TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS

Rifkin manages to fly under the radar of detectives on 17 killings. 7:30 PM (FS1) NASCAR Cup

Series It’ll be good, old-fashioned “boys have at it” racing under the lights tonight at Martinsville Speedway, where drivers in NASCAR’s Cup Series will be trading paint in the Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500. A field including Brad Keselowski, Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano will go at it on the .526-mile Virginia oval where Truex cruised to a 4-second win over Ryan Blaney when this race was last run in June 2020. 8PM (HBO) MOVIE The New Mutants Josh Boone co-wrote and directed this 2020 superhero action film based on Marvel Comics characters, about a group of young mutants fighting desperately to escape from a secret facility where they are being held. Among that group, Anya Taylor-Joy, who soon would break out in a big way in the Netflix streaming drama “The Queen’s Gambit,” stars as Russian mutant Illyana Rasputin, aka Magic, who can work sorcery; Maisie Williams from “Game of Thrones” plays Rahne

Sinclair, a shape-shifting Scottish mutant nicknamed Wolfsbane. 11:29 PM Saturday Night Live British actress Carey Mulligan, currently a best actress Academy Award contender for her performance in the movie drama “Promising Young Woman,” makes her debut as host of this sketch comedy variety show, which will see the versatile young thespian taking on some diverse new characters. She’ll also welcome musical guest Kid Cudi, whose latest album, “Man on the Moon III: The Chosen,” is his fifth Billboard 200 Top 10 album.