Weather willing, there will be a countdown and launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon (CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, 3 p.m.). The Demo-2 test flight was to have launched Wednesday but was delayed due to lightning near the Kennedy Space Center. It was rescheduled for today, when there ought to be an even bigger audience (on TV only; it’s not open for a public launch viewing). Even the ,broadcast networks will probably run it, since they have no live sports to show anyway. The actual launch, the first for a U.S. spacecraft in nearly nine years, since the final flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 2011, is scheduled for about 3:22 p.m. And if it has to be postponed again, they’ll try once more Sunday at 3 p.m..
“Lucy in the Sky” (HBO, 8 p.m.), the Noah Hawley sci-fi film with Natalie Portman, Zadie Beetz and Jon Hamm, makes its premium cable debut.
The 30th anniversary of the Lifetime Original Movie is marked with a handful of oldies starting with the 1984 “Death of a Cheerleader” (Lifetime, 11 a.m.) and followed by “No One Would Tell” (Lifetime, 12:30 p.m.), “Stolen By My Mother: The Kamiyah Mobley Story” (Lifetime, 2 p.m.), “Flowers in the Attic” (4 p.m.) and “The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders” (6 p.m.). It culminates in a new film, “The Captive Nanny” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), staring Karynn Moore who gets a job with an odd family.
A new season starts for the married Nebraska veterinarians of “Heartland Docs, DVM” (Nat Geo Wild, 8 p.m.), who seek a canine blood donor.
There’s a couple more episodes broadcast of “The Last Dance” (ABC, 8 and 9 p.m.), if you missed (or want to re-live) the Michael Jordan documentary.
Also on prime time is “Despicable Me 2” (NBC, 8 p.m.).
“Live PD” (A&E, 9 p.m.) isn’t.
“Fear Not with Iyanla Vanzant” (OWN, 9 pm.) now has any number of domestic situations to worry about. Which means there are more topics to address on “Girlfriends Check-In” (OWN, 10 p.m.).
Lindsay is granted special dispensation to visit her dying mother on “Line of Duty” (AMC, 11 p.m.).
A beluga whale gives birth on “The Aquarium” (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.).
“Animal Fight Night: Summer Heat” (National Geographic, 10 p.m.) seems a totally unnecessary right about now.
Tigers struggle to breed at “The Zoo” (Animal Planet, 8 p.m.).
Technicolor works overtime to capture Moira Shearer in “The Red Shoes” (8 p.m.) and “The Man Who Loved Redheads” (10:30 p.m.). It’s followed by one of the few color noirs: “A Kiss Before Dying” (12:15 a.m.), followed by two with Mamie Van Doren: “Sex Kittens Go to College” (2:15 a.m.) and “Born Reckless” (4 a.m.).
Steve Earle and the Dukes play a tribute to Guy Clark on a 2019 episode of “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 11 p.m., check local listings).
“Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) is a repeat of last fall’s season premiere with Woody Harrelson and Billie Eilish. A 2010 show with Charles Barkley and Alicia Keys is repeated at 10.