Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: This drama was more dynamic and artistic when original series creator Frank Spotnitz was in charge – but its tale of alternate realities remains compelling, with Allies as the resistance, and the Germans and Japanese the victors, after WWII. The first season established the existence of films showing a different world, and world war outcome – and last season established a way to travel between those worlds. Now, as Season 4 begins, a year has passed since last season’s cliffhanger, and characters are beginning to travel between worlds. Some are escaping. Others are invading.
For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
Disney+, 3:00 a.m. ET
This second episode of the new three-minute Forky Asks a Question series is called “What Is a Friend?,” and it should come with a warning: Beware of contagious catch phrases. Ever since Forky introduced his best friend, a ceramic Happy Face mug whom Forky introduces by the name of “Whaaaat?? Nooooooo!!,” I’m been unable to stop imitating that particular phrase. Watch and see, and hear why… Another instant Pixar classic.
Disney+, 3:00 a.m. ET
Today’s new episode of this documentary series has Goldblum exploring his love of ice cream. He not only takes a ride on an ice cream truck, but at one point visits with some ice cream entrepreneurs, adding to a temporary trio called Jeff & Ben & Jerry.
Various Networks, 9:00 a.m. ET
The second day of the House Impeachment Hearings begins at hour earlier, starting at 9 a.m. with today’s key witness: Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Wednesday’s opening session dropped a bombshell, which it wasn’t expected to – and today’s session may get personal, and emotional, because Yovanovitch was the diplomat removed from her job and essentially threatened by the President of the United States, allegedly because she refused to pursue or support certain non-official agendas regarding Ukraine. As established Wednesday, coverage of the hearings is widespread, and I suggest you hop from source to source to get flavors and tones from each. Start with C-SPAN 3, which will cover this governmental affair as it does all others, without comment. Then go to your favorite broadcast TV source, whether it be PBS, CBS, NBC, or ABC. Then, or in lieu of the broadcast networks, go to the cable news channels, such as MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN (across all its CNN family of networks).
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1979 Hal Ashby film is one of my favorite movies – and it’s shown on TCM as what I arrogantly and erroneously consider a personal present to me, which I pass on as a personal present to you. Or at least I did
yesterday, on TVWW’s video YouTube short, Best TV Tomorrow. Watch it, and join the party…
AMC, Sundance, 9:00 p.m. ET
MINISERIES CONCLUSION: This nonfiction miniseries tells of a 1986 murder case covered by the media, and defended by attorneys, as more of a circus. It may not have been quite as outrageous as the media furor over the O.J. Simpson case – but coming a few years earlier, it certainly sowed the seeds. Tonight, the concluding Part 5.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
SEASON FINALE: Wow, this seems unfortunate timing, for Bill Maher to pull up stakes during such an unstable political period. But hey – these days, when isn’t it an unstable political period?
BBC America, 11:00 p.m. ET
Among this week’s scheduled guests: Julie Andrews, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Ian McKellen.