1) “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story” opener, Hulu and Disney+. This four-parter juggles two stories: One is semi-interesting: Jon Bon Jovi, now 62, battles throat problems, hoping to launch his band’s 40th-year tour. The other is compelling – a story of “five guys from nowhere” (led by a young Jon Bon Jovi, shown here) becoming, at times, the world’s leading rock band.
2) “Now Hear This,” 9 p.m., PBS. Almost 50 years ago, a trio formed. “Compared to most of our classmates, we were amazingly unsophisticated,” Richard Kogan recalls. Yo-Yo Ma became a superstar, winner of 19 Grammys … Lynn Chang, from a family of doctors, mastered chamber music… and Kogan became a psychiatrist who still plays with his forever friends. It’s an engaging story.
3) “Fire Country,” 9 p.m., CBS. This show and “Blue Bloods” were bumped last week by a Billy Joel concert. Now they’re back to start the final four episodes of the season. “Fire” starts a tough storyline that will continue next week: Local people are protesting this notion of having convicts st a local fire station.
4) “Tootsie” (1982), 8 p.m. ET. Turner Classic Movies. Dustin Hoffman gave one of the greatest performances to NOT win an Oscar. (He lost to Ben Kingsley in “Gandhi.”) That happens a lot: In the 21st century, no one in a comedy has been named best actor. Hoffman did win for “Rain Man” (1988) and for “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979) — which TCM has at 10:15 p.m., with “The Graduate” at 12:15.
5) ALSO: The second and third rounds of the pro-football draft will be 7-11:30 p.m. ET on ABC, ESPN2 and the NFL Network. At 10 p.m., FX’s “New York Times Presents” views racing trends that can be lethal to horses. Also at 10, PBS sees John Lithgow visit
arts programs, in an hour that’s good-spirited, but quite hollow.
— Mike Hughes, TV America