Flix, 8:00 p.m. ET
This movie musical, based on a work stoppage by New York City newsboys in 1899, is 20 years old now – but has just been turned into the newest Broadway musical by the folks at Disney. So it’s worth a peek for that reason alone – but also because the film features the breakout role of its young star, Christian Bale.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Robert Mitchum is the prime-time star saluted by TCM tonight, in a double feature that shows his range, and, more than anything else, his charismatic screen presence. In this 1962 movie, he’s an ex-convict who targets the lawyer responsible for his conviction – and as menacing as Robert De Niro was in Martin Scorsese’s intense 1991 remake of this film, Mitchum is even scarier in the original. Even Gregory Peck, who cuts a fairly commanding screen presence himself, looks understandably cowed as Mitchum’s intended victim of revenge.
PBS, Check local listings
Lowell Bergman, one of the finest and most tenured reporters in the Frontline stable, takes on a much larger media icon in this new documentary about the behind-the-scenes efforts to uncover the News Corporation phone hacking scandal. Think of it as a British Watergate, but one whose ripples spread cross the Atlantic quickly and easily: What did Rupert Murdoch know, and when did he know it?
FX, 10:00 p.m. ET
Last week, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) botched his day in court, leaving Dickie Bennett free to roam – and Boyd determined to find and kill him. And that’s not the only killer on the loose this week, as two of Quarles’ associates from Detroit head to town – and cause Raylan, before long, to draw his weapon.
TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET
This 1954 film is another Robert Mitchum movie, but this time he’s cast, initially, more as victim than predator. Though that changes, in time – and before that, in this frontier Western drama, co-star Marilyn Monroe gets to display her talents as a saloon singer, before winding up with Mitchum in the wild open spaces.