NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET
Tonight’s new episode – one of the last for this superbly quirky and brainy comedy series – involves the gang’s latest improvised audible play, one final desperate attempt to try to save the planet (or, more to the point, the humans inhabiting it). The episode’s title is called “Mondays, Am I Right?,” and it’s bound to be this evening’s very best TV offering. Thursdays, Am I Right?
MSNBC, 9:00 p.m. ET
No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, last night’s exclusive one-hour interview with Rudy Giuliani colleague Lev Parnas was an important, newsmaking piece of television – answering some questions, and posing many more, just as the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is about to begin in the U.S. Senate. Tonight: Part 2 of Maddow’s interview with Parnas. It’s likely she and her show led with the most incendiary information last night, but any additional details that may glean insight, or further avenues of inquiry, are welcome. (That’s because I’m a journalist, not a senator.)
ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET
SPECIAL: The title of this ABC special is somewhat misleading, and happily so. That’s because Richard Pryor died only a few years into this current century, so the new generation of college students may have little idea of the groundbreaking standup comic’s impact and triumphs. Yes, this special will show how he died, but will spend more time examining how he lived. And, through his unique comic prism, how he saw the world.
CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s episode goes back to the series premiere, when we first met Katja Herbers’ Kristen, as well as the accused murderer who attacked her as she was interrogating him in prison. In tonight’s show, that killer is released… and that’s not the only evil newly set free upon the world.