NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
It’s the semifinal round, televised live, with the final nine contestants performing for the opportunity to keep competing. Tomorrow night, five of the nine will be eliminated.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Director George Roy Hill, whose movies include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and Slaughterhouse-Five, directed this 1964 Peter Sellers comedy about two precocious teen girls obsessed with the life of a playboy orchestra conductor, played by Sellers. It’s much more G-rated and pleasant than it might sound – and watch, too, for Sellers’ female co-star, the woefully underappreciated Paula Prentiss.
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
This U2 concert, like its simultaneous live HBO telecast, was scheduled for mid-November, but canceled in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. Bono and the rest of his band wanted to make a statement by carrying on at the first opportunity, though, so tonight, live from Paris, the show will go on. And the defiant and loving and supportive spirit of this show, doubtlessly, will make it a very memorable telecast indeed. The rumored special guests for tonight include Eagles of Death Metal, the band whose Nov. 13 concert was one of the terrorist targets, killing 89 people in attendance.
NBC, 10:00 p.m. ET
SNEAK PREVIEW: Two episodes of this new Eva Longoria series, in which she plays a
telenovela star who can’t speak Spanish, are previewed tonight on NBC. They’re much better than last week’s double-feature sneak preview of
Superstore, which wasted the talents of America Ferrera, and the time of anyone watching.
Telenovela isn’t a great comedy, but it focuses on a subject ripe for parody – maybe over overripe – and Longoria has enough fun to carry the day, and the show. For full reviews, see
Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes and
David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
FX, 10:00 p.m. ET
Week by week, scene by scene, character by character, and death by death, this season’s rebooted Fargo has managed to eclipse even last season’s entertainment level. As we approach year’s end, and also get closer to the finale of this year’s Fargo narrative, this show has emerged as one of television’s very best current series. If you’re watching, enjoy. If you’re behind, catch up.