What to watch SATURDAY
Dolly!
getTV, 5 a.m.
What we wouldn’t give for a Dolly Parton variety show today! In this 1976 half hour, she covers Jackie Wilson’s “Higher and Higher” and duets with Freddy Fender on “Before the Next Teardrop Falls.”
Horse Racing: Kentucky Derby
NBC, 1:30 p.m. Live
Postponed from May, horse racing’s premier event, the Kentucky Derby, takes place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The rescheduled race is the second in the Triple Crown series, sandwiched between June’s Belmont Stakes and next month’s Preakness Stakes. Belmont winner Tiz the Law is the Derby’s heavy early favorite.
Love Island
CBS, 7 p.m.
Bikini-clad babes, bronzed bros and new arrivals stirring up drama — should be business as usual on the weekly recap for Love Island, where singles couple up hoping to win $100,000. Plus: unseen footage.
Apocalypse ’45
Discovery Channel, 7 p.m.
This documentary recounts the final months of World War II in the Pacific with neverbefore-seen, raw color film footage and the voices of those who lived through the events. It documents events from the flag raising at Iwo Jima in February 1945 to the harrowing kamikaze attacks and vicious ground combat at Okinawa in April of that year to the first test of the atomic bomb in the remote deserts of New Mexico on July 16. Also driving the narrative are recently completed interviews with 24 men who lived through these nightmarish events.
Love Takes Flight
Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m. Original Film A hospital director re-examines her rigid lifestyle when a free-wheeling EMS pilot
enters her life. Stars Tom Thon, Nikki DeLoach, Jeff Hephner, Skylar Olivia Flanagan, Barbara Niven, Kwajalyn Brown, Bisserat Tseggai and Dwayne Boyd.
Black Love
OWN, 8 p.m. Season Premiere
The fourth season of this popular and groundbreaking NAACP Image Awardnominated docuseries premieres with back-to-back episodes. Created by husbandand-wife filmmakers Codie and Tommy Oliver, the series continues to present real, honest, emotional and transparent love stories from some of the most successful people in business and entertainment as well as everyday couples. Among the featured celebrity couples this season will be Dule Hill and Jazmyn Simon, Jemele Hill and
Ian Wallace, Bill and Kristen Bellamy, and Deborah Joy Winans and Terrence Williams.
21 Bridges
Showtime, 8 p.m.
The NYPD shuts down Manhattan to find two cop killers (Taylor Kitsch and Stephan James) in this 2019 thriller. Black Panther’s magnetic Chadwick Boseman stars.