Entertainment

“American Masters” (9 p.m., PBS) will dedicate the next two Friday nights to an all but vanished breed: the public intellectual, profiling Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (tonight) and William F. Buckley (April 5).

Joey King stars in the Hulu limited series adaptation of “We Were the Lucky Ones.” A tale of a Polish family scattered by the Holocaust and the attempts of surviving members to find their relatives after the war, it is based on novelist Georgia Hunter’s own family history.

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Republic reporter Brian Blair offers his take on area events.

Columbus Municipal Airport Director Brian Payne clearly understands flight.

Sick of reading about the terrors of A.I.? Confused about its possibilities? Looking for certainty? What better place to turn than “NOVA” (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings).

Call me old-fashioned, but I’m of the opinion that a joke works or it doesn’t. And if you try to explain it, you end up performing an autopsy. That said, Peacock launches the documentary special “Good One: A Show About Jokes” based on a podcast of the same name.

The “Independent Lens” (10 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings) documentary “Greener Pastures” may sound like a trip to a pastoral paradise, but words can deceive. The independently owned family farm was long a symbol of healthy lifestyles, hard work, proud independence and resilience. “Pastures” follows the lives of people running four small farms over four years and shows how farmers found themselves on the front lines of a transforming economy, extreme weather, an addiction crisis and personal stress.

As “the news” gets more troubling and life seems more contentious, even comedy can seem like tap-dancing on the third rail. “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings” (10 p.m. Saturday, HBO, TV-MA) offers reflections from the comedian and actor, the star of the Hulu comedy series “Ramy” and recently seen in the Oscar-winning 2023 fantasy “Poor Things,” as well as FX’s “The Bear.”

At a time when a glut of true-crime series has been passed off as “documentary” television, it’s nice to see a documentary master still at work.