TONIGHT'S MUST-SEES: "INSIDE THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE" (NBC), 8 P.M.; OR "EARTH 2010" (ABC), 9 P.M.

Go figure: The networks avoided primetime documentaries, even during the depth of the writers' strike. Now, bizarrely, two air them on the same night.
ABC moved first, scheduling its environmental report. Bob Woodruff hosts a two-hour at the long-range effects of population gain, climate change and more.
Then NBC scheduled one of its traditions.
This is the seventh time over 40 years, the network says, that it has had a day-in-the-life portrait of a new presidency. This time, its plans involved using 12 cameras to record events Friday (May 29), supplementing that with interviews.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: "RESCUE ME," 7 P.M., FX

As last week ended, Tommy's nephew talked his way into active firefighting, before he had finished his training. Tommy (Denis Leary) grumbled — then plunged into the flames to save him.
Now — in the tautly played start of this episode — we see the aftershocks. Then Tommy gets two sudden changes in his love life.
He also has a fresh encounter with Dwight — the paraplegic pill-popper who is brilliantly played by Michael J. Fox. Their scene together is strange, painful and (in its own way) bizarrely funny; it's pure "Rescue Me."