Remembering Bob Newhart, Climb Aboard ‘Snowpiercer,’ Searching for New ‘Dragon’ Riders, Atlanta Olympics Bombers

The Bob Newhart Show

SATURDAY: I can’t think of a better way to spend my free time this weekend than marveling at the down-to-earth gifts of one of TV’s most legendary comedians. Catchy’s tribute to Bob Newhart, who died this week at age 94, runs Saturday afternoon through Monday at 6/5c, featuring classic episodes of The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78), Newheart (1982-90) and the lesser known Bob (1992-93), all of which originally aired on CBS. Newhart’s expert timing allowed his castmates to shine, but he often got the last laugh in his witty reactions to their nonsense. In another treat for Newhart fans, TBS is paying tribute to his Emmy-winning The Big Bang Theory character Professor Proton with a six-episode marathon “In Memory of Professor Proton” on Sunday, starting at 8:00/7:00 PM.

Snow drill

SUNDAY: The post-apocalyptic train ride continues, albeit from a different platform. After TNT the propulsive futuristic thriller derailed by pulling it from last year’s lineup, AMC stepped up to host the fourth and final season. The action picks up nine months after Snowpiercer and Big Alice split, with Andre (Daveed Diggs) and his followers discovering that their New Eden isn’t quite the paradise they’d hoped for. Back on the main train, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) sends Till (Mickey Sumner) and Ben (Iddo Goldberg) on ​​a dangerous reconnaissance mission.

House of the Dragon

SUNDAY: With only two episodes left in the second season, Game of Thrones The prequel is still gearing up for another fiery battle in another hour of table-setting. (Actually, a little over an hour.) The belittled Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) has the most intriguing dilemma of all: Knowing that her blacks are outnumbered and the dragons outnumbered, she hopes to recruit lesser nobles with Targaryen bloodlines—Westeros is full of bastards, as we all know—to swoop in and see if those prickly dragons will accept her as riders. Such an experiment carries a high degree of risk. If the dragon isn’t impressed, you could end up as a marshmallow after an encounter with a campfire. Back in Kings Landing, the rulers are about to learn that you can’t win the hearts and minds of the little people if their bellies are empty.

How it really happened

SUNDAY: With the Paris Games less than a week away, the documentary series returns with a two-hour special revisiting the horrors that unfolded in Atlanta nearly 30 years ago, when a bombing disrupted the 1996 centennial Games. The discovery of a suspicious backpack came too late to prevent two deaths and the injury of 100 others. The special features interviews with police officers and journalists who were there, as well as friends and the attorney of the wrongfully accused suspect, Richard Jewell.

Orphan Black: Echoes

SUNDAY: An emotional flashback episode provides insight into how Kira (Keeley Hawes), the daughter of a clone, developed her groundbreaking bioprinting technology decades earlier — and why she allowed it to be abused to print real people like Lucy (Krysten Ritter). It’s a Frankenstein story with elements from “The Monkey’s Paw.”

INTERNAL WEEKEND TV:

• WNBA All-Star Game (8:30 p.m./ET, ABC): The best pro women’s basketball players compete from the Footprint Center in Phoenix. And while she may not be on the Olympic team, this year’s sensation Caitlin Clark is on the list.
• Kidnapped from an HBCU: A Film About the Disappearance of a Black Girl (Saturday, 8/7c, lifelong): CurrentNaturi Naughton stars in the second installment of a series Black girl missing films as Ellen, an HBCU guidance counselor who is the only one to notice Shannon (Tanyell Quian), a college student struggling to pay her tuition, goes missing. Ellen’s search for the truth leads to the discovery of a human trafficking ring.
• A Typical Vermont Christmas (8/7c, Hallmark Channel): It’s still Christmas at Hallmark, where a skier (Exchanged at birth‘s Katie Leclerc) and a local brewmaster (Claw(Ryan McPartlin) team up to brew a holiday microbrew that could save her family’s business.
• Professor T (Sunday, 8/7c, PBS): The season finale of the British mystery gets personal for autistic criminologist Jasper Tempest (Ben Miller) when he discovers the truth about his father’s death, further complicating his already strained relationship with his mother (Frances de la Tour). Followed by an all-new episode of Grantchester (9/8c) and the season 2 finale of I. Beam (10/9c).
• Gain fame (Sunday, 10/9c, TV One): Celebrity moms Lucille O’Neal (mother of Shaquille) and Sonya Curry (mother of Stephen) welcome Magic Johnson and his mother Christine to reflect on her influence on his successful basketball and business careers. Preceded by Uncensored (9/8c), which features boxer and actor Pooch Hall (Ray Donovan).
• Forbidden love (10/9c, TLC): Four couples with different faiths explore their future in a reality series that explores the strains of religious conversion on a relationship.