WEDNESDAY
JUNE 10
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Syfy, 6:00 p.m. ET

TV already has shown us the original Jurassic Park this week, as a prelude to the imminent summer blockbuster Jurassic World. Tonight, beginning at 6 p.m. ET, Syfy shows the second and third movies in the Jurassic canon: 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park at 6 p.m. ET, followed at 9 p.m. by 2001’s Jurassic Park III.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Since the summer is loaded with repeats anyway, why not give a little attention to this Nature repeat from a few years ago. As a young man, I spent one summer mapping the Everglades as a member of the U.S. Geological Survey crew, so I’ve always been fascinated by the plant and animal life in the Glades. This hour looks at a species that is thriving in the Everglades, but isn’t native to the region: It’s the Burmese python, a snake so big, and so tough, that it can swallow an alligator whole.

 
  
 
 

Cinemax, 8:00 p.m. ET

Nathan Fillion is doing just fine as Castle on ABC, but the series he should have starred in for years, before that, was Firefly, the Joss Whedon outer-space Western in which Fillion starred as the rogue-ish captain of a rebel ship on the fringes of both the universe and the law. Firefly premiered on Fox in 2002, and was canceled after one season – but Whedon stubbornly, and valiantly, revived the franchise for a single, big-screen movie called Serenity, with the same cast, in 2005. It’s quite good, either as a companion to the series or as a stand-alone adventure – and certainly showed that Whedon had a gift for both character and action on the silver screen. And now look at him…

 
  
 
 

Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET

Summer TV, to me, becomes official as the movies I associate with summer start popping up on television. Jaws is the apex of this, but other blockbuster movies also fill the bill – and this other Steven Spielberg epic, from 1982, will do nicely. (Side note: It was a very weird, meta, but funny bit at Sunday’s Tony Awards, when Kristin Chenoweth, in one of a series of costume changes saluting the year’s dramas, came out dressed as E.T. to allude to the musical Fun Home, which took home the Tony for Best Musical. The joke, and it was a stretch, was that she had misheard the play’s title as “Phone Home” – hence the costume.)
 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

TCM is saluting “Pin-Up Girls” every Wednesday this month, and tonight’s lineup includes a 10 p.m. ET showing of that Bob Hope and Bing Crosby road-picture comedy, which takes place in the Far East and co-stars a scantily, and memorably, clad Dorothy Lamour. Ardest feminists may take umbrage regarding the character, the costumes, even the TCM programming theme – but I say, especially regarding the costuming, what’s sarong with that?

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.