CBS, 7:00 p.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: This CBS series launched in 1968, and is the oldest continuous TV series in prime time. And after more than half a century, 60 Minutes still manages to win its time slot, and often rank in the week’s Top 10. How? Because it still delivers, week in and week out, some of the best reporting on some of the most current and/or fascinating subjects. Tonight’s Season 52 opener is a perfect example: It leads with Scott Pelley’s interviews with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – on the subject of impeachment.
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
SEASON PREMIERE: Here’s another of the current prime-time series that, by now, is one of TV’s most tenured nighttime shows. It’s The Simpsons, which launched as a spinoff from The Tracey Ullman Show in 1989 with a full-length Christmas special, and is now beginning Season 31. And it’s doing so with an episode that has a video of Homer and Bart arguing – a video that goes viral and turns them into media celebrities. (Wonder if Bart will start his own line of catch-phrase tee shirts?) The episode’s title: “The Winter of Our Monetized Content.”
Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET
This documentary series returned last week – apparently, just in time. What I can’t wait for, anticipating tonight’s show, is how the reporters on this show dispatch themselves, and where – and what they get, when news on the hill about the whistleblower accusations is traveling so fast and furiously.
Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET
Krystal finds new ways of popularizing her brand tonight – and it looks like they’re working.
HBO, 11:10 p.m. ET
Bill Maher had his chance to comment on the week’s news on his live Friday HBO show. Saturday Night Live had its chance, last night. And tonight, in which I suspect will be the best of the three, John Oliver gets his turn…