Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET
PREMIERE: Sarah Phelps, who recently adapted Agatha Christie’s
Ordeal by Innocence very successfully as a multi-part TV mystery drama, does it again with another Christie mystery. This one, presented in two parts and televised in the U.K. last month, stars Rufus Sewell as man with very personal reasons for solving a series of mysteries.
For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix series originates from another country: Norway, to be specific, where it’s known under the title of Blodtur. It’s a horror anthology series in which a half-dozen passengers board a mysterious bus, each telling a different eerie story before disembarking. Six twisted tales, as the promo announces. And six subtitled stories. If you’ve seen any TV series or movies from Norway, you know just the type of bleakness and weirdness to expect. If not, you’re in for quite a ride on this magic bus. In one story, a young woman attends a writing seminar, where the teacher advises, “Is there any one you hate?,” then adds, “Write them into your story – and kill them.” Then there’s the one about the costume party, in which the person in the goofy-looking elephant suit begins acting very menacing, starting with using a smartphone to send rude “trunk pics.” That episode’s title? The Elephant in the Room. C’mon. How can you not be curious?
NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
SEASON FINALE: The season’s last two episodes of Lincoln Rhyme are presented tonight on NBC, televised as a two-parter. Will the series, and the story, continue beyond these episodes? The network hasn’t decided – but it wouldn’t surprise me, when NBC in a few months assembles its projected schedule for next fall, that its plans include neither Rhyme nor reason.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s live episode of Real Time will be especially captivating to watch for two reasons. One, so much news regarding reactions to the spreading coronavirus has broken the past few days that Maher, commenting on it in and on Real Time, should have an awful lot to say. And two, will he be performing in front of his usual studio audience – or, like this Sunday’s Joe Boden and Bernie Sanders at their Democratic debate, without benefit of a crowd?