Best New Year's Day repeats, Annie Leibovitz, and if you didn't see an eight-year-old movie when it aired on the BBC, it's new to you.
TONIGHT
An all-day marathon from the magical first two seasons of “Six Feet Under” airs on Bravo beginning at 9 a.m. On Monday, Bravo rolls out the not-so-magical third season with an episode that has Peter Krause using the word “baloney” and Frances Conroy quietly scolding him on his “language.” She means the language he used on HBO. Thanks, basic cable. (Just wait till the sanitized “Sopranos” start airing next week on A&E.)
“60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS, KCTV-5) repeats its terrific Ed Bradley retrospective that originally aired Nov. 12, days after Bradley's death.
MONDAY
The crime drama “Trust” took a slow boat from Great Britain, where it aired in 1999, to BBC America, which airs it for the first time at 8 p.m. Monday. Watching Caroline Goodall wriggle out of a fix her character is in -- cheating on her husband at what will prove to be a key moment when he is investigated for murder -- certainly is a fine way to kill two hours. But I must agree with the disgruntled viewer who posted on a message board, “At what point does BBC America quit calling old BBC shows 'new' and admit that those of us in the US are getting reruns?”
TUESDAY
A new series on FX, “Dirt” (9 p.m., FX), stars Courteney Cox as a sleazy tabloid editor. I'll have a review of that in Tuesday's FYI, as well as reviews Wednesday of two new ABC comedies, “The Knights of Prosperity” and “In Case of Emergency.”
WEDNESDAY
“American Masters” (9 p.m., KCPT, midnight on KTWU) focuses on Annie Leibovitz, who came out of San Francisco shooting rock stars for a grungy magazine called Rolling Stone and wound up doing high profile celebrity shoots for Vanity Fair and American Express. As usual, the reason to tune in is for all the vintage film and photos “American Masters” has scraped up. There are wonderfully humanistic spreads of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, of Richard Nixon's last day in office and of the Rolling Stones on tour. We also get to see how those portraits for Vanity Fair, which look more like paintings than photographs, are made.
FRIDAY
It was only a matter of time before the foremost authority on disciplining your dog met up with the best-known advocate of coddling your canine. Cesar Millan, aka “The Dog Whisperer,” welcomes John Grogan, author of the hugely popular Marley and Me, about his untrainable hellion of a Labrador who died before he could come under the spell of Millan, a man whose Website claims he “can change almost any problem dog into a pleasant pooch.” Now Grogan has another rambunctious Lab named Gracie with a taste for live chickens. See what Millan does with Gracie -- and her owner -- when “The Dog Whisperer” airs 7 p.m. Friday on National Geographic Channel.
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