“Billy Wilder Speaks” (7 p.m., TCM) airs on what would have been the director’s 100th birthday. Culled from a series of interviews from German television, “Speaks” offers frank talk (in both English and German) about his life and work.

Wilder came of age in Vienna but left Europe in 1933 after the Nazis’ rise to power. He left behind his mother and other family members who would later die in concentration camps. Wilder’s life as an exile and a dark view of human nature would influence his dramas and comedies alike, including “Double Indemnity” (8:30 p.m., TCM), made in 1944. Wilder would return to the rubble of the Nazi capital Berlin to make the cynical 1948 comedy “A Foreign Affair” (4 a.m. Friday), starring fellow exile Marlene Dietrich. Wilder’s influential films, including “Sunset Blvd.” and “Some Like it Hot,” rank among the best Hollywood movies ever made.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Ricki Lake hosts “Gameshow Marathon” (7 p.m., CBS).

¢ Chris wants a transfer in the worst way on “Everybody Hates Chris” (7 p.m., UPN).

¢ A desperate, bored young wife (Jennifer Aniston) takes up with an unstable youth (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the 2002 independent film “The Good Girl” (7 p.m., Oxygen).

¢ A psychic who predicted his own demise proves too accurate on “CSI” (8 p.m., CBS).

¢ On two episodes of “My Name is Earl” (NBC), a date with the IRS (7 p.m.), a frightened boy wants recompense (8 p.m.).

¢ The results are read on “So You Think You Can Dance” (8 p.m., Fox).

¢ On two episodes of “The Office” (NBC), office Olympics (7:30 p.m.), Michael hosts a cruise on a nearly frozen lake (8:30 p.m.).

¢ Bil Dwyer hosts the new version of “I’ve Got a Secret” (8 p.m., GSN).

¢ A careless lark results in tragedy on “Waterloo Road” (8 p.m., BBC America).

¢ A paramedic who attended to a drug-shooting victim goes AWOL on “Without a Trace” (9 p.m., CBS).

¢ A neighbor wants a piece of the action on “Windfall” (9 p.m., NBC).

Late night

Meryl Streep and Yellowcard appear on “Late Show with David Letterman” (10:35 p.m., CBS) … Jay Leno hosts Kevin Spacey and Taylor Hicks on “The Tonight Show” (10:35 p.m., NBC) … Kate Beckinsale, Tyrese Gibson and Will Gadd chat on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” (11:35 p.m., NBC) … Craig Ferguson hosts Regis Philbin, James Marsden and Sonya Kitchell on “The Late, Late Show” (11:37 p.m., CBS).