More than any other TV event, basketball accentuates action over reflection. Filmmaker Spike Lee changes the tempo with his film “Kobe Doin’ Work” (7 p.m., today, ESPN). Lee assembled 30 cameras to follow Los Angeles Laker star Kobe Bryant as he prepares for and plays in a crucial game against the San Antonio Spurs on April 13, 2008. Later, Bryant sits down with Lee to discuss just what he was thinking and planning at different moments during the game.

“Kobe” is both more and less than the sum of its parts. While we get to hear a master talk about his field, Bryant is not above the sports cliche. Lee’s many cameras and composer Bruce Hornsby’s jazz score do add additional flourish to the play by play, but, in the end, “Kobe” reminded me of the “director’s commentary” version of movies available on many DVDs. As such, it will appeal more to the sports obsessive than the average fan.

Bryant couldn’t help poking a little fun at one obsessive non-Lakers fan. During the taping of the post-game commentary, he had to remind the director that he had just scored 61 points against Lee’s beloved New York Knicks.

• An Australian-born transplanted American comic by way of Britain, Jim Jeffries gets his own stand-up special. “Jim Jeffries: I Swear to God” (9 p.m., today, HBO) puts the emphasis on the comic’s confessional style.

Brandishing an ever-present pint of beer, Jeffries ruminates on everything from panda bears to the ubiquity of needless no-smoking signs in places where smoking is not allowed anywhere. He saves particular relish for religion, or rather his contempt for it and its adherents. If being screamed at by a belligerent Australian atheist is your cup of tea, then be my guest.

• Set in a world where a wrinkle in time allows dinosaurs to walk amongst us, “Primeval” (8 p.m., today, BBC America) enters its second season with a few new features. Look for Jason Flemyng (“Benjamin Button”) to join the cast in the second episode. Our heroes will also face a new creature, the G-Rex.

• Will Ferrell hosts the finale of the 34th season of “Saturday Night Live” (10:30 p.m., NBC, today), featuring musical guest Green Day.

Today’s highlights

• Ralph Fiennes plays Voldemort in the 2005 adaptation of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (7 p.m., ABC).

• A “Groomer Has it” winner gets his own clip job on “Beverly Hills Groomer” (9 p.m., Animal Planet).

Sunday’s season finales

• I’ve gone another season without watching a single “Survivor” (7 p.m., CBS).

• TV’s smartest comedy for 20 years, “The Simpsons” (7 p.m., Fox) takes on the overheated immigration controversy as Homer feels inspired to defend Springfield’s porous borders.

• Dave faces a fateful decision on “Desperate Housewives” (8 p.m., ABC).

Sunday’s highlights

• Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): Interviews with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, fashion arbiter Anna Wintour and a profile of AIG.

• Seemingly isolated murders may have global implications in the “Wallandar” mystery “Firewall” on “Masterpiece Mystery” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings), starring Kenneth Branagh in the title role.