Best-bets for April 8: Easter-eve music, laughs, more

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. In the two decades since leaving “SNL,” Molly Shannon has popped up on the show a few times, but only hosted it once, in 2007. Now she’s back, with the Jonas Brothers as music guest. Lately, Shannon has thrived in the streaming/cable world. She did two “White Lotus” episode and the one-season “I Love That For You”; she plays a pop star’s mom in “The Other Two” (shown here), which starts its third season on May 4. Read more…

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. In the two decades since leaving “SNL,” Molly Shannon has popped up on the show a few times, but only hosted it once, in 2007. Now she’s back, with the Jonas Brothers as music guest. Lately, Shannon has thrived in the streaming/cable world. She did two “White Lotus” episode and the one-season “I Love That For You”; she plays a pop star’s mom in “The Other Two” (shown here), which starts its third season on May 4.

2) “Casablanca” (1942) and more, 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. All month, TCM is celebrating the 100th birthday of Warner Brothers. That peaks with “Casablanca,” which is No, 3 on the American Film Institute’s best-movie list. It’s preceded by excellent films with young protagonists – “The Learning Tree” (1969) at 2 p.m., “Summer of ‘42” (1971) at 4 and “A Little Romance” (1979) at 6.

3) “Gospel Superfest Easter Special,” 8 p.m., BET. Some of the top gospel stars combine, in a special that will repeat at 5 p.m. on Easter. It includes Donnie McClurkin, Ricky Dillard & New G, Le’Andria Johnson, J. Moss, Deitrick Haddon, Isabel Davis and more.

4) “The Bible,” 2 p.m., History Channel. This epic mini-series drew big ratings when it debuted in 2013. Now it reruns until midnight; then the final two chapters, the Easter-oriented ones, re-rerun until 4 a.m., leading neatly into sunrise services. Also, the UpTV channel reruns “The Ten Commandments” (1956) at 3 p.m. ET, followed by “Mary, Mother of Jesus”(1999) at 7.

5) ALSO: ABC has hockey (8 p.m. ET), Fox has soccer (7:30 p.m. ET), CBS has an “East New York” rerun (8) and CW debuts a funny-videos show (9 and 9:30). And Lifetime debuts its next seven-deadly-sins movie, “Pride,” at 8 p.m. and midnight. It’s preceded by wrath, greed and lust (is that the name of a law firm?) at 2, 4 and 6 p.m., with envy at 10.
— Mike Hughes, TV America

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