TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 19
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Jerry Seinfeld signed to do two comedy specials for Netflix, and this one, his first, is a smartly autobiographical trip back to his comedy roots. Seinfeld returns, physically, to one of the first comedy clubs where he got his start, and performs some of his earliest material – while, at the same time, presenting new jokes and a new, older perspective. It’s a very funny hour, which is no surprise. But it’s a delight that Seinfeld, as with both his Seinfeld series and his streaming interview show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, continues to come up with ways to present and discuss comedy in fresh, increasingly focused and undiluted ways. Highly recommended.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Part 1 of 2. The winner of this year’s contest is announced tomorrow, so today is the final push by this cycle’s 10 finalists, covering everyone from a 12-year-old singing ventriloquist to a 13-year-old ballad singer. Okay, so there’s more range than that, and much more drama, since many of the finalists have backstories ranging from endearing to tragic. Including the 13-year-old singer, Evie Clair (pictured), who dedicated each song to her sick father, until and after he died earlier this month of colon cancer.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Part 3. Tonight’s episode is titled “The River Styx,” and covers January 1964 to December 1965 – the time when President Lyndon Johnson escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, even though, as private recordings from the period reveal, he was against it from the start. For a full review of this episode, see Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters. Check local listings.
 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

This is the third episode of this newest iteration of American Horror Story, and the killer clowns continue to arrive and attack. It’s in the zeitgeist, apparently, because Stephen King’s It is back with murderous clowns, too. To quote Stephen Sondheim: “Send in the clowns? Don’t bother… they’re here.”

 
  
 
 

TBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

Conan O’Brien is at his best when he’s playing an away game, visiting other countries and reveling in their and his differences. Tonight he goes to Israel, where he visits Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other sites – the latest in his comedy passport series, which in the past has taken him on very amusing voyages to Cuba, South Korea, Mexico and, lest we forget, Finland.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 10:01 p.m. ET

SPECIAL: TV history meets TV promotion – but in this case, it’s a comfortable fit. The Paley Center for Media looks back on this 1998-2006 NBC sitcom, which NBC is reviving Sept. 28, by presenting some of its most memorable and amusing moments. For Will & Grace, that’s a lot of moments. And since the folks at the Paley Center both know and respect their TV history, it’s likely to include a clip from the Will & Grace finale – a finale (pictured) that the new series itself will be aggressively ignoring, because it ended up putting its characters in situations, and even with children, the producers of the reboot would rather forget. So they do. For a few minutes behind-the-scenes of the returning Will & Grace, see our Video Worth Watching.


 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.