1) Basketball. A new round of the college tournament begins, with Thursday’s winners colliding. CBS has games at noon, 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m. ET, with more games on TBS. TNT and TruTV. By late Sunday night, the tourney will have its “sweet 16” for next week’s games. Meanwhile, other networks have films (shown here) for the basketball-averse.
2) “Two For Tee” (Hallmark) and “I Killed Him in My Sleep” (Lifetime), both 8-10 p.m. At tournament time, other networks stretch for female viewers. Hallmark goes light, with a potter and a handyman linking to save a community center; Janel Parrish (shown here in a previous Hallmark film) stars with Chris McNally. Lifetime is rougher: A sleep-study participant (Abigail Breslin) dreams of maybe murdering someone.
3) True-crime films, Lifetime. These are a Lifetime specialty — true tales of women in ugly situations. At 2 p.m. is the story of Monica White, who learned the guy she met on a dating app was a serial killer. At 4 is Karen Read, acquitted of killing her boyfriend, a cop. At 6 is Mary Jo Buttafuoco, who was shot by her husband’s teen lover.
4) “I Am Raquel Welch,” 8-10 p.m., CW. “One Million Years B.C.” was a forgettable film with a memorable poster of Welch in a sort of deer-skin bikini. She would soon be famous; Playboy listed her as the third-sexiest woman of the century, behind Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. But she also became an action hero and did serious dramas. Here’s a profile.
5) ALSO: Alongside all that basketball, there’s soccer on Fox and hockey (Bruins-Red Wings) at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Movies include the Oscar-winning “Everything, Everywhere All at Once” (2022) at 8 on HBO and the “Beverly Hills Cop” films (1984 and 1987) at 7:15 and 9:45 on IFC.