WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 10
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

The second episode of this new season (Season 11) of The X-Files features one of the characters from the show’s short-lived spinoff series, The Lone Gunmen. The character is Richard “Ringo” Langly, the actor is Dean Haglund, and the episode is called “This.” And what is “This” about? Basically, it’s about an alternate, artificially created universe where a person’s consciousness can be kept alive, indefinitely. It’s the same sci-fi plot device that already has been used on Netflix’s Black Mirror, and is about to be used on Amazon’s imminent Electric Dreams series. But watch what The X-Files does with it here. It’s pretty clever, and fairly spooky. As in Spooky Mulder…

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1982 biographical epic stars Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi, with Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White and such eminent co-stars as Edward Fox and John Gielgud. The action begins about a century before the movie was released, when a young Gandhi had his own personal Rosa Parks-type moment on a South African train. After he was ejected from a first-class compartment for being Indian, Gandhi began a series of nonviolent protests – a protest that spread from unfair practices on South African transportation systems to a demand for human rights that was positively planetary, and planetarily positive.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Nova means new, but in TV terms, Nova is an old, old dog – but one that doesn’t need any new tricks. It began on PBS in 1974, and has logged 45 seasons of usually fascinating reports on scientific topics. Today, it launches a new year by taking a two-hour tour of black holes – a phenomenon that is not only frightening, and astounding, but – in photographs and artist renderings, absolutely gorgeous. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

TBS, 10:30 p.m. ET

So if you are just returning from vacation, and re-entering the real world and its attendant headlines, scandals, and tweets, what have you missed? Tonight, in this new episode, Sister Sam Explains It All for You…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.