6PM (TCM) MOVIE In the Heat of the Night TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
Director Norman Jewison’s first-rate 1967 mystery earned Oscars for best picture and best actor for Rod Steiger, who plays a bigoted Southern police chief forced to investigate a murder with a black Philadelphia police detective (Sidney Poitier). Ray Charles performs the wonderfully moody title song;
Lee Grant and Warren Oates co-star. The film, and the novel upon which it was based, inspired a TV series that starred Carroll O’Connor.
(OXY) Monster Preacher
This new two-hour special takes a deep dive into the life of
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Philadelphia pastor Gary Heidnik, who lured six women and then held them captive in his basement. During November of 1986, Heidnik brutalized his prisoners, determined to mold them into sex slaves whose primary function was to bear his children. Josefina Rivera and Jackie Askin, two of the four survivors from that ordeal, take viewers on a chilling ride through a real-life horror story.
8PM (LIFE) MOVIE The Evil Twin After escaping a long-term but relentlessly abusive relationship, Emily flees back to her hometown, where she is thrown to discover she has a long-lost twin sister. At first, though, she takes this discovery as an omen of unexpected good things to come. That’s before she discovers her twin may be a murderer. Emily Piggford, Ish Morris, Cory Lee and Tomas Chovanec star in this 2021 melodrama.
8PM (SHO) MOVIE Resistance Marcel Marceau is best remembered today for his acclaimed professional work as a mime, but this 2020 biographical drama focuses on a less well-known yet more remarkable chapter of his life, when he worked undercover with the French Resistance in World War II to save orphaned children from the Nazis. Jesse
Eisenberg plays Marceau, whose artistic dreams are still taking shape as he risks his life for this higher calling. Clémence Poésy, Félix Moati, Ed Harris, Edgar Ramírez and Bella Ramsey also are featured in the large cast. 9PM (HALL) MOVIE Two for the Win When a world champion ski racer returns home to prepare for what is unquestionably the biggest race of his life, he finds a not-entirely-unwelcome distraction in the form of a romance on the slopes with a fetching local ski instructor in this 2021 romance. Trevor Donovan, Charlotte Sullivan and Siobhan Murphy star.