TUESDAY
MARCH 11
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

In hopes of juicing this show’s momentum at midseason, ABC tonight imports a character from Marvel’s movie universe. No, not Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. It’s Lady Sif, the Asgardian warrior woman played in the Thor movies by Jaimie Alexander. So if you guessed the wrong crossover character, I guess that makes you a Thor loser.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

There’s another salvo of short interview segments from Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show era, presented tonight on TCM, introduced by former Tonight host Conan O’Brien. Beginning at 8 p.m. ET, and running about 15 minutes each, this new batch of old clips features Bob Hope from 1978, Truman Capote from 1972, Lauren Bacall from 1980, Tony Randall from 1974 and Bing Crosby from 1976. Collect them all. Trade with friends. Then, at 9:15 p.m. ET, stay tuned for a night of Bacall movies, starting with 1957’s Designing Woman, co-starring Gregory Peck, and, at 11:15 p.m. ET, 1964’s Sex and the Single Girl, starring Natalie Wood.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

In this week’s new episode, Andy (Al Madrigal) asks Will (David Walton) to be the godfather to their son, Johah. And even though Will has made great role-model strides bonding with young neighbor Marcus (Benjamin Stockham), that doesn’t mean, in this instance, that where there’s a Will, there’s a way.

 
  
 
 

El Rey, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: If I’m not mistaken, this is the first time in TV history that the founder and chairman of a network has created and directed a television series for his own network. The new network is the El Rey Network, an English-language cable and satellite network with a Latino flavor and themes. And the new show, a 10-part weekly series beginning tonight, is  From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, an expansion and retelling of the raucous 1996 vampire film directed by Rodriguez, written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Kurtzman, and starring Tarantino, George Clooney, Harvey Keitel and Salma Hayek. The story is the same here, but with more back-story and depth to fill the additional hours. The first hour is intriguing, and enjoyable, with some of the visual flair for which Rodriguez is famous. But it’s only a tempting appetizer for the mayhem and merriment to come. Zane Holtz and D.J. Cotrona inherit the roles of the Gecko brothers, and Eiza Gonzalez is the first image we see, in a flashback showing the snaky origins of the role played by Hayek in the movie: vampire temptress Santanico Pandemonium.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

This week, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) goes on “vacation” – but, as always when he leaves town, he’s got at least one hidden agenda. In this new episode, that agenda has him visiting a gun range to confront a powerful character, played by an actor whose drawl, smirk and swagger fit right in: Eric Roberts.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.