MONDAY
NOVEMBER 11
2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

YouTube Premium, 3:00 a.m. ET

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: If the segments on Johnny Cash in Ken Burns’ Country Music left you hungry for more, here’s more. You have to pay for it, by subscribing to You Tube’s premium service – but it’s the best lure yet for people who are loath to sign up for yet another streaming service.
 
  
 
 

ESPN, 8:00 p.m. ET

Now that the New England Patriots have fallen, there’s only one undefeated team remaining in the NFL this season: the 8-0 San Francisco 49ers, who tonight try to extend their perfect streak by battling the 7-2 Seattle Seahawks.
 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

TCM has a really inventive double feature on hand tonight: Two war movies that share the same essential premise and structure, yet one is a straight drama adventure, while the other is just as exciting, yet improbably and intentionally comic. The first, at 8 p.m. ET, is 1967’s The Dirty Dozen, starring Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. The second, at 10:45 p.m. ET, is 1970’s Kelly’s Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, and Don Rickles. Both movies, amazingly, feature Donald Sutherland in a supporting role. In Kelly’s Heroes, he’s brilliant as the anachronistic hippie-ish tank commander Oddball (pictured) – whom I misidentified, in my YouTube video yesterday for TVWW’s Best TV Tomorrowas Oddjob. Oddjob, of course, threw his razor-sharp hat into the ring, and at James Bond, in Goldfinger. My favorite Best TV Tomorrow mistake to date – but we’ve only been doing these for a few weeks, and since I’m speaking without a script, I promise to make many more embarrassing errors. Collect them all. Trade with friends…
 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s series premiere introduced Lyra, the young orphan (played by Dafne Keen) with latent mystical powers, and the woman (played by the always dynamic Ruth Wilson) who takes the youngster under her wing. Tonight, the apprenticeship begins, and the mystical plots thicken…
 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

Afghan and Iraqi interpreters have served bravely for years in Afghanistan and Iraq, working with U.S. troops to connect and converse with the locals. Now that the troops are reducing their military presence, those interpreters are targeted and in danger, unless the U.S. protects them by supporting them and their families as welcome immigrants to our country. But is there such a policy? Or more like the reverse? Check local listings.
 
  
 
 
 
 
Read and add comments HERE for today's Best Bets!
 
 
 
 
Leave a Comment: (No HTML, 1000 chars max)
 
 Name (required)
 
 Email (required) (will not be published)
 
TOOGX
Type in the verification word shown on the image.
 
 
 Page: 1 of 224  | Go to page: 
4462 Comments
 
 
Here at this site extremely the critical material accumulation so everyone can appreciate a great deal
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Yes, I am entirely agreed with this article, and I just want say that this article is very helpful and enlightening. I also have some precious piece of concerned info !!!!!!Thanks.
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
I just want to let you know that I just check out your site and I find it very interesting and informative .
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Manusia yang menyedihkan, mencari uang dengan menipu orang jujur. Persetan dengan sampah ini.
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Health fitness points also propose that vices need to be stopped
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Wonderful article, thanks for putting this together! This is obviously one great post. Thanks for the valuable information and insights you have so provided here.
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
I would like to thank you for the efforts you have made in writing this article. I am hoping the same best work from you in the future as well. In fact your creative writing abilities has inspired me to start my own Blog Engine blog now. Really the blogging is spreading its wings rapidly. Your write up is a fine example of it
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
I am happy to find this post very useful for me, as it contains lot of information. I always prefer to read the quality content and this thing I found in you post. Thanks for sharing
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Hanya sekelompok penipu lain yang melakukan bisnis kotor secara online.
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Para penipu licik menjalankan operasi kotor yang dibangun di atas kebohongan dan penipuan.
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Pemerintah Indonesia, persetan dengan situs web ini, mereka menipu orang.
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Para penipu ini benar-benar bajingan, berbohong kepada orang-orang dan mencuri uang seperti penipu kotor yang sebenarnya.
Aug 17, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Perilaku penipuan murni. Bajingan-bajingan ini tidak punya moral dan tidak ragu-ragu menipu orang lain.
Aug 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Para penipu yang memalukan memangsa orang-orang dengan klaim palsu dan kebohongan.
Aug 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Pemerintah Indonesia, persetan dengan para penipu itu, tangkap mereka dan persetan dengan mereka karena telah menipu banyak orang.
Aug 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Manusia yang menyedihkan, mencari uang dengan menipu orang jujur. Persetan dengan sampah ini.
Aug 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Pemerintah Indonesia tangkap situs web sialan itu
Aug 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Perilaku penipuan murni. Bajingan-bajingan ini tidak punya moral dan tidak ragu-ragu menipu orang lain.
Aug 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Para bajingan ini tidak punya rasa malu sama sekali, menipu orang-orang yang tidak bersalah setiap hari.
Aug 16, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
Manusia sampah sejati, memangsa orang-orang tak berdosa hanya untuk mengisi kantong mereka yang serakah. Sungguh memalukan.
Aug 15, 2026   |  Reply
 
 
 
 Page: 1 of 224  | Go to page: 
 
 

David Bianculli

Founder / Editor

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.