SATURDAY
JUNE 21
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ESPN, 12:00 p.m. ET

Today’s three games include all four teams in Group F, and half of Group G. The first Group F game, beginning at noon ET on ESPN, is between Argentina (shown here) and Iran. To this point, Argentina is the only Group F team with a win, and Iran is one of two teams to have emerged with a draw. The second Group F game, at 6 p.m. ET, is Nigeria vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Nigeria, too, earned a draw, while the remaining team has shown up only in the loss column, and needs a win desperately to stave off elimination. And in between, at 3 p.m. ET, is a Group G game between Germany and Ghana, who respectively won and lost their initial games. Tomorrow comes the other Group G game, which here at home is awaited with much anticipation – the United States vs. Portugal.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2013 movie continued to expand the Marvel Comics movie franchise, giving Hugh Jackman’s title character a chance to go off on his own again, after already successfully anchoring his own origin-story film in 2009. Here, he travels to Japan and gets caught up dealing with a whole new roster of villains, including one named Viper (pictured here, with Jackman’s Logan), played by Svetlana Khodchenkova. That last name wasn’t easy to spell – but I can’t tell you how happy I am that I didn’t have to try to pronounce it on the radio.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: It’s the end of Season 2 for Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) and all her clones – and perhaps the end of Sarah, too, as she officially surrenders to those hunting her in this season finale episode. But she has a good reason, and even though her daughter Kira is in the hands of evil Rachel (another of many roles played by Maslany), don’t count Sarah out. Having to watch from behind a one-way mirror as Rachel talks to, and gets closer to, Kira is more than enough motivation for Sarah to come up with a Plan B.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new BBC America series is like an Anglophile’s answer to Borat. It takes two quick-witted British actors impersonating young British royalty, sends them across the United States with a film crew, and captures them interacting with everyday Americans, acting posh and clueless in equal measure. Ed Gamble plays Georgie, and Amy Hoggart steals the spotlight as Poppy. As fake descendants of the Royal family, you might say they’re putting on heirs – but they’re very, very funny, as are our country’s reactions to their often outrageous comments and observations. The series premieres tonight with two back-to-back episodes.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 12:00 a.m. ET

Tonight’s TCM schedule is a salute to the swinging Sixties, and begins with two very appropriately upbeat character comedies. In the first, shown at 8 p.m. ET, Peter Sellers stars in 1968’s I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, playing an uptight businessman who loosens up after sampling sex, drugs and rock & roll. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, it’s Lynn Redgrave in 1966’s Georgy Girl, playing a sort of Bridget Jones type who effortlessly personifies the decade she’s in. But stay up until midnight ET, for the much darker, much more influential 1966 Michelangelo Antonio film Blow-Up, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who accidentally films proof of a murder. It’s a very stylish movie, in more ways than one. Vanessa Redgrave co-stars, along with a model named Verushka (seen here with Hemmings), who plays herself – and fills out her role nicely.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.