1) “Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story,” 8-10 p.m., Lifetime. This is a Lifetime specialty – movies about real-life music stars. Next week is Gloria Gaynor; first, this views Lisa Velez (shown here), a former Hell’s Kitchen teen who soared. The real Velez, now 59, plays her own mother, a Puerto Rican native with 10 children. Bre-Z (“All American”) plays Velez’s friend and back-up singer.
2) “Tracker” and “Paradise,” 8 p.m., CBS, 10 p.m., FX. Two of the “This Is Us” guys star in reruns. First, it’s Justin Hartley; he’s tracking a woman who disappeared at a wellness center. Then it’s Sterling K. Brown, in the opener of a Hulu series; he plays a secret service agent, trying to find an assassin and pondering his relation with the victim.
3) “In the Heat of the Night” (1967), 6 p.m. ET, Turner Classic Movies. It’s the start of TCM’s month of films that won (or were nominated for) Oscars. This gem won five, including best picture, actor (Rod Steiger) and script. It’s surrounded by “12 Angry Men (1957) at 4 p.m. ET, “All About Eve” (1950) at 8 and “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) at 10:30.
4) “I Am Patrick Swayze” (2019), 8 p.m., CW. Swayze might have seemed like a cliché – a handsome Texan who did romantic movies (“Dirty Dancing,” “Ghost”) and was dubbed “the sexiest man alive.” But he was also a diligent guy who learned at his mom’s dance studio and married his dance partner. This documentary came 10 years after his death, at 57, of cancer.
5) More movies. Two fun 1984 films are on IFC – “Ghostbusters” at 5:45 p.m. and “Police Academy” at 8. At 6:30, FX has “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”; at 8:30, Comedy Central has tough guys (Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson) and tender guys (Will Ferrell, John Lithgow) in “Daddy’s Home 2.”
— Mike Hughes, TV America