WITNESS
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: This isn’t the wonderful Harrison Ford movie about murder, romance and the Amish. It’s a new documentary series, presented in half-hour segments each Monday, by Miami Vice creator Michael Mann. And the Michael Mann influence is all over the place, which is both good and bad. It’s good, because this study of photojournalists in high-risk locations is loaded with vitality and well-framed images. And it’s bad, or at least a bit wearying, because it relies so heavily on music to propel its narrative. In this first installment, for example, the focus is on Eros Hoagland, who has covered such tension-filled hot spots as El Salvador, Iraq and Afghanistan, and whose personal story is almost shockingly dramatic. But in following him around the violent border town of Juarez, Mann plays, at length, a cover version of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” – the song that begins with the lyrics “When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez / and it’s Easter time too.” A little too obvious.