WEDNESDAY
JUNE 13
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Cooking Channel, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s program is part of a purely unintentional same-night doubleheader featuring the First Lady on rival cable cooking and restaurant shows. On this series tonight, in an installment from 2010, the secret ingredient is unveiled by special guest Michelle Obama – and the secret ingredient is everything that’s grown in the White House garden. Then, at 10 p.m. ET on a new edition of Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible (pictured), Robert Irvine takes on a charity dear to the First Lady’s heart. He and his team work to remake Horton’s Kids, an organization providing after-school meals to disadvantaged kids in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C.  And Michelle Obama is here, too, offering support as a dining room and new kitchen and garden are built at all deliberate speed.

 
  
 
 

Sundance, 8:00 p.m. ET

This high-energy 2001 movie, directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuaron, is a coming-of-age story that’s more mature than most – in fact, this is the unrated version, so be forewarned. Two boisterous teen boys invite a woman on a road trip to a destination that may or may not exist – and for reasons soon made clear, she accepts, and teaches them a lot along the way. Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal star as the lucky youths, and Maribel Verdu enchants and confounds them as the lovely Luisa.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This is the way to see this 1961 musical masterwork. Full-screen, without commercials or edits, and fully restored. The opening moments alone let you know you’re in for something special –and you are. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer star, along with Rita Moreno, but the real stars are composer Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim and choreographer Jerome Robbins.

 
  
 
 

Encore, 9:00 p.m. ET

Sandra Oh from Grey’s Anatomy co-stars in this second telemovie starring David Morrissey as British detective Tom Thorne. It’s a case in which he appears to be chasing one serial killer, then perhaps another – but not sure, at first, whether he’s after collaborators or imitators. For a full review, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader story HERE.

 
  
 
 

TNT, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: The first incarnation of this series ran on CBS from 1978-91, made Larry Hagman an international TV icon as J.R. Ewing, and defined America abroad as much as anyone or anything else during the Reagan era. And now it’s back, with a new generation of stars and characters – but with Hagman, Patrick Duffy (as Bobby) and Linda Gray (as Sue Ellen) back for more. And Hagman, alone, makes it worth the second visit. For reviews and reactions, please read veteran Dallas TV critic Ed Bark's take in Uncle Barky's Bytes HERE, and business historian David Sicilia's assessment of the old and new Dallas in TV Moneyland HERE.  

 
  
 
 
 
 
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Go away.

Warmly,

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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.