I almost didn’t watch “American Masters” tonight because I’d seen so many retrospectives of “The Carol Burnett Show” that I wasn’t sure what new they could bring to it and I was scared it would dwell too much on private pathos.

But “Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character” was a terrific 90 minutes of television, and partly to blame for my not catching completely up to my NaNoWriMo goal tonight. It was insightful, had a perfect mix of clips, interviews and background material, and was just thoroughly well-presented, as I should have known based on “American Masters”‘ track record.

(I have made some NaNoWriMo progress — quite a bit, in fact. I just haven’t caught up completely. I’ll post about that in a little bit, after I try to write a few more pages.)