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HORSE RACING: PREAKNESS STAKES skills to dive into the cases of the two NBC, 4:30pm Live victims: the young suicide girl, deceived by a INDYCAR RACING: Postponed from May, the 145th Preakness scammer on the internet, and the subjugated HARVEST GP RACE 1 USA Network 105, 3:30pm Live Stakes is run today at Baltimore’s Pimlico wife of an intelligent serial killer. The drivers are back at the Brickyard for the Race Course. There’s no shot at a Triple THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN first of two Harvest GP races on the famed Crown this year, due to Belmont Stakes TCM 132, 11:30am CATCH A CLASSIC! track’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course. winner Tiz the Law getting upset by With Cold War tensions high, Russian Race 2 is Saturday on NBC. Authentic at last month’s Kentucky Derby. Catholic archbishop Kiril Lakota (Anthony SEASON THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR Quinn) is released after years of imprisonment UNDERCOVER BOSS CBS, 9pm PREMIERE! TCM 132, 6pm CATCH A CLASSIC! in Siberia and is made a cardinal by the The 1999 remake starring Pierce Brosnan Vatican. After the pope dies, Lakota is the High-level executives slip anonymously into and Rene Russo was fun, but it’s hard to top surprise choice elected to replace him and, the rank and file of their own organizations Norman Jewison’s original 1968 slick and as newly elevated Pope Kiril, he uses his as Undercover Boss returns for Season romantic caper film starring Steve McQueen authority to inspire and transform the world. 10. Each week, a different leader goes and Faye Dunaway. McQueen is as cool Laurence Olivier also stars. undercover to examine the inner workings of their operation. as ever playing bored Boston millionaire CONNECTING… NEW SERIES! Thomas Crown, who masterminds a bank NBC, 8:30pm GREAT PERFORMANCES: NOW heist just for the fun of it. Watch for the HEAR THIS: “BECOMING MOZART” film’s famous kissing scene, and listen for its Executive producer Martin Gero’s (Blindspot) PBS, 9pm scripted ensemble comedy is about a group Oscar-winning original song, “The Windmills Travel with host Scott Yoo and pianist of friends trying to stay close (and sane) of Your Mind.” Stewart Goodyear as they visit Yoo’s Festival through video chats as they share the highs Mozaic, where Goodyear learns to direct an AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: and lows of these extraordinary times. orchestra from the piano while improvising “THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL” IMPACT OF MURDER: “THERE’S the solos of Mozart’s 20th piano concerto. PBS, 8pm NO WINNING IN MURDER” Learn the true story behind the brutal murder Investigation Discovery 192, 9pm of a 14-year-old African American boy SEASON FINALE! by two white men in Mississippi in 1955. In West Haven, Connecticut, mother of four The film uncovered new eyewitnesses Corrinna Martin learns that her daughter to the crime and helped prompt the U.S. Alyssiah is missing. After an exhaustive, Department of Justice to reopen the case. statewide search, a discovery confirms I QUIT SEASON FINALE! Corrinna’s worst fear, and a murder Discovery Channel 182, 10pm investigation is opened. As a pattern of abuse It’s been a year since these entrepreneurs against Alyssiah is uncovered, Corrinna vows quit their jobs — and while all of the to help other victims of domestic violence. KINGDOM OF SILENCE businesses faced challenges, three of them When a suspect is identified, it looks like the Showtime 318, 9pm have impressed the mentors with their grit, family may finally find justice. Award-winning director Alex Gibney perseverance and passion. The businesses All Times Eastern executive produces this documentary that are invited to the Mentor Loft in New York for examines the complicated relationship one more mentoring session — unaware that Watch Now! between the United States and Saudi one of them will walk away with $100,000. Arabia as a means of exploring the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE NBC, 11:30pm Live BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi. SEASON PREMIERE! Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter After the pandemic largely shut down its Comedy A WILDERNESS OF ERROR production last spring, with the show only CH. 506, 528 FX 136, 9pm SERIES FINALE! popping up a few times in some virtual As the true-crime docuseries concludes with editions, venerable late-night variety series its last two episodes, a federal judge finally Saturday Night Live will actually be back live agrees to hear the new evidence in Jeffrey in Rockefeller Center’s famed Studio 8H as MacDonald’s case. Errol Morris heads to it begins Season 46 tonight. No specifics on North Carolina believing the truth will finally if any audience members would be allowed come out. in the studio or who, if anyone, would be guest host were announced at presstime. Bill & Ted Face the Music: © 2020 Orion Pictures Credit: Patti Perret. the Music: © 2020 Orion Pictures Credit: Patti Face Bill & Ted Kingdom of Silence: Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images All Times Eastern All Times Eastern Best Bets Best Bets Best Bets Oct. 4 Oct. 5 Oct. 6 STAR OF THE MONTH: PETER SWAMP THING NEW SERIES! CUSHING: “EARLY WORK” The CW, 8pm THE WALKING DEAD: TCM 132, beginning at 8pm Iconic DC character Swamp Thing makes “A CERTAIN DOOM” SEASON CATCH A CLASSIC! AMC 131, 9pm FINALE! its network television debut with a special It makes sense that TCM would celebrate 90-minute episode. Abby Arcane (Crystal This stand-alone Season 10 episode was British actor Peter Cushing each Monday in Reed) returns home to Marais, Louisiana, intended to be the season finale back in a spooky month like October; he is probably to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, April, so we should probably prepare for best remembered for his appearances in where she develops a bond with disgraced some major jawdroppers. Instead, producers Hammer horror films (which you’ll certainly scientist Alec Holland (Andy Bean). After extended the season another six episodes see in upcoming weeks) or in villainous Holland tragically dies, Abby discovers the (those additional six will air early next year) roles, as in the original Star Wars. But mysteries of the swamp. and decided to give us this one episode now. tonight you’ll get to see Cushing in dramatic and comedic roles that help demonstrate COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS: THE LOST LINCOLN “VAVILOV” Discovery Channel 182, 9pm the range he had. 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AWARDS PBS, 8pm NFL FOOTBALL: THE GOOD LORD BIRD Celebrate the recipients of the annual Showtime 318, 9pm NEW SERIES! ATLANTA AT GREEN BAY ESPN 140, 8pm Live Hispanic Heritage Awards. The evening Ethan Hawke, who is also an executive includes performances and appearances producer, stars as John Brown in this seven- Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is the site of this Monday Night Football by some of the country’s most celebrated part miniseries based on James McBride’s Hispanic artists and visionaries. acclaimed novel. matchup between Aaron Rodgers’ Packers and Matt Ryan’s Atlanta Falcons. NEXT BLACK-ISH: “ELECTION SPECIAL” FOX, 9pm NEW SERIES! ABC, 10pm THE ZIMMERN LIST: “PHILADELPHIA” In this new techno-thriller, John Slattery (Mad The Johnsons return with a one-hour Cooking Channel 113, 9pm Men) stars as Silicon Valley pioneer Paul television special. Over two back-to-back LeBlanc, developer of a groundbreaking episodes, follow the family as they navigate Andrew visits Philadelphia and reveals its status as a cultural crossroads by making artificial superintelligence called neXt. But the upcoming election. Part 2 will be when the neXt code is leaked out into the presented as an animated episode. stops at Mexican, Indonesian and Israeli restaurants. Finally, a trip to Philadelphia isn’t world, it turns into an increasingly powerful complete without visiting the oldest Italian menace that wreaks havoc on humans and FIRST LADIES NEW SERIES! CNN 200, 10pm restaurant in America.