Best-bets for June 11: a night of despicable pleasures

1) Despicable Me 3” (2017), 8-10 p.m., NBC. This seems to be family-movie day, celebrating the end of the school year. Even NBC, which rarely has movies, offers this animated film (shown here), setting up “Despicable Me 4,” in theaters next month. There’s more animation on Freeform, with “Up” at 4:30 p.m., “Princess and the Frog” at 6:40 and “Wall-E” at 11:50; that’s broken up by a lesser film, “Aladdin” – the so-so, non-cartoon version from 2019 – at 8:45. Also, the ultimate all-ages masterpiece, “ET” (1982), is on Syfy, at 1, 3:30, 6 and 8:30 p.m. Read more…

1) Despicable Me 3” (2017), 8-10 p.m., NBC. This seems to be family-movie day, celebrating the end of the school year. Even NBC, which rarely has movies, offers this animated film (shown here), setting up “Despicable Me 4,” in theaters next month. There’s more animation on Freeform, with Up” at 4:30 p.m., “Princess and the Frog” at 6:40 and “Wall-E” at 11:50; that’s broken up by a lesser film, “Aladdin” – the so-so, non-cartoon version from 2019 – at 8:45. Also, the ultimate all-ages masterpiece, “ET” (1982), is on Syfy, at 1, 3:30, 6 and 8:30 p.m.

2) More movies. There’s an overload of epic adventures. TNT has the original “Star Wars” trilogy, at 2:30 (1977), 5:15 (1980) and 8:02 p.m. (1983), FX counters with “Spider-Man: Far From Home” (2019) at 5 and “Jurassic World” (2015) at 8. Alternatives include Robert Redford’s baseball classic “The Natural” (1984), at 6 and 9 p.m. on Vice and Dustin Hoffman’s comedy delight “Tootsie” (1982), at 10 p.m. ET on Turner Classic Movies.

3) “NCIS: Los Angeles,” 8 p.m., CBS. A civilian scientist, who was working with the Marines, has been killed and the radar system she was working on has been stolen. Now the team must scramble to find the culprits and retrieve the technology. A “SWAT” rerun follows aty 9 p.m.

4) Hockey, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN. It’s game six of the Eastern Conference finals, with the Tampa Bay Lightning at the New York Rangers. The seventh game, if needed, will be Tuesday. The winner faces the Colorado Avalanche, which swept the Western conference finals. Also tonight: baseball at 7:15 p.m. ET on Fox, NASCAR trucks at 7:30 p.m. on Fox Sports1.

5) “Dirty Little Secret,” 8 p.m., Lifetime. Lizzie Boyd – who played the teen Lucy on several “Nancy Drew” episodes – plays a different Lucy here, with her own problem: For years, she’s avoided having friends see her house, because of her mom’s extreme hoardiing. Melissa Joan Hart stars.

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