Saturday Night Live kicks off its 51st season with Bad Bunny as guest host and Doja Cat as musical guest. Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub embarks on a culinary travelogue where bread is the common denominator. A new adaptation of the Parisian mystery series Maigret anchors a PBS Sunday lineup including the heist drama The Gold. The stars come out to celebrate Cyndi Lauper in a concert special from the Hollywood Bowl.
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Saturday Night Live
SATURDAY: Where have you been, SNL, with so much lately to satirize? The venerable late-night comedy show launches its historic 51st season with future Super Bowl halftime entertainer Bad Bunny taking his second turn as guest host, and Doja Cat making her first appearance as musical guest. (Surely Bad Bunny will exercise his musical chops as well.) It’s a rebuilding season, with the departure of veteran ensemble members Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker, and Emil Wakim and the arrival of new featured players, including Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson, Veronika Slowikowska, and one familiar face: staff writer Ben Marshall from the “Please Don’t Destroy” troupe. There are often surprise appearances in the season opener — and given that a certain superstar is appearing on several NBC late-night shows this coming week, expectations are running high.
Lilo & Stitch
When a lonely girl named Lilo adopts Stitch, a rambunctious alien “puppy,” Stitch helps to mend Lilo’s broken family. Now available on Disney+. In this live-action reimagining, mischief turns into a crash course in kindness as Lilo guides her unpredictable companion toward empathy and connection. Their bond transforms everyday chaos into second chances and real belonging. With playful humor and big-hearted warmth, Lilo & Stitch celebrates found family and reminds us that ‘ohana means nobody gets left behind.
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Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread
SUNDAY: Five-time Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub, who memorably played a gifted chef in the 1996 film Big Night, shares his enthusiasm for food — specifically, the baking and savoring of bread — in a culinary travelogue that finds common cultural ground in this most essential of staples. The journey begins in his longtime home of New York City, where he finds hidden gems in Chinatown and samples Irish soda bread. Future stops include Tokyo, São Paulo, Brazil, Marseille in France, and his hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
PBS Masterpiece
Maigret
SUNDAY: The Parisian detective, made famous in Georges Simenon’s many novels and stories from 1931 to 1972, has been portrayed many times on small and large screens, but he’s never been as scruffy or as smoldering as in the contemporary adaptation making its Masterpiece debut. Benjamin Wainwright takes on the iconic role of the brooding and newly promoted Chief Inspector, who puts his career in jeopardy by clashing with his prosecutor boss Kernavel (Nathalie Armin) when he refuses her command to drop his investigation into a burglar’s violent murder and focus instead on a string of high-profile robberies. What are the odds they’re connected? The conclusion airs next Sunday, followed by two more two-part mysteries. Masterpiece also presents the premiere of the 2023 British heist drama The Gold (10/9c), starring Downton Abbey‘s Hugh Bonneville and Slow Horses‘ Jack Lowden, which previously aired on Paramount+.
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A Grammy Salute to Cyndi Lauper: Live from the Hollywood Bowl
This girl just wants to have fun, and Cyndi Lauper gets her wish in a star-filled concert special honoring the entertainer who’ll be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next month. In a musical tribute filmed over two nights at the fabled Hollywood Bowl, Lauper is joined by the legendary Joni Mitchell and Cher, plus John Legend, SZA, Mickey Guyton, Trombone Shorty, and more, all showing their true colors of admiration for the Grammy, Emmy, and Tony-winning artist.
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Task
SUNDAY: A pivotal episode of the grim crime drama finally brings task-force leader Tom (Mark Ruffalo), appropriately described as “the world’s most depressing human,” in close contact with his prime target, the hapless and increasingly isolated Robbie (Tom Pelphrey). Theirs is a memorable meeting of sorrowful minds, played out against a backdrop of shocking betrayals and inevitable tragedy.
The Simpsons
Join the Simpsons every Sunday night on FOX and streaming next day on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+, for their 37th season of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and all your Springfield favorites. Even Milhouse! The show’s staying power is a testament to its universal appeal, cultural significance, and the meme of Homer sinking into the hedge. The Simpsons has given us countless quotes, family memories, and continues to confuse millions of viewers who think the show’s predictions are actually magic.
INSIDE WEEKEND TV:
- Major League Baseball Division Series: The first round of games on Saturday includes the Chicago Cubs vs. Milwaukee Brewers (2:08 pm/ET, TBS and HBO Max), the New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays (4:08 pm/ET, Fox), the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Philadelphia Phillies (6:38 pm/ET, TBS, truTV and HBO Max) and Detroit Tigers vs. Seattle Mariners (8:38 pm/ET, FS1).
- Crossroad Springs (Saturday, 8/7c, Great American Family): James (Jonathan Stoddard) prepares to leave the ranch and return to Chicago, but not before one last sermon, in the family ranching drama’s midseason finale.
- Home Turf (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Nikki DeLoach is a college president who turns to a handsome coach (Warren Christie) for help when freshmen from the football team move into her home.
- Surviving My Father: The Rachel Jeffs Story (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Kaitlyn Bernard stars in a fact-based drama as the woman who escaped her notorious father Warren Jeffs’ (Michael Eklund) polygamist sect and returned to rescue her children from the cult-like community.
- The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Yarn Maker (Saturday, 9/8c, Great American Family): Candace Cameron Bure returns in a cozy mystery as the former big-city criminologist turned shop owner who rallies her crew in Sweet River, Texas, to solve the murder of a visiting yarn-company heiress.
- 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS): Natalie Morales reports on the 2023 murder in Oregon of Kenneth Fandrich, found dead in his car in a parking garage whose security cameras the killer had tried to conceal with spray paint.
- WNBA Finals (Sunday, 3 pm/ET, ABC): The Phoenix Mercury play the Las Vegas Aces in the second game of the series.
- 60 Minutes (Sunday, 7/6c, CBS): Lesley Stahl interviews director Rob Reiner on the set of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Jon Wertheim reports on the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, and Sharyn Alfonsi investigates a rise in cargo theft disrupting the global supply chain.
- Brian and Maggie (Sunday, 8/7c, PBS): A two-part docudrama, concluding Oct 12, depicts the contentious London Weekend Television interview between former friends Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Harriet Walter) that reshaped public opinion towards the powerful leader.
- The Real Housewives of Potomac (Sunday, 8/7c, Bravo): The reality show’s 10th season opens with the gang gathering to discuss Karen Huger‘s trial and sentencing on DUI charges.
- The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): Daryl’s (Norman Reedus) treacherous road trip to Barcelona takes a detour when he encounters a community of the dispossessed in the Spanish desert.
- Tulsa King (Sunday, streaming on Paramount+): After a moment of comic relief — Dwight (Sylvester Stallone) trapped in a self-driving car — things get serious when FBI Agent Musso (Kevin Pollak) assigns the mobster to go after a known terrorist. Back in Tulsa, Dwight’s crew shadows Cole Dunmire (Beau Knapp), learning the consequences of poking this well-connected bear.
- House of David (streaming on Wonder Project on Prime Video): The second season of the biblical drama premieres on a new subscription channel.
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