MONDAY
JULY 13
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ESPN, 8:00 p.m. ET

The day before baseball’s All-Star Game, some of the sport’s heaviest hitters show up to swing for the fences – without any of the annoyances of runners on base, situational strategies, or wickedly difficult incoming ball trajectories from opposing pitchers. It’s just pitches served over the plate, seeing who can hit more of them into the stands or beyond, and just how far. It’s an odd offshoot of baseball’s midpoint summer break – but here it is.

 
  
 
 

Food Network, 9:00 p.m. ET

Guy Fieri isn’t usually very contemplative in his frenzied fast-food tours – basically, he’s an eat-and-run kind of guy – but on tonight’s one-hour special, he looks back not only on his favorite meals at America’s local, low-rent food joints, but how his TV series came to be in the first place.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Author Elizabeth Swados has written, candidly and sometimes humorously, of her long bout with depression. Tonight, those thoughts are collected in an animated short film, with voices provided by Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi and others.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

China is the first country in the world to declare “Internet addiction” a national health crisis – and the country is seeking ways not only to define this new “illness,” but to treat it. Web Junkie looks at a real-life program that sounds like the stuff of A Clockwork Orange fiction: a three-month program designed as high-tech rehab, to wean addicted web users from their online habits. Be warned: If you like this installment of P.O.V. on Facebook, you’re not part of the solution. You’re part of the problem. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

Discovery, 10:00 p.m. ET

The very recent warmth in international relations between Cuba and the United States has come to this – the first TV sign of cooperation between those two countries. This Discovery Channel documentary is the first U.S.-produced series filmed in Cuba since the lifting of the 50-year-plus embargo. Its topic? All the American cars, mostly from the Fifties, still in use there, because of the unavailability of more recent models from the States. To see this much vintage chrome anywhere else in the world, you’d have to visit the personal garages of Jerry Seinfeld or Jay Leno.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.