THURSDAY
APRIL 19
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

This weeks’ new episode of The Big Bang Theory features a special guest star portraying himself, something this sitcom does especially inventively from time to time (Stephen Hawking! Leonard Nimoy!). Tonight’s guest is author and graphic novelist (Stardust, The Sandman), who shows up at Stuart’s comic book store and gives it a very influential seal of approval. Scribes at Minnesota’s Star Tribune note that Gaiman, years ago, did the same thing to Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books & Comics, helping to make that store famous by his patronage.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s entertainingly unpredictable episode of Gotham ended with Jerome, the apparent Joker-to-be villain played by Cameron Monaghan, killed in a fall – and killed in a definite enough way that, even with all the back-from-the-dead stories already spun out on this series, it seemed Jerome, and thus Monaghan, was not to morph into the iconic Joker after all. But then, in the final scene, a package sent by Jerome before his death to his reclusive and meek brother Jeremiah was delivered. Jeremiah opened it and was sprayed in the face by a variation of Jerome’s bizarre toxin, which bleached Jeremiah’s skin, froze his lips into a permanent leering grin, and drove him to a sort of cackling insanity. Presto! Instant Joker! And since Jeremiah, too, is played by Monaghan, the same actor eventually gets dealt the same card to play – starting tonight.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 8:30 p.m. ET

In tonight’s episode, Sheldon, bored by his subjects and most of his teachers at school, audits a college course – where he finds a very kindred spirit in the somewhat peculiar professor, played by guest star Wallace Shawn.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.