FRIDAY
OCTOBER 12
2018

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Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Matt Weiner’s first TV series since Mad Men is a daringly different concept for a television series. Different, but not unprecedented – because it aims to revive a TV genre that has gained traction in recent years, but not in this pure a sense. His new show, The Romanoffs, is an anthology series. Not one of the exciting, modern one-season stand-alone stories presented under an umbrella title, like FX’s Fargo or HBO’s True Detective – but, instead, an eight-episode series, with each installment sporting a different cast, story and location. The connecting thread is that each episode focuses on a person who is, or claims to be, a descendant of the ill-fated Russian royal family. Amazon premieres the first two episodes today, and will roll out the others in weekly installments. The first stars Marthe Keller as an elderly woman with a plush Paris apartment and a provincial, a.k.a. racist, way of looking at things. The second episode stars Corey Stall and Kelly Bishé as a married couple going through the motions in a largely dormant marriage, until she embarks alone on a cruise devoted to celebrating his family tree. I’ll hold off a final opinion until I’ve seen the other episodes, as anthology series are particularly uneven, and tricky to judge. But for my first impressions, listen today to NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, or visit the Fresh Air website later this afternoon. And for a full review on TVWW, visit Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.
 
  
 
 

Fox Sports 1, 8:00 p.m. ET

Game 1 of baseball’s NLCS pits the Los Angeles Dodgers, which defeated the Atlanta Braves, against the Milwaukee Brewers, which beat the Colorado Rockies. Those. Two teams, the Dodgers and the Brewers, now fight for their league’s pennant – and the chance to advance to the 2018 World Series.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This movie was made in 1972, and starred Robert Redford as a political candidate who didn’t think he had any chance of winning, so he dropped the usual Washingtonian facades and began speaking plainly, even at times outrageously. Redford’s character, Bill McKay, was. Running for U.S. Senate, not the presidency – but there’s no way to watch this movie, all these years later, without feeling some odd twinges of déjà vu.  

 
  
 
 

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Rachel Bloom’s Rebecca Bunch went through a season of highs and lows last year (only part of which was medically induced), and finds herself starting Season 4 in prison. Which, since this is a series that breaks into all-out musical production numbers at times, is the perfect excuse for Rebecca to sing her version of “The Cell Block Tango” from Chicago.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES RETURN: A new season of this very welcome, subjective dive into some of William Shakespeare’s plays returns tonight with a doubleheader: Much Ado about Nothing as discussed by Helen Hunt, and The Merchant of Venice, dissected by F. Murray Abraham. For a full review, see our Guest Contributor column from musician and Bard buff Matt Glaser. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

Some weeks – and this is one of them – you don’t need to know the guests. You just need to know that Maher will be there, with someone, to react to the week’s events.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.