BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET
It’s only the second episode of this series, and already there’s a special guest star: Joseph Gilgun from Misfits, playing a heavily tattooed bad guy who gets close to brothel owner Long Susan (MyAnna Buring). Her reasons for wanting to get closer, though, are much different than his.
Science Channel, 9:00 p.m. ET
Karl Pilkington and Warwick Davis continue their oil-and-water traveling circus, this week going to India, where Pilkington gets to regale Davis with tales of how much he hated his previous visit. Davis, meanwhile, is determined to look on the bright side – though, with dour Karl along, that’s never easy, even when you take him to an outdoor "Happy yoga" session. It is, however, quite entertaining. And if you missed last week’s season premiere, you can catch up. It’s repeated at 8 p.m. ET, as a prelude to tonight’s new installment. For a full review, see
Bianculli’s Blog.
TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET
Long, long before The Hunger Games, children were fighting for survival in this 1963 adaptation of the William Golding novel. As a matter of fact, it predates, and prefigures by decades, Lost as well. After a plane crashes on a remote island, the survivors split into tribes and work to both survive and conquer one another.
BBC America, 10:15 p.m. ET
Among the guests on this week’s show is one very familiar guest: Denzel Washington, fresh off his searingly good performance in Flight. Here, though, it’s wild-man host Graham Norton who will try to turn everything upside down.
NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET
Tonight’s guest host, on this new edition, is Adam Levine. He’s not the musical guest, though: That would be Kendrick Lamar. A few days ago, one of my college students identified Lamar as his favorite musical artist, and I had to admit I’d never heard of him. Now I have. Good for Lamar, for hitting the mainstream. And good for my student, for being ahead of the curve.