Open Studio With Jared Bowen  8:30 p.m., Channel 2

Jared Bowen is a versatile arts reporter who is as at ease with movies and TV as he is with painting. He’s a regular on “Greater Boston” and on NPR, and now he is the host of his own weekly series. Busy much? The show will will pick up both local and national stories about the arts, starting Friday night with the Danforth Museum’s retrospective of artist John Wilson, a profile of Diane von Furstenberg, and a performance by poet Ed Bok Lee.