Decades, 12:00 a.m. ET
Sorry if I worried any of you yesterday by not posting Bets for Saturday. Couldn’t do it. Day after vaccine shot #2. All I’ll say is, THAT is a side effect?! And THAT?! But I’m back, and the thing I was most excited about pointing out yesterday is repeated today anyway. It’s the Decades weekend marathon of episodes of Route 66, the 1960-64 drama series created by Naked City producer Stirling Silliphant, who wrote most of the episodes. Martin Milner and George Maharis star as guys who take to the open road in a 1961 Corvette, riding along the Chicago-to-L.A. Route 66 highway, and elsewhere. Eventually, the series filmed on location in 40 states, and those directors included Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah.
AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET
This is a new flashback episode that explains the origins of Lucille. And if you’re not up on this series, Lucille isn’t a woman. She’s a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, the (eventually) chosen weapon of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s villainous, and now somewhat more heroic, Negan. But – and here’s the twist – Negan named that deadly bat after his late wife, who was named Lucille. And who’s played, in this new flashback episode, by Hilarie Burton Morgan, who happens to be Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s very much alive real-life wife.
CNN, 9:00 p.m. ET
Tonight, Stanley Tucci starts at Milan, and travels from there. I don’t know which I envy more: his ability to travel and go out and see places and meet people, or the food he eats when he get there. (My kids would say “the food,” and they know me pretty well.)
Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET
After a few “best of” compilations, tonight’s episode is new. Shameless is working hard to adapt to COVID. We all know the feeling.
HBO, 11:15 p.m. ET
John Oliver reports, once again, from his personal void. I know the feeling…