TUESDAY’S BEST PICKS
6:30 PM 2022 NCAA Basketball (TRU) Tournament March Madness gets underway with truTV airing all four games in the First Four from UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio. All games tonight and tomorrow are between teams holding the four lowest seeded automatic bids and the four lowest seeded at-large bids. The winners here advance to the First Round beginning Thursday.
8PM & Young Rock NBC has released scant information about the sophomore season of this sitcom, which draws freely from actual experiences at different stages of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s life. Given that Season 1 ended on something of a cliffhanger that suggested Johnson wins his (so far fictional) U.S. presidential bid in 2032, it seems likely that storyline will resume in Season 2. Other potential stories may involve Johnson’s time in the Canadian Football League and some of his teenage romances. All the principal actors from Season 1 are expected back.
8:30 PM & Mr. Mayor This savvy political comedy from the Emmy-winning “30 Rock” creative team of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock got off to a bumpy start in Season 1, which managed to get only nine episodes on the air due to two production shutdowns forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Critics mostly liked what they saw of the show, which charts the quixotic administration of Los Angeles Mayor Neil Bremer (Ted Danson). Holly Hunter does inspired supporting work as Bremer’s eccentric vice-mayor, and fans hope this show finally gets to take off in Season 2.
9PM (A&E) Storage Wars In the new episode “In Pain in the Membrane,” a friendly duel in Victorville proves challenging for Dusty Riach, but his mother lode of vinyl just might wind up saving him. Meanwhile, Ivy Calvin’s locker shines some light on the business, but Lisa DeLarios comes to realize she needs her own locker about as much as a hole in the head. Another new episode immediately follows.
9PM (HGTV) Fixer to Fabulous: Welcome Inn HGTV fan-favorite renovation experts Dave and Jenny Marrs take on a dream project of theirs, transforming an historic 1880s home into a functioning vacation rental, in this new four-episode series. It’s a complete “gut job,” presenting the couple with unprecedented construction challenges and high financial stakes, so they’ll be recruiting fellow renovation experts for their help. In the premiere, the Marrses begin demolition, their first step toward creating a unique bed-and-breakfast holiday property.
The discovery of a massive bee infestation soon gives them pause, however. 9PM (ID) Crime Scene Confidential In the new episode “Justice for Michelle,” crime scene investigator Alina Burroughs reopens the unsolved death of Michelle Witherell, who was found dead underneath her balcony. Burroughs pores over the evidence for clues as to whether the late woman fell, leapt to her death or was murdered. Unfortunately, her investigation involves navigating a veritable maze of conflicting pathology reports.
9PM (HBO) Phoenix Rising In this harrowing two-part documentary, which concludes Wednesday night, actress Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”) opens up about her experiences as a survivor of domestic violence almost a decade after leaving what she describes as a dangerous relationship with rock icon Marilyn Manson. The latter musician was 37 when he pursued Wood, who was 18 at the time. A fouryear relationship ensued, during which Wood says she went from a smitten teenager to a young woman who was subjected to emotional, physical and sexual abuse. 9PM (MAGN) The Craftsman Master craftsman and woodworker Eric Hollenbeck, the host of this new home improvement series, is in the restoration business, which entails taking historic homes and forgotten architectural treasures around his hometown of Eureka, Calif., and giving them new life. In the series premiere, “Creating the Craftsman,” Eric offers a crash course in the fundamentals of woodworking.