1) “Elsbeth,” 9 and 10 p.m., CBS. In between Sunday specials – Dick Van Dyke last week, the Tony Awards next week – CBS has a chance to rerun a couple of clever mysteries. First, Elizabeth Lail (shown here), from “You” and “Ordinary Joe,” plays a schemer who uses beauty, charm and sympathy. Then a bar’s patrons receive empathy and much more. Read more…
1) Tony Awards, 8-11 p.m. Sunday, CBS. In the midst of last year’s writers’ strike, Ariana DeBose hosted a vibrant (and scriptless) ceremony, rippling with music. Now she’s back and has a script. We can expect large-scale numbers from the five best-musical nominees (led by Alicia Keys’ “Hell’s Kitchen,” shown here, with 13 nominations), four best-musical-revival nominees and more. Read more…
1) Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. In her seven “SNL” seasons, Kristen Wiig became the show’s clear star. In the dozen years since she left, she’s had some success in movies (especially “Bridesmaids”) and streaming (the recent “Palm Royale,” shown here, on Apple TV+). Here’s a rerun of the April 6 episode, her fifth as host; Raye is the music guest. Read more…
It was the right book at (maybe) the wrong time. That was when Candice Carty-Williams discovered “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
“I read the book when I was too young, probably,” she told the Television Critics Association. “I stole it from my aunt’s bookshelf and I read it in the summer.”
Later, that would influence “Queenie,” her award-winning debut novel. Heralded as “the Black ‘Bridget Jpones’s Diary,’” it won awards and is now a brief comedy series (shown here), with eight half-hours arriving in one gulp Friday (June 7) on Hulu. Read more…
