NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
At the climax of last week’s episode, The Bone Collector’s wife phoned him and demanded he come home immediately. She had found his secret stash of Polaroids of his victims – but believed, much to her relief, his false claims of innocence and ignorance. Until, that is, she noticed that one of her female friends, who had recently visited, was in one of the photographs. Promos for tonight’s episode show her bound and gagged in the basement, suggesting the Bone Collector may soon be changing his relationship status.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
TCM’s deliriously entertaining double features, showing two films featuring the same performer, continue tonight – but where usually there has been a span of decades between the movies chosen, tonight there’s only a six-year gap. Both films co-star Natalie Wood, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with 1955’s Rebel without a Cause. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, comes 1961’s Splendor in the Grass (pictured). In both, she stars opposite very magnetic and brooding young leading men: James Dean in the former, Warren Beatty in the latter.
Epix, 10:00 p.m. ET
Taron Egerton, who played Eggsy in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, stars as Elton John in this very authorized 2019 film treatment (the real Elton John is an executive producer, and his husband, David Furnish, is a producer). John’s musical partner, Bernie Taupin, is played by Jamie Bell, but Taupin is not a credited producer on Rocketman. The dramatic biography’s screenplay is written by Lee Hall, who doubtlessly was approved by Elton John because Hall had written the similarly themed Billy Elliot. (On the other side of the seesaw, his next project after Rocketman was writing the screenplay for Cats.)
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
This week’s stock market black-diamond downhill slide, the Trump administration’s slow-motion reaction to the threat of a pandemic, last Tuesday’s yell-fest of a Democratic primary debate, and tomorrow’s high-stakes South Carolina Democratic primary – it’s all up for grabs in tonight’s live Real Time.