WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 22
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

The Movie Channel, 8:00 p.m. ET

Cate Blanchett was nominated for an Oscar for playing Elizabeth, young Queen of England, for her work in both this 1998 movie and its 2007 sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age. She came up empty both times, though she did win a Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing another actress, Katharine Hepburn, in 2004’s The Aviator. This year she’s nominated as Outstanding Actress for Blue Jasmine, and ought to win. But here, you can watch the first time she caught the eye of Oscar voters.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Jay (Ed O’Neill) gets another visit from his competitive friend Shorty (Chazz Palminteri), who also has an attractive younger wife, Darlene (Jennifer Tilly). And when they all get together for dinner, Gloria (Sofia Vergara) and Jay have different opinions about how well the evening is going.

 
  
 
 

Discovery, 9:00 p.m. ET

MIINSERIES CONCLUSION: How to celebrate the concluding episode of this first-ever Discovery Channel scripted miniseries? Have a Klondike bar. Or go to one…

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

At the end of last week’s episode, Kyle (Evan Peters) and Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) had a quiet moment alone in the bedroom, where he didn’t kill her – and the next thing they and we knew, they were boarding a bus to Orlando. But I’m guessing, with only two episodes left in this season, they don’t spend them at Epcot, but return home for what could well be a grand finale.

 
  
 
 

TV Land, 10:00 p.m. ET

Kristin Chenoweth has what is now a recurring role on this new Kirstie Aley series, playing Brittany Gold, the understudy to Alley’s Broadway diva, Maddie Banks. In tonight’s episode, Maddie finds out her grown son, Arlo (Eric Petersen), is a virgin, and tries to address the issue by cutting a deal with her understudy: If Brittany seduces her son, Maddie will feign illness and allow Brittany to go on stage in her stead. Before you can say All About Eve, Brittany has Arlo alone and strikes a familiar Mrs. Robinson pose. Arlo asks the obligatory, clearly rhetorical question: “Are you trying to seduce me?”

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.