TCM, 6:00 a.m. ET
Listen, Pilgrim: Today is John Wayne day on TCM, with 24 hours of his films – and not all of them Westerns. Out-of-genre entries include 1974’s McQ, a modern cop drama, at 4 p.m. ET, and, at 8 p.m. ET, 1952’s classic The Quiet Man (pictured, with Wayne and Maureen O’Hara), directed by John Ford, about a boxer who retires to his homeland of Ireland.
Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET
There are only a handful of episodes left of new episodes, but they’re still introducing new characters at Key & Peele. Tonight, it’s “MC Mom,” who sends a musical message on DVD to her son, who’s now away at college – a message about what he left behind that she found in his room, among other surprising revelations. Very funny – and not very “family-oriented.”
GSN, 10:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: If you don’t have a firm grasp on what “steampunk” is, this new reality competition show may not help much – because the definitions, like the artistic aesthetics of the contestants, are all over the place. Basically, it’s a melding of past and future, and Steampunk’d challenges its invited artists to create not just fashion, but to design and furnish entire rooms in a slowly evolving “Manor.” They pull inspiration and material out of the “Punkyard,” divide into two teams, and, in tonight’s opener, have three days to design and build a steampunk kitchen with some working elements and a costumed occupant. The challenges are closest to Project Runway, the oil-and-water team dynamics to The Apprentice, and after watching one episode, I’m not sure I’m hungry for more… though steampunk, as a design, truly is imaginative and interesting. So maybe. Jeannie Mal (pictured), a better embodiment of steampunk than anything else in the opener, hosts.
USA, 10:01 p.m. ET
This is not the season finale of Mr. Robot after all – so when I said last week that it was the penultimate episode, I was wrong. This is the penultimate episode, I think. But with Mr. Robot, I'm not sure about much of anything, except that I'm entertained.
TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET
This 1956 John Ford film is one of the best offerings of today’s all-day TCM John Wayne salute – and certainly the darkest. Wayne stars as a Civil War veteran, and a bigot who hates Native Americans, leading the search for the tribe that killed his family brutally and captured his niece, played by Natalie Wood. Jeffrey Hunter co-stars.