CBS All Access, 3:00 a.m. ET
The Good Fight isn’t on CBS, just on CBS All Access – but it’s still one of the best shows on all of TV each Thursday. It’s annoying CBS makes you pay extra for the privilege – but a privilege it is nonetheless. And it’s worth pointing out that two of this show’s female stars, Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald, recently teamed with no less than Meryl Streep on a show-stopping diva trio, singing “The Ladies Who Lunch” in their respective homes for last month’s fabulous Broadway.com 90th birthday Stephen Sondheim tribute. (Which, by the way, I’ll be reviewing tomorrow on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.)
National Theatre at Home, 2:00 p.m. ET
SPECIAL PREMIERE: Here’s another limited-time-offer treat from England’s National Theatre. On its website and on its own YouTube channel, for one week beginning this afternoon, National Theatre At Home presents yet another televised stage production from its archives. Today it’s Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okodeno in Antony & Cleopatra. It’s directed by Simon Godwin, whose earlier TV work directing a play by William Shakespeare was shown just two weeks ago in this same showcase, when Tamsin Grieg starred in a marvelous production of Twelfth Night. That was a comedy. This one isn’t.
ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
It’s been 21 years since this ABC game show originally premiered in the U.S., as an American version of a British hit, with Regis Philbin as the stateside host. For this revival, the host is Jimmy Kimmel – but the reason I’m recommending you watch tonight is because one of the guests is Catherine O’Hara, the SCTV and Schitt’s Creek veteran who almost never shows up on television as herself, rather than playing some outlandish character. Tonight, for charity, she does. And I have a hunch, given how smart her celebrity impersonations are, she’ll do quite well…