What To Watch: Joe Exotic Animals Update, NBA Preview And More
Courtesy of Animal Planet
On TV this Saturday: The NBA previews its shortened season, Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn debuts on HBO and Animal Planet gets in on the Tiger King craze. Here are seven programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern.
Showtimes for July 25, 2020
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Major League Baseball
Fox, FS1
Four games (attended by virtual fans): On Fox, the Brewers take on the Cubs (at 1 pm), the Giants visit the Dodgers (at 4 pm) and the Yankees play the Nationals (at 7 pm). At 9 pm, FS1 airs Diamonbacks at Padres.
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Motherless Brooklyn
HBO
Director Edward Norton (Birdman) stars in this 1950s-set crime drama about a P.I. with Tourette syndrome who investigates the murder of his mentor; Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show) and Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse) co-star.
NBA Countdown
ABC
This two-hour presentation previews the shortened season (resuming July 30), recaps all the league news since the March 11 stoppage, and discusses the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Stalked by My Husband's Ex
Lifetime
TV-movie premiere: Strange and deadly events occur after a woman (Crossing Jordan's Alex McKenna) becomes engaged to a man (Power's Adam Huss) with a 10-year-old daughter.
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SNL Vintage
NBC
Queen Latifah hosts this Season 28 throwback that originally aired March 8, 2003; Ms. Dynamite performs.
Surviving Joe Exotic
Animal Planet
The eccentric zookeeper's big cats take center stage in this one-hour special that tells the stories of the animals that found new homes after his arrest, and features one of Exotic's last pre-prison interviews.
