Doc explores Saturday Night
Filmmaker Bao Nguyen chronicles Saturday Night Live’s 40-year history in this two-hour documentary from earlier this year. The film explores the comedy show’s influence on popular culture, most memorable moments and commentary from its stars — including Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey. This is a prelude to the 41st-season première (with host Miley Cyrus) that follows. (NBC/Global)
SPUN OUT
It’s the season finale of the sitcom starring Dave Foley as the owner of a PR firm and Paul Campbell as a struggling writer who ends up working at the firm after suffering his own PR crisis. No matter how bizarre their clients are, they can’t hold a candle to what goes on with the dysfunctional staff’s own lives. (CTV)
CODE BLACK
The première of this new series gets a rebroadcast tonight. It stars Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Leanne Rorish, an emergency-room supervisor guiding first-year residents with an overload of trauma patients. Ryan McGarry, who made the 2013 documentary on which the show is based, is among the executive producers. Bonnie Somerville and Raza Jaffrey also star in the pilot. (CBS, CTV)
O. J. SPEAKS: THE HIDDEN TAPES
If you missed it earlier in the week, here’s an opportunity to watch a new documentary that digs more deeply into the O.J. Simpson civil trial, which found Simpson guilty of the wrongful deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The film includes some of the plaintiffs’ deposition tapes, which had been buried in storage for nearly two decades. Family members, including Ron’s father, Fred, and members of the legal team are also interviewed. (A&E)
CRIMINAL MINDS
Also repeating its 11th season première is this popular crime series, which finds the members of the BAU searching for a replacement for the departed Jennifer Love Hewitt. Aisha Tyler (The Talk) helps fill the gap in her recurring role as Dr. Tara Lewis, a forensic psychologist who assists the team here in seeking a killer who leaves his mark — literally — on his victims’ faces. (Bravo)
MOVIE: THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
Set 40 years after the events that played out in Daniel Radcliffe’s 2012 horror hit The Woman in Black, this 2014 sequel opens during the Blitz of London in 1942, as two teachers (Phoebe Fox, Helen McCrory) and some refugee children flee to the countryside and take shelter in Eel Marsh House, awakening the dark spirit that lurks there. This followup never quite manages to scare up the chills of the first film. (Movie Central)
MOVIE: THE HEAT
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy merge their comedic styles as seemingly mismatched law enforcers in this 2013 action comedy that reteams McCarthy with her Bridesmaids director, Paul Feig. The action isn’t shortchanged as Bullock plays an uptight FBI agent teamed with an earthy Boston cop (McCarthy) to find a violent drug kingpin. Co-stars include Demian Bichir (The Bridge), Marlon Wayans and Jane Curtin. (W)
FIRST DATES
A couple of episodes that aired earlier in the week, and didn’t necessarily turn out as expected, are rebroadcast tonight. First up is Romy and Rangolie, whose date got off to a rocky start, and a matchup between Matty and Jeff, in which Matty decides he is only into men. (Slice)