‘Grantchester’s Final Season, Have ‘Patience,’ NBA Finals, ‘Vampire Lestat’s Origins

SUNDAY: The 11th and final season of the bucolic British Masterpiece mystery opens with village vicar Alphy (Rishi Nair) nervously anticipating a visit from his long-lost mother (Nimmi Harasgama), with whom he recently reconnected after she gave him up at birth. Leave it to his nosy friends to open up emotional wounds during a fraught Sunday dinner. By comparison, the case of the week — involving the murder of a shady car dealer during a drive-in movie fundraiser — seems almost an afterthought, although it becomes complicated when multiple suspects confess.

SUNDAY: The mystery cuts deeper in the compellingly poignant series, adapted from the French Astrid, about a young autistic police archivist (Ella Maisy Purvis) who proves to be a great asset to the local York constabulary. Unfortunately, as the second season opens, Patience gets a new boss — prickly DI Frankie Monroe (Jessica Hynes) — who has no patience, as it were, with the resourceful amateur sleuth from the bowels of the precinct. “Your naivety makes you more dangerous than helpful,” Frankie barks, even when Patience’s meticulous observations help them crack a bizarre case involving a man found drained of his “golden blood” type in what appears to be a vampiric attack.

SATURDAY: A busy weekend for TV sports includes what promises to be a nail-biting Game 5 of the hard-fought series for the New York Knicks, seeking its first championship title in 53 years and facing the San Antonio Spurs (which beat them back in 1999) with a 3-1 advantage after last Wednesday’s remarkable come-from-way-behind victory. Should the Spurs force a Game 6, the action moves back to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.

In other sports action, Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals (Sunday, 8 pm/ET, ABC) in Las Vegas finds the Carolina Hurricanes a game away from clinching their series against the Vegas Golden Knights. If the Knights tie things up again, the deciding Game 7 is scheduled for Wednesday back in Raleigh. Meanwhile, the FIFA World Cup continues in various venues across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with four games scheduled on Saturday and Sunday for teams in groups B through F. For a rundown of where and how to watch on Fox, FS1, Fox One, and Tubi, go to foxsports.com.

SUNDAY: Another seductive and over-the-top chapter of the supernatural Anne Rice saga’s third season, titled The Vampire Lestat, reveals turbulent aspects of Lestat’s (Sam Reid) pre-vampire life in 1770s France, where the stuttering lad is not at all like the hard-rocking alpha vamp he’ll become. Along for the wild ride: his most affectionate mother, Gabriella (a sensational Jennifer Ehle), who returns to his side in the aftermath of the Detroit carnage. Next stop: a not-so-holy Toledo.

SATURDAY: The animated superhero romp returns to the Toonami block for Season 3, with the Man of Steel (voiced by The Boys‘ Jack Quaid) finally accepting his Caped Crusader destiny and hoping to settle down. But his crush, Lois Lane (Alice Lee), now the Daily Planet‘s star reporter, has other ideas. New enemies besiege Metropolis, but will any be as terrifying as Quaid’s Boys nemesis Homelander?

INSIDE WEEKEND TV:

• Texas Two-Step (Saturday, 8/7c, Hallmark Channel): Line dancing turns to love when Olivia (Heather Hemmens) heads home to Texas to help revive her aunt’s struggling country-music bar and reconnects with Luke (Brendan Penny), the cowboy who once was her childhood sweetheart.
• The Jealous Bride (Saturday, 8/7c, Lifetime): The road is a lot rockier for Meg (Amber Stevens West), a bridezilla who spirals when her fiancé Josh’s (Michael Xavier) ex, Simone (Donna Benedicto), shows up, igniting the green monster of psycho jealousy.
• Meet Me in the Margins (Saturday, 8/7c, Great American Family): Merritt Patterson stars as a wannabe writer who discovers notes being left by a mysterious editor in the margins of her manuscript.
• A QVC Story (Saturday, QVC+ and HSN+): In “Part 2: Building Legacies,” the docuseries depicts the growth of the shopping channel as it attracts Hollywood and other celebrities pitching their wares in the 1990s.
• Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix (Sunday, 7:50 am/ET, streaming on Apple TV): The scenic but technically challenging Spanish circuit provides the setting for the season’s seventh race.
• CBS Sunday Morning (Sunday, 9 am/8c, CBS, check local listings): How time flies. Bill Mumy, best remembered as the original Will Robinson in the 1960’s sci-fi classic Lost in Space, is now 72, reflecting on his life and career in a conversation with Jim Axelrod. In an opinion essay, TV legend Ted Danson, now 78, opens up about aging.
• Best of the World with Antoni Porowski (Sunday, 9/8c, National Geographic): The Queer Eye lifestyle expert explores hot spots in New York City and London.
• UFC at the White House (Sunday, 8 pm/ET, streaming on Paramount+): The president celebrates his 80th birthday with matches staged in a giant octagon constructed on the South Lawn.
• The Ultimate Fighter (Sunday, streaming on Paramount+): Former UFC champs Daniel Cormier and Michael Bisping (Season 3 winner) are the returning coaches, guiding teams featuring 16 men’s bantamweight and women’s strawweight contenders looking to make it into the UFC.