SATURDAY’S BEST PICKS
3:30 PM ( TNT) NBA Basketball Two teams jockeying for playoff position in the West get down to business in Orlando, Fla., where Donovan Mitchell and the Utah Jazz go up against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. Jokic turned in a stellar performance the last time these teams met in February, scoring 31 points to go with 21 rebounds and 10 assists in leading the way to a 98-95 Nuggets victory, their second in two tries against the Jazz.
7 PM ( OXY) License to Kill Plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow (“Botched”) returns as host of this true-crime series, which opens a 12-episode sophomore season with more stories of crimes committed by medical professionals. This season, Dubrow uses his medical expertise to take viewers into the mind of each killer, while investigating why these villains committed their crimes and how authorities stopped them. Cases include a surgeon who performed invasive surgeries in highly unsanitary conditions, and a doctor who overprescribed opioids to unsuspecting college students.
8 PM ( HBO) MOVIE Richard
Jewell Set during and after the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, director Clint Eastwood’s 2019 biographical drama chronicles how Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), an aspiring law enforcement officer, is working as a security guard at the Games when he finds and reports a bomb on the premises. Initially hailed as a hero, he is horrified when suspicion mounts that he placed the device himself to gain attention. As Jewell’s mother, Kathy Bates earned an Oscar nomination, among other accolades. Sam Rockwell, Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde also star.
8 PM ( BBCA) Earthflight The new episode “Africa” takes viewers arrowdiving with Cape gannets as they bob and weave above sharks, dolphins and whales that are joining the great sardine run. Soaring African fish eagles discover an S-shaped living island composed entirely of flamingos, while kelp gulls get an aerial view of the Great White shark’s hunting behavior. Eagles fly through the mist-filled Victoria
Falls, then dive for fish in the Zambezi River. David Tennant is the narrator.
9 PM ( HALL) MOVIE Love on Harbor Island Interior designer Lily Summers (Morgan Kohan) is generating a lot of buzz with her work in Seattle, but she drops everything and takes a leave of absence after her Aunt Maggie (Brenda Matthews) suffers a bad fall. Flying back to her rustic smalltown island community, Lily takes over running her aunt’s bed-and-breakfast while she recuperates. She also starts to grow close to Marcus (Marcus Rosner), a handsome seaplane pilot who transports rescue dogs. Jeff Gonek costars in this 2020 romance.
9 PM ( SHO) MOVIE Countdown
A group of teenagers downloads a new mobile phone app called Countdown, which claims to advise the user how much time they have left before they die. One of them, Courtney (Anne Winters), is horrified to discover she only has a few hours remaining — and when she consciously avoids a dangerous situation, she receives a message from the app that she has “violated the user agreement,” and she meets her end another way. That pattern repeats for her friends. Elizabeth Lail (“You”), Jordan Calloway and Talitha Bateman co-star in this 2019 thriller.
10 PM ( TRAV) Hotel Paranormal In the new “When Ghosts Attack,” the appearance of a spectral bride on a hotel balcony instantly turns a paranormal skeptic into a true believer, while a group of ghostly orphans assails a father and daughter in New Orleans. In another chilling segment, a man manages to fight off an assault by a ghostly serial killer at a roadside motel. Dan Aykroyd is the narrator. 10:03 PM ( LIFE) Jodi Arias: Cellmate
Secrets This new one-hour documentary examines information that has come to light seven years after Jodi Arias was convinced of first-degree murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander. In an exclusive double interview, former Arias cellmates Tracy Brown and Donavan Bering share startling details they claim to have heard directly from Arias, including an explosive new theory about the night of Alexander’s murder. Brown and Bering recount how Arias used her sex appeal to coerce others into being her devoted followers, even attracting a devoted online fan base.