WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 21
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

HBO2, 8:00 p.m. ET

What makes this 2012 documentary about the Rolling Stones so interesting has little to do with the newly recorded material – the Stones even demanded that only their voices be used, not their faces, as though they were in some sort of rock star witness protection program. But the vintage film, captured at their first gigs and showing the increasing sort of mania they produced at their concerts and club showings, is a riot. Often literally. And while Beatlemania generally stirred young preteen girls into a frenzy, with the Stones, just as often, it was the rowdy young boys, looking for a fight, and usually finding one. Usually with the cops.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

William Holden is today’s featured star on TCM, and though the network has no Network in sight, it does have several other key Holden films. And in prime time, TCM presents this 1957 David Lean epic – another movie that proves when it comes to David Lean and epic, those terms are virtually redundant. The movie won an Oscar for Outstanding Film, and Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar as the leader of British POWs forced, as are the other allied prisoners during WWII, to build a strategic railroad bridge in Indochina. Excellent movie, superb acting – and a theme song you can whistle while they work.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

David Tennant and Olivia Colman, as the grudgingly teamed inspectors working the local murder case in Broadchurch, don’t agree on much. But tonight, they’re about to settle on the same prime suspect, while continuing to unravel secrets from the town residents, including the younger ones.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

The crew is taken grudgingly, on a corporate retreat to build trust within the group. Part of that retreat involves a series of “trust falls,” in which the first one ended with me laughing out loud. Trust me.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

More than once in tonight’s episode, Det. Cross (Diane Kruger) draws her weapon. Her temporary partner Ruiz (Demian Bechir), however, is drawing something just as powerful: conclusions, as they close in on their suspected killer.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.