1) “The 100th,” 9-11 p.m., CBS. Billy Joel (shown here) has sold 160 million records and gathered all the big awards, including five Grammys. Now comes another milestone – his 100th monthly concert in the 20,000-seat Madison Square Garden, each a sell-out. He’s had three No. 1 hits (”Still Rock and Roll to Me,” “Tell Me About It,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire”), four No. 3’s and such album favorites as “Piano Man.”
2) “Call the Midwife,” 8 p.m., PBS. Two big stories fill a busy and involving episode. One has a young couple facing crises; the other starts with a summer romp, then propels the doctor and his wife (a nurse) into deep worries. That’s in a stress-filled PBS night. On “Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office” (9 p.m.), beleaguered people start to fight back; then “Alice & Jack” is propelled to next week’s finale.
3) “American Idol,” 8-11 p.m., ABC. Expanding to three hours for tonight, this has a lot of music. Back from Hawaii, the 24 singers will learn which 20 will advance. Each will sing … as will past contestants Paul Russell, Teddy Swims and Lauren Spencer-Smith.
4)“The Sympathizer,” 9 p.m., HBO, rerunning at 10. Fresh from his “Oppenheimer” Oscar, Robert Downey Jr. plays several American officials. That’s in a black comedy (based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an immigrant from Vietnam), funneling information back to the Viet Cong. That faces a taut “Parish” (9 and 10:04, AMC) that starts with Gray and a boy eluding gunmen.
5) Movies: On the thinnest of plots, “Bob Marley: One Love” (2024, 7:10 p.m., MGM+) offers a likable guy and, of course, great music. Also rippling with good music is the animated “Coco” (2017), at 8 on the Disney Channel. Both are dwarfed by “Gone With the Wind” (1939), at 8 p.m. ET on Turner Classic Movies.