TCM airs Carson’s classic ‘Tonight Show’ interviews

Here’s Johnny! Every Monday in July, TCM will air classic “Tonight Show” interviews of Hollywood figures conducted by Johnny Carson. On Monday night’s offering of “Carson on TCM” (7 p.m.), the legendary host sits down with Drew Barrymore (1982); Kirk Douglas (’88); Mary Tyler Moore (’78); Neil Simon (’80) and George Burns (’89).

While Carson hosted “Tonight” from 1962 to 1992, most of these interviews are from the 1970s and ’80s. Many of Carson’s shows from the 1960s have been lost to history. Each installment will be introduced by Conan O’Brien.

Like ABC’s “Whodunnit?” the new NBC series “Siberia” (9 p.m. WMC-TV Channel 5) only pretends to be a reality show. It’s actually a scripted sendup of an extreme elimination contest, set in a remote Russian location where dreadful, horror-movie-style tragedies befall one contestant after another.

Unfortunately for NBC, “Siberia” (as in exiled to obscurity) may be a more apt description of this show’s future. It’s going to have a rough time competing with “Under the Dome” on CBS, the Stephen King summer series that debuted strongly last Monday, attracting more than 13.5 million viewers.

The line between reality show and reality parody is also stretched on “Below Deck” (9 p.m., Bravo), a documentary-style look at the crew and passengers aboard a luxury yacht.

Paying guests will change from week to week, adding a “Love Boat” touch to this seagoing version of “Upstairs, Downstairs.”

Back on planet Earth, the documentary “Gideon’s Army” (8 p.m., HBO) profiles public defenders, the lawyers provided by the state to those too poor to hire their own attorney. The title refers to the 1963 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, which required courts to provide defense counsel in criminal cases.