E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET
Summer TV, to me, becomes official as the movies I associate with summer start popping up on television. Jaws is the apex of this, but other blockbuster movies also fill the bill – and this other Steven Spielberg epic, from 1982, will do nicely. (Side note: It was a very weird, meta, but funny bit at Sunday’s Tony Awards, when Kristin Chenoweth, in one of a series of costume changes saluting the year’s dramas, came out dressed as E.T. to allude to the musical Fun Home, which took home the Tony for Best Musical. The joke, and it was a stretch, was that she had misheard the play’s title as “Phone Home” – hence the costume.)