two Lennon flicks tonight on PBS

SET YOUR TIVOS: John Lennon would’ve been 70 this year, and PBS is honoring the thinking man’s Beatle with a pair of shows tonight. The Edmund Coulthard-directed film Lennon Naked, with Christopher Eccleston in the title role, airs at 8 p.m. on KCET. It covers 1963-70, at which point John moved to New York with Yoko Ono. The narrative is picked up at 9:30 with the American Masters documentary LENNONYC, written and directed by Michael Epstein. For what it’s worth, the reviews of Lennon Naked have been mixed at best, while the critics have generally found LENNONYC absorbing and moving. (11/22a)