SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 11
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

Many broadcast networks routinely use Saturday night to recycle or repeat shows – the better to amortize, my dear. Tonight, Fox does it with the first two hours of 24: Legacy, so if you missed the new series reboot thus far, this will catch you up before Monday’s Episode 3… should you, after seeing these two hours, want to return for Episode 3. And if not, you can save yourself more than 20 hours of television watching, right there. Corey Hawkins, Miranda Otto star.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

When I don my cap and gown to attend graduation ceremonies as a faculty member each May at Rowan University, part of the fun is hugging the graduating seniors goodbye, and meeting their parents. The look on their eyes, of palpable and giddy relief at having gotten through it all and made it to graduation day, is universal – but I’m talking about the parents, not the students. The students, more usually, are giving off some mixture of excitement and dread, because they know the real world is the very next step. That’s what this 2016 comedy is all about, and it stars some very funny fresh-faced actors, such as Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick, to play the new, and often skittish, new college graduates. A lot has changed since 1967 and Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin in The Graduate. For one thing, “plastics” no longer is the future. For another, Benjamin never had to deal with the likes of Bryan Cranston, playing one of this movie’s imposing authority figures.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s new show features a lineup you won’t see on most other talk shows, if any: It’s led by Annette Bening and Andrew Garfield.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

Earlier this week, TCM started doing something I don’t remember it doing before: Scheduling random movies in alphabetical order. Tonight we’re up to H, and H is for A Hard Day’s Night, the 1964 musical classic starring the Beatles, and directed by Richard Lester. But don’t look for Help!, the Beatles’ cinematic follow-up from 1965. It’s not here on the TCM roster – even though, alphabetically, it would fit perfectly. Instead, TCM presents 1950’s James Stewart comedy, Harvey, right after A Hard Day’s Night at 11:45 p.m. ET – and it’s hard to complain about that…

 
  
 
 

NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET

According to NBC, tonight’s new edition of Saturday Night Live marks the 17th time that Alec Baldwin has hosted the program. Ed Sheeran is the musical guest – but it’s because of Baldwin, and expectations surrounding his latest lacerating President Trump sketch, that the ratings for tonight’s program are predicted to be huuuuuuge.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.