NBC, 11:00 a.m. ET
The main coverage today is on NBC, and begins at 11 a.m. ET to catch the major players on Day 3. American J.B. Holmes remains at the top spot, but he’s now tied, with Shane Lowry (pictured), a player with home-field advantage of sorts. This year’s British Open is being played at the Royal Portrush course in County Antrim, Northern Ireland – and Lowry was born and raised in Ireland.
Discovery, 8:00 p.m. ET
This is the golden anniversary of the first moon landing, and there are lots of related things to watch on TV tonight. (Don’t forget to go outside and take a look at the moon itself, though, to put it all in perspective.) One new documentary is this compiled treat from the Discovery Channel, collecting lots of footage, some of it formerly unseen, from the various Apollo missions.
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
On the very night Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon 50 years ago, HBO premieres this 2018 movie about Armstrong and that out-of-this-world Apollo 11 mission. Ryan Gosling plays Armstrong, Claire Foy plays his wife, and the film, based on Armstrong’s biography, is directed by Damien Chazelle, who previously directed Gosling in La La Land. If you want to feel what it’s like to be shot into space, First Man comes close…
BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET
It would be exciting enough, 50 years later, to watch as-it-happened TV coverage of Apollo 11’s moon landing purely from the perspective of CBS’s Walter Cronkite. But this BBC America special take a global perspective, and shows us how the event was covered across the planet – not just in England (pictured), but around the world. And it’s still, by the way, the most-viewed TV event in history…