Friday, February 23, 2024

What's On Tonight (Saturday): Acting! Brilliant!

29th Screen Actors Guild Awards

XXX! Here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, February 24!

Our Top Pick tonight is 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards (Netflix, 8 p.m.). The award season is presented by the major actors union (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) for performances in movies and TV. It is notable for being a barometer for Oscars contenders. Will the Oppenheimer tidal wave be cooled? Do good things come to Poor Things? It doesn't hold much influence on the Emmys.

Elsewhere, Wendy Williams gets docuseries treatment, there's a Ninja investigation, Bonnie Raitt goes to the Limits, Shane Gillis is sadly at Studio 8H, Rocky Rapids has a vet, 

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

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πŸ•— 8 P.M. EASTERN / πŸ•– 7 P.M. CENTRAL

⭐πŸ† 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards (Netflix): SPECIAL. As usual, there are 15 acting awards with 13 presented in the ceremony, which formally moves to Netflix after 2+ decades at TNT and then a transitional year on Netflix's YouTube. Oppenheimer is expected to win big in the movie categories with The Holdovers, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon battling for the scraps. Succession, The Bear, and Beef are predicted to sweep their TV categories. And I love a good upset. (There's no live-thread this year.)

πŸŽ₯ Sense and Sensibility (Hallmark Channel / Peacock, Sunday): After the death of their father, the Dashwoods' entire world changes drastically. While one sister is torn between two men, the other is holding out hope for the man who has her heart.

Where Is Wendy Williams? (Lifetime): SERIES PREMIERE. Over the course of two years, cameras chronicled the former television and radio host, Wendy Williams, on the next phase of her life, following the end of her talk show.✔️

WHAT ELSE IS ON
All Elite Wrestling: Collision (TNT)
Cold Justice (Oxygen): Season premiere
πŸ€ Fox Primetime Hoops (Fox): Villanova at UConn
Love & Marriage: D.C. (OWN)
πŸ€ NBA Saturday Primetime (ABC, 8:30 p.m.): Celtics at Knicks
πŸŽ₯ Priscilla (HBO / Max, now)
πŸŽ₯ Svengoolie (MeTV): How to Make a Monster

πŸ•˜ 9 P.M. EASTERN / πŸ•— 8 P.M. CENTRAL

πŸ“Ί The Lucy Show (Catchy Comedy): Spend the weekend with Lucille Ball and all the hijinks she gets into, often dragging her friends with her. The sitcom was incredibly popular during its entire run, though its legacy as general '60s slapstick has put it forever in the shadow of I Love Lucy. In this episode, the "Danfield Women's Volunteer Fire Fighters put on Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. Lucy is cast as Cleopatra with Viv, in male drag, as Marc Antony. The two dueling divas try to upstage each other during the performance, infuriating their pretentious director Professor Gitterman."

WHAT ELSE IS ON
Fast: Home Rescue (Weather Channel)
First-Time Buyer's Club (OWN): Season finale
The Incredible Dr. Pol (National Geographic Wild)✔️

πŸ•™ 10 P.M. EASTERN / πŸ•˜ 9 P.M. CENTRAL

48 Hours (CBS / Paramount+, Sunday): In "The People v. Kouri Richins," grieving widow Kouri Richins is arrested and charged with the murder of her husband shortly after writing a children's book to help her kids deal with the loss.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
Rocky Rapids Vet 9-1-1 (National Geographic Wild): Series premiere
πŸ“Ί SNL Vintage (NBC): Pedro Pascal, Coldplay (4 Feb 2023)
The Incredible Dr. Pol (via Giphy)

πŸ’€πŸ˜΄ LATE NIGHT πŸ˜΄πŸ’€

Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 2 a.m.): Interrupted in the heat of battle by a blinding light, Naruto and Sasuke begin witnessing flashbacks of their childhood.

Ninja Kamui (Adult Swim, midnight & 3 a.m. / Max, Sunday): Yamaji addresses questions from one of his lieutenants regarding Higan's survival. Mike joins forces with Higan and Emma to launch their own independent investigation into AUZA.

One Piece (Adult Swim, 1:30 a.m.): Doflamingo gains the upper hand over Sanji in an intense battle but fails to seal the deal after Trafalgar Law shows up and demonstrates his quick presence of mind.

πŸ“Ί Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (MeTV, 2 a.m.): Nelson and the Seaview crew battle a saboteur spy and a mystery sub that tries to destroy them.

WHAT ELSE IS ON
Austin City Limits (PBS, 11 p.m.): Bonnie Raitt
πŸ“‘ Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Adult Swim, 12:30 a.m. / Netflix, now)
πŸ“Ί Dragon Ball Z Kai (Adult Swim, 2:30 a.m. / Hulu, now): Series premiere✔️
πŸ“‘ Lycoris Recoil (Adult Swim, 1 a.m. / CrunchyRoll, now)
Saturday Night Live (NBC & Peacock, 11:30 p.m.): Shane Gillis, 21 Savage
Dragon Ball Z Kai (via Giphy)

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Key SourcesThe Futon CriticIMDbTV PassportZap2it
⭐: Top Pick
πŸ’²: Game show
πŸ“‘: Linear broadcast
πŸ‡°πŸ‡·: Korean Drama
πŸŽ₯: Movie
πŸ“Ί: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included

Happy watching, everyone!

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