Best-bets for April 11: An Easter prelude

1) “The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel” (shown here), 8-10:33 p.m., Lifetime. The glorious gospel sound of the Clarks is perfect for the Easter weekend … or for any other time. It’s a sound that has influenced everyone from Whitney Houston to “American Idol” contestants. So it’s logical that Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and Missy Elliott have produced this film, which reruns at 11:30 a.m. and 10:03 p.m. Sunday. Aunjanue Ellis plays Mattie Moss Clark, molding five daughters into mainstream success. Read more…

1) “The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel” (shown here), 8-10:33 p.m., Lifetime. The glorious gospel sound of the Clarks is perfect for the Easter weekend … or for any other time. It’s a sound that has influenced everyone from Whitney Houston to “American Idol” contestants. So it’s logical that Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and Missy Elliott have produced this film, which reruns at 11:30 a.m. and 10:03 p.m. Sunday. Aunjanue Ellis plays Mattie Moss Clark, molding five daughters into mainstream success.

2) Easter films, cable. Alongside the Clark Sisters film, Lifetime has other faith-based movies – “TheShack” at 11 a.m.; “Faith Under Fire” at 2 p.m.; and “Twist of Faith” at 10:33 p.m. There are more on the UpTV channel – “Heaven is for Real,” noon and 7 p.m.; “Facing the Giants,” 2 p.m.; “God’s Not Dead,” 4:30 p.m.; “Courageous,” 9; “The Healer,” 11:30. Also for family viewing, there’s “The Wizard of Oz” (6 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies) and “Peter Rabbit” ( 7 and 9 p.m., FX)

3) “9-1-1,” 8 p.m., Fox. Christmas is sort of like Easter (minus 33 years), so here’s a rerun of a Christmas episode. A shopper is pushed over the edge and a woman literally has a “blue Christmas.” Also, Bobby gets jolting news and Maddie revisits her past.

4) “American Idol,” 9-11 p.m., ABC. This weekend is a good time to catch up on “Idol.” Tonight is a rerun of the Hawaii episode that chose the top 19 (plus two people vieing for the 20th spot.). Changing its plans, “Idol” sent everyone home, while figuring a coronavirus approach: On the next two Sundays, it will have specials profiling the 21 people; after that, if all goes well, viewers will get to vote.

5) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. In a late change, this will be a new episode. “SNL” had scheduled a rerun with John Mulaney … then switched to a new show using social distancing. See separate story on top of the page.

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