1) “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. Amy Schumer, quickly becoming an all-media star, hosts, with Steve Lacy as music guest. Schumer has been terrific hosting “SNL” twice previously – and in most other things. She has a sketch show, “Inside Amy Schumer,” on Paramount+ … has the comedy-drama “Life & Beth” (shown here) renewed for a second Hulu season … and, as co-host, was the best part of the chaotic Academy Awards. Read more…
1) “Young Rock” season-opener, 8:30 p.m., NBC. It’s an odd sort of brew – bits of comedy, scattered alongside a dramatization of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s real past and a fictional version of his future. Tonight’s comedy parts come early (with Randall Park in an awful talk show), then retreat. We see rough moments in the wrestling careers of Johnson as a young man (shown here) and his dad. And in the final minute, we jump ahead to a time after his failed 2032 run for president. Read more…
Here’s a fresh approach to daddy-daughter problems:
He had too much alcohol and too many absences. She avoided him. “The only way these two were going to heal their relationship was on the set of their own NBC sitcom,” Debby Wolfe said.
Now that show is here. “Lopez vs. Lopez” (shown here) debuts at 8 p.m. Friday (Nov. 4) on NBC; Wolfe created it, with George and Mayan Lopez playing versions of themselves that are exaggerated – a little.
“There was a time when we didn’t speak and were estranged for about three years,” Mayan told the Television Critics Association. That split, George said, “was so painful and so much my fault.” Read more…
1) “Welcome to Flatch” and “Call Me Kat,” 9:02 and 9:30 p.m., Fox. We’ll be watching “Kat” on the next four Thursdays, for the final bits from Leslie Jordan (shown here in an upcoming episode), the tiny actor who died Oct. 24, at 67. Alongside it, the inconsistent “Flatch” has a fairly good story: Last week, Barb (Jaime Pressly, 45) started a torrid affair with young Shrub. Now his cousin Kelly tries to break them up by transforming drab, dull Beth into a flashy mini-Barb. Read more…
