March 1st lands on a Sunday with a lineup that genuinely rewards staying in: a brand-new prestige comedy debuts on MGM+ with Kevin Kline and Laura Linney, one of television's best crime dramas returns with a fresh case, and the IndyCar season kicks off under St. Petersburg sunshine. There's also a two-part Chernobyl documentary on CNN, a Stephen King thriller on Starz, and John Oliver closing out the week — whether you're chasing laughs, scares, or righteous outrage, tonight has you more than covered. Pour something good and settle in.
★ Tonight's Top Pick
American Classic
8:00 PM|MGM+|30 min|NEW
Editor's Pick
Kevin Kline's return to the screen as Richard Bean — a disgraced actor who suffers a public meltdown and retreats to his small-town hometown theater — is exactly the kind of prestige comedy that television owes us, and tonight MGM+ drops the first two episodes back-to-back. Add Laura Linney as his formidable scene partner and Michael Hoffman's assured direction, and this has all the makings of a slow-burn gem that will be everywhere by the time its finale airs. The pilot sets up stakes that are both genuinely funny and quietly devastating; missing it tonight means catching up while everyone else is already quoting it.
Flames look to gain Western Conference ground at Honda Center.
5:30PM
Florida PanthersatNew York Islanders
ESPN
Defending-champion Panthers visit UBS Arena in a high-stakes cross-division clash.
NCAA BasketballCollege Basketball
1 game
5:00PM
SEC Championships
SEC Network
Premier collegiate track and field action from the SEC Championships.
RacingIndyCar, NASCAR & More
1 game
7:00PM
Firestone Streets of St. Petersburg
FS2
The 2026 NTT IndyCar Series season opens on St. Pete's streets.
MLSMajor League Soccer
1 game
8:00PM
St. Louis CITY SCatSan Diego FC
FS1
San Diego FC's Matchday 2 at Snapdragon Stadium as expansion life continues.
Boxing / MMACombat Sports
1 game
9:00PM
UFA 465: KOK Bushido 93 Vilnius, Part 2
SportsNet Pittsburgh HD B/O
Top-tier KOK Bushido cage action continues from Vilnius with elite fighters.
GolfPGA, LPGA & TGL
1 game
8:00PM
Jupiter Links GCatBoston Common Golf
ESPN
Tech-forward indoor golf league returns with Jupiter Links vs. Boston Common.
Specials & Events
2
9:00 PMNEWShowSpecial
Cynthia & Ariana: Anything but Wicked
FM·60 min·2025
If you saw Wicked last year, this documentary on Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo's parallel journeys to the film is the perfect Sunday-night companion piece. Director Angelica Butcher draws out the genuine chemistry between two performers who came up through overlapping orbits of fame and survived the industry's cruelest years — and makes a compelling case that their casting together was always inevitable. Genuinely warm without crossing into promotional fluff.
Oliver's weekly deep-dives remain the gold standard of satirical political television, and the current news cycle hands him more targets than he can possibly use in forty minutes. The main story tonight is anyone's guess, but the precision of his outrage — and the elaborate payoff gags — make this mandatory Sunday viewing. Don't skip the credits.
New Tonight
8
7:00 PMNEWEpisodeSeries
Tournament of Champions
"The Biggest Culinary Tournament Is Back"
Food Network·120 min·TV-PG·2026
Guy Fieri's flagship culinary competition returns with 32 world-class chefs and the bracket-style format that remains the most genuinely exciting thing in competitive cooking on television — timed head-to-head culinary clashes with real upsets and real consequences. The mix of returning warriors and fresh faces keeps the seeding unpredictable from the jump. Come for the food, stay for Fieri's completely unhinged ringmaster energy.
Luke Grimes steps off the Dutton ranch and into a Marshal's badge, and there's real grit to him here — something rawer about watching Kayce Dutton operate in a federal world without Montana's open skies as a safety valve. Tonight he hunts a bomber targeting the Broken Rock Reservation, keeping one foot in the Native American storylines that made Yellowstone so resonant. Whether it earns its own identity is the ongoing question, but Grimes is worth following anywhere.
8:00 PMNEWEpisode
Dark Winds
"Ahááldláádígíí (That Which Has Been Torn Apart)"
AMC·68 min·TV-14
Here is your periodic reminder that Dark Winds is one of the best crime dramas on television, and Zahn McClarnon's Lieutenant Leaphorn one of the most compelling protagonists currently working in the medium. Leaphorn tracks a killer tonight while Chee and Ben chase new leads — the show's particular gift is making every strand feel urgent without ever rushing the fabric of its world. Tony Hillerman's Navajo Nation mysteries have finally found the adaptation they always deserved.
8:00 PMNEWEpisode
Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown
"Inferno"
CNN·60 min
CNN's new docuseries reconstructs April 26, 1986 minute by minute, and 'Inferno' is as immersive as anything the network has produced — the archival footage and survivor testimony are still genuinely jaw-dropping forty years on. The follow-up episode 'Cover Up' (9 PM) traces how Soviet authorities scrambled to conceal the catastrophe while radioactive clouds drifted west across Europe. Watch both back-to-back; they function as a single two-hour film.
8:00 PMNEWEpisode
Tracker
"The Fallout"
CBS·60 min·TV-14
Tonight cuts Colter off from his support network and forces him to rely on Billie to stop an assassin — a dynamic that reshuffles the relationship geometry the show has been carefully constructing all season. Ken Olin directing means the action sequences are unusually crisp, and the stakes feel genuinely elevated. If you've been tracking this season's arc, tonight pays off in a satisfying way.
8:06 PMNEWEpisode
DTF St. Louis
"Cornhole"
HBO·57 min·TV-MA
Jason Bateman, David Harbour, and Linda Cardellini in a dark comedy about a love triangle that ends in someone's death — this is HBO giving exactly the kind of mid-budget, star-powered prestige comedy that streaming algorithms would never greenlight. Steven Conrad (Patriot, Lodge 49) directs with his characteristic genius for making the awful feel weirdly warm and the mundane feel genuinely dangerous. The episode is called 'Cornhole,' and yes, the show is as willing to be absurdly funny as it is genuinely unsettling.
9:00 PMNEWEpisode
60 Minutes
"Under Siege; Growing up Behind Walls; Breaking the Cycle"
CBS·60 min
Lesley Stahl's lead story tonight — federal judges saying they feel 'under siege' amid escalating political pressure on the judiciary — is the kind of institutional deep-dive that 60 Minutes does better than anyone working in television. Anderson Cooper's segment on a besieged Port-au-Prince orphanage is visually haunting. The magazine format lets you dip in and out, but the judicial independence story deserves your full attention.
10:30 PMNEWEpisode
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal
"The River of Life"
Cartoon Network·30 min·TV-14
Spear encounters a primordial tribe that time forgot tonight, and in the wordless storytelling tradition of the best Primal episodes, it will land emotional punches that most live-action dramas cannot manage in an hour. Tartakovsky's masterwork is the most underrated show on television — a pure cinema achievement in weekly animated form — and it keeps airing at a time slot that makes it feel like a secret only the right people know. Set your alarm; this one rewards every bit of the effort.
Movies
3
5:50 PMNEWMovieFeature Film
Good Fortune
"An Inept Angel, a Gig Worker, and a VC Walk Into a Cloud"
Starz Comedy·98 min·R·2025
Aziz Ansari steps behind the camera for this 2025 fantasy-comedy, and Seth Rogen earns some of his biggest laughs in years as a chronically unlucky gig worker saddled with the universe's least competent guardian angel. Keke Palmer brings her scene-stealing voltage to every frame, and Ansari's deadpan sensibility fits the 'heavenly bureaucracy meets real-world chaos' premise like a glove. Catch it now — this is exactly the kind of modest gem that gets discovered six months after everyone should have already seen it.
Lifetime's new TV movie drops a live-in tutor into a secluded Scottish estate where every charming family member is hiding something lethal. Director Ryan Dewar leans into gothic atmosphere over jump scares — think Rebecca more than Scream — and Brooke Burfitt anchors the whole thing with a performance that keeps you second-guessing who to trust in every scene. If you like your Sunday evenings with a little ominous weather rolling in off the moors, this one delivers.
8:00 PMNEWMovie
The Long Walk
Starz Encore Suspense·109 min·R
Francis Lawrence — who turned the Hunger Games into a billion-dollar franchise — adapts Stephen King's most relentlessly brutal early novel: a dystopian America where 100 teenagers must walk continuously or be shot dead on the road. Cooper Hoffman, son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, carries the weight of the film on his young shoulders with startling authority, and Mark Hamill brings menacing bureaucratic evil to the official who presides over the carnage. Horror built through accumulation rather than spectacle — the best kind of King adaptation.
Channel Guide
6 PM – Midnight
News Sports Drama Comedy Reality Movie Kids Food/Home Documentary Game ShowOur Pick
Fox News
6 PMThe Big Weekend Show
7 PMLife, Liberty & Levin
8 PMSunday Night in America With Trey Gowdy
9 PMOne Nation With Brian Kilmeade
10 PMLife, Liberty & Levin
11 PMSunday Night in America With Trey Gowdy
ESPN
8 PMTGL Golf
10 PMSportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt
11 PMSportsCenter
HGTV
6 PMHome Town
7 PMHome Town
8 PMMini Reni
8:30 PMMini Reni
9 PMHouse Hunters
9:30 PMHouse Hunters
10 PMHouse Hunters
10:30 PMHouse Hunters
11 PMMini Reni
11:30 PMMini Reni
Food Network
6 PMTournament of Champions
7 PMTournament of Champions
9 PMWildcard Kitchen
10 PMBeat Bobby Flay
10:30 PMBeat Bobby Flay
11 PMTournament of Champions
CNN
6 PMCNN Newsroom
7 PMThe Whole Story With Anderson Cooper
8 PMDisaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown
9 PMDisaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown
10 PMThe Whole Story With Anderson Cooper
11 PMDisaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown
Hallmark Channel
7 PMWhen Calls the Heart
8 PMThe Wish Swap (2025)
10 PMTo Barcelona, Forever (2025)
History
6 PMAmerican Pickers
7 PMAmerican Pickers
8 PMHistory's Greatest Picks With Mike Wolfe
9:03 PMAmerican Pickers: Best Of
10:05 PMAmerican Pickers
11:03 PMAmerican Pickers
Discovery Channel
7 PMNaked and Afraid
9:02 PMFilthy Fortunes
10:03 PMFilthy Fortunes
11 PMNaked and Afraid
USA Network
6 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
7 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
8 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
9 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
10 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
11 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
Big Ten Network
6 PMB1G Basketball in 60
7 PMThe B1G Show
7:30 PMThe B1G Show
8 PMThe B1G Show
8:30 PMThe B1G Show
9 PMB1G Basketball in 60
10 PMThe B1G Show
10:30 PMThe B1G Show
11 PMThe B1G Show
11:30 PMOn the Beam
FS1
7 PMYou See L.A.
8 PMMLS Soccer
10:30 PMFIFA World Cup 2026 Stories From the Cities
11 PMIndyCar Racing
Nickelodeon
6 PMFriends
6:31 PMFriends
7:01 PMFriends
7:31 PMFriends
8:01 PMFriends
8:31 PMFriends
9:01 PMThe Big Bang Theory
9:38 PMThe Big Bang Theory
10:15 PMThe Big Bang Theory
10:51 PMThe Big Bang Theory
11:23 PMThe Big Bang Theory
11:56 PMThis Is UFC
Disney Channel
6 PMRatatouille (2007)
8 PMPhineas and Ferb
8:30 PMPhineas and Ferb
9 PMWizards Beyond Waverly Place
9:30 PMVampirina: Teenage Vampire
10 PMMiraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
10:30 PMMiraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
11 PMBluey
11:30 PMBluey
Cartoon Network
6 PMBob's Burgers
6:30 PMFamily Guy
7 PMFamily Guy
7:30 PMFamily Guy
8 PMFamily Guy
8:30 PMFamily Guy
9 PMFamily Guy
9:30 PMRick and Morty
10 PMRick and Morty
10:30 PMGenndy Tartakovsky's Primal
11 PMCommon Side Effects
11:30 PMRobot Chicken: Self-Discovery Special
TV Land
6 PMEverybody Loves Raymond
6:35 PMEverybody Loves Raymond
7:10 PMEverybody Loves Raymond
7:45 PMEverybody Loves Raymond
8:20 PMEverybody Loves Raymond
8:55 PMEverybody Loves Raymond
9:30 PMEverybody Loves Raymond
10 PMSeinfeld
10:30 PMSeinfeld
11 PMSeinfeld
11:30 PMSeinfeld
TLC
6 PM90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days
7 PM90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days
9 PM90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days
10 PMSuddenly Amish
11 PM90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days
TBS
7:30 PMThe Big Bang Theory
8 PMThe Big Bang Theory
8:30 PMThe Big Bang Theory
9 PMThe Big Bang Theory
9:30 PMThe Big Bang Theory
10 PMThe Big Bang Theory
10:30 PMThe Flash (2023)
TNT
6 PMU.S. Soccer Postgame
6:30 PMWomen's College Basketball
8:30 PMCollege Basketball Postgame
9 PMThe Accountant (2016)
11:30 PMGemini Man (2019)
GSN
6 PMCard Sharks
7 PMThe Wall
8 PMFamily Feud
8:30 PMFamily Feud
9 PMFamily Feud
9:30 PMFamily Feud
10 PMFamily Feud
10:30 PMFamily Feud
11 PMFamily Feud Favorites
11:30 PMFamily Feud Favorites
A&E
6 PMCrime in Progress
7 PMCrime in Progress
8 PMCrime in Progress
9:01 PMCrime in Progress
10:04 PMCrime in Progress
11:03 PMCrime in Progress
AMC
8 PMDark Winds
9:08 PMDark Winds
10:16 PMIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
