The Oscars ‘Final of Us’ Finale, ‘Spy Amongst Associates,’ Jenna Ortega on ‘SNL’

SUNDAY: Jimmy Kimmel hosts the film trade’s most revered evening of celebration from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, with funky sci-fi action-comedy hybrid Everything Everywhere All at Once poised to win a number of prime awards, together with Greatest Image and Lead Actress, although Michelle Yeoh is in a good contest towards two-time winner Cate Blanchett of Tár. Among the many leisure highlights, Rihanna performs “Raise Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Lenny Kravitz headlines the “In Memoriam” section, and search for the viewers to get out of their seats when RRR’s rousing “Naatu Naatu” hits the stage. However can something halt the awards present’s scores slide? In an indication of the instances, there’s an uncommon quantity of unique programming airing Sunday evening, when prior to now rival networks would go darkish towards the one-time behemoth.

SUNDAY: More likely to steal a few of Oscar’s remaining thunder, the hit post-apocalyptic thriller reaches its vacation spot within the season finale. But it surely’s hardly the tip of the street for Joel (Pedro Pascal) and his human cargo, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), to whom he’s solid as sturdy a protecting connection as that between The Mandalorian (Pascal’s different large TV position) and Grogu “Child Yoda.” HBO has, no shock, renewed The Last of Us for a second season, and we already can’t wait.

SUNDAY: Billions’ Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown) are nicely solid in an absorbingly cerebral six-part docudrama hinging on one of many best spy scandals of the twentieth century. Pearce is the charming Kim Philby, who shocks the nation—and on a extra private stage, his finest buddy, fellow intelligence agent Nicholas Elliott (Lewis)—when he’s uncovered as a double-agent for the Soviet Union within the early Sixties. Flashbacks depict their friendship, which started some 20 years earlier throughout WWII, whereas the meat of the drama entails their fateful assembly in Beirut, from the place Philby defected, casting suspicion on Elliott’s doable position in aiding the escape. This can be a John le Carré story performed out on the precise world stage.

SATURDAY: As Wednesday Addams, her spastic promenade dance was a viral sensation. She’s presently packing them in film theaters as one of many heroines within the rebooted Scream VI franchise. With that form of pop-cultural buzz, it was solely a matter of time earlier than Jenna Ortega could be tapped as visitor host for the sketch-comedy showcase. Musical visitor is The 1975, making their second look.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• Game of Love (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Anybody keep in mind the Thriller Date board sport? Kimberley Sustad and Brooks Darnell star as a sport designer and advertising and marketing advisor tasked with inventing a brand new romance-driven board sport. Guess what occurs subsequent?
• Girl in the Closet (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Remy Ma is a mother whose well being disaster ends in her daughter (Brielle Oliver and Daljah Peters at totally different ages) being positioned within the custody of an aunt (Tami Roman) who’s a convicted assassin and who topics the lady to greater than a decade of deprivation and abuse.
• 48 Hours (Saturday, 10/9c, CBS): In “What Angelina Noticed,” correspondent Peter Van Sant interviews Angelina Fernandes and her mom Stephanie, who was charged with murdering her fiancé Andrew Wagner throughout a home dispute when Angelina was simply 11.
• NCAA Selection Show (Sunday, 6 pm/ET, CBS): Begin filling out your brackets, as the boys’s NCAA basketball discipline is introduced, with Greg Gumbel internet hosting. The ladies’s bracket and discipline is introduced at 8 pm/ET on ESPN.
• The Simpsons (Sunday, 8/7c, Fox): Kicking off an all-new evening of animation, The Simpsons will get topical when Milhouse’s dad objects to the best way historical past is being taught at Springfield Elementary and goes on a campaign to censor the curriculum. (Is Springfield in Florida now?)
• The Equalizer (Sunday, 8/7c, CBS): Additionally tackling a well timed problem, the motion drama finds Harry (Adam Goldberg) exploring his Jewish religion within the wake of anti-Semitic hate crimes.
• Magnum P.I. (Sunday, 9/8c, NBC): The Hawaii-set procedural feels a bit extra like All Creatures Great and Small when Rick (Zachary Knighton) turns to TC (Stephen Hill) to assist discover Magnum’s (Jay Hernandez) lacking pet mouse, whereas Higgins (Perdita Weeks) enlists Kumu (Amy Hill) to unravel the homicide of a canine. Elsewhere, Magnum seeks Katsumoto’s (Tim Kang) assist in discovering a misplaced vacationer.
• Alien Abduction: Travis Walton (Sunday, 9/8c, Journey Channel): A two-hour Shock Docs particular investigates the alleged 1975 alien abduction of Arizona logger Travis Walton, which later grew to become the premise of the 1993 movie Fireplace within the Sky.
• The Idaho College Murders (Sunday, 10/9c, Investigation Discovery): True-crime channel favorites Alina Burroughs (Crime Scene Confidential) and Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi (True Conviction) carry professional perspective to their evaluation of the November 2022 murders of 4 College of Idaho college students and the arrest of PhD scholar Bryan Kohberger.
• Naked and Afraid: Solo (Sunday, 10/9c, Discovery): It’s onerous sufficient to endure this survival collection when you’ve firm. Within the newest spinoff, eight previous contributors shed their garments once more and attempt to make it for 21 days on their very own, in rugged circumstances in South America, Africa and Mexico.