TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
In golf, a double bogey is bad. On TCM, it’s very good. Tonight in prime time, Turner Classic Movies
presents two of Humphrey Bogart’s best performances and most iconic roles – beginning with this 1942
film noir classic. He’s Rick, Ingrid Bergman is Ilsa, and things in Casablanca are, to quote the Talking Heads, the same as they ever was.
BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET
In this third episode of this new British import (already renewed for a Season 2, by the way), there’s a killer on the loose, stacking up bodies in the East London morgue. But this time the serial killer in this period drama isn’t a Jack the Ripper-type madman – it’s cholera. Even so, its source is a case our intrepid detectives desperately rush to solve.
Science Channel, 9:00 p.m. ET
SEASON FINALE: If it seems like Season 3 of this endearing travel series, starring Karl Pilkington and less grumpy traveling companion Warwick Davis, just got started, that’s because it did. This is the only the third episode of this new season – yet, apparently, that’s all we get, as the pair of bickering tourists visit China. Last time, Pilkington didn’t even think the Great Wall was all that great – but this time, he and Davis get to interact with pandas. Or, at least, dress up as them. And you know what that should lead to, right? That’s right: Panda-monium. If you’d like to see all three of this season’s shows, tune in at 7 p.m. ET, and watch the entire batch.
TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET
Here’s the second half of TCM’s
Double Bogie prime-time feature: The 1941 film in which he stars as Sam Spade, with director John Huston also providing the screenplay adaptation for Dashiell Hammett’s book. Among the delectable villains in this piece: Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
Encore, 10:20 p.m. ET
Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn and Kevin Costner are among the tough cowboys, along with Danny Glover and a few others, in Lawrence Kasdan’s 1985 Western that also makes room for, and great use of, Brian Dennehy, John Cleese, Jeff Goldblum and Linda Hunt.