Various Networks, 10:00 a.m. ET
The latest round of hearings, this time before the Judiciary Committee, take place today, beginning at 10 a.m. ET on all the usual broadcast and cable news outlets.
Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Denis Leary returns to TV, playing the patriarch of a dysfunctional family reuniting for the holidays. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Fox has scheduled the three parts of this comedy miniseries awkwardly: It starts tonight, then concludes next Monday and Tuesday. But co-stars include Elizabeth Perkins as his wife and Jay Baruchel as one of their children, so it’s worth seeking out, and sampling.
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David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
IFC, 9:30 p.m. ET
Two great 1983 movies are shown tonight, on different networks. This one, featuring a breakout performance by Eddie Murphy, is a boisterous holiday comedy, set in Philadelphia, in which a couple of bored tycoons change the lives of two people (played by Murphy and Dan Aykroyd) on a bet. Funny, funny film – and Jamie Lee Curtis, as a hooker on both sides oif the scam, is a riot, too.
BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET
Another 1983 movie: This one shows its age more, because its state-of-the-art computer graphics, of both Matthew Broderick’s dial-up modem setup and the Pentagon’s war room, are almost comically dated. But Matthew Broderick is as good here, in a way, as he was as Ferris Bueller.