1) Academy Awards, 7 p.m. ET, ABC and Hulu. Conan O’Brien hosts and “Sinners” leads with 16 nominations. Its song, “I Lied to You,” will have a big-scale production. “Golden,” from “KPop Demon Hunters,” will also be done live, with others in videos. “One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” and Timothee Chalamet’s “Marty Supreme”(shown here) also could be prominent.
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\1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. After taking a break from music for almost three years, Harry Styles (shown here) is back big-time. He has a new album and a Netflix concert special; now here’s his second turn as host and music guest at “SNL,” which is wrapping a three-week stretch of new episodes. Read more…
1) “Stumble” season-finale, 8:30 p.m., NBC. Gradually, this has evolved into an above-average comedy. It offers interesting characters, sharp sight gags and, at times, dandy cheer-team moves. Last week (shown here) the coach picked her 16-person team, with one alternate. Now they’re at the national championships, where she collides with her enemies. The result is inconsistent, but has some excellent moments Read more…
1) “Sinners” (shown here), 9 p.m., HBO. With the Academy Awards coming Sunday, this is your last chance to catch some of the front-runners without streaming. HBO has another one — “One Battle After Another” — at 6:15 p.m. Friday. They lead with 16 and 13 nominations respectively and are also on HBO Max. Read more…
1) “Hollywood Squares” return, 10:30 p.m., CBS. After a four-week break, “Squares” returns … but is trimmed to a half-hour slot. Drew Barrymore (shown here with Thomas Lennon, a frequent panelist) lives in the center square. Tonight, she’s with reality-show veterans Rob Mariano, Niecy Nash Betts and Ms. Pat, plus singer Ariana DeBose and comedians Ron Funches, Tiffany Haddish, Pete Holmes and Jo Koy. Read more…
1) “Best Medicine,” 8 p.m., Fox. With this show’s format, anything is possible. Things can be goofy — sometimes too goofy — one moment, serious the next. This time. that leans mostly to the serious side. The story starts with a spinster who loves great birds and bad poetry, then (shown here) has a disaster. From therem it spins in many interesting directions. Read more…
1) “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. Reggie’s ex-wife (played by Erika Alexander, 56, shown here) reluctantly re-enters the dating world … which, alas, has changed in the smart-phone era. Add another plot (a frantic search for a cat) and you have a sharp, funny episode. Read more…
1) “Marshals,” 8 p.m., CBS. For a furious stretch, this is in full military mode — rifles, grenade, trucks, horses and explosions. Surrounding that is lots of macho dialog, some of it sharp and some just repetitive. There’s also a cliche boss, some family warmth (shown here) and a country song. This sort of fits together, but it’s not clear if it can work from week to week. Read more…
1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Ryan Gosling is a great guest anywhere, including the Oscars and (shown here) “SNL.” Now he’s the host, three weeks before his “Project Hail Mary” movie opens. It’s his fourth time as host and the first for Gorillaz as the music guest. A week later, Harry Styles will have his second turn in both jobs. Read more…
1) “Outlander” (shown here in a previous season) opener, 8 p.m. Starz, rerunning at 9:05 and 10:08. A huge journey — eight seasons, sprawled over 12 years, telling a 225-year time-travel tale — starts its final round. Previous episodes rerun at 6 and 6:59, with Claire guiding Denzell through surgery. Then Jamie finds a disturbing truth and returns Claire to the Ridge, for a surprise. Read more…
