WEDNESDAY
JULY 13
2016

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TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

More Westerns are on tap, all day and night tonight, as TCM continues its celebration of Western month on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Tonight, in prime time, the better ones arrives, starting at 8 ET with 1967’s Hour of the Gun, one of many Westerns telling the story of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Jason Robards and James Garner star in those respective roles, and John Sturges directs.

 
  
 
 

IFC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: The final two episodes of the season are presented tonight, back to back, as Marc (Marc Maron) struggles to get settled in a new city – and to get closer to his “sperm donor” baby. And, thanks to a just-released announcement from Maron on his WTF podcast, it’s not only the end of the season for Maron, it’s the end of the series, with no pickup for what would have been a Season 5. Marc Maron did some very smart and funny work here, and some excellent comic acting, so he deserves a salute – and, for his final hour, an appreciative audience.

 
  
 
 

Sundance, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This six-part British series, based on a drama series from Israel, is about a family slowly realizing that its youngest member, a 5-year-old boy named Joe (Max Vento), belongs on the autism spectrum. The parents, played by Lee Ingleby and Morven Christie, get their first hints at Joe’s fifth birthday party – but there are other reactions to register and absorb, from Joe’s older sister and his aunt and uncle to Joe’s crusty grandfather, played by the show’s most recognizable star, Christopher Eccleston.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

John Sturges, director of the Hour of the Gun film preceding this 1970 movie, directed this Western as well, with a superb cast that includes Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn and James Coburn. It’s one of the more iconic Westerns, yet it’s based on a 1954 Akira Kurosawa Japanese film, Seven Samurai, that’s an even more iconic and impressive of an Eastern.
 
  
 
 

USA, 10:01 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Last year, this USA Network drama came out of nowhere, with little promotion or advance warning last summer, to become one of the more intriguing new shows of 2015. This year, for Season 2, the central secret is out: The identity of the mysterious central character is now known, and the show’s protagonist, Elliot (Rami Malek), has to deal with the consequences of that revelation. And, as well, with the consequences of the computer hack that severely disrupted the E Corp business the mysterious Mr. Robot was targeting.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.