SATURDAY

JANUARY 11

2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

PRO FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: NEW ORLEANS SAINTS VS. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

Fox, 4:30 p.m. ET

For this second-week postseason playoff game, many sports pundits are expecting the Seattle Seahawks to repeat its late-season thrashing of the New Orleans Saints. But Saints QB Drew Brees, who held tough last week to wrest victory from the jaws of the Philadelphia Eagles, says he learned a lot from that earlier game, and is determined to perform better against Seattle this time. And off we go.

PRO FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: INDIANAPOLIS COLTS VS. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last week, the Indianapolis Colts were 28 points down in the third quarter against the Kansas City Chiefs, but Colts QB Andrew Luck persevered, staging one of the biggest comeback victories in NFL history. This week, Luck faces the Patriots, and stellar QB Tom Brady, so this game might be a thriller that goes down to the final minute of play – a scenario with which the Patriots, in postseason play, are painfully familiar. Speaking of painfully: TVWW’s Eric Gould, who lives in Boston, will be watching today’s game in all sorts of agony. Good luck, Eric.

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1934 Frank Capra comedy was the first movie to sweep all the major Oscars – film, director, actor (Clark Gable) and actress (Claudette Colbert), and earned them all. It’s a delightfully funny, unexpectedly modern road picture, about a cynical reporter who blackmails his way into accompanying a runaway heiress on her flight to… somewhere.

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

Please watch this hour, if you’ve never seen talk show host Graham Norton. This hour is a compilation of some of his best moments from the current season – and if the producers are smart enough to include such Season 14 highlights as Paul McCartney verbally sparring with Katy Perry, and Elton John responding to one of Norton’s questions by playfully telling him to “f--- off,” this show should turn any first-time viewer into an instant convert.

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

This 1944 movie, another Frank Capra-directed comedy classic, captures the lunacy of the original Joseph Kesserling stage play, thanks to a screenplay by Julius and Philip Epstein and a fearlessly funny lead performance by Cary Grant as drama critic Mortimer Brewster. Raymond Massey is just fine as Jonathan Brewster, the villainous brother whose botched plastic surgeries have him looking like Frankenstein’s monster – but those references must have elicited even bigger laughs in the 1941 Broadway play, when Jonathan was played by Boris Karloff himself. Among the rest of the movie’s supporting cast, I particularly adore watching Peter Lorre as Jonathan’s henchman Dr. Einstein and Edward Everett Horton, the future narrator of Fractured Fairy Tales, as Mr. Witherspoon, head of the local insane asylum. I love this film.

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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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