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YouTube Premium, 3:00 a.m. ET

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: If the segments on Johnny Cash in Ken Burns’ Country Music left you hungry for more, here’s more. You have to pay for it, by subscribing to You Tube’s premium service – but it’s the best lure yet for people who are loath to sign up for yet another streaming service.

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ESPN, 8:00 p.m. ET

Now that the New England Patriots have fallen, there’s only one undefeated team remaining in the NFL this season: the 8-0 San Francisco 49ers, who tonight try to extend their perfect streak by battling the 7-2 Seattle Seahawks.

THE DIRTY DOZEN & KELLY'S HEROES

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

TCM has a really inventive double feature on hand tonight: Two war movies that share the same essential premise and structure, yet one is a straight drama adventure, while the other is just as exciting, yet improbably and intentionally comic. The first, at 8 p.m. ET, is 1967’s The Dirty Dozen, starring Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. The second, at 10:45 p.m. ET, is 1970’s Kelly’s Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Don Rickles. Both movies, amazingly, feature Donald Sutherland in a supporting role. In Kelly’s Heroes, he’s brilliant as the anachronistic hippie-ish tank commander Oddball (pictured) – whom I misidentified, in my YouTube video yesterday for TVWW’s Best TV Tomorrow, as Oddjob. Oddjob, of course, threw his razor-sharp hat into the ring, and at James Bond, in Goldfinger. My favorite Best TV Tomorrow mistake to date – but we’ve only been doing these for a few weeks, and since I’m speaking without a script, I promise to make many more embarrassing errors. Collect them all. Trade with friends…

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HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s series premiere introduced Lyra, the young orphan (played by Dafne Keen) with latent mystical powers, and the woman (played by the always dynamic Ruth Wilson) who takes the youngster under her wing. Tonight, the apprenticeship begins, and the mystical plots thicken…

INDEPENDENT LENS: "THE INTERPRETERS"

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

Afghan and Iraqi interpreters have served bravely for years in Afghanistan and Iraq, working with U.S. troops to connect and converse with the locals. Now that the troops are reducing their military presence, those interpreters are targeted and in danger, unless the U.S. protects them by supporting them and their families as welcome immigrants to our country. But is there such a policy? Or more like the reverse? Check local listings.

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.

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