Best-bets for June 10: “SNL” stars, past and present

1) “Gilda Live” (1980), 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies, and “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Here’s some fun for “SNL” fans, past and present. First, is a film of a Broadway show; deftly directed by Mike Nichols, it has Gilda Radner (shown here) at her best, in gently amusing sketches and songs. Then an “SNL” rerun has Miles Teller as host and Kendrick Lamar as music guest. Read more…

1) “Gilda Live” (1980), 8 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies, and “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Here’s some fun for “SNL” fans, past and present. First, is a film of a Broadway show; deftly directed by Mike Nichols, it has Gilda Radner (shown here) at her best, in gently amusing sketches and songs. Then an “SNL” rerun has Miles Teller as host and Kendrick Lamar as music guest.

2) “Real Love,” 8 p.m. and midnight, Lifetime. We meet Kendra (Ajiona Alexus) as a freshman at a historically Black college. Bright and beautiful, she’s a gifted photographer getting by with jobs and a scholarship. She’ll soon find small problems and then a huge one. This Mary J. Blige production is beautifully filmed and smartly written, with a gifted star. However, it descends into a rough story that won’t be resolved until a second movie, next Saturday.

3) “Inspiring America: The Inspiration List,” 8 p.m., NBC. Emerging from the pandemic, NBC News began doing segments of inspiring stories. They’ve ranged afar: Finding housing for Ukrainian refugees … repairing violins once owned by Holocaust victims … a custodian giving chess lessons after school. A year ago, many were assembled into a special, with Lester Holt announcing “The Inspiration List”; here’s the second edition.

4) “The Rookie,” 8-11 p.m., ABC. In the first rerun, Nolan again comes face-to-face with Rosalind, a serial killer. In the third, she strikes fiercely, leaving him with a deadly decision. In between, he comes closer to being a training officer; he also probes the suicide of a fellow officer.

5) ALSO: You can choose your “Avatar” movie tonight. The original (2009) is at 7 p.m. on FX; the sequel (2022) is at 8 on HBO. Another big movie is “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021), at 8:10 p.m. on Freeform. At 8 p.m. on CBS, an “NCIS: Los Angeles” rerun involves arson at a Navy contractor. And the fourth game of the best-of-seven hockey championship is 8 p.m. ET on TNT, with Florida hosting Las Vegas.
— Mike Hughes, TV America

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