SATURDAY
JANUARY 2
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Syfy, 12:00 a.m. ET

Syfy’s in-sequence, every-episode mega-marathon of The Twilight Zone is still going strong – and takes longer, now that we’re into the one-hour episodes from Season 4. Season 5, returning to the 30-minute format, begins at 7 p.m. ET, and that’s when you’ll get more of the timeless classics – including, at 7 p.m. ET, William Shatner in 1963’s “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” and, at 8:30 p.m. ET, Telly Savalas being terrorized by a doll in “Living Doll” (pictured).

 
  
 
 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

STREAMING PREMIERE: It may seem redundant, as well as gluttonous, to binge on a food show, but all six episodes of Phil Rosenthal’s I’ll Have What Phil’s Having, produced last year for PBS, are available starting today on Netflix. Warning: They’re habit-forming, but it’s a good habit, and a good series. Pick your favorite city or country of the six he profiles, from Italy to Barcelona, and enjoy where the food-loving, people-loving co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond takes you. And even if you saw them all on PBS, they’re even better the second time, like the possum innards on The Beverly Hillbillies. And for my interview with Rosenthal about his series, see Bianculli's Blog. Enjoy!

 
  
 
 

FX, 7:00 p.m. ET

It’s a New Year, and apparently TV is giving us lots of opportunities to enjoy things we may have missed the first time around. Here’s an FX marathon of every episode to date of a series from its sister network Fox: The Grinder, starring Fred Savage and Rob Lowe. Lowe plays a TV actor whose courtroom series is cancelled, and Savage plays the little brother, with the actual law firm, to whom big brother returns, and decides to continue to “play” a lawyer. It’s one of the better TV surprises of the season… and here’s a way to watch it all.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

In a political season, it should be required viewing to watch this 1972 movie, starring Robert Redford as a politician running for the U.S. Senate, who’s so far behind in the polls, he decides to throw in the towel by speaking the truth. TCM is calling this film one of “The Essentials” – and now that we’re in an election year, it’s precisely that.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: The first season of Ash vs. Evil Dead ends with Bruce Campbell’s Ash facing down evil – but with a twist. Evil, at this moment, is in the shape of Lucy Lawless, and she’s offering him not a fight to the death, but a truce, and a chance at a wonderful life: including his dream of a fishing paradise in Jacksonville, FL.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.