FRIDAY
JUNE 19
2015

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Fox Sports 1, 12:00 p.m. ET

Day 1 of this year’s U.S. Open, played for the first time at Washington’s rough-and-tumble Chambers Bay, proved to be a lot of fun – for everyone except Tiger Woods, perhaps. Freight trains drowned out all other sounds, the course was challenging, the contours prompted lots of imaginative shots more akin to miniature golf, and the greens were anything but: their color was less that of rich grass and more that of purple lettuce or a bad bruise, with random splotches of browns, purples and greens. The golf played on these bumpy surfaces, though, was surprisingly good, with many players finishing the first round below par. Today it’s Round 2, starting at noon ET on Fox Sports 1 and switching to the regular Fox network at 8 p.m. ET. For a full story about this tournament, see Gerald Jordan’s Crossing Jordan.

 
  
 
 

IFC, 7:00 p.m. ET

This movie is 35 years old now. Yes, that’s right. I double-checked the math. But even though it may make you feel old as well as young, watch anyway – because the musical performances captured here, by the actual blues legends surrounding John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, are invaluable. Especially a third of a century later, when so many of these artists are now gone.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

J.K. Simmons got an Oscar for his supporting role here, and deserved it. His performance as a domineering music teacher is so scary and ruthless, it makes his neo-Nazi prisoner Schillinger from Oz look like a proverbial pussycat. Wonderful movie – and Miles Teller, as the ambitious drum student, is wonderful, too.

 
  
 
 

Syfy, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Building a sci-fi series around intergalactic bounty hunters is nothing new, and Killjoys, written by Michelle Lovretta, strives to hit the same vibe as Joss Whedon’s Firefly: charming rogue, beautiful and resourceful companion, colorful villains, “Wild West in space” feel. It doesn’t quite gel in the first few episodes, but there are moments – and Hannah John-Kamen, as the bounty hunter named Dutch, makes a strong first impression.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

Now here’s a show: The always quotable (and usually reprehensible) Ann Coulter is on hand, as is Bernie Sanders, the junior senator from Vermont who’s running for President. If HBO was not a pay channel, his presence here would invoke the Equal Time Rule, and Maher would have to interview everyone running for President this time, if they requested to come on his show after Sanders’ appearance – but Maher probably would like that, anyway.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.