SATURDAY’S BEST PICKS
7:45 PM (FREE) MOVIE Beauty and the Beast One of the most beloved of modern Disney animated features, this 1991 fantasy puts its own spins on the familiar saga of a young woman (voice of Paige O’Hara) unexpectedly involved with a beastly creature (voice of Robby Benson). He’s actually an accursed prince who needs true love to return to his former self. Angela Lansbury and Jerry Orbach also supply voices. The Oscar-winning score includes the title song and “Be Our Guest.”
8PM(HALL) MOVIE The Wedding Veil Legacy A romantic trilogy that originally premiered in January concludes tonight in this third installment starring Alison Sweeney as Tracy, the last of three friends to take possession of an antique wedding veil the trio purchased together. Just as she is becoming cynical about the legend attached to this item, which is said to lead its owner to true love, Tracy meets Nick (Victor Webster), who helps her save an original draft of “The New Colossus,” the Emma Lazarus poem that appears in the Statue of Liberty.
8 PM (LIFE) MOVIE Caught in
His Web Whoopi Goldberg is an executive producer of this new thriller inspired by actual events. The story follows three young women who are targeted by a cyberbully going by the name of “Blake,” who has hacked into their cellphones and computers. “Blake” constantly harasses the trio, stalking each girl and coercing her into sending him provocative selfies. Finally discovering they are not alone in this horror show, the girls team up and enlist the help of a sympathetic detective. Garcelle Beauvais, Alison Thornton, Malia Baker and Emma Tremblay star. 8PM (HBO) MOVIE The King’s Man The third installment in the “Kingsman” movie franchise and a prequel to the two earlier films, Matthew Vaughn’s 2021 spy action comedy underperformed at the box office, mainly due to pandemic-related issues. It still delivers an entertaining yarn about how the Kingsman organization was born during the turmoil of World War I. Ralph Fiennes heads the stellar cast as Orlando, Duke of Oxford and founder of the spy network, with Tom Hollander (“The Night Manager”) pulling triple duty in multiple roles. Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode and Daniel Bruhl co-star.
8PM (TCM) MOVIE In the Heat of the Night Director Norman Jewison’s first-rate 1967 mystery earned Oscars for best picture and best actor for Rod Steiger, who plays a bigoted Southern police chief forced to investigate a murder with a Black Philadelphia police detective (Sidney Poitier). Ray Charles performs the wonderfully moody title song; Lee Grant and Warren Oates co-star. The film, and the novel upon which it was based, inspired a TV series that starred Carroll O’Connor and kicks off tonight’s 24-hour marathon tribute to Poitier, the beloved Oscar-winning actor who died last month at age 94.
10 PM (TRAV) Kindred Spirits The caretaker of an abandoned structure that once housed an insane asylum in Wisconsin summons Amy Bruni, Adam Berry and Chip Coffey to investigate some deeply troubling developments on the property in the new episode “Death Interrupted.” Recent renovation work on the site seems to have awakened a previously dormant spectral presence that, to make matters worse, is making the building’s resident spirits feel unusually restless.
10:30 PM (TNT) Rich & Shameless This new crime anthology series, which explores true cases in which great wealth led to major problems for some “rich and shameless” individuals, doesn’t begin its official run until this coming summer, but TNT hopes to whet the interest of potential viewers with tonight’s sneak preview devoted to a scandal surrounding actress-model Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. The couple found themselves in the tabloids because of the theft, public release and subsequent exploitation of a private sex tape they had made.
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