What to Watch Tonight: Shalom Hanoch's Anniversary and CrunchLabs
Discover tonight's top television picks, featuring Shalom Hanoch celebrating 40 years of his classic album, the return of Mark Rober's CrunchLabs, and Conan O'Brien's finale.
What to Watch on TV Tonight: Shalom Hanoch and Conan O'Brien's Finale
If you are looking for something compelling to watch on television this weekend, the schedules offer a rich blend of landmark musical performances, science experiments, and emotional cinematic journeys.
Kan 11 Marks 40 Years of a Rock Masterpiece
Starting the evening off on Kan 11 at 22:00, Shalom Hanoch celebrates four decades of his iconic fifth album, Waiting for the Messiah (Mahakim la-Mashiah). Released in the spring of 1985, the record became his greatest success up to that point and a major turning point in Israeli rock.
"This concert brings back the raw energy of an album that defined a generation of local rock music, performed in its entirety with a 20-piece ensemble." — Production Notes
The special features a full performance of the album, including beloved tracks like "Keren Shemesh Me'uheret,Ze Lo Noah," and "Lo Otzer Ba-Adom," alongside musical arrangements led by Moshe Levy and artistic direction by Louis Lahav.
Science and Cinema on Netflix
Over on Netflix, science enthusiasts can dive into the fifth season of CrunchLabs with Mark Rober, the former NASA engineer turned viral science communicator. The show transforms complex physics and engineering questions into large-scale, entertaining experiments.
For film lovers, the romantic drama Touch, directed by Baltasar Kormákur and based on the bestselling novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, offers a poignant cross-continental journey. An elderly widower in Iceland sets out to find his first love from fifty years ago just as the global pandemic begins to shut down borders.
Finally, do not miss the season finale of Conan O'Brien Must Go on HBO Max, taking the hilarious host all the way to the Philippines.
