SATURDAY
JANUARY 10
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

NBC, 4:30 p.m. ET

The only team from the American Football Conference to win a Super Bowl the past five years is the Baltimore Ravens – which got to that game, two years ago, after upsetting the New England Patriots in that year’s AFC Championship Game. The Patriots have plenty of other postseason appearances worthy of the description “upsetting,” and doubtless will be playing with grim purpose, trying to get back to the Super Bowl for the first time in three years.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This is a same-week repeat of the introductory two-hour block of the latest entry from the Marvel Studios universe of superheroes and not-so-super ones. Hayley Atwell’s Agent Peggy Carter, battling all sorts of espionage intrigue in post-WWII 1946, falls in the latter category: She is endowed with no special powers, other than keen intuition, impressive close-combat fighting skills, and the ability to look drop-dead gorgeous when choosing to go undercover as a voluptuous blonde. This series starts off with a clever tone, alternatively serious and playful, that it took sister series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. more than a season to find. So if you didn’t sample this new series yet, here’s another opportunity.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

This National Football Conference game today is a contest featuring two of the game’s most talented young quarterbacks: Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks, who in three seasons as an NFL starter already has won one Super Bowl, and Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, the top pick in the 2011 NFL draft, now taking his team to the postseason for the second consecutive year. Welcome to football’s future, arriving a bit early.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

When I was in Berlin last year, I visited their fantastic film museum and saw, among many other things, the scale-model sets and full-size robot stand-in for Fritz Lang’s 1927 futuristic, impressionistic silent-movie masterpiece. Tonight TCM televises the 2010 restored version of this amazing early film, which stars Brigitte Helm in a dual role as a compassionate champion of workers’ rights and her sexy evil clone. Guess which one is shown here…

 
  
 
 

Discovery, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: For this season premiere of Mythbusters, the gang takes on the “reality” of things they’ve seen in Springfield – as in the hometown of Fox’s The Simpsons. For example, do three-eyed fish really exist downstream from nuclear plants? (That’s my example, not theirs – but you get the idea.)

 
  
 
 

Discovery, 10:00 p.m. ET

Eddie Redmayne is getting lots of attention, and a likely Oscar nomination, for starring as Stephen Hawking in the 2014 biographical drama, The Theory of Everything. Ten years before that, however, another dashing young man starred as Hawking in a biographical movie also – this one made for BBC-TV in 2004, starring a then-little-known actor named Benedict Cumberbatch. And this year, the man who plays TV’s Sherlock is getting raves, and his own share of Oscar-nomination buzz, for playing another genius on screen: This time in 2014’s The Imitation Game.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.