SATURDAY

MAY 13

2017

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Cinemax, 8:00 p.m. ET

Jason Bourne may have a bad memory, but he should know he’s been dealing with his missing past, his dangerous present, and his uncertain future for quite a while now. The first time Matt Damon portrayed the amnesiac super-spy was in 2002’s The Bourne Identity. Following that, Damon has reprised the role, and the quest to learn about his past, his mission and his enemies, in 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, and his latest cinematic run down memory lane, 2016’s Jason Bourne, which Cinemax presents tonight. At this rate, if Damon does one more entry in this particular movie franchise, I’d like to suggest an appropriate title: Bourne Again.

EAST OF EDEN

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

TCM is among the best places to see classic movies, as they’re shown original ratio, in their best available restored condition, and without edits or commercial interruption. That makes it an ideal place to watch tonight’s prime-time showing of Elia Kazan’s 1955 classic version of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, which stars James Dean, Julie Harris, Burl Ives and Jo Van Fleet.

DOCTOR WHO

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

In tonight’s new Doctor Who episode, the writers manage to combine two popular genres, in an episode that isn’t, but could be, called “Zombies in Space.” No kidding. Or, maybe, “Zombies on a Spaceship.” Either way…

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

Cinemax, 10:05 p.m. ET

Now more than ever. This 1976 Alan J. Pakula film, with screenplay by William Goldman based on the book and Washington Post reporting by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, has been one of my favorite movies ever since it was released. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, playing Woodward and Bernstein as they unravel the twisted but crucially important threads of the Richard Nixon White House scandal eventually deemed Watergate, are fabulous – as is virtually every actor, and every scene, in this perfect movie. And newspapers are, once again, as important a part of the fabric of democracy as they were in the Watergate era. Watch and remember. And reflect.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET

Earlier this week in Manhattan, Melissa McCarthy – who’s the host of tonight’s SNL – was seen, and photographed, propelling herself through city streets, right around Trump Tower, on a “mobile podium” dressed as White House press spokesperson Sean Spicer. And after the week of events we’ve all dealt with, this week’s show had better be up to the occasion. McCarthy will be, that’s a given. But the writing, tonight, needs to be especially sharp. Our country desperately needs it, and deserves it.

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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.

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