NBC, 12:00 p.m. ET
Rain has played such havoc with this year’s tournament that as of Saturday morning, no one knows who’s made the cut for weekend play. There’s still too much “Day 2” golf to play before the field can be narrowed, so, once again, play is expected to begin early, just after sunrise, to make up the difference. The cut ought to be known somewhere around noon, which is when NBC is scheduled to begin televising the event anyway.
NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
Game 1 of this year’s NHL finals, in which the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Boston Bruins, 4-3, in a triple-overtime thriller Wednesday, attracted more TV viewers (more than 6 million) than any opening Stanley Cup final contest since 1997’s Philadelphia-Detroit series. That game provided close to an hour of extra hockey – and tonight, after a few days of well-deserved rest for both teams, comes Game 2.
ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
SERIES RETURN: This Anthony Edwards ABC drama series dropped off the map, and the network schedule, almost instantly, leaving its mysteries and puzzles and neo-Nazi conspiracies and kidnappings going unresolved. Well, ABC has decided to burn off the remaining untelevised episodes by showing them in the summer. On Saturday nights, yet. This edition of “Write-Off Theatre” begins tonight with a double feature, picking up with Laila (Jacinda Barrett), the wife of Edwards’ Hank, still held hostage – with Hank negotiating frantically for her release.
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 2012 Christopher Nolan movie completed his Batman trilogy, starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, and did so with a tale of epic length – but not quite epic in other respects, despite the presence of Anne Hathaway as the latest screen version of Catwoman. Hathaway won an Oscar that year – but not for this. It was for the other movie she made that year, playing Fantine in Les Miserables.
TNT, 9:00 p.m. ET
Mel Brooks has had quite a year, and it’s only June. The month after being saluted with an American Masters biographical tribute, he gets saluted again here, as this year’s recipient of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. Congratulations, Mel! Joining him for the festivities are, among others, comic cohorts Carl Reiner and Cloris Leachman, as well as Martin Scorsese, Sarah Silverman, Billy Crystal and more.