FRIDAY
DECEMBER 2
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Today, Netflix – which has presented a large tonnage of new series this month – presents another, with the Season One unveiling of an animated comedy series called Pacific Heat, about an investigative squad Down Under. Think of it as an Australian Archer – which is a compliment, because this show is just as verbally quick and naughty and unexpected as that delightful FX animated spy spoof. Try it. Bet you can’t watch just one. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SPECIAL: Two episodes of the classic 1950s series I Love Lucy are colorized for the holidays, as they were last year. One is a repeat of the colorized “The Christmas Episode,” and the other is the newly colorized episode “Lucy Gets in Pictures,” in which Lucy (Lucille Ball) gets a part as a chorus girl in a Hollywood movie. It’s one in which the colorization really works, no matter what you pink of the whole computer-coloring issue. I’m sorry. I meant to type, “No matter what you think.” But wow…

 
  
 
 

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode is called “Who Needs Josh When You Have a Girl Group?,” and by focusing on the old and new women in Rebecca’s life, this hour is positively spicy – as in, it makes room for a musical number paying homage to the Spice Girls.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: This is the Season 1 finale for Tracey Ullman’s Show, and I certainly hope HBO picks up the show for its sophomore season, which already has been announced back in Ullman’s home turf of England. Her gift for impersonation, and immersion into characters, has, if anything, gotten better over the years, though that would have been impossible. Except that the first time Dame Judi Dench showed up, I thought it was Judi Dench, as a guest star – but it was Ullman. And the balding guy in the coffee shop who bullies the employees and refuses to leave while mooching off the free wifi – that’s Ullman too, and I didn’t suspect that at first, either. Tune in and see how many times she makes you laugh. And fools you. In last week’s episode, I’m not even sure those were her breasts she was flashing. Truly.

 
  
 
 

IFC, 11:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: This series ends tonight, with a doubleheader of episodes that culminate with Andrew Lloyd Webber as a special star. If that seems odd – well, so is this entire series, so there you go. And it’s not really Andrew Lloyd Webber, just comic Paul F. Tompkins making one final guest appearance playing him, which is even odder…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.