1) “Jacqueline du Pre: Genius and Tragedy,” 9 p.m., PBS. At 17, du Pre (shown here) burst onto the music scene. “She was simple, she was caring, she was smiling,” conductor Zubin Mehta says here. Friends called her “Smiley”; others called her the “golden girl.” Then multiple sclerosis ended her cello-playing at 28. This is a superb profile, filled with great music.
2) Figure skating, 8 p.m., NBC. Here are the women’s world championship finals; the men will have their turn Saturday on NBC. Other events are at 3 p.m. on the USA Network, today (rhythm dance) and Saturday (free dance). Also, everything is simulcast on Peacock.
3) Basketball. The college tournament has a pair of doubleheaders. On CBS, it’s Mississippi and Michigan State at 7:09 p.m. ET and Michigan and Auburn at 9:39; on TBS and TruTV, it’s the only quadrant that is exactly as it was seeded – Tennessee and Kentucky (seeded No. 2 and 3) at 7:39, then Houston and Purdue (No. 1 and 4) at 10:09.
4) “The Life List,” Netflix. A young woman (Sofia Carson) tries to fulfill the teen goals of her late mother (Connie Britton), who offers guidance via videos. That wraps a busy streaming weeek: Apple TV+ has Seth Rogan’s “The Studio” series; Hulu has “A Complete Unknown”; Amazon Prime has Nicole Kidman’s “Holland” and the final “Bosch” season.
5) ALSO: Movies include a “Lethal Weapon” marathon on IFC (3:30, 6, 8:30 and 11:15 p.m.) and “Tom Jones” (1963), an Oscar-winning romp, at 10 p.m. ET on Turner Classic Movies. And the second United Football League season starts at 8 p.m. ET on Fox, with St. Louis and Houston.