Entertainment

Using reenactments and interviews with historians, “Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator” (9 p.m., PBS) will air over the next three Tuesday nights.

Netflix celebrates April Fools’ Day with “The Magic Prank Show.” Magician and comedian Justin Willman uses his skills and his team of professional illusionists to help ordinary people blow the minds of their friends, and more frequently, their frenemies.

Brooding, quiet, intense and capable of anything — these are the traits associated with characters played by Giancarlo Esposito, especially since his turn as Gus Fring in “Breaking Bad.”

“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.

Kids and teens

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.