What's On Tonight (Saturday): Owl you need is love

The Owl House

I'm 50! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, April 8!

Our Top Pick tonight is the series finale of the Peabody Award-winning Owl House (Disney Channel & Disney XD, 9:25 p.m.). The series chronicles 14-year-old mortal Luz (Sarah-Nicole Robles) after she finds a portal to the magical world of the Boiling Isles. She befriends rebel witch Eda Clawthorne (Wendie Malick) and adorable demon housemate King (Alex Hirsch). With no way home, Luz enrolls in school, makes friends, and learns magic... and finds more than friendship with Amity (Mae Whitman). An LGBTQ+ Disney show?! Of course Disney cancels it prematurely. While a landmark for its queer main characters, the House's parts are better than the whole. A rough first season led to a better second, but it never found a good balance of Eda's backstory/redemption and Luz & Co. coming into conflict with ruler Belos — the latter being immensely better. Still, if you like Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, or Gravity Falls, this show is up your alley.

Elsewhere, Molly Shannon is Live from New York, Christoph Waltz and Sam Neill have a Portable Door, Houses have History, Dr. Oakley is back with critters, The CW gets Totally Weird and Funny, gospel music has a Superfest for Easter, and Murdoch goes on a honeymoon.

(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

Murdoch Mysteries (Ovation, 7 p.m. / Plex, now): Honeymooning in England, Crabtree and Effie find a dead hotel guest while Murdoch investigates an apparent suicide.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

The Piece Makers (HBO Max, 3 a.m. / Magnolia, 9:30 p.m.)

🕗 8 P.M. EASTERN / 🕖 7 P.M. CENTRAL

Act Your Age (Bounce): Angela goes on the offense after a TV News anchor exposes Olivia. Bernadette and Keisha attend a rigorous fitness bootcamp.

🎥 The Portable Door (MGM+): Patrick Gibson "is an intern at a mysterious London firm with unconventional employers, including a CEO who wants to disrupt the ancient magical world with modern corporate practices." Christoph Waltz, Sam Neill, and Miranda Otto also star.✔️

🎥 Pride: A Seven Deadly Sins Story (Lifetime): Bakery owner and reality TV star Birdie Moore's carefully constructed world starts to crumble when her family secrets are brought to light. To salvage her legacy, Birdie must let go of the pride that estranged her from her daughter.

🎥 The Professional Bridesmaid (Hallmark Channel | Peacock, tomorrow): A professional bridesmaid uses her talents to help a mayor's daughter keep her wedding on track. However, things get complicated when an ambitious local reporter snoops around to get close to the mayor for a big scoop. Journalists ruin all sorts of lives in Hallmark movies.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

2023 Gospel Superfest Easter Special (BET / BET Her): Special

Love & Marriage: Huntsville (OWN): Season premiere

Masters of Illusion (The CW | The CW app, tomorrow): Jonathan LaChance, Farrell Dillon, Nick Dopuch, The Conjurors, Chipper Lowell, Lucy Darling, Rudy Coby

🎥 Svengoolie (MeTV): The Old Dark House

🕘 9 P.M. EASTERN / 🕗 8 P.M. CENTRAL

⭐ The Owl House (Disney Channel & Disney XD, 9:25 p.m. | Disney+, tomorrow): SERIES FINALE. "The fate of everything on the Boiling Isles now rests on the shoulders of a human, a cursed witch and a determined but tiny king."

Totally Weird and Funny (The CW, 9 & 9:30 p.m. | The CW app, tomorrow): SERIES PREMIERE. "Hosts Mikalah Gordon, Brian Cooper and Noah Matthews submit the strangest, craziest and most hilarious videos from online and beyond to the stage in front of a live studio audience, with the goal of finding the funniest or weirdest clip of the week. Viewers at home can also play along with the studio audience in games such as 'Real or Fake,' where the hosts present three products, one real and two fake, and it is up to the audience to find the real product."✔️

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Critter Fixers: Country Vets (National Geographic Wild): Season premiere

Houses with History (HGTV): Season premiere

Pets & Pickers (Animal Planet)

To Catch a Smuggler: South Pacific (National Geographic)

🕙 10 P.M. EASTERN / 🕘 9 P.M. CENTRAL

📺 Magnum, P.I. (Get TV): Magnum participates in a marathon while searching for a missing man.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

48 Hours (CBS | Paramount+, tomorrow)

Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet (National Geographic Wild): Season premiere

📺 SNL Vintage (NBC / Peacock, now): Chris Pratt, Ariana Grande (24 Sep 2014)

💤😴 LATE NIGHT 😴💤

Food Wars! (Adult Swim, 1 a.m.): The first day of the BLUE has arrived. The culinary competition begins and Soma, Megumi, Takumi, and Erina head to the designated venue.

My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m.): "Deku tries to run away from Class A."

Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Naruto and his comrades are searching for the missing jonin when Hidan suddenly appears.

One Piece (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Luffy befriends a dragon that used to be human. Captain Smoker continues fighting Vergo.

📺 Star Trek (MeTV, 11 p.m. | Paramount+, now): The Enterprise travels to a planet where a scientific team has killed themselves. All that is left alive are the children, and they soon begin to act oddly.

📺 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (MeTV, 2 a.m.): The Seaview is nearly destroyed by a giant Portuguese man o' war when a scientist tries to force Nelson and Crane to retrieve youth serum data from his sunken research ship.

WHAT ELSE IS ON

Saturday Night Live (NBC & Peacock, 11:29 p.m.): Molly Shannon, Jonas Brothers✔️

Molly Shannon on Saturday Night Live (via Giphy)

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Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it
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Happy watching, everyone!

Reminder: SNL is tomorrow, so the Sunday WOT will be posted a few minutes early!