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Former SNL writer Mulaney was "absolutely terrified" to host the show. David Bianculli reviews What We Do in the Shadows. Lyonne says her own near death experience informed her work on Russian Doll.

Farrow talks about investigating the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and his new book, War on Peace. Ken Tucker reviews Courtney Barnett's new album. Ritter discusses her role as Jessica Jones.

Hernandez talks about baseball, Seinfeld and being his own "worst enemy." Critic Justin Chang reviews the horror movie Hereditary. Offerman play a middle-aged single dad in Hearts Beat Loud.

McKay's new film centers on Dick Cheney. Lloyd Schwartz reviews Roger Water's recording of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Former NYC traffic commissioner Sam Schwartz discusses driverless cars.

Snowden speaks about his decision to share top-secret intelligence documents with journalists in 2013. Justin Chang reviews Ad Astra. Mitchell says that asking tough questions is "very empowering."

2: Satirist, radio host, columnist, and one of the creators of and performers in the mock-rock group Spinal Tap, HARRY SHEARER. He also does several voices on "The Simpsons." SHEARER has a new book of the columns he wrote for the Los Angeles Times Magazine. He'll also be appearing tomorrow at The Museum of Television & Radio in New York City, to talk about his work on "Saturday Night Live" (he was on for a while) and his syndicated radio program, "Le Show." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER ATC PROMO).

Rock critic KEN TUCKER has a review of "Pretty Close to the Truth" (Atlantic), the new recording by Jim Lauderdale. INT. 2: Biographer PETER MANSO. He''s written "Brando: The Biography" (Hyperion), the result of seven years of research and over 700 interviews. It tells the story of Brando as a man with a hidden troubled life. MANSO is also the author of an oral biography of Norman Mailer. REV. 2: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Scarlett," CBS'' eight-hour mini-series that starts this Sunday.

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a new recording of the opera "Lord Byron," (Koch International) by American composer Virgil Thomson. It's the first complete recording of the opera. The librettist is JACK LARSON (an interview with LARSON follows): Librettist, poet, playwright JACK LARSON. Though, he got his career start as an actor: Jimmy Olsen, the cub-reporter on the original "Superman" TV show. One of his poems "The Relativity of Icarus" was part of a Joffrey Ballet." He's also written a couple of versed plays, "The Candied House," and "Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul." He's also been a film producer.

3: Sculptor DUANE HANSON died on Saturday in a Baca Raton hospital in Florida at the age of 70. The cause was non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to the The Miami Herald. We'll hear an interview with Hanson conducted in 1990. Hanson was known internationally for his life-size super-realistic sculptures of people. His sculptures are so life-like that a museum worker in Florida once called the fire department for help when one of Hanson's sculptures failed to respond to his attempts to get her attention. Hanson was born in Alexandria, Minn in 1925.

2: Arranger and baritone saxophonist GERRY MULLIGAN died Saturday, January 20th, from complications due to surgery. He was 68. We will rebroadcast a 1989 interview with him. MULLIGAN was an innovator in modern jazz orchestration. Early in his career he was staff arranger for Gene Krupa's big band. In 1949 he collaborated with Gil Evans and Miles Davis in the Nonet. The nine-piece band shook up jazz arrangers and launched the era of so-called cool jazz. He achieved international acclaim when he started a "pianoless" quartet with trumpeter Chet Baker in the early 1950's. (REBROADCAST from 12