TBS, 6:00 p.m. ET
After the exciting Sweet 16 games Thursday and last night, we’ve arrived at the weekend of the Elite Eight, with more lower-seeded teams still competing than, I believe, at any year in tournament history. TBS shows tonight’s games, and CBS gets tomorrow’s — as a lead-in to the Stormy Daniels edition of 60 Minutes. In tonight’s first game at 6 p.m. ET on TBS, South No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago faces another scrappy Cinderella team, No. 9-seeded Kansas State. And after that, at about 8:45 p.m. ET, West No. 9 seed Florida State faces No. 3 seed Michigan. The remaining four teams in this year’s tourney, all seeded no lower than No. 3, play tomorrow.
NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
On the same day the organized outrage from the Florida high school student survivors of last month’s mass shooting is scheduled to culminate in a March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, NBC looks at another national movement, propelled by passionate young people, that set out to change history more than 50 years ago. I just finished covering this in my TV History and Appreciation of the 1960s and 1970s class, and the parallels — and the promise — are amazing.
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Another recent action movie based on a graphic novel, this 2017 spy thriller not only emulates James Bond, but sets itself in the original Bond era of the 1960s. Charlize Theron plays the female equivalent of 007, an undercover MI-6 agent named Lorraine Broughton, whose latest mission takes her to Berlin during the Cold War, where she gets a very chilly reception.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Neil Simon wrote the screenplay for this 1968 comedy, adapting his own Broadway hit, and giving Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau some of the greatest roles of their respective film careers. Lemmon gets many of the funniest bits and lines, but Matthau gets the one that made me laugh louder than almost any punch line ever committed to film — when his Oscar Madison complains of misinterpreting the way his fussy roommate, Felix Unger, used to initial his hastily written notes.