Best-bets for July 23: stars of “SNL,” WNBA

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. This reruns the season-finale, with two of the show’s favorites. Hosting is Will Ferrell, who was a regular (shown here) for seven years, left to become a movie star, and has returned five times as host. Paul McCartney is the music guest. Read more…

1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. This reruns the season-finale, with two of the show’s favorites. Hosting is Will Ferrell, who was a regular (shown here) for seven years, left to become a movie star, and has returned five times as host. Paul McCartney is the music guest.

2) “I Am Chris Farley” (2015), 8-10 p.m., CW. Before “SNL,” we can re-visit one of its most colorful people. Farley did five seasons, creating big laughs while struggling with drug problems. He was fired, returned to host two years later, then died of a drug overdose two months after that. He was 33, the same as the death of one of his “SNL” idols, John Belushi.

3) WNBA All-Star Game, 8:30 p.m., ABC; pre-game at 8. Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark, the leagues No. 4 and 5 scorers, captain the teams. Clark, who’s also No. 2 in assists, has the top scorer and rebounder, A’ja Wilson and Jessica Shepherd. Bueckers has the No. 2 and 3 scorers (Kelsey Mitchell, Marina Mabrey) and No. 2 rebounder (Angel Reese).

4) “Harlan Coben’s Final Twist,” 8 p.m., CBS. It’s a night of true-crime reruns. Before the ones on “48 Hours,” CBS repeats one of the hours narrated by Coben: A woman is found dead at a fire … but police learn the fire wasn’t the cause of her death.

5) “Troy” (2004), 7-10:30 p.m., BBC America. After seeing the epic “Odyssey” — an exhausting, but rewarding experience — in theaters, you might be ready for another Greek epic. This one, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, stars Brad Pitt as Achilles and Orlando Bloom as Prince Paris.

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