HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. Last night’s Part 1 of Alex Gibney’s two-part Agents of Chaos documentary was an exhaustive, exhausting, ultimately depressing examination of the rise and impact of Russian “troll farms.” Last night’s installment began its narrative back in the early 2010s, when Russia sought, somewhat successfully, to spin the internal and external reactions to the attempted uprising in Ukraine. Yesterday’s two-hour installment covered events up to the 2016 election, showing all the ways the Russians infiltrated and influenced our presidential election, helping Donald Trump while hindering Hillary Clinton. Tonight, Agents of Chaos gets completely up to date – and unfortunately, there’s a lot more to cover as we approach the presidential election of 2020.
CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Sort of. Actually, this Star Trek spinoff series premiered back in 2017, when CBS All Access produced and presented it as the big-ticket offering on its new paid subscription streaming service. And now it arrives as a weekly offering on CBS, the free broadcast network, beginning with tonight’s premiere episode of Season 1. So if this were Jeopardy, and the answer were, “Three years,” the correct question would be: “How long does it take to get what you don’t pay for?”
TCM, 11:30 p.m. ET
Diana Rigg died earlier this month, but TCM already, by coincidence, has this 1971 black comedy on its schedule. Rigg co-stars with George C. Scott in The Hospital, a satire of the health care system, written by Paddy Chayefsky five years before he similarly eviscerated network TV in his superb 1976 movie satire, Network.