8 p.m., ABC: War of the Worlds — The H.G. Wells classic about an alien invasion of Earth gets an overhaul in this genuinely chilling update, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise as a less-than-reliable dad. His parenting skills improve radically as he tries to save his children (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin) and himself from lethal invaders who are wreaking havoc on the planet.
8 p.m., ANIMAL PLANET: It's Me or the Dog — John and Connie are a New Jersey couple whose four unruly dogs have destroyed their social lives and are threatening their marriage. Connie, who's been injured multiple times while walking the animals, cries herself to sleep every night, and John is ready to walk out. Can this marriage be saved? If anyone can do it, it's dog trainer Victoria Stilwell.
8 p.m., TCM: Splendor in the Grass — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Inge ("Picnic") added an Oscar to his collection with his screenplay for this 1961 drama. Natalie Wood stars as a nice girl driven insane by thwarted love and sexual repression in 1920s Kansas. Warren Beatty, in his big-screen debut, plays the love of her life, who finds a different outlet for his frustration— a not-so-nice girl. Pat Hingle, Jan Norris and Sandy Dennis also star.
8:30 p.m., HBO: Jonah Hex — Josh Brolin embodies the DC Comics character who gives the Old West a supernatural twist. A bounty hunter who's pursued by the law in the wake of the Civil War, the literally scarred Hex is enlisted to stop a renegade colonel (John Malkovich) whose plot against the United States involves the undead. Megan Fox also stars.
9 p.m., CMT: Driving Miss Daisy — The 1989 Oscar winner for best picture stars Jessica Tandy (Academy Award, best actress) and Morgan Freeman as a cranky Southern woman and her chauffeur. Although the two are worlds apart in the South of 1948, they come to understand and respect each other.
10 p.m., HBO: Colin Quinn Long Story Short — Move over, Mel Brooks. Colin Quinn's got the history of the world down to an hour and a quarter's worth of material. In his one-man Broadway show, he covers everything from labor relations in ancient Rome to the theory of evolution, pointing out along the way that human nature hasn't changed all that much over the centuries.
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