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APRIL 20
2018

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Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: While the pace and approach of this new documentary is a bit leisurely, the subject certainly is worthy of interest. Remember the movie version of The Right Stuff, which told of the selection and training of the original Mercury 7 astronauts? Well, nowhere in that movie version of the Tom Wolfe book was it mentioned that at the same time those macho fighter pilots were being prepared for orbital missions, so were a number of veteran female pilots. Who were they? What was their experience? How were they selected and trained? And why were they never shot into space? Mercury 13 presents the answers to those questions, and begins with a reunion of the surviving women pilots themselves.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 9:01 p.m. ET

In tonight’s new episode, called “All Roads Lead,” the S.H.I.E.L.D. team, still trying to escape from a time loop, remains committed to finding a way of stopping the Destroyer of Worlds from exploding Earth into fragments. And now, at least, they finally have identified said Destroyer not as one of their own, but as a dangerous young rebel named Ruby.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s guests include Dwayne Johnson and Roger Daltrey. If your reaction is “Who?,” you’re half right.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

Don’t tune in late for tonight’s show: The opening interview guest is Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.