Weekend TV: Awards shows Saturday, Sunday
BOTH DAYS: Award shows.
It’s a double weekend for Iggy Azalean and Jennifer Hudson. Tonight, they’ll sing “Trouble” at the Kids Choice Awards (8-9:30 p.m., Nickelodeon); on Sunday, they’ll sing at the “iHeart Music Awards” (8-11 p.m., NBC) ... where Azalea and Sam Smith lead with five nominations apiece.
Nick Jonas hosts tonight’s show and opens with two songs. Jamie Foxx hosts Sunday; he also performs, as do Kelly Clarkson, Meghan Trainor, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Jason Derulo, Jason Aldean and more.
ALSO BOTH DAYS:
• Basketball. By the end of the weekend, the NCAA tournament will have its final four. Today’s doubleheader is 6 and 8:30 p.m. on TBS; Sunday’s is 2 and 4:30 p.m. on CBS.
• “Secrets and Lies,” 8 p.m. today and 10 p.m. Sunday, ABC. First is a rerun of last week’s strong episode, focusing on Melissa Gilbert, now of Howell, as the troubled mother of an autistic boy. That ends with a stalker scare for Ben; on Sunday, the crisis grows.
ALSO TODAY:
• Figure-skating, 8 p.m., NBC. Here are the international finals in Shanghai. The U.S. is led by Ashley Wagner (winner of three of the last four nationals) and Gracie Gold, who won the nationals in 2014 and finished second this year.
• “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29 p.m., NBC. This is Dwayne Johnson’s fourth turn as host – twice under his own name and twide under his wrestling name of The Rock. George Ezra is the music guest.
• “In an Instant,” 9-11 p.m., ABC. This series skillfully mixes re-enactments and the memories of survivors. Now it views a 1991 crisis, with 50 people held hostage in a Sacramento electronics store.
• “Black Sails” season-finale, 9 p.m., Starz. This richly crafted pirate show runs its entire season. Previous episodes start at noon; in this new one, Flint has an unlikely ally and Silver makes a sacrifice.
ALSO SUNDAY:
• “Killing Jesus,” 8 p.m., National Geographic, rerunning at 11. In his previous books, Bill O’Reilly killed Lincoln and Kennedy; now he aims higher. This richly crafted film starts with the infanticide of the maddened King Herod (Kelsey Grammer). We see Jesus (Haaaz Sleiman) as a gently thoughtful man, startled by his destiny. Pontius Pilate (Stephen Moyer) struggles with the political issues.
• “Going Clear,” 8-10 p.m., HBO. L. Ron Hubbard, this film says, lied about his military record, threatened his wife and kidnapped their child. Then he created a religion. “Clear” skillfully uses the comments of former Scientology members, including Paul Haggis, an Oscar-winning (“Crash”) writer.
• “Mr. Selfridge” season-opener, 9 p.m., PBS. This series began with the real-life story of Harry Selfridge (Jeremy Piven), an American who transformed London’s crusty department-store scene. He was loud, bold and (at first) successful. Now the third season jumps ahead to 1919; in a fairly good, two-hour episode, the newly widowed Selfridge throws himself into spending sprees.
• “Battle Creek,” 10 p.m., CBS. This series is so good that it has a gifted, two-time Oscar nominee in reserve. Some weeks, Janet McTeer (as the police commander) has little to do; now is the exception: After a house fire, her recent ex-lovers are suspects. They are, apparently, plentifu