The Arts & Entertainment cable network will...

The Arts & Entertainment cable network will kick off its series of Pulitzer Prize-winning one-act plays on Nov. 2 with Marsha Norman’s “Third and Oak: The Pool Hall,” starring James Earl Jones and Mario Van Peebles. Others to follow: Tennessee Williams’ “27 Wagons Full of Cotton,” Eugene O’Neill’s “The Rope” and Paul Zindel’s “Let Me Hear You Whisper.” Anthony Quinn will host the series.

The mother of Detroit Piston basketball star Isiah Thomas is the subject of NBC’s “The Mary Thomas Story.” The “Magical World of Disney” movie, about a single mother (Alfre Woodard) raising nine children in Chicago’s tough West Side, will air in December.

David Soul is a powerful white supremacist with a calculated plan to advance his Aryan Resurgence Movement in “So Proudly We Hail,” an upcoming CBS movie about the rise of neo-Nazism in America. The two-hour movie co-stars Chad Lowe and Edward Herrmann.

Emmy winner Jackee from “227” will star in a new NBC movie tentatively titled “Double Trouble,” about a sassy waitress who reluctantly agrees to fill in for her injured twin sister as an undercover FBI agent.

“The Final Days,” ABC’s three-hour docudrama that recounts Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s book about Richard Nixon’s presidential resignation, will air on Oct. 29. The behind-the-scenes account stars Lane Smith (as Nixon), Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers and Ed Flanders.

“Martin,” an original classical ballet composed by Gordon Parks as a tribute to Martin Luther King, will be shown on KCET in January, along with an introductory documentary, to commemorate King’s birthday.