1) “Marty Supreme” (2025), 8 p.m., HBO. A terrific film (shown here) makes its cable debut, one day after reaching HBO Max. In 1952 New York, Marty (based on a real guy) obsesses on ping-pong. Director/co-writer Josh Safdie crafted a frantically entertaining story. It drew nine Oscar nominations, including for best picture and for Timothee Chalamet’s brilliant performance.
2) “Marshals,” 8 p.m., CBS. This reruns the opener, an hour that sort of tried too hard. The show was going for the sort of terse, blue-collar dialog that we expect from Taylor Sheridan productions. It ended up with so much of that, however, that no one quite seemed real. The show did get better in a hurry.
3) “Freddie Mercury: The Final Act” (2021), 8-10 p.m., CW. Born in Zanzibar and educated in India, the former Farrokh Bulsaro transformed himself into the electrifying front man of Queen, which sold upwards of 250 million albums. This documentary focuses on the last portion of his life and on the epic concert after his death, at 45, of AIDS.
4) Sports. The playoffs are everywhere, with hockey on TBS (3, 5:30 and 8 p.m. ET) and basketball on NBC (3:30 and 6) and ABC (8:30), plus 1p.m. on Peacock. Also, there’s NASCAR on CW at 4, United Football League at 7 on ESPN and baseball at 7:15 on Fox.
5) ALSO: Reruns include “The Wall” at 8:30 p.m. on NBC; “CIA” (stopping a baby-smuggling scheme) at 9 on CBS; and “Saturday Night Live (Ariana Gramde hosts, with Cher as music guest) at 11:29. And the Paramount Network has the epic “Lord of the Rings” trilogy at 9 a.m. and 1:20 and 5:30 p.m., repeating the first one at 10:20.