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Tom Selleck plays a presidential candidate who sleeps around; Philadelphia plays a major city whose cops beat up suspects; "High Noon" returns. Nu?

"A House Divided" is "Show Boat" without songs, "Amistad" with the same level of outrage -- plus sex appeal; Meat Loaf survives a VH1 biography.

A magazine editor and reporter look for the real story behind the murders of more than 29 black children in Atlanta; Alec Baldwin goes to Nuremberg.

In A&E's delectable "Longitude," Michael Gambon invents the chronometer, though class prejudice would prevent its acceptance for half a century.

The heroine of Wendy Wasserstein's "An American Daughter" is a doomed Zoë Baird-like Cabinet nominee; playing the role of villain is TV itself.

HBO presents an unbearable -- yet unmissable -- documentary about Hitler's last months and the stepped-up campaign to make Hungary "Judenrein."

Digging into the roots of Sherlock Holmes, "Mystery!" finds a standard-issue catalogue of Victoriana -- your murdered prostitutes, your missing pussycats, your boxes of ears . . .