Eddie Murphy’s AFI Tribute, Finales of ‘Euphoria’ and ‘The Audacity,’ Marilyn Monroe Mementos

SUNDAY: From his Saturday Night Live breakthrough to movie stardom, Eddie Murphy has always left them laughing. As one of the few comedians and only the fourth person of color to receive the prestigious American Film Institute accolade in its half-century, Murphy forgoes humor for emotion when accepting the honor from Spike Lee. “I’m going to get backstage and cry,” he says. An understandable response when paid tribute by the likes of contemporaries Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Arsenio Hall, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence, Kenan Thompson, Mike Myers (in a Shrek mask), Robert Townsend, Tracy Morgan, Jennifer Hudson (performing from Dreamgirls), and special surprise guest Stevie Wonder, who Murphy famously portrayed in his SNL days. The special was filmed in April at L.A.’s Dolby Theatre.

SUNDAY: Did this over-the-top melodrama hit rock bottom when it trapped one of its lead characters in an underground coffin last week, sharing tight quarters with a curious rattlesnake? We’ll find out in the Season 3 finale, wrapping a harrowing and divisive season that makes the characters’ debauched high-school years look like Sesame Street in retrospect. While Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Maddy (Alexa Demie) reel from the discovery of Nate’s (Jacob Elordi) ravaged body — him being Cassie’s bad-luck husband and Maddy’s ex — series narrator and moral conscience Rue (Zendaya) is a pawn in peril as she tries to help the DEA execute the takedown of rival criminals Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and Laurie (Martha Kelly).

SUNDAY: The cynicism of this broad satire of the Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur culture reaches new highs — or, more appropriately, lows — in the season finale. (The show was renewed for a second season before the first began, echoing the series’ own audacity.) Immorality wins the day as Duncan (Billy Magnussen), Carl (Zach Galifianakis), and their ilk make heartless deals with seriously human consequences. You might want to take a shower after watching.

SUNDAY: Some like it Marilyn. That’s the case with longtime Marilyn Monroe superfan Scott Fortner, who shares his collection of Monroe memorabilia with host Lisa Whelchel in an episode airing on the eve of the iconic sex symbol’s 100th birthday. His treasures include the movie star’s personal script for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (airing on TCM Monday night), a gown and fan from The Prince and the Showgirl, items from her wardrobe, her phone book from 1962 (the year of her untimely death), and a personal letter written to her former father-in-law on her own stationery.

SATURDAY: Scottish-born comedian and TV host Craig Ferguson is a Scotsman who’s living the American dream, earning his U.S. citizenship in 2008 and still beaming with national pride. In a cheeky road trip timed to celebrate his adopted country’s 250th anniversary this year, Ferguson travels the land in a humorous five-episode exploration of all-American values, including individualism, patriotism, and capitalism, taking a special interest (as people in media tend to do) in our history of freedom of speech.

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Key to the Castle (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Music teacher Gethsemane Brown (Tamera Mowry-Housley) would get along famously with the folks on Ghosts. In the third installment of the light mystery franchise, she once again consults her ghost companion Eamon (Risteárd Cooper) to solve a murder when a ghost-hunting show comes to her Irish town and the host is killed.
• Where the Heart Lands (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): Haylie Duff is director and co-writer of a romance starring Tyler Johnson (The Young and the Restless) as a real estate agent who inherits a Kentucky horse farm and falls for the local horse trainer (Jana Kramer). Co-stars include TV veterans John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) and former Dallas ingenue Charlene Tilton.
• NBA Western Conference Finals (Saturday, 8 pm/ET, NBC): The deciding Game 7 advances either the San Antonio Spurs or the reigning champs Oklahoma City Thunder to the finals against the New York Knicks.
• Heart & Hustle: Houston (Saturday, 9/8c, OWN): A sisterhood of Black female entrepreneurs in the Texas metropolis returns for a second season of conflict and camaraderie.
• Patience (streaming on PBS Passport): For those who can’t wait for the second season of the British mystery based on the French procedural Astrid, the second season can be streamed in full before the linear PBS premiere on June 14. Ella Maisy Purvis returns as the sensitive autistic sleuth, now teamed with a new detective, Frankie Monroe (Jessica Hynes).