Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET
Films about our two official world wars are competing for attention tonight in the exact same time slot. On Showtime, you can watch the breathtakingly photographed and meticulously planned WWI drama 1917, which tells of two soldiers who traverse dangerous front-line territory in order to deliver a crucial message to cancel a planned frontal assault. Filmed from a continuous, real-time, ostensibly single-camera perspective, 1917 is as immediate and visceral a viewing experience as the opening of Saving Private Ryan. Don’t miss it.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
And here, on TCM at the same time, is one of the absolute classic films of all time, rightly paraded and saluted on the network as one of “The Essentials.” With Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman embroiled in a love story set against the stifling rise of the Nazis, this WWII drama is pitch-perfect. It’s also an amazing war movie, in that it was filmed and presented in 1942, in the early years of the very war it was depicting.
NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET
SNL is taking a well-deserved break for a while… so tonight, instead of a fresh episode, we see a rerun of last fall’s episode hosted by Adele. Back when we were pre-pandemic, and cast members could touch each other freely in front of a packed studio audience.