Live from New York, the War on Drugs reaches the City Limits, Earth becomes a Frozen Planet again, One Piece faces a poisonous cloud, more Unexplained is Caught on Camera, Sherri Papini pulls a hoax, and Decades loves Honey.

(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 Doctor Blake Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m.): When a school's headmaster is found dead in his office, Blake's investigations stir up intrigue and demons from the past.✔️

⭐ Family Dinner (HBO Max & Discovery+, 3 a.m. / Magnolia, 8 p.m.): Summers at the lake house are sacred for the Wetherbee family, and so is spending time on the boat. Between their family's easy-to-make bars and casserole dishes, they've perfected a lake life dinner menu.
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (via Giphy)

🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL

The Doctor Blake Mysteries (Ovation, 8:30 p.m.): Dr. Blake is drawn into a difficult and troubling investigation when a life model is found murdered at the start of a painting class.✔️

🎥 Fall into Winter (GAC Family): Life quickly changes for Kerry as she has to work alongside her high school nemesis, Brooks, an old friend of her brother's who unexpectedly buys into Kerry's family-owned candy shop. [*starts playing "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent* Whoa!]

Frozen Planet II (BBC America): SERIES PREMIERE. "Following life in the frozen regions of the planet, including polar bears, Siberian tigers, snow monkeys, and penguins."✔️

🎥 Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini (Lifetime): Young mother Sherri Papini disappears while jogging and reappears three weeks later on Thanksgiving Day. She claims that two Hispanic women kidnapped and abused her. Four years later, new evidence reveals that her abduction was a hoax.

🎥 Love in Glacier National: A National Park Romance (Hallmark Channel): An avalanche forecasting expert brings her new technology to Glacier National Park, but soon faces opposition from the director of Mountain Rescue who is trained in intuition and common sense.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
Love & Marriage: D.C. (OWN)
Royal Rumble (Peacock): Special
🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): Godzilla: King of the Monsters

🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL

📺 Honey West (Decades): Spend the weekend with private detective Anne Francis. This short-lived but groundbreaking crime drama follows the investigations of West and her partner, Sam Bolt (John Ericson). Based on the G.G. Fickling novels, the show was a milestone for a woman leading a broadcast series with the character's name in the title. In this episode, an "embezzler who has had second thoughts hires Honey and Sam to return the money he had stolen to the company vault before his employer discovers it is missing."

WHAT ELSE IS ON
🎥 Everything Everywhere All at Once (Showtime)
The Incredible Dr. Pol (National Geographic Wild)
Rico to the Rescue (HGTV)
Unexplained: Caught on Camera (Travel Channel): Season premiere
World's Funniest Animals (The CW)

🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL

📺 The Rockford Files (Get TV): After being taken by a father-daughter swindle team, Rockford puts his own con game into motion.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
48 Hours (CBS)
Help! My House Is Haunted (Travel Channel): Season premiere
📺 SNL Vintage (NBC): Natasha Lyonne, Japanese Breakfast (21 May 2022)✔️
Saturday Night Live (via Giphy)

💤😴 LATE NIGHT ðŸ˜´ðŸ’¤

Made in Abyss (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): "The reckoning comes, but Reg is too kind and foolish to be a bystander."

My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, midnight): "Disaster Walker"

Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Madara awakens the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Sasuke finds a way to protect his friends from Genjutsu.

One Piece (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Law has a trick up his sleeve that could mean the difference between life and death. Zoro and company reunite with Nami and Sanji and try to get to safety before being swallowed by a poisonous cloud.

📺 Star Trek (MeTV, 11 p.m.): The Enterprise discovers three discorporeal intelligences who seek their help in gaining physical bodies, but one of them has plans of his own.

📺 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (MeTV, 2 a.m.): Captain Crane takes the flying sub on a deadly mission to destroy a secret computer used by the enemy to intercept manned Venus space probe capsules.

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): Towa, Setsuna and Moroha must save Rion.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): The War on Drugs✔️
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:29 p.m.): Michael B. Jordan
The War on Drugs (via Giphy)

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⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included

Happy watching, everyone!

ReminderSNL is tomorrow, so the Sunday WOT will be posted a few minutes early!

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