SATURDAY’S BEST PICKS
7 PM (CNN) The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Comedy Central talk show host Trevor Noah is the featured entertainer for this usually annual event, which is taking place for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. While former President Donald Trump, who had a contentious relationship with many journalists, declined to attend the event during his term, members of the press group hope President Joe Biden will be able to attend. Dubbed the “Nerd Prom” in some quarters, the event also traditionally includes the presentation of journalism scholarships.
8PM (HGTV) Renovation Goldmine This new home improvement series stars Joe and Meg Piercy, the owners of a successful Chicago design and renovation business that’s devoted to repurposing the goldmine of vintage treasures they find in the homes of clients. “Old is gold” is the guiding principle of the Piercys, and each episode finds the pair reviving old furniture and other pieces their clients already own. The money saved as a result goes toward giving each family the dream home they’ve always wanted.
8PM (LIFE) MOVIE The Walls Are Watching A young couple who just moved into a home they bought at a foreclosure auction are shocked to find themselves terrorized by the former owner of the residence in this 2022 thriller. Losing his home was the final straw for blue-collar worker Theodore Souza, coming hard on the heels of a family tragedy and losing his job. Now he has nothing to lose as he uses his intimate knowledge of the home to stalk these interlopers. Branscombe Richmond, Lana McKissack and Brandon Ford Green star.
8PM (TCM) MOVIE The Cowboys One of the best of John Wayne’s later efforts, director Mark Rydell’s 1972 Western casts the legendary actor as a rancher who must depend on a group of schoolboys to help him accomplish a grueling cattle drive. The youths include Robert Carradine and A Martinez. Colleen Dewhurst and Roscoe Lee Browne play other Wayne comrades, and Bruce Dern makes a particularly nasty villain here. “Cahill, United States Marshall,” another Wayne Western from the 1970s, immediately follows.
8PM (OWN) Love & Marriage: Huntsville This special new episode gives fans a chance to relive the ups and downs of the Scotts’ marriage, starting from the very first episode of this docuseries. The featured highlights run the gamut from the couple’s disagreements, family feuds, friendship drama and Marsau’s infamous one-liners that landed this power duo where they are today.
9PM (HGTV) I Bought a Dump... Now What? “Home improvement” takes on a whole new meaning in this new series, which follows homeowners who purchased dilapidated properties hoping somehow to renovate them into a forever home. That means doing the extensive overhauls themselves, which soon leaves them exhausted, behind schedule and over budget. The series premiere features a couple who spent their life savings on an 1800s-era Michigan farmhouse, a Detroit father and daughter with just 90 days to finish their fixer-upper, and an Alabama couple struggling with one setback after another.
10 PM (TRAV) Portals to Hell A new episode takes co-hosts Katrina Weidman and Jack Osbourne to the atmospheric Savannah Theatre in that romantic coastal Georgia city. This artistic venue is a paranormal playhouse dating back nearly 200 years. Weidman and Osbourne venture onto the theater stage and discover that this place really loves to put on a horror show.
10 PM (AMC) MOVIE Revenge of the Nerds It’s rude, crude, lewd, silly and even a little sweet; who could ask for more from a 1980s teen comedy? Misfit college freshmen, displaced from their dorm and rejected by every fraternity on campus, form their own brotherhood and teach those snooty jocks and cheerleaders a thing or two about the power of brains over beauty. And we get to see what Anthony Edwards looked like with hair! Robert Carradine, Timothy Busfield, Ted McGinley and John Goodman also star.