FRIDAY
JULY 19
2013

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Public Television, Check local listings

Bill Moyers’ guest this week couldn’t be more timely. After the verdict in the case of the man who killed Trayvon Martin, Moyers interviews author Tom Diaz about the country’s concealed-weapon and self-defense laws, backed by the NRA. The title of Diaz’s book is The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans, and What It Will Take to Stop It. Moyers & Company is televised Friday through Sunday on local TV stations. To find when and where it airs in your area, see the Moyers & Company website.

 
  
 
 

Disney Channel, 8:00 p.m. ET

Remember Disney’s 2006 High School Musical telemovie, which, before Glee, spawned a series of sequels and, among youngsters, a minor phenomenon? Be prepared for a repeat experience – and, if you have kids, for them to repeat this new made-for-TV musical many, many times. Maia Mitchell and Ross Lynch star, in a movie that cleverly borrows the plot from the movie Pleasantville, and magically sends two modern teens into a more innocent pop-culture universe. In this case, it’s an Annette-style beach party musical. And as ideas go for a teen TV musical, golly, that’s swell.
 
  
 
 

TNT, 8:00 p.m. ET

Give TNT points for timing. With Red 2 now in theaters, the TV network is repeating the original old-folks-kicking-butt movie, which premiered three years ago, starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, and others, all playing spies who are Retired, Extremely Dangerous. (Hence the movie’s title.) Sounds like fun? With this cast, it is – which is why there’s a sequel.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

Among tonight’s guests: Connie Mack, Grover Norquist and Dan Savage.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

Francois Truffaut continues to be saluted this month on Fridays by TCM – and tonight’s lineup includes one of his most famous and most influential directorial efforts, Jules and Jim. This 1962 story about a romantic triangle, only two-thirds of which got top billing, starred Oskar Werner and Henri Serre as two friends in love with the same woman. The woman, Catherine, is played by the beautiful Jeanne Moreau, and the style and subject of this frank romantic film was a seminal entry in the movie movement known as the French New Wave.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.