MONDAY
JULY 16
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Birders are bird hunters – armed not with shotguns, but with binoculars, notebooks and cell phones. Their goal is to find and identify the hundreds of varieties of birds who either nest or visit in New York’s Central Park, and the best attribute of director Jeffrey Kimball is the same one necessary for a good birder: patience. He films his subjects, human and avian, over all four seasons, giving his story a sense of regeneration, variety and wonder.

 
  
 
 

Syfy, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: “Just Another Day” is the title of this week’s episode, but it’s anything but. In fact, this is the last day for Eureka, and this final hour is a wrap-up that was written and filmed quite quickly, because the cancellation by Syfy was somewhat unexpected. So along with the anything-goes atmosphere, enjoy the jokes that are not-so-subtle allusions to the show’s treatment by the network. As Eureka the series is shut down, so is Eureka the town…

 
  
 
 

TNT, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode of The Closer focuses on Provenza, played by G.W. Bailey, who provides much of the comic relief on the show. Fans of the show will be relieved, no doubt, that Provenza and Bailey will be featured prominently in the forthcoming Closer spin-off, which explains the focus on this character at this particular time, as the series with Kyra Sedgwick as star begins to wind down.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

After the tsunami devastated portions of coastal Japan in 2010, there were questions about how, even if, those lands would come back. This 2011 documentary, filmed and released a year later, finds some encouraging signs, and finds them in one of the country’s most iconic beauties of nature: the cherry blossom.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

Swimming star Johnny Weissmuller starred in this 1932 movie, and in several sequels, playing a real swinger (on vines, that is) who talked to the animals long before Doctor Doolittle. One of the other stars of this film is Neil Hamilton, who, more than 30 years later, would play Commissioner Gordon on TV’s Batman. But the co-star deserving the most attention in this pre-Code movie is Maureen O’Sullivan as Jane, whose costumes (or relative lack of them), at the time, were as racy as a mainstream Hollywood movie dared to get.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.