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B = Indicates Black History Month show
ME, MYSELF & THE DEVIL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF ASHLEY MacISAAC The down-east diddling fiddler, confessed crackhead and watersports enthusiast gets the biography treatment. 7 pm on CBC
SURVIVOR: PALAU Another crew of buff exhibitionists get their 15 minutes of fame before being voted off the island, this time a South Pacific paradise strewn with second world war wreckage. 8 pm on CBS/Global
MICHAEL JACKSON’S SECRET WORLD Brit TV journo Martin Bashir exploits the Michael Jackson trial with another package of images and interviews. 8 pm on ABC
THE L WORD The first season of the Sapphic soap replays, this time uncut. 10 pm on Showcase
B INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE (1999, dir Martha Coolidge , w/ Halle Berry , Brent “Data” Spiner and Klaus Maria Brandauer ) HBO biopic portrays the first black actress to be nominated for a best actress Oscar against the backdrop of 1950s racial unrest. 8 pm on Star, repeated at midnight
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
Irish heartthrob Damien Rice , the singer who’s all over the Closer soundtrack, and jazzy country crooner Patty Griffin in concert.
Midnight on PBS
IMAGINARY WITNESS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE HOLOCAUST Narrated by Gene Hackman , this 04 doc examines how the Hollywood dream machine criticized Nazi Germany without condemning anti-Semitism. With clips from The Great Dictator, The Pawnbroker, Sophie’s Choice and Schindler’s List.
10 pm on Newsworld, repeated at 1 am HOCKEY NATION: THE STATE OF THE GAME A panel discussion – does anyone give a puck?
6 pm on Newsworld
2005 EAST COAST MUSIC AWARDS George Canyon hosts the annual sleepwalk of Maritime folkies, fidders and step-dancing tributes to Rita MacNeil . 8 pm on CBC, repeated at 11 pm
CONTROL ROOM Rebroadcast of documentarian Jehane Noujaim ‘s controversial analysis of Arab TV news net Al Jazeera ‘s coverage of the Iraqi war. 10 pm on Newsworld, repeated at 1 am
TOMMY (1975, dir Ken Russell , w/ Ann-Margaret , Roger Daltrey , Oliver Reed , Tina Turner and Elton John ) Over-the-top, even by Ken Russell standards, staging of the Who’s rock opera, with Tina Turner as the Acid Queen. 8:30 pm on Bravo
B MALCOLM X: MAKE IT PLAIN Archival portrait of the outspoken 60s radical. 9 pm on PBS, repeated at 3 am
ALTER EGOS Once Oscar-nominated NFB animator, now Montreal panhandler Ryan Larkin develops a love-hate relationship with rising filmmaker Chris Landreth , ironically Oscar-nominated for Ryan , his own film about Larkin. 10 pm on Newsworld, repeated at 1 am and 4 am
B HARLEM RENAISSANCE Documentary traces the New York City roots of R&B and its eventual impact on mainstream America. With period performances by Cab Calloway , Duke Ellington , Count Basie and more. 9 pm on PBS, repeated at 3:30 am
LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN Former Stone Roses vocalist Ian Brown – joined by Oasis’s Noel Gallagher on guitar – takes the couch with Christina Ricci . Subtitled. 12:35 am on NBC/CKVR
