What To Watch: Candice King's A Killer, After Jackie MLB Special And More
Courtesy of Lifetime
On TV this Saturday: Candice King is the Suitcase Killer, History Channel explores racial inequality in pro baseball and the Stanley Cup Final continues with Game 2. Here are nine programs to keep in your radar; all times are Eastern. (Also check out our weekly TVLine-Up of premieres and finales, plus our monthly streaming guide.)
Showtimes for June 18, 2022
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Murdoch Mysteries
Ovation
Murdoch is on the case after a musician's death is narrated in a blues song; then at 8 pm, Crabtree braces himself when his unstable kidnapper turns herself in.
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After Jackie
History Channel
This two-hour special tells the story of the Black pro baseball players who came after Jackie Robinson — including Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson — and continued the fight for racial equality.
Moriah's Lighthouse
Hallmark Channel
TV-movie premiere: A woodworker (Under the Dome's Rachelle Lefevre) in a French seaside town aims to restore a local lighthouse, until an American architect (Killjoys' Luke MacFarlane) throws a wrench in her plans.
NHL Stanley Cup Final
ABC
The Tampa Bay Lightning take on the Colorado Avalanche in Game 2 of the NHL championship.
Planet Earth: Dynasties
BBC America
A meerkat matriarch tries to unite her family in the face of predators and immense dust storms in Botswana.
Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story
Lifetime
TV-movie premiere: After a married fertility nurse (The Vampire Diaries' Candice King) falls for a doctor (Drop Dead Diva's Jackson Hurst) at her clinic, she decides to eliminate her husband in a most gruesome way; Michael Roark (Y&R) and Wendie Malick (Hot in Cleveland) co-star. (King talks Legacies journey.)
Transplant
NBC
When extreme weather causes the hospital to lose power, Bash draws on his war zone experience.
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Would I Lie to You?
The CW
Guests include comedian Jena Friedman, Nyambi Nyambi (The Good Fight), Ali Wentworth (In Living Colour) and Fisher Stevens (Early Edition).
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Saturday Night Live
NBC
Oscar Isaac hosts this repeat from March; Charli XCX performs.
