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MARCH 18
2016

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Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

MOVIE PREMIERE: John Lee, not Tim Burton, is directing this new Pee-wee Herman movie, in which Paul Reubens steps back into the white loafers of his eerily ageless character from the classic CBS children’s series, and from Burton’s equally classic 1985 film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. This time around, the adventures and visuals aren’t quite so antic or inventive, but they’re pleasant enough – and there’s an oddly effective odd-couple feel to the screen buddy-movie pairing of Pee-wee and actor John Manganiello, who plays himself. When the actor met Pee-wee, the bow-tied imp had no idea who he was, having never seen any of his TV or film roles. That dialogue exchange made me laugh out loud: “True Blood?” Manganiello asks. Pee-wee shrugs. “You’ve heard of Magic Mike!” the actor insists, to which Pee-wee replies, deadpan, “You’d think so, but no…”

 
  
 
 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of Marvel’s Daredevil is available for streaming beginning today on Netflix. Season 1 was considered fairly dark, as comic-book adaptations go, until Netflix unveiled its next entry in its Marvel TV canon, Marvel’s Jessica Jones. That redefined dark – but also was set in the same Hell’s Kitchen environment as Daredevil, so we’ll see what happens this season. Two things we know happen: new recurring guest stars Jon Bernthal and Elodie Yung (pictured), playing, respectively, The Punisher and Elektra.
 
  
 
 

Various Networks, 12:00 p.m. ET

In the first day of full-schedule first-round play, No. 12 seed Yale beat No. 5 seed Baylor, securing the first tournament win in Yale’s history. And in double overtime, another No. 12 seed, the Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans, knocked off another No. 5 seed, Purdue. And that was just day one. Sixteen more games are played today, spread across four networks: CBS beginning at noon ET, TruTV beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET, TNT beginning at 1:30, and TBS beginning at 2.
 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

Another presidential candidate has bitten the dust – and Bill Maher and guests will be here to pick up, discuss and ridicule the pieces.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.