THURSDAY

JULY 14

2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

2016 BRITISH OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT

Golf Channel, 1:30 a.m. ET

NBC Universal has reclaimed coverage of a golf major by televising this year’s British Open, which means two things. One: coverage today and tomorrow, of the first two rounds from the Royal Troon golf club in Scotland, begins super-early, at 1:30 a.m. ET on Golf Channel, and runs all day until 4 p.m. ET. Two: coverage will include plenty of promos for NBC’s upcoming Olympics coverage, with lots of mention of golf as an Olympic event – but with very little mention of how few pro golfers, at least on the men’s side, are making the trip to Rio.

THIRTEEN

BBC America, 6:00 p.m. ET

For some reason, BBC America has moved tonight’s latest episode of this tense and brooding series from 10 p.m. ET to 6 p.m., where a lot of people who have followed the series to this point are unlikely to find it without help. So, here’s the help.

THE STEPFORD WIVES

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

TCM’s movies of the 1970s celebration continues tonight, starting at 8 p.m. with Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the unlikely inspiration for the CBS sitcom Alice. But stay tuned on TCM for other treats of the decade, including, at 10 p.m. ET, Katharine Ross starring in 1975’s The Stepford Wives, a then-timely sci-fi parable exploring male fears about women’s liberation. And, in a way, about Disney World, though that’s more of a subtext.

THE PAPER CHASE

TCM, 2:45 a.m. ET

Later at night come two more perfectly representative, and original, movies of the 1970s. The Paper Chase is a 1973 drama about a young law student, played by Timothy Bottoms, who comes up against a super-stern law professor, Professor Kingsfield, played by John Houseman. It’s the movie I made my daughter watch just before she went off to law school – and she swears it scared her, and prepared her, more than anything else she heard or saw before diving in.

BREAKING AWAY

TCM, 4:45 a.m. ET

Another Seventies classic: Released in 1979, this is a tiny, beautiful coming-of-age movie about a high-school senior in Indianapolis who loves bicycle riding, and Italy, and a college coed, maybe in that order. Dennis Christopher stars, in a thoroughly charming comedy-drama.

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