Here's a tantalizing look at Aaron Sorkin's new drama "Newsroom," coming to HBO June 24. It looks great. My only note to Sorkin: more Sam Waterston, please. Thanks.

HBO's new comedy series about four young women navigating their 20s in New York City is nothing like "Sex in the City." Let me disavow you of that notion, right off the bat.

"Girls," created, written and directed by Lena Dunham (who also stars as the main character, Hannah), is painfully honest, brutally awkward, and uncomfortably stark.
 
And yes, I'm using words like "painful" and "brutal" and "uncomfortable" to describe one of the best -- and funniest -- new shows in years.

"Girls," co-executive produced by Judd Apatow, is funny in the way that Louis CK's "Louie" is funny: both shows skew dark and are often hard to watch without occasionally wincing. But they also find subtle, beautiful moments of comedy in real, and sometimes painful, situations.

In an online interview last month, "Eastbound & Down" creators Danny McBride and Jody Hill gave a nice shoutout to the Triangle music scene. Asked their favorite bands, they listed Black Keys, Avett Brothers, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bob Seger, MC5 -- plus Dynamite Brothers and Lonnie Walker,  two groups that  call the Triangle home.

McBride and Hill come by their Tarheelia honestly, since they studied film at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. So it's no surprise that Sunday's episode of the HBO series will include a Lonnie Walker song, "Heartbreakin' Ball," which you can hear playing over the concluding synopsis and end credits. Tune in at 10 p.m. Sunday.

Dynamite Brothers have had songs on the show, too, and drummer Scott Nurkin even appeared in an episode this season, playing in an onscreen band.

"God is the Bigger Elvis," a documentary debuting tonight on HBO, tells the fascinating story of Dolores Hart, a movie star from the late 1950s and early 1960s who abruptly left Hollywood behind to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.

Hart, who now goes by Mother Prioress Dolores Hart of the Abbey of Regina Laudisas, starred in movies opposite Elvis Presley, Anthony Quinn and Montgomery Clift.

I first read her story last year in an Entertainment Weekly article, "Mother Dolores Hart: The Nun Who Kissed Elvis Presley." If the documentary is half as interesting as the EW article, it should be pretty great.

Hart's finance at the time she joined the monastery, architect Don Robinson, speaks candidly on the film about his heartbreak, saying that he never got over her. The two are still friends.

Click below for more information and to watch the trailer for the film.

I understand why Sarah Palin has a problem with "Game Change" (9 p.m. Saturday, HBO). I wouldn't want a movie made of my life either (and not just because it would be dull and some film exec would look at my hair and say, "Let's get Whoopi Goldberg!"). Who wants their life interpreted through someone else's eyes?

Of course, her protests have drawn more attention to the film. And you know, I think that might work to her advantage. Palin doesn't come across as a saint or a genius, but the film does give a sense of the enormity of what she experienced. It shows how difficult it might have been for anyone. It show how anyone could have been overwhelmed, how anyone could have misunderstood the rules of the political game, how anyone could lose themselves. What I'm saying is even Palin haters might feel sympathy for and/or empathize with Sarah Palin after watching "Game Change."

The ACC Tournament (1pm, WRAL) - Games scheduled for today at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Must Love Cats (8pm, Animal Planet) - Hello, Kitty. A new season of "Must Love Cats" opens with host John Fulton exploring the cat culture in Japan. Featured: Tama, the train station master cat (right); the Maneki Neko, or "Beckoning Cat;" Tashirojima (aka Cat Island); and a shelter for rescued cats, including ones left behind after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. An episode of "Too Cute" about something called "kitten dolls" airs at 9 and a different "Too Cute" about cats repeats at 10.

Of Two Minds (8pm, Lifetime) - A woman takes her schizophrenic sister to live with her family after her mother dies, but her sibling's disturbing behavior threatens their relationship.

Q Viva! The Chosen (8pm, Fox) - Two couples who dance the tango face a hard decision, and Marc Anthony embraces the Mexican pointy-boots trend.

Game Change (9pm, HBO) - This movie adaptation of the political best-seller by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann focuses on the John McCain-Sarah Palin storyline of the 2008 presidential campaign. Stars Ed Harris as McCain and Julianne Moore as Palin. Adrienne has a "Game Change" review.

The Firm (9pm, NBC) - Penultimate episode alert! Tonight, Mitch defends a woman accused of kidnapping a baby, Ray and Tammy find information on the Sarah Holt case, and Joey Morolto admits to being the head of the crime family.

Saturday Night Live (11:29pm, NBC) - Jonah Hill hosts with music guest The Shins.

The winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary Short will debut on HBO tonight.

"Saving Face" is about a plastic surgeon, London-based Dr. Mohammad Jawad, who volunteers his services to help Pakistani women in his home country who have been permanently disfigured by acid attacks. This type of brutal attack is not uncommon in Pakistan, and those responsible (usually a husband or someone close to the victim) are typically given only minimal punishment for their crime.

The film focuses on the stories of two women: 39-year-old Zakia, whose husband threw acid on her after she filed for divorce, and 25-year-old Rukhsana, whose husband and in-laws threw acid and gasoline on her and set her on fire. 

Directors Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy follow Dr. Jawad as he helps these victims, who would otherwise have little or not access to reconstructive surgery, and also follows the push to enact new legislation that imposes stricter sentencing of perpetrators of acid attacks.

"Saving Face" will debut tonight at 8:30 p.m. on HBO.

Watch the trailer for the film below.

Erstwhile political candidate Augustus Cho isn’t a dictator; he just plays one on the big screen.

The fit, fiftysomething former taekwondo teacher and author had kept his acting career private until filming his role as a Northern Korean ruler in “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” forced him to miss a Town Council candidates forum last year.

He also ran unsuccessfully for Chapel Hill mayor in 2009 and in the Republican primary against B.J. Lawson for Congress, for the seat held by Rep. David Price, in 2008.

Anyone who has been a caretaker knows it's not easy. Being a reluctant caretaker? Even worse.

That's the situation, at least initially, revealed in "Raising Renee," (8 tonight, HBO 2), a documentary chronicling artist and NCCU professor Beverly McIver's effort to care for her mentally disabled sister.

McIver made the promise to care for her sister to her mother blithely; she was a rising artist, unmarried and childless, raising cats and living in Arizona. A part of her, she admits, didn't (magically) think her mother would die. But Ethel McIver develops cancer, leaving her daughter to make good on her word.

HBO's "Eastbound & Down," a comedy following the career of washed up baseball player Kenny Powers, returns tonight for its third and final season.

In the new season, Powers, played by Danny McBride, is a daddy (yikes!) and finds himself in Myrtle Beach working as a closer for the minor league team there -- the Myrtle Beach Mermen. And of course, partying up a storm. 

The eight-episode season was actually filmed in Wilmington and Carolina Beach.

Season 1 of "Eastbound & Down" was also shot in Wilmington, but the second season moved to Puerto Rico.

Jason Sudeikis from "Saturday Night Live" also stars this season as one of Kenny's teammates. Matthew McConaughey will return in as a guest star to play the openly gay Texas baseball scout Roy McDaniel, and Will Ferrell will also return in the role of BMW salesman Ashley Schaeffer.

"Eastbound & Down" airs on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. on HBO.