THURSDAY

JUNE 14

2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

CBS All Access, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new drama series premieres today on CBS All Access, providing a fact-based look at the very weird life of Jack Parsons (played by Jack Reynor), who in the years before WWII pursued both experiments in rocketry and an enthusiasm for a very out-of-the-mainstream religious cult. Bella Heathcote co-stars as Jack’s wealthy, sometimes too supportive spouse. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.

2018 FIFA WORLD CUP

Fox, 11:00 a.m. ET

Russia is the host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which begins this morning, with matches in this hugely popular international men’s tournament (hugely popular internationally, anyway) televised by either Fox or Fox Sports. The USA men’s team will not be taking part in the competition – not because our country is protesting Russia’s meddling in our election process, but because the USA team failed to make the cut of the world’s best 32 teams. The Korea Republic did, though, and so did Iran and Serbia, and Saudi Arabia and Senegal. America last! Today’s opening game, shown on Fox at 11 a.m. ET, has Russia, the host country, playing Saudi Arabia. Expect Russia to aggressively invade the other team’s territory.

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

TCM’s Mad About Musicals celebration continues today and tonight, with musicals shown all day and throughout prime time. Best of the bunch: At 8 p.m. ET, James Cagney playing a patriotic show-business firecracker, portraying showman and songwriter George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. The ultra-patriotic movie was released in 1942, the year after the USA entered WWII.

LIP SYNC BATTLE

Paramount, 10:40 p.m. ET

Episode 2 of American Woman, the new Paramount series starring Alicia Silverstone and Mena Suvari as suburban women in the 1970s, is presented at 10 p.m. ET. It’s not really that good, or heartily recommended, but the extra lengths to which Paramount is going to promote the series deserves mention. Right after American Woman concludes tonight, Paramount presents a new edition of its Lip Sync Battle series, pitting Silverstone and Suvari against each other. Suvari pretends to sing “Son of a Preacher Man,” while Silverstone, pictured, reincarnates her Clueless role to lip-sync to “Fancy,” the Iggy Azalea song whose video was inspired by Silverstone’s 1995 movie.

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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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