Amber Stevens, Andrea Bordeaux, Bresha Webb and Corbin Reid star in a kind of East Coast variation of “Insecure.” “Run the World” (Starz, 8:30 p.m.) follows a group of Black Women working and living in modern day Harlem.
Leslie Jones hosts The MTV Movie & TV Awards (MTV, BET, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Pop, TV Land, VH1, 9 p.m.) in yet another Covid-addled event. Sacha Baron Cohen and Scarlett Johansson will win special awards. Leading the nominations for TV, to let you know where its head is at are “WandaVision,” “Emily in Paris” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” A second part of the event airing Monday.
And it’s not the only awards show on tonight. The third annual Urban One Honors (TV One, 9 p.m.) honors Black excellence. Erica Campbell and Roland Martin host.
Matthew Rhys, Jamie Dornan and Ann Skelly star in the three-part miniseries “Death and Nightengales” (Starz, 10 p.m.), about a young woman struggling to control her own destiny in the countryside of Ireland in 1993. Based on the book by Eugene McCabe, the historical drama predates Rhys’ run as “Perry Mason” and first aired in Ireland in 2018.
The new true crime documentary series “Fall River” (Epix, 10 p.m.) concentrates on a series of murders tied to satanism in the the South Coast, Massachusetts town once home to Lizzie Borden.