Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
This week, young Bruce Wayne gets closer than ever to discovering the identity of the man who killed Bruce’s parents – while, at the same time, Jim Gordon gets closer to making a key discovery of his own.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1979 Hal Ashby movie, adapted by Jerzy Kosinki from his own novel, pretty much is a perfect little jewel of a film. Peter Sellers gives a central performance that is as brilliantly complicated as it is enigmatically simple. The music is absolutely vital, and wonderful, and weird (Deodato doing a jazz version of Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra”). And the ending – wow. And seeing the movie again, uncut and interrupted on TCM? It’s one of the reasons why, like Sellers’ character of Chance the gardener, “I like to watch TV.”
PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET
Some accounts of this year’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony say that Eddie Murphy, in accepting the award this year, does his first onstage joke in 28 years. I haven’t kept count, but I know he didn’t tell any jokes during his appearance on the prime-time NBC special celebrating 40 years of Saturday Night Live. And I know that even broaching the subject he does here – Bill Cosby, a previous recipient of this award – is bold enough to earn a comedy award of its own. Check local listings.
National Geographic, 9:00 p.m. ET
MINISERIES CONCLUSION: Last night, National Geographic served up the first of two parts of this scripted drama about the Pilgrims, the Native Americans, and the first Thanksgiving. In tonight’s concluding installment, everyone feasting at that table gets his or her just desserts. Make mine pumpkin pie, please…
FX, 10:00 p.m. ET
Thus far in Fargo this season, Ted Danson, as Fargo Sheriff Hank Larssen, has used his stoic manner and quiet demeanor to defuse many a volatile situation. But this week, he’s outnumbered, and facing a group of hotheads who do anything but speak softly. One of them, however, does carry a heavy stick – and it’s electrified. Which, of course, makes this showdown, and this hour, positively electrifying.