SUNDAY

88th Academy Awards 8:30 p.m., ABC

Chris Rock is hosting the event during the year of #OscarsSoWhite and viewer boycotts. This ought to be interesting, along with watching how the Academy handles the problem in general on the show. Will they address it openly? Will presenters go off-script and mention it? Which winners will bring it up in their acceptance speeches? It’s Rock’s second time hosting, by the way. Go “Spotlight.’’

MONDAY

Mavis! 9 p.m., HBO

This documentary looks at legendary Chicago soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples, who made her name with her family group the Staple Singers. The film features interviews with Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Prince, Chuck D, Jeff Tweedy, and others, as well as archival footage and old performances.

TUESDAY

Super Tuesday Election Specials

Here it comes. Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown. NBC, ABC, and CBS will join in the fun at 10 p.m., but the 24-hour news channels will be rolling around in it all night long. Super Tuesday states include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Wyoming.

WEDNESDAY

A Year in Space 8 p.m., WGBH 2

This two-part series chronicles astronaut Scott Kelly’s 12-month stay on the International Space Station, which is laying the groundwork for a manned Mars mission. But there’s a twist: The documentary also features his identical-twin astronaut brother, Mark Kelly, on Earth. Because of their shared DNA, scientists are using Mark as a control subject to determine the physiological changes of a long space stay.

THURSDAY

Baskets 10 p.m., FX

The best thing about Zach Galifianakis’s clown comedy is Louie Anderson, who appears as the mother, Christine. At first, Anderson in drag seems a little gimmicky. But then, as with many of the male actors who’ve played Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray,’’ he transcends costume and gender and you begin to care about Christine. She is an overweight, terminally unhappy person who heaps her self-loathing onto her sons, but we see that she nonetheless has a heart, even if it is fractured. Bravo to Anderson, and to the folks who cast him.

FRIDAY

Loretta Lynn: American Masters 9 p.m., WGBH 2

The “American Masters’’ series profiles country music icon Lynn, whose road to stardom was dramatized in “Coal Miner’s Daughter.’’ The episode will include home movies as well as interviews with Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Jack White, and Trisha Yearwood.

SATURDAY

Cape Fear 4 p.m., TCM

Martin Scorsese remade “Cape Fear’’ quite effectively in 1991. Here is the 1962 original, which stands out thanks to a super creepy performance by Robert Mitchum as a sexual predator out for revenge on Gregory Peck.

MATTHEW GILBERT

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