SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (11:30PM NBC, Global in Canada)
If the above preview is any indication — tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE hosted by Gabourey Sidibe, breakout star of last year’s Oscar darling Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire — might actually be worth staying up for. And not just because there is something oddly entertaining about repeating the phrase Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire over and over again.
YOU DON’T KNOW JACK (9PM HBO, HBO Canada)
Which is just one of the reasons you’ll want to check out tonight’s very well-received HBO biopic of Jack Kevorkian. The other reason: So you won’t be scratching your head come Emmy and Golden Globe night as to why Al Pacino is walking away with all of that hardware.