TUESDAY

JULY 16

2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Fox, 7:30 p.m. ET

The starting pitchers for this year’s All-Star Game had a sort of inside track. American League manager Jim Leyland chose his own starter from the Detroit Tigers, Max Scherzer (pictured), to take the mound to begin the game, while National League manager Bruce Bochy selected Matt Harvey of the New York Mets, whose hometown turf is Citi Field, the site of this year’s contest. But those aren’t the only reasons those starters were selected: Scherzer is 13-1, and Harvey, with eight wins, averages more than a strikeout per inning.

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?

CW, 8:00 p.m. ET

SERIES REVIVAL: This series began as a summer diversion for ABC in 1998, so it’s fitting that CW, in reviving the show, starts it during the summer months. The ABC version, hosted by Drew Carey, was popular enough to move to the regular series and run for six years. Carey is a daytime game-show host now, so Aisha Tyler is the new host, but the improv gang having all the fun remains the same: Ryan Styles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie.

HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

This simple show explains the popular appeal of prime-time game shows in the 1950s: They’re astoundingly cheap to produce, show celebrities in a new and less controlled light, and are light, silly fun to watch. (Last week, watching Martin Short as a gloating winner was almost as much fun as watching Matthew Perry as a morose loser.) Now for the bad news: Such guessing games as Name That Snack Food, or whatever it was called, are nothing more than unimaginative product placement. But what else do you expect from NBC these days?

BEWARE OF MR. BAKER

Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET

Another of Showtime’s documentaries, this one, made in 2012 but premiering tonight, is a profile of one of the wildest, most talented and most unpredictable drummers of the past 50 years. No, it’s not a film about Keith Moon. But it’s one about Ginger Baker, the drummer who could fill an entire side of a live Cream album with an extended solo – and whose personality, drives and interests off the stage and outside the studio were just as driven.

DRUNK HISTORY

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

This show is tonight’s prohibitive favorite – because this installment of Drunk History, about Chicago, includes a segment on Prohibition. Also included: August Spies and the Haymarket Riot (reenactment pictured). Chances are, if you watch, you’ll learn something. Chances are, also, you’ll feel a little guilty, while you’re laughing.

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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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