MONDAY
AUGUST 12
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Country Music Association artists gathered in Nashville earlier this summer to perform at a four-day festival, and tonight ABC presents a three-hour compendium of that event, with heavy emphasis on the many musical performances. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley (pictured)  take the stage together, and other artists stepping up to the microphone include Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Charlie Daniels, Keith Urban, Lenny Kravitz and others. Little Big Town hosts.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 8:00 p.m. ET

AMC kicks off gangster week with the best gangster movie ever made – Francis Coppola’s 1972 Oscar-winning adaptation of the Mario Puzo novel. It’s one of the most influential films of the 20th century, especially in its genre. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan star.

 
  
 
 

IFC, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1998 satanic cop thriller, starring Denzel Washington, isn’t that great a movie, really, but it’s worth seeing to catch its pre-Sopranos supporting appearance by James Gandolfini. Also co-starring: Donald Sutherland and John Goodman.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1964 French film is a musical in the purest sense: every line of dialogue in sung, in what amounts to a jazz opera by composer Michel Legrand. Jacques Demy is the writer and director of this magical little movie, and its star, as luminous as possible, is Catherine Deneuve. She’s the star of the day on TCM, and her other films on view today and tonight include the much darker Repulsion (Roman Polanski’s 1965 descent-into-madness thriller, at 7:45 a.m. ET) and Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel’s 1968 psychological study, with Deneuve as a repressed housewife who dabbles in prostitution).

 
  
 
 

CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week, some of the enforced residents under the dome discovered a mini-dome – and, within it, an egg-looking thing that, at episode’s end, was beginning to glow ominously. This week, Julia learns more about that mysterious orb – and discovers, I guess, whether the yolk’s on her.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.