TV picks for March 10-11: George Harrison, 'O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession,' 'The Kennedys'

March 9, 2018 at 9:20PM
Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Dhani Harrison were among the participants in Concert for George, the 2002 tribute to George Harrison.
Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Dhani Harrison were among the participants in Concert for George, the 2002 tribute to George Harrison. (Rex Features/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Music for everyone

Younger rockers can swoon over Chance the Rapper and Camila Cabello during the iHeartRadio Music Awards (7 p.m. Sun., TBS, TNT and TruTV). For those who would rather venture back to all those years ago, there's Concert for George (8:30 p.m. Sat., TPT, Ch. 2), a remastered edition of the 2002 concert honoring George Harrison. The late Tom Petty's heartbreaking performance of "I Need You" should be especially poignant.

What if he did it?

"O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?" revolves around the tapes of the infamous interview the former gridiron star gave Judith Regan for a book about what might have happened the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed. The publishing world ultimately decided that putting out the book would be in bad taste. Fox TV, apparently, has different standards.

7 p.m. Sun., KMSP, Ch. 9

Camelot revisited

"American Dynasties: The Kennedys" doesn't offer any new insight, but for a generation that knows more about the Kardashians than the former first family, this six-part docuseries is a thorough, breezy history lesson — one that relies heavily on CNN personalities, who must have recorded their observations during coffee breaks at the studio. Martin Sheen narrates.

8 p.m. Sun., CNN

FILE - In this July 20, 2017 file photo, former NFL football star O.J. Simpson attends his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev. Fox TV says it will air an O.J. Simpson special including an unseen 2006 interview in which he theorizes about what happened the night his ex-wife was murdered. The two-hour special, with the provocative title "O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?" will air 8 p.m. EST Sunday, March 11. Soledad O'Brien is the host. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazet
O.J. Simpson (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Neal Justin

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Neal Justin is the pop-culture critic, covering how Minnesotans spend their entertainment time. He also reviews stand-up comedy. Justin previously served as TV and music critic for the paper. He is the co-founder of JCamp, a non-profit program for high-school journalists, and works on many fronts to further diversity in newsrooms.

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