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David Attenborou­gh is featured in “Attenborou­gh’s Journey” Saturday on BBC America.

VAX LIVE: THE CONCERT TO REUNITE THE WORLD Selena Gomez hosts this new special (also airing on CBS and Fox) that aims to boost vaccine confidence and help get the vaccines proven effective against COVID-19 to some of the poorest nations around the world. Performers in the concert, which was pretaped at So-Fi Stadium, include Jennifer Lopez, Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters, J Balvin and H.E.R. The special also will include a salute to the 27 million heroic health workers currently involved in the worldwide battle against the coronaviru­s pandemic. 8 p.m. on ^ -12 ` -13 ; 11 p.m. on -15

ATTENBOROU­GH’S JOURNEY This new British documentar­y offers a respectful but entertaini­ng portrait of environmen­talist and filmmaker Sir David Attenborou­gh on his 95th birthday. The film chronicles Attenborou­gh’s life from his boyhood of fossil-hunting and his early years as a radio and TV host to his many documentar­ies that pioneered the use of new technologi­es, thus changing the face of natural history programmin­g. It also documents some of his many travels from the Galapagos islands to the jungles of Borneo and the mountains of Canada, among other destinatio­ns. 8 p.m. on BBC

“MEMORIES OF A MURDER” Gail, a young woman who runs a successful shop where she sells “murderabil­ia,” attracts the unwelcome attention of a real-life killer who taunts her by leaving trophies from unsolved murders at her doorstep. The situation assumes life-ordeath stakes, however, when her investigat­ion gets closer to the psycho’s identity in this 2021 thriller. Isabella Pisacane, Jamie Donnelly, Abby Awe, Rosa Gilmore and Craig Walker star. 8 p.m. on LIFE

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Rebecca Hall and Luke Evans star in “Professor Marston & the Wonder Women” Saturday on Ovation.

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