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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 1
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 
500 QUESTIONS

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

In two seasons to date, no one has yet won this show, and gotten all the way to the end of the 500-Q marathon –and I suspect no one may ever accomplish the task. This season, just getting to the 100-question mark has been a rarity, but if some contestant gets closer, the interest and the tension ought to rise dramatically. Thus far, though, it’s like watching an automotive race where no driver gets out of second gear. I’m watching, but I feel like both the contestants and I are wasting time idling.

 
  
 
 
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

I just saw the current revival on Broadway, a marvelous production starring Gabriel Byrne and Jessica Lange, with their sons played by Michael Shannon from Boardwalk Empire and John Gallagher Jr. from The Newsroom. Here, on TCM tonight, is the Sidney Lumet-directed film version of the same intense Eugene O’Neill play, starring Ralph Richardson and Katharine Hepburn. The sons are played by Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell, and the movie was made in 1962, back when Robards – who was the first actor to play the role of Jamie on Broadway – was young enough for the part. In 1988, Robards returned to the play, and to Broadway, this time playing the patriarch Tyrone.

 
  
 
 
ROOTS

A&E, Lifetime, History, 9:00 p.m. ET

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 3 of 4. Anika Noni Rose as Kizzy, gets to shine in tonight’s installment of Roots, as the story passes to a new generation – with another still to come tomorrow. For reviews, hear my report for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross on the Fresh Air website, and read our TVWW contributors’ reviews on Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes and David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 
THE AMERICANS

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week, one foreign crisis was averted, as the vacationing preacher returned safely to the U.S. – thus squelching his paranoid wife’s threat to expose the Russian sleeper agents whose daughter they have befriended, and learned a great deal about. But this week, there’s another foreign crisis of sorts, this one having to do with FBI agent Stan and his tenuous relationship with Russian operative Oleg.

 
  
 
 
CLEVERMAN

Sundance, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Well, here’s something you don’t see very often: An Australian sci-fi series written by an Aboriginal, and setting up a near-future premise in which three Aussie populations coexist uneasily: white elites, Aboriginal natives, and a recently discovered third group known as the “hairies” – a humanoid species with exceptional speed and strength. The show’s title refers to one of the Aborginals, who adopts a sort of superhero alter identity. One thing’s for sure: You can’t read that plot synopsis and say, “Oh, not this again.”

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.
 
 
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