THURSDAY
JULY 20
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Golf Channel, 1:30 a.m. ET

Once again, it’s the Royal Birkdale course in the spotlight, hosting, from Southport, England, the 146th British Open, on a course that’s peppered by 125 pot bunkers. Doing the math, that’s an average of about 7 bunkers per hole. And these pots are deep. For a preview, see Gerald Jordan’s Crossing Jordan.
 
  
 
 

Various Networks, 1:00 p.m. ET

This TV special event isn’t expected to last very long, but it’ll be widely available on news networks and on various live streaming websites. At 1 p.m. ET, the Nevada Board of Parole is scheduled to meet in Carson City, live and perhaps with some members video conferenced in, to rule on the possible parole of Simpson, who was sentenced in 2008 to a minimum of nine years in prison for his role in an armed robbery. Simpson, now 70, will participate by video conference from the Lovelock Correctional Center, the medium-security prison where he’s been incarcerated since his conviction. He’s expected to give a statement. He’s also expected to have earned parole, which could come as early as October. And for O.J., whose low-speed chase, trial, and verdict in his earlier trial for murder were all major media events, today’s hearing will be a measure of how much he’s remembered, famously and infamously.
 
  
 
 

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

Here’s the second episode of this import from Britain, starring Michael Landes and Ophelia Lovibond as a pair of period globetrotting adventurers. Why do I mention it? Because, on Thursdays in the middle of July, there’s very little else on TV that’s fresh, and not a tacky game show.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 6:00 p.m. ET

Today, in the morning and afternoon hours, TCM is presenting a series of movies starring Natalie Wood, including such charming light comedies as 1964’s Sex and the Single Girl (10:30 a.m. ET) and 1965’s The Great Race (12:30 p.m. ET). The movie most rarely televised, however, is 1983’s Brainstorm, a sci-fi drama in which Wood stars opposite Christopher Walken. Wood died in 1981,  after completing almost all her principal photography, and the movie – a fantasy thriller about a scientist able to record and transplant people’s memories and fantasies into other people’s brains – was completed after her death by director Douglas Trumbull. Questions surrounding the actress’ mysterious death persist, but this film, which has been largely ignored as part of her film canon, nonetheless suggests strongly that, on screen, she had a lot more to give.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.