‘Any person Someplace’ Last Season, Seth Meyers Does Stand-Up, ‘Marlow Homicide Membership,’ New ‘Lioness’

SUNDAY: The elegant Peabody Award and AFI Award-winning comedy returns for its third and last season with its empathetic gaze shining immediately on Sam (the great Bridget Everett), whose life in rural Kansas is filled with emotional challenges but in addition the redeeming heat of friendship. Within the opener, Sam’s extra of an outlier than traditional, feeling the odd individual out as her finest pal Joel (Jeff Hiller) busies himself in preparation for transferring in with Brad (Tim Bagley). Her divorced sister Tricia (Mary Catherine Garrison) can be ditching Sam to get again within the courting pool. Perhaps it’s time to undertake an lovable canine. And what’s up with that intriguing stranger, Iceland (Ólafur Darri Ólafsoon), who’s now renting the household farmhouse?

SATURDAY: The NBC Late Evening host, whose sensible “A Nearer Look” segments have helped earn him a bushel of Emmy nominations, returns to the stand-up stage at Chicago’s The Vic Theatre for his first HBO particular. He places the information of the day apart to deal with the extra common subject of fatherhood and marriage, and also you’ll quickly see why he says his youngsters give him all the perfect materials.

SUNDAY: Masterpiece Thriller! delivers one other charmer in Robert Thorogood’s (Loss of life in Paradise) adaptation of his personal novel. The comfy thriller sequence is about within the riverside city of Marlow alongside the Thames, the place a physique is discovered that units neighbor Judith Potts (Downton Abbey’s Samantha Bond), a retired archaeologist, into amateur-sleuth mode, which doesn’t thrill the appearing Senior Investigating Officer, DS Tanika Malik (Natalie Dew). However even the copper quickly has to confess Judith’s busybody antics ship outcomes, and because the physique depend rises, Judith kinds a bond with Becks Starling (Cara Horgan), the pissed off spouse of the native vicar, and Suzie Harris (Jo Martin), a canine walker looking for objective. The case performs out over 4 episodes, and a second season has already been ordered.

SUNDAY: Taylor Sheridan’s (Yellowstone) army thriller returns for a second season, starring Zoe Saldaña as Joe, the sinewy chief of the CIA’s covert Lioness program, which recruits feminine belongings for seemingly unattainable missions with dangerously excessive and emotional stakes. Nicole Kidman costars as Joe’s formidable boss, Kaitlin, who suspects a global conspiracy behind the kidnapping of a congresswoman that results in a violent showdown throughout the border in Mexico. As soon as once more known as away from her household to threat her life for her nation, Joe takes her group to Iraq to deliver a helicopter pilot (Genesis Rodriguez) into their clandestine world of intrigue. The season launches with two episodes.

SUNDAY: Whereas Oz “The Penguin” Cobb (Colin Farrell) builds his underground legal empire on this darkish origin story — “They’re so busy with their noses up they’ll by no means suppose to look down,” he says of his rivals — his younger protégé Victor (Rhenzy Feliz) tangles with a bully from his previous. Oz has a plan to deliver Gotham’s gangs collectively, however he shouldn’t underestimate his nemesis Sofia (Cristin Milioti), who warns, “We simply need to make it very clear that enjoying with Oz comes at a value.”

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• The Xmas Log: On Hallmark Channel, The Christmas Charade (Saturday, 8/7c) stars Batwoman’s Rachel Skarsten in a caper a couple of librarian drawn into an undercover FBI operation with an agent (Corey Sevier) monitoring an artwork thief at a Christmas charity ball. In Hallmark’s The 5-12 months Christmas Celebration (Sunday, 8/7c), Katie Findlay and Jordan Fisher are theater-school frenemies whose annual Christmas catering gig is ending, maybe their final likelihood to disclose their emotions for one another.
• Mormon Mother Gone Mistaken: The Ruby Franke Story (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Heather Locklear stars as a manipulative marriage counselor who upends the life and household of fashionable Mormon vlogger Ruby Franke (Emilie Ullerup) in a “Ripped from the Headlines” movie.
• True Crime Watch: Oxygen’s Philly Murder (Saturday, 9/8c) revisits notorious crimes within the Metropolis of Brotherly Love, beginning with the taking pictures of a veteran police officer within the line of obligation. One other new Oxygen sequence, A Plan to Kill (Sunday, 7/6c), explores murders that have been meticulously deliberate, opening with the 2020 slaying of L.A. therapist Amie Harwick by her ex-boyfriend stalker in her Hollywood house. CBS’s 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c) digs into the 2020 homicide of Minnesota nurse Alex Pennig.
• I Am Alfred Hitchcock (Saturday, 8/7c, The CW): A biographical particular remembers the famed director of a few of Hollywood’s most memorable thrillers, specializing in his controlling character and his weird obsession together with his glamorous muses.
• The Simpsons (Sunday, 8/7c, Fox): That ’70s Present’s Topher Grace is the visitor voice in an episode revisiting a chilly case from Springfield’s Nineteen Eighties previous that reveals steamy secrets and techniques about Grampa Simpson and Agnes Skinner. Extra animation enjoyable on Common Fundamental Guys (8:30/7:30c) when Mark and Hank trigger havoc whereas flying to their uncle’s funeral, Louise levels a homicide thriller in a dollhouse retailer on Bob’s Burgers (9/8c) and Krapopolis (9:30/8:30c) experiences a rubbish disaster.
• Sunday Evening Soccer (Sunday, 8:15 pm/ET, NBC): The Dallas Cowboys face the San Francisco 49ers within the prime-time matchup.
• Tracker (Sunday, 8:30/7:30c, CBS): Colter (Justin Hartley) groups with fellow rewardist Billie Matalon (Sofia Pernas, Hartley’s spouse) to discover a high-school baseball star. Adopted by a Halloween-themed episode of The Equalizer (9:30/8:30c), with McCall (Queen Latifah) investigating a demise in a constructing its residents consider is haunted.
• Hocus Pocus 2 (Sunday, 9/8c, ABC): The 2022 sequel to the fan-favorite witchy comedy makes its broadcast TV debut.
• The Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon — The E book of Carol (Sunday, 9/8c, AMC): In Season 2’s penultimate episode, the military now led by the once-peaceable Losang (Joel de la Fuente) hunts for Laurent (Louis Puech Scigliuzzi). In search of an exit technique, Carol (Melissa McBride) leads Daryl (Norman Reedus) to her useful pilot Ash (Manish Dayal), realizing she’s acquired some explaining to do.
• Chris Brown: A Historical past of Violence (Sunday, 9/8c, Investigation Discovery): As a part of the channel’s “No Excuse for Abuse” marketing campaign, a documentary explores the music star’s risky previous, together with his 2009 arrest for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna, charting a cycle of abuse that started in Brown’s childhood. Adopted by an after-show hosted by The View’s Sunny Hostin.
• The Franchise (Sunday, 10/9c, HBO): The Tecto film crew gears up for “Cameo Day,” as a result of each superhero franchise film has to incorporate a crossover character in some unspecified time in the future. However does it need to be the disgusting “Gurgler” (the hilarious Nick Kroll), whose arrival causes producer Anita (Aya Money) to quip that their movie has change into “a refugee camp for displaced I.P. (mental property)”.
• Past: UFOs and the Unknown (Sunday, 10/9c, MGM+): Is the reality on the market? A four-part docuseries follows up on Congressional hearings and revelations of a secret Pentagon program learning alleged UFOs.