CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
In a new episode called “Splitsville,” Robin wants to break up with Nick, but doesn’t want to go through the drama that is likely to accompany it. So it’s Barney to the rescue – and, no doubt, with an ulterior motive.
Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Stone and American University history professor Peter Kuznick, co-authors of a book of the same name as this series, launch a 10-part series offering what they say is a different look at American history. Don’t expect anything revolutionary, or at least Revolutionary: the episode presents its ideas chronologically, and begins tonight by looking at the 1930s. So if you’re looking at the truth about the ride of Paul Revere, I fear you must look elsewhere.
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
How weird is it that film director and screenwriter Oliver Stone has two new nonfiction TV series on, at competing cable networks, the same night each week? But he does. Stone’s Witness presents a new installment this week, called Libya. Last year’s overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi is covered by photojournalist Michael Christopher Brown, who’s covering a conflict so dangerous it claimed the lives of some of Brown’s colleagues.
ABC, 10:01 p.m. ET
C. Thomas Howell guest stars in tonight’s new episode, revolving around a murdered rock star. As Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Beckett (Stana Katic) are investigating, a documentary film crew that was photographing the band keeps its cameras rolling – trained not just on the remaining band members, but on the investigators as well, giving this episode a faux documentary feel. No one, however, turns the amps up to 11.
Comedy Central, 11:31 p.m. ET
Here’s one not to miss: a conversation between two very smart, very clean-cut fellows. One is host Stephen Colbert; the other, guest Ken Burns, whose The Dust Bowl documentary is just around the corner.