1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. After a two-week pause, “SNL” starts its season’s final three episodes.. Tonight, Quina Brunson, the “Abbott Elementary” star, has her second turn as host (her first is shown here) and Benson Boone has his first as music guest. Next week has Walton Goggins and Arcade Fire; the May 17 season-finale has Scarlett Johansson and Bad Bunny.
2) “I Am Richard Pryor” (2019), 8-10 p.m., CW. This documentary should get us in the mood for “SNL.” Prior actually hosted the show’s seventh episode, 50 years ago; two years later, in ’77, he had his own NBC series … which was canceled after four episodes. He continued a brilliant career, before dying in 2005, at 65.
3) “Destination X” preview, 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. CT and MT, 7:30 PT), NBC. This ia a peek at a reality show that starts May 27, asking contestants to guess where they are in Europe. Today, it follows the Kentucky Derby, which has previews at noon on USA and 2:30 on NBC, with the actual race at 6:57 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.
4) “Watson,” 8 p.m., CBS. Stephens — a brilliant and troubled young doctor — has been paying for a “camgirl,” who poses for him on Zoom-type video calls. When she collapses, he needs help to find and treat her.
5) ALSO: Scarlett Johansson, who will host “SNL” in two weeks, stars tonight in “Black Widow” (2021), at 6 p.m. on FX. And at 10, NBC reruns a shortened version of the most-recent “SNL”; Jon Hamm hosts, with Lizzo as music guest.
— Mike Hughes, TV America