Various Networks, 12:00 p.m. ET
Four networks — CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV — cover today’s action. And there’s lots of Cinderella second-round action, with double-digit seeds still alive. On CBS at noon ET, East No. 2 Purdue faces No. 10 Butler — and after that game on the same network, Midwest No. 11 Syracuse faces No. 3 Michigan State. Other games played this afternoon by double-digit second-rounders include South No. 16 University of Maryland Baltimore City vs. No. 9 Kansas State, on truTV, and East No. 13 Marshall against No. 5 West Virginia, on TBS.
CBS, 7:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s not the installment with the Stormy Daniels interview — that’s tentatively coming next Sunday, pending legal challenges and other complications. But tonight 60 Minutes visits with some of the Florida students who have kept the gun-control issue alive since last month’s shooting at their high school. And since last week’s 60 Minutes presented such a newsworthy interview with Betsy DeVos, the Trump administration’s Secretary of Education, talking to the students should prove no less… instructive.
Starz!, 8:00 p.m. ET
Last week, J.K. Simmons ended that episode of Counterpart with a separated-by-glass verbal showdown between his two lookalike personae — one from each world — and showed how clearly he was capable of delineating each character. (It was the best split-screen solo acting since Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black.) There are only two episodes left this season, and the two worlds, and the characters traveling between them and killing people, have never been closer.
AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET
Once again, this series is both prolonging, and promising an end to, the long-running conflict between Rick and Negan. In tonight’s episode, Negan employs a new weapon in his escalated warfare against the Hilltop and elsewhere: using walker guts as a sort of gooey germ warfare.
Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET
Last week’s episode showed Carrie (Claire Danes) and her team conducting a thrown-together sting, targeting a woman ensnared in a money trail leading to the chemically induced death, by mysterious chem-warfare agent, of a general in custody for attempted treason. (Let’s set aside, for the moment, just how spookily prescient that chemical killing has proven.) What was so good about that episode was how the mission kept shifting as things kept going wrong — and how, at the end, Claire’s hidden cameras uncovered evidence of a different motive entirely.
HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET
Admit it. After a week like the one we’ve had — and especially some now-former members of the Trump administration — don’t we want John Oliver on that border wall, commenting on it all? Don’t we need him on that wall?