WEDNESDAY

JANUARY 11

2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Pop, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Schitt’s Creek, the undervalued comedy import from Canada, begins Season 3 tonight on the POP Network, still starring veterans SCTV cohorts Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara as wealthy pampered parents who, after a major financial setback, retreat to go live in a small town they once purchased as a joke, became of its name. (See the show’s title.) Levy’s son, Daniel, is a co-star and series creator.

NOVA: "THE NUCLEAR OPTION"

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Five years after the tsunami and earthquake triggered the events of the nuclear breakdown and meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, Nova revisits the area, and the question, to ask: Is nuclear power a viable part of the world’s energy future? Or is it too unpredictable, too dangerous, and too environmentally costly? Check local listings.

BLACK-ISH

ABC, 9:31 p.m. ET

This series isn’t afraid to tackle sensitive or polarizing topics, such as its reputation-making episode on “the N word.” Tonight, it tackles another very sensitive topic: the T word. That’s T as in Trump, and tonight’s installment is all about the family’s reaction to the presidential election. Well, make that reactions, because little about this family unit is unified.

MAN SEEKING WOMAN

FXX, 10:30 p.m. ET

Last week’s Season 3 premiere set up a new recurring character in Lucy (Katie Findlay), a woman who becomes the new romantic interest of Jay Baruchel’s Josh. But this particular significant other is becoming very significant very quickly. In last week’s episode, after Josh wore out his welcome hanging out at her nicely appointed apartment with her disapproving roommates, she announced her intention to move in with him instead. This week, we see the first results of that snap decision: not only a massive and ruthless cleanup of his apartment (pictured here), but a visit to meet the parents.

EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS

Starz!, 1:40 a.m. ET

This 2016 documentary relies on vintage interview clips with Frank Zappa to tell the story of the man and his music – going so far back, with the musician who burst into counter-culture prominence as the leader of the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s, that among the earliest interviews is a TV visit with Steve Allen. Zappa is eminently quoteworthy, as when he once said, “Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”

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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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