WEDNESDAY
APRIL 13
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

American Idol is gone now, but The Voice is still going – and going, this season, better than ever before. The live performances the past two nights have been truly impressive, with occasional bursts of emotion and brilliance. (Case in point: Shaylah Fearing, last night, giving a performance so raw it earned a standing ovation from the entire crowd, as well as all four judges.) Tonight we learn which of those contestants advance to the Top 12 – and this year, there’s more than enough talent to fill the slots.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight on TCM is a salute to early 20th century German filmmaking – a golden era that includes the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu (shown at 11:30 p.m. ET), 1926’s Faust (1:15 a.m. ET), 1927’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (315 a.m. ET), and the better-known Marlene Dietrich star-making vehicle, 1930’s The Blue Angel (4:30 a.m. ET). And the evening begins at 8 p.m. ET with this superb example of German expressionism from the period: 1920’s famous piece of silent somnambulist cinema, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 9:30 p.m. ET

After Caligari, but before the other films shown tonight, TCM presents this 2014 documentary, which basically explains and gives samples of German Weimar Republic cinema, from early classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and sci-fi classic Metropolis (pictured) to such Nazi propaganda documentaries as Triumph of the Will. Well worth seeing – as are all of these movies.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET

You may have just seen Alicia Witt as the very determined woman who captured and threatened some of our Walking Dead heroes. She gave an excellent performance, but her role didn’t last long – which I guess, freed her up to go to Nashville and play country star Autumn Chase. Tonight, Autumn invites Maddie and Cash to go on the road with her.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Well, the Jennings family didn’t get to go to Disney World last week – but Elizabeth and Phillip didn’t die from that Soviet biological weapon sample, either, so that’s a plus. But it did upset the status quo at home – and tonight, that status quo is challenged at yet another home, as Phillip has yet another rocky patch with his “other wife,” Martha.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.