Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET
MINISERIES PREMIERE: It’s a new three-part Agatha Christie period mystery adaptation from England, but it’s not from PBS – or even, these days, Acorn. This particular miniseries comes from England, and puts the usually scruffy Bill Nighy (pictured) in posh threads as the widower patriarch of a well-to-do family. He’s about to remarry, which may be the worst possible time for new information to surface about his previous wife’s murder. Co-stars include Matthew Goode, Luke Treadway and Morven Christie.
For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix series has been slammed more than almost any series in the streaming service’s history, accusing the dark comedy of fat-shaming and a litany of other major and minor sins. But actually, it plays like a sort of young-adult Desperate Housewives, with both its outrage and its character parodies spread in all directions. (There weren't a lot of proper role models there, either. Just a few models.) Debby Ryan plays a former fat girl who, after becoming thin and treated much differently by those around her, sets out on a course of mostly comic, sometimes serious revenge. Most of the critics upset about this series object to that premise in itself – but it’s been done for decades, literally, and sometimes to hilarious effect. Joan Rivers wrote a TV-movie in 1973, starring Stockard Channing as an ugly duckling turned vengeful swan, called The Girl Most Likely to… -- and in 1986, Julie T. Wallace and Patricia Hodge shared the role in the brilliant miniseries version (not the inferior subsequent movie) called The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. Ryan is good in Insatiable, and former Good Wife recurring player Dallas Roberts is even better, in a series that also provides against-type roles for Christopher Gorham, Alyssa Milano, and especially Robin Tunney. Insatiable isn’t great – but it isn’t an affront to television or humanity, either.
Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET
SPECIAL PREMIERE: If you’ve seen any previous comedy specials featuring Demetri Martin, you already know whether you like his left-field, low-volume approach. And if this is your first exposure, you’ll know soon enough…
PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET
Tonight’s episode, titled “Patisserie,” takes on the tough art of French pastry. And the question is, will the remaining bakers be well-prepared as well as well-equipped? Or will some of them find themselves without a pot to patisserie in? Check local listings.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
Bill Maher’s scheduled guests tonight include MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell (pictured), psychologist Steven Pinker, and roundtable panelists comic D.L. Hughley, journalist Christina Bellantoni, and Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton.