SATURDAY
JULY 21
2018

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NBC, 7:00 a.m. ET

NBC provides lots of third-round coverage of today’s British Open, which includes the familiar Open sight of absurdly imposing pot bunkers. And in addition to the sand traps, it also includes the unfamiliar sight, at least of late, of Tiger Woods in weekend play (he tees off about 8 a.m. ET). He made the cut – although the world’s two highest-ranked golfers, Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas, did not.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 10:14 a.m. ET

The entire first season of American Gods is repeated today, in a Saturday marathon, by Starz. This TV adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel includes memorable appearances by Gillian Anderson – who, like Season 1 showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, will not be returning for Season 2, which Starz already has committed to presenting. The former X-Files star, in Season 1, plays a chameleonic modern goddess named Media – as opposed to Medea – whose alter-ego appearances include likenesses of Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball and (pictured) David Bowie.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This weekend, TCM celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, with a tribute that should have your DVRs humming in overdrive. Last night, TCM presented movies featuring some of Bernstein’s most beloved film scores, including music for the big-screen versions of West Side Story and On the Town. That would be an expected approach from a network called Turner Classic Movies – but today and tomorrow, the treats, very rarely shown by anyone, are taken from television. Starting tonight at 8 p.m. ET, TCM presents four episodes of Bernstein’s monumental, influential New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts. My favorite episode, “What Is Sonata Form?,” is not among them (that’s the one, from November 1964 on CBS, in which Bernstein complimented, and demonstrated, the Beatles’ “And I Love Her”). But the quartet of shows here includes the very first Young People’s Concerts installment, 1958’s “What Does Music Mean?” (at 8 p.m. ET), 1959’s “Humor in Music” (9:06 p.m. ET), 1966’s “What Is a Mode?” (10:15 p.m. ET), and 1967’s “A Toast to Vienna in 3/4 Time” (11:16 p.m. ET). I highly recommended watching, and recording, them all. And save room and time for tomorrow, when TCM presents even older Bernstein TV appearances, from the iconic Omnibus series in 1961.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.