Various Networks, 9:00 a.m. ET
Week 2 of this real-life political miniseries drama continues today, with two different “episodes” presented at different times of the day. In the morning, at 9 a.m. ET, two witnesses are called to testify before the committee. One is Jennifer Williams, a foreign service aide from Vice President Mike Pence’s office whose deposed testimony appeared to contradict Pence’s statements of being unaware and uninformed of the alleged U.S. pressure on the new Ukraine leader to generate information or allegations that could be harmful to President Trump’s leading political rival. The other is Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (pictured), who, like Williams, listened in as Trump spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on that infamous July 25 phone call. By now, if you’ve been paying attention, you already know where to find live TV coverage of these hearings. And if you haven’t, you aren’t likely to start now.
NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET
Don’t expect tonight’s episode to be full of happy happy joy joy. Its title comes from one of Leonard Cohen’s saddest songs: “So Long Marianne.”
MOVIES!, 10:30 p.m. ET
I don’t know if you can get MOVIES! on your cable system, because I don’t know what your cable system is, or even if you have cable. But if you have MOVIES!, and can find it, watch it tonight at 10:30 p.m. ET. That’s when this little-known movie channel presents one of my favorite comedy films: 1944’s Arsenic and Old Lace, a sassy-smart film version of the classic stage comedy. Cary Grant, in one of his most broadly comic roles, plays a drama critic whose elderly aunts turn out to be mass murderers, poisoning gentlemen callers and having their equally deranged live-in relative, who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, burying their bodies in the basement. What’s funny about that? Everything. Co-stars in this Frank Capra comedy include include Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Josephine Hull and Jean Adair. Watch it – preferably while drinking a glass of wine. Elderberry, if possible…