Neal Justin's TV picks for Sept. 21: Omar Sharif, 'Minority Report,' 'Life in Pieces'

September 20, 2015 at 7:00PM
FILE- This November, 1965 file photo from Metro Goldwyn-Mayer shows actor Omar Sharif, in the movie based on Boris Pasternak' s Doctor Zhivago location unknown. Sharif has died in a Cairo hospital of a heart attack, his agent said on Friday, July 10, 2015. (MGM via AP) ORG XMIT: MIN2015071009570347
Omar Sharif in “Doctor Zhivago.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The good doctor

It has been more than two months since we lost the elegant Omar Sharif, but it's not too late to pay your respects with a three-picture tribute starting with "Doctor Zhivago" (7 p.m.) and continuing with "Funny Girl" (10:30 p.m.) and "Funny Lady" (1:30 a.m.). No screenings of "Funny Grandma" are scheduled. TCM

Family reunion

As "Modern Family" clones go, you could do a lot worse than "Life in Pieces," featuring James Brolin and Dianne Wiest as the heads of a multigenerational laugh factory. If viewers can get over the all-too-familiar setup, this may be the best opportunity yet for Rochester native Dan Bakkedahl to sneak onto the A-list. 7:31 p.m. WCCO, Ch. 4

Report card

"Minority Report," based on the Tom Cruise vehicle, stars Meagan Good as a cocky homicide detective in 2065 who teams up with Stark Sands, who can see crimes before they happen. Switching genders from the film and book version is often just a novelty, but in this case it works, thanks to sympathetic performances by the two relatively unknown leads, coming soon to a Sexiest People Alive issue near you. 8 p.m. KMSP, Ch. 9

Neal Justin

In this image released by Fox, Meagan Good, foreground, and Stark Sands appear in a scene from "Minority Report," premiering Monday, Sept. 21 at 9:00 EDT on Fox. (Bruce MacCauley/Fox via AP)
Good (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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