TNTDrama, 12:00 a.m. ET
This is interesting. As a Labor Day weekend special treat, TNT is making available the entire first season of its new Edward Burns series,
Public Morals – including a majority of episodes that haven’t even been shown on the TNT network as yet. So if you liked the two opening installments of this period cop show, today and tomorrow provide the rare opportunity to get ahead in your reading – or, at least, your viewing. All 10 episodes are available on TNT On Demand – or by going to
the TNT Drama website.
CBS, 9:00 a.m. ET
Another Labor Day preview of sorts: Today on Sunday Morning, Mo Rocca interviews the man whose new new TV program will premiere on Tuesday night: Stephen Colbert, the new host of CBS’s Late Show. It’s definitely the must-see TV event of the week – and today, CBS provides a behind-the-scenes, behind-the-mask glimpse of what the former fake pundit of The Colbert Report is concocting. Check local listings.
ESPN 2, 11:00 a.m. ET
Today is round four of the 2015 tournament, and the afternoon session promises back-to-back matches that are exciting to contemplate individually, and even more so as an emotional doubleheader. First comes Venus Williams, the elder sister of top-seeded Serena Williams, ranked No. 23 but still fighting her way through this tournament, who faces unseeded Anett Contaveit. Then comes younger sister Serena, who battled back fiercely in her last match against Bethanie Mattek-Sands to keep her calendar Grand Slam dream alive, squaring off against No. 19 seed Madison Keys. And if both Williams sisters are victorious today, their next matches will be against… one another.
PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Presented as a three-part miniseries on PBS, this British import is the latest entry in the Sherlock Holmes canon – but this time, it’s not about the famous master sleuth, but about his literary creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. At the latter stage of his career and fame, Doyle, already awarded his “Sir” honorific, actually did a piece of amateur investigating himself: taking on what today we would call a “cold case,” of a Scottish-Indian solicitor, George Edalji, convicted of animal mutilation and other odd crimes of intimidation. The young lawyer, played by Arsher Ali, is the George in the title to Doyle’s Arthur – and even though George has been found guilty and served his full sentence, Doyle takes on the case to exonerate George’s name. Doyle’s personal assistant, Alfred Wood, serves as his personal Watson, and the two take off on this fact-based but very freely adapted mystery novel, written only a decade ago by Julian Barnes. “I can still tell a good story from a bad one,” Doyle says to Alfred, weighing the veracity of one person’s testimony – and Arthur & George is a good one. The cast helps immensely in this regard. Wood is played by Charles Edwards, who has established his ease with period pieces as Michael Gregson on Downton Abbey – and Doyle is played by Martin Clunes, the very long-running star of yet another well-received British import, Doc Martin. Check local listings.
Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET
Everything is coming to a head on this series – a dead body here, a beaten priest there, a tougher-than-nails female wrestler over there. And on tonight’s show, said female wrestler is scheduled to marry one of the Donovan brothers. My guess? You can dress the brothers, and their loose-cannon father (Jon Voight) in their best clothes – but that doesn’t mean any of them will be on their best behavior.