TUESDAY
APRIL 19
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last night’s live competition, with all 12 remaining contestants singing to remain on the show, was so competitive that each contestant kept topping the other, and even judges for other teams were encouraging viewers to vote for certain singers from the “enemy” camps. Tonight, one of those 12 is eliminated from the competition – in a show that, somehow will stretch those few seconds of information into a one-hour show, just as American Idol used to do.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

Two new episodes are shown tonight – including one, shown first, in which Jess dresses up as a man in order to get a better deal out of her car salesman. I tried that. Didn’t work.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

The word is out that Shakespeare’s skull may not be in his grave. Perhaps this documentary will explain it away as some sort of mistaken-identity thing. Somewhere there’s this skull that belonged to a poor guy named Yorick… For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 9:30 p.m. ET

Another fresh Grinder – and this week the plot is focused back on Dean (Rob Lowe). Except the plot, this week, is all about a subplot.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Tom Hiddleston, who provided lots of sizzling energy as Loki in the Marvel movies, stars in this new adaptation of the 1993 spy novel by genre master John Le Carre. Hiddleson plays an employee at a posh hotel and crosses paths with Richard Roper, an international arms merchant and all-around supervillain – played by Hugh Laurie. Also starring: Olivia Colman from Broadchurch. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.