THURSDAY

MAY 30

2013

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TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Richard Schickel, Clint Eastwood’s biographer and the documentarian who made The Eastwood Factor in 2010, presents a new TCM companion piece, focusing specifically on Eastwood’s work behind the camera. That part of the actor’s career began more than 40 years ago,with 1971’s Play Misty for Me, and includes Best Director (and Best Picture) Oscar wins for 1992’s Unforgiven and 2004’s Million Dollar Baby. Interviewees for this new biography include Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep and Eastwood himself.

NBA PLAYOFFS: MIAMI HEAT VS. INDIANA PACERS

TNT, 8:30 p.m. ET

Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals, which was played in Indiana, featured plenty of bad calls to enrage fans of both the Pacers and the Miami Heat. Regardless, the series is now tied at 2-2,and Game 5 returns to Miami.

MOTIVE

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Katharine Isabelle, who played the titular werewolf-infected teen in 2000’s clever independent movie Ginger Snaps, guest stars as a different sort of man-eater in this new episode of ABC’s newest crime drama. She plays a diner waitress who serves up murder plots as her daily special.

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

Graham Norton packs his shows with celebrities, and brings most of them out at the same time to interact with each other. It results in a talk show atmosphere unlike any other, as you can witness this week, by watching a new edition featuring Will and Jaden Smith, Bradley Cooper, Michael Douglas, Heather Graham, and Selena Gomez. And some special guests, too, which you can preview on today's Video Worth Watching. It's Worth Watching just to see why Norton has one of the best, most infectiously enjoyable talk shows on the planet.

BIRD

TCM, 12:30 a.m. ET

Part of tonight's TCM salute to Clint Eastwood as a director, this 1988 film stars Forest Whitaker as the hard-living, hard-playing saxophone player Charlie Parker. Samuel E. Wright is featured, too, as Dizzy Gillespie.

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