Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
This particular night's theme is music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney - which, in the past, hasn't delivered as strongly it should have. But perhaps this year's singers, and their song choices and arrangements, will be different. But when will George Harrison get some love from this show?
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Beautiful images, taken from all of the NASA Apollo space missions, are collected in this 1989 documentary. It’s a small step for a man – to reach the remote and press “record.”
FX, 10:00 p.m. ET
A series of dangerous moves and counter-moves puts both the KGB and FBI on high alert – but FBI agent Stan (Noah Emmerich) is distracted by something else. Specifically, by Nina (Annet Mahendru), his Soviet mole, to whom he’s become dangerously attracted.
USA, 10:00 p.m. ET
Maggie Lawson, as Juliet, gets to play opposite some very interesting guest stars in this series – guest stars who play her relatives. Playing her con-man father, in a previous episode, was William Shatner. Tonight we meet her stepdad, Lloyd, played by Jeffrey Tambor. And he doesn’t exactly play well with others – at least not with Henry, the show’s resident old crank, played by Corbin Bernsen.
TCM, 11:30 p.m. ET
This landmark 1956 science fiction movie is best known, perhaps, for introducing the iconic Robby the Robot, and perhaps for spinning the plot of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest into a futuristic adventure film. But in addition to all that, I like it for two other reliable pleasures: watching Leslie Nielsen play it straight as the romantic lead, and watching Anne Francis as… well, I could just stop the sentence after “watching Anne Francis.”