John Krasinski, pictured center, hosts the first “Saturday Night Live” (NBC,11:30 p.m.) of 2021. It’s his first time in that position, and it’s also the debut for the musical guest, Machine Gun Kelly (left). At 10 p.m. is a 1990 episode with John Goodman and Faith No More.
Ciara Payton plays the flamboyant talk show host and gossip slinger in the bio pic “Wendy Williams: The Movie” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.) which covers her drug addiction, date rape, plastic surgery, miscarriages and divorce. The subject goes into specifics in “The Wendy Williams Story.., What a Mess!” (Lifetime, 10 p.m.), which also clocks in at two hours, which is way too much time for this brassy personality. The movie is also a big letdown after the fun of last weekend’s Salt-N-Pepa flick.
The news network goes “Inside the QAnon Conspiracy” (CNN, 9 p.m.) and a former adherent apologizes to Anderson Cooper for thinking he ate babies.
Jen Lilley plays a journalist who meets a B&B owner in Canada in the made-for-TV romance “Snowkissed” (Hallmark, 9 p.m.).
To mark the death Thursday of the celebrated actress at 96, there is a replay of “Oprah’s Master Class: Cicely Tyson” (OWN, 10 p.m.), filmed in 2014.
The nature series “A Wild Year on Earth” (BBC America, 8 p.m.) looks at spring all over the world.
A restaurant has to close due to the pandemic on “Pitbulls and Parolees” (Animal Planet, 9 p.m.).
Nebraska veterinarians Erin and Ben Schroeder return for a third season of “Heartland Docs, DVM” (Nat Geo Wild, 10 p.m.).
A 10-part World War II series begins on “The Pacific” (History, 8 p.m.). The first two episodes precede“Hiroshima: 75 Years Later” (History, 10:20 p.m.), which could more truthfully be titled 75 years and five months later.