FRIDAY

APRIL 21

2017

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Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Titus Welliver returns as LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch for Season 3, which takes place 18 months after the events ending Season 2. Conceivably, that gives the emotionally battered detective time to heal, at least emotionally – but apparently, that’s not the direction the show is taking. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

BILL NYE SAVES THE WORLD

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix original series stars Bill Nye, formerly the host of the Disney Channel science series Bill Nye the Science Guy. In TV history terms, there’s a straight line from Don Herbert’s Mr. Wizard to Nye’s more modern counterpart – and last week in one of my TV history classes at Rowan University, after showing a series of old Watch Mr. Wizard clips, I mentioned that Bill Nye was returning with a new series on Netflix, and my college students went nuts, and demanded to get a sneak peek, as though they were getting access to a new Beatles bootleg or something. So Netflix may be on to something here, especially since Bill Nye Saves the World is aimed at adults – and, based on the reactions from my students, hits the bullseye. For a full review, visit the Fresh Air website to hear my review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The entire first season “drops” today.

GIRLBOSS

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

This is not a recommendation. SERIES PREMIERE: This new series, starring Britt Robertson, is very loosely based on the memoir of the same name by Sophia Amoruso, and is created by Pitch Perfect screenwriter Kay Cannon. So the snark is sharp here – and set a decade ago, this comedy series presents its central character as an abrasive person you’re supposed to like despite all the faults and frostinesss. We’ve seen it already, and better, in You’re the Worst, and already, and no better, in Selfie. But here, having Robertson’s Sophia doing or saying something awful, then asking herself why she’s so awful, doesn’t make anything more acceptable – much less more entertaining. But she does have good fashion sense, especially when it comes to vintage jackets.

TRAMPS

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

MOVIE PREMIERE: This 2016 film stars Callum Turner and Grace Van Patten as two young people drawn into a mysterious, though not very probable, world of valise exchanges, mysterious meetings and threatening repercussions, all in an around New York City, filmed in what looks to be a lot of guerrilla style, non-permit location shots. The filmmaking is interesting, the acting is good – but the plot, which aims for modern Hitchcock, doesn’t come close.

BURN, MOTHERF***ER, BURN!

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

This 2017 documentary is one of several documentaries this week looking at the 25^th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, or protests (depending upon whom was doing the describing), reacting to the not guilty verdicts in the Rodney King police brutality case.

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

After a week off, Bill Maher returns, with a show devoid of celebrity guests – but filled, instead, with journalists, activists, authors and politicians. Usually, these turn out to be the liveliest, and most informative, shows of all.

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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.

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