TCM, 6:00 a.m. ET
One of the most acclaimed film actors gets his day in the sun today – or his day under the stars, as today’s “Summer Under the Stars” salutes Laurence Olivier. Highlights on TCM include 1940’s Pride and Prejudice at 12:45 p.m. ET, 1944’s Henry V at 2:45 p.m. ET, 1948’s Hamlet at 5:15 p.m. ET, 1939’s Wuthering Heights at 8 p.m. ET, 1979’s A Little Romance at 10 p.m. ET, 1960’s The Entertainer at midnight ET, and, opposite Marilyn Monroe, 1957’s The Prince and the Showgirl (pictured) at 2 a.m. ET.
Various Networks, Check local listings
Tonight is Night 3 of the Republican National Convention, with, traditionally, an appearance by the vice presidential candidate on the ticket, Mike Pence. And, untraditionally, the week’s third consecutive appearance by the presidential candidate on that same ticket, Donald Trump, who has managed to make room for himself on the schedule every night so far.
MOVIES!, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 2011 movie by Martin Scorsese is an unabashed love letter to cinema and cinema history – and a delightful movie, which starts as a period comedy-drama about a small boy living surreptitiously in the bowels and belfries of a train station in Paris, and ends up being a sneakily disguised salute to one of the pioneers of the silent film movie era. Stars include Ben Kingsley and Jude Law, with Asa Butterfield as young Hugo, and Chloe Grace Moretz as the girl whose friendship provides him with a crucial part of his life’s puzzle.
Decades, 1:00 a.m. ET
Just a reminder: This 1991-93 Gary David Goldberg series is being shown in reruns, for the first time in decades, on Decades. Keep watching. Keep recording.