Off the wall: MTV2's 'Sucker Free Awards'

Off the Wall speaks up about silents.

SERIES PREMIERES Goofball Brit Graham Norton hosts the crazed comedy panel show "Would You Rather . . .?" (Saturday night at 11 and 11:30, BBC America), with inaugural guests including Stanley Tucci and Cyndi Lauper. "Moonshiners" (Tuesday at 10 p.m., then Wednesday at 10, Discovery) visits Appalachian bootleggers. Crime novelist Marcus Sakey starts "Hidden City" (Tuesday at 10 p.m., Travel) by exploring the dark side of Chicago. And tech experts traverse the country seeking the next great "Invention USA" (Friday at 10 and 10:30 p.m., History). Preview Graham's garrulous guests at bbcamerica.com/ would-you-rather.

SEASON FINALES Wrapping things up are dramas "Sons of Anarchy" (Tuesday at 10 p.m., FX), "Covert Affairs" (Tuesday at 10 p.m., USA), and Kelsey Grammer's "Boss" (Friday at 10 p.m., Starz). Catch up to Grammer's Chicago mayor at starz.com/boss.

AWARDS ALERT Hip-hop's first-time "Sucker Free Awards" (Sunday at 11 p.m., MTV2) features performances by Lil Wayne, Birdman, Tyga and Lil Twist, while the second annual "American Country Awards" (Monday at 8 p.m., Fox/5) spotlights Blake Shelton, Scotty McCreery and The Band Perry, hosts Trace Adkins and Kristin Chenoweth, and career honoree Alabama. Details at suckerfree.mtv2.com and theacas.com.

MOVIES AS ART Not art like Le Cinema, but art like abstract painting. "Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films" (Sunday night at midnight, Turner Classic Movies) is a crafty two-hour collage, solving the quandary of what to do with partial footage from the majority of early 20th century features that remain largely missing, their prints either disposed of or decayed over the decades. Glimpsed among the thematic segments: horror legend Lon Chaney, color film of flapper fave Clara Bow, actor Emil Jannings' first-year Oscar work in 1927's "The Way of All Flesh" and early sound feature "Gold Diggers of Broadway." Read more at tinyurl.com/74357pt and tiny url.com/8ywkm2r.