Best-bets for June 15: swimming stars and singing Barnum

1) Olympic swimming trials, 11 a.m., Peacock; 6:30 p.m., USA; 8 p.m., NBC. The Olympics are still six weeks away, but they’re already gobbling up TV time. For Americans, swimming — with stars like Katie Ledecky (shown here), already with seven gold medals — is especially popular. Trials continue through June 23; track-and-field starts June 21, with gymnastics June 27. Read more…

1) Olympic swimming trials, 11 a.m., Peacock; 6:30 p.m., USA; 8 p.m., NBC. The Olympics are still six weeks away, but they’re already gobbling up TV time. For Americans, swimming — with stars like Katie Ledecky (shown here), already with seven gold medals — is especially popular. Trials continue through June 23; track-and-field starts June 21, with gymnastics June 27.

2) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Early in the summer, NBC is rerunning episodes with popular hosts. Last week was Kristen Weeg; now it’s Ryan Gosling, with country’s Chris Stapleton as music guest.

3) “The Greatest Showman” (2017). 8 p.m., TBS. On the eve of the Tony awards, TBS has a musical day. This film’s wildly rosy view of P.T. Barnum is redeemed by soaring songs from the duo that wrote the Tony-winning “Dear Evan Hansen.” It follows music via “Beauty and the Beast” (2017) at 1 p.m. and “Pitch Perfect” films at 3:30 and 6.

4) “The Conners,” 8-10 p.m., CW. These reruns, from 2021, catch the time when Dan (John Gopodman) was making room for his new wife (Katey Sagal), reluctantly selling furniture he’d bought for Roseanne. In another rerun, “FBI International” (8 p.m., CBS) probes whether a former cabinet member tried to sell classified documents.

5) MORE: The fourth game of the best-of-seven hockey finals is 8 p.m. ET on ABC, with Florida at Edmonton. At 8 p.m., the Disney Channel has the animated delight “Inside Out” (2015); its sequel reached theaters Friday. And at 10:34, HBO reruns the high-octane season-finale of “House of The Dragon”; its second season starts Sunday.

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