SUNDAY

SEPTEMBER 15

2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

TCM, 5:45 p.m. ET

Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s moody 1958 masterpiece staring James Stewart and Kim Novak, is part of a TCM Sunday salute that is followed, in prime time, by two other Hitchcock classics. Both of them, coincidentally, star the luminous Grace Kelly. In 1954’s Rear Window (8 p.m. ET), she plays opposite Stewart – and in 1955’s To Catch a Thief, which follows (10 p.m. ET), her leading man is Cary Grant. What a wonderful triple feature.

THE 2014 MISS AMERICA COMPETITION

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Lots of changes on the Miss America front: It’s called a competition now, not a pageant, and it’s back in Atlantic City, where the event began in 1921. Right around Boardwalk Empire time, which tonight’s ABC special finds itself competing against.

BREAKING BAD

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s show left me gasping, and inspired two of our TVWW writers to delve deeply and enthusiastically into what had happened, what was left hanging, and what might happen next. (See Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader and Mark Bianculli’s The Son Also Criticizes.) And tonight? How many bodies will be left in the desert? Only one thing, at this point, is certain: Bryan Cranston’s Walter White will survive to fight another day. Because that’s exactly what he’s done, in this show’s infrequent, mysterious fast-forwards.

DEXTER

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

This is the penultimate episode of Dexter – which means it’s well past time for the characters to be making some sense, and some sensible moves. This show’s “Trinity” season earned my loyalty until the end, but the end’s almost here, and it’s certainly not building the way it could or should be. Yet – but the showdown with Saxon is coming right up.

THE NEWSROOM

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Part 2 of 2. It’s Election Night 2102, and everyone at ACN is determined to get through the long, important night without making a mistake. Well, that didn’t work out so well in Part 1, which was televised last week – but there’s a chance the staffers will get away with it, while chasing an unexpected story that adds even more stress to this last episode of the season.

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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.

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