Tonight is the Joan Rivers tribute on “Fashion Police” (E!, 8 p.m.) that you have been waiting for, with her show colleagues Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsipoulos and daughter Melissa Rivers taking part in the 90 minute salute. It follows a 12-hour marathon of past shows in which Rivers took part.
World War II dominates the penultimate episode of “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” (PBS, 8 and 10 p.m.) though Pearl Harbor doesn’t happen until halfway into the two hours. By the end, FDR is gravely ill.
A special Friday night edition of “Big Brother” (CBS, 8 p.m.) is also its second to last episode of the season, with the final three of Derrick, Cody and Victoria set to become a final two by show’s end before Wednesday’s finale. It comes opposite a new episode of “Utopia” (Fox, 8 p.m.).
How will next Friday look, once we are into the new TV season? Not that much different. A “Shark Tank” ((ABC< 9 p.m.), a rerun tonight, will have a two hour premiere, and “The Amazing Race” will make its debut of a new night.
Back in Los Angeles after last week’s Washington blitz, “Real Time with Bill Maher” (HBO, 10 p.m.) hosts Colin Powell, Rep. Jack Kingston, Katrina van den Heuvel, Matthew Segal and Wendall Pierce.
They test a new operating procedure on “The Knick” (Cinemax, 10 p.m.).
A new season of “Tanked” (Animal Planet, 10 p.m.) returns for a new season, building a Superman-insmpired aquarium for Shaquille O’Neal.
One of the week’s premieres, “Red Band Society” (Fox, 9 p.m.) gets a replay.
A timely special on the militant group “Flashpoint: Fighting ISIL” (Al Jazeera America, 8 p.m.) is hosted by John Seigenthaler.
The pre-code bonanza of films Turner Classic Movies has been showing on Fridays this month continues all day with “Parole Girl” (6 a.m.), “Three Wise Girls” (7:30 a.m.), “Lady Killer” (8:45 a.m.), “Possessed” (10:15 a.m.), “Two Seconds” (11:45 a.m.), “The Little Giant” (1 p.m.), “The Mind Reader” (2:30 p.m.), “Beauty and the Boss” (3:45 p.m.), “Waterloo Bridge” (5 p.m.), “Hot Saturday” (6:30 p.m.), “Blonde Venus” (8 p.m.), “I’m No Angel” (9:45 p.m.), “She Done Him Wrong” (11:30 p.m.), “Blonde Crazy” (12:45 a.m.), “Skyscraper Souls” (3:30 a.m.) and “She Had to Say Yes” (5:15 a.m.), as well as a replay of the 2008 documentary about the era, “Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood” (2:15 a.m.).
Baseball today includes Detroit at Kansas City (ESPN2, 8 p.m.) and San Francisco at San Diego (MLB, 10 p.m.).
In college football, it’s Connecticut at South Florida (ESPN, 8 p.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Tina Fey, Luke Wilson. The View: Billy Crystal. The Talk: Tom Selleck, Charles Midhael Davis, Jason Santos. Ellen DeGeneres: Kaley Cuoco, Dax Shepard, Shawn Mendes. Wendy Williams: Danielle Brooks. Meredith Vieira: Carole King, Bill Hader, Carson Kressley.
Late Talk
David Letterman: Michael Strahan, Marin Cilic, Richard Branson, Interpol (rerun). Jimmy Fallon: James Spader. Jimmy Kimmel: Morgan Freeman, Julianne Hough, Ingrid Michaelson (rerun). Seth Meyers: Heidi Klum, Kieran Culkin, Leslie Jones (rerun). Craig Ferguson: Morgan Freeman, Genesis Rodriguez. Carson Daly: Richard Ayoade, Franz Ferdinand, Royal Canoe (rerun). Tavis Smiley: Misty Copeland, Charles “Lil Buck” Riley.