Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s focus series Hemingway is coming to PBS

This is what is happening in the television world on Monday, April 5. All times are Eastern.

Best choice

Hemingway (PBS, 8 p.m., premiere docuseries, consecutive episodes): When modern readers paralyze the American literary canon, they probably complain at least in part about Ernest Hemingway. The Hemingway cliches are easy to ram away … It deserves the credit of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s six hour docuseries Hemingway not much of this. The directors use the author’s own statements, letters, photos, and other writings to verify some of our worst assumptions. While cultural conversations about whether we can separate an artist’s exemplary work from their troubled personal life crop up again and again, Hemingway wades in that same muddy water and drops anchor. ” Read the rest of Roxana Hadadi’s review.

Regular coverage

Jokers

Only foals and horses (Acorn TV, 3:01 p.m., full US season 1 premiere): Add this to your list of comforting TV shows to put on while you fold laundry: a four-episode docuseries about an all-female equine vet team in Wales.

Mira, Royal Detective (Disney Junior, 5 p.m., second season premiere): Our current reigning child detective returns, and as with her debut, it’s not a moment too soon.