THURSDAY
APRIL 14
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

I love watching this 1961 movie musical on TCM. It’s not edited, it’s not interrupted, and it’s shown in the original widescreen ratio. So when the Jets are dancing down the streets of New York, you get all the Jets. Richard Beymer, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno star.

 
  
 
 

CNN, 9:00 p.m. ET

CNN has given a flashy name to this latest debate between Democratic presidential aspirants Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders: Brooklyn. And the polls in this state are tightening – so expect the tension to be tightening as well.
 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This new season of Orphan Black is all about relocating. The show itself is moving from Saturday to this new time slot on Thursdays – and the show’s narrative is doing a time jump, too – to an earlier point in the Orphan Black narrative. To say more would be, at this point, to say too much. Tatiana Maslany stars.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 11:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: BBC America has looked across the way at AMC, and the success it has enjoyed with such cult-show postmortems as The Talking Dead, and decided, why not play the same game? So after Orphan Black episodes this season, BBC America, beginning tonight, plans to present a TV after-party of sorts, called After the Black.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 11:30 p.m. ET

This season, BBC America is pulling the same frustrating trick it did a few years ago: moving around one of its best programs, The Graham Norton Show, so that it’s almost impossible to find it. Like Orphan Black, this show, too, has moved from Saturdays to Thursdays – but in this case, not only outside of prime time, but delayed until after After the Black. This talk show series, imported a few days after it premieres in the U.K., ought to be seen in prime time. It’s that good. Tonight’s guests: Helen Mirren, Kevin Costner, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Meghan Trainor, and Ricky Gervais. See what I mean?

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.