SATURDAY
APRIL 12
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 2:00 p.m. ET

This weekend’s third round of the Masters is most noteworthy for who didn’t make the cut, or isn’t playing. For the first time in 20 years, it’s a Saturday Masters without either Tiger Woods (who bowed out in advance because of injury) or Phil Mickelson (who missed the cut yesterday). Bubba Watson, thanks to a back-nine five-birdie run, is atop the leader board on Day 3, hoping for a second green jacket after winning in 2012. And the most familiar names closest to him, as Saturday’s action begins, are Fred Couples and Jim Furyk, at five strokes behind.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET

Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this 2012 period film, which stars Jamie Foxx as a former slave who becomes the partner of a German bounty hunter roaming the deep South during the plantation era. The bounty hunter is played by Christoph Waltz, in a standout role – but also watch for Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington and that wonderful Justified star, Walton Goggins.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1953 comedy is about three women who set out to marry into wealth, and it’s made richer by the casting of its three (very) leading ladies: Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe.

 
  
 
 

El Rey, 9:00 p.m. ET

This 1975 movie is noteworthy for several things. Long before Mad Max, it presented a dystopian post-apocalyptic view of the future. Long before Miami Vice, it has Don Johnson in a starring role, as a resourceful loner whose secret weapon is his traveling companion, a brilliant canine with mental telepathy. But my favorite aspect of this film is that it’s based on a story by Harlan Ellison, a visionary writer who’s smarter than any telepathic canine.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET

Tonight’s guest host on this new edition: Seth Rogen. Musical guest: Ed Sheeran.

 

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.