The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

Six new breeds—including the American English coonhound and the Xoloitzcuintli (formerly the Mexican hairless)—join 179 others represented among the contenders in the 136th edition of this venerable canine competition. Mary Carillo of NBC Sports joins longtime co-host David Frei for the two-night event, broadcast live from New York’s Madison Square Garden. Monday–Tuesday, Feb. 13–14; at 8 p.m. both nights on USA, plus Monday at 9 p.m. on CNBC

The Loving Story

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In 1958, the marriage between Richard and Mildred Loving—a white man and a woman of African-American and Native American descent—was declared illegal by their home state of Virginia. Both a fascinating legal drama and an affecting love story, this documentary uses old footage of the Lovings as well as present-day interviews with the family’s lawyers to chronicle how Mildred’s 1963 letter to Robert F. Kennedy led to a landmark Supreme Court decision. Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 9 p.m., HBO

Independent Lens: More Than a Month

Does Black History Month integrate or segregate? Should there even be one? Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman puts the issue to people on the street, to academics, to his own family. Though the results are often funny, Tilghman raises serious questions—and finds answers that are far from straightforward. Thursday, Feb. 16, at 10 p.m., PBS; check local listings

The Good Wife

Guest stars Parker Posey, Rita Wilson, Edward Herrmann, and Amy Sedaris reprise recurring roles in a sweeps-month edition of this smart legal drama, which stars Emmy winner Julianna Margulies. This week, Margulies’s law firm leads a class-action suit against a software company that helped the Syrian government “disappear” U.S. citizens. Meanwhile, partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles) faces disbarment. Sunday, Feb. 19, at 9 p.m., CBS

Life’s Too Short

“I’m the U.K.’s go-to dwarf,” says Warwick Davis, of the Harry Potter films, playing a fictionalized version of himself in this new series from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Darkly funny, the show—about showbiz, sex, divorce, accountants, and being 3-foot-6—is part Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose, part Gervais and Merchant’s Extras. The premiere features a hilarious turn by Liam Neeson pitching himself as an improvisational comedian. Sunday, Feb. 19, at 10:30 p.m., HBO

Other highlights

Slavery by Another Name

Based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning 2008 book, this documentary reveals how tens of thousands of black Americans were arbitrarily arrested and then bought and sold as slaves, well into the 20th century. Monday, Feb. 13, at 9 p.m., PBS; check local listings

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) joins the cast of the long-running forensics hit—as an investigator with anger issues. Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 10 p.m., CBS

Brooklyn Boheme

A look at the African-American arts scene that flourished in the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1980s and ’90s. Saturday, Feb. 18, at 4:30 p.m., Showtime 2