TUESDAY
APRIL 22
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

In hopes of determining who can, and can’t, be trusted among the remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, they’re put through their paces by submitting to a lie detector test. It’s a test, though, that’s as sophisticated as only a super-secret government organization can concoct – and that only a very observant agent, played by guest star Patton Oswalt, can administer.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode has been teased for more than a year – but the title of the episode, “Opening Night,” promises to deliver. Tonight’s the night that Rachel (Lea Michele) makes her Broadway debut, as the star of a remake of “Funny Girl.”  She’s the greatest star, she is by far…

 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

This new episode looks at “Doctors and Nurses,” including Dr. Kildare (pictured), and gives screen time to the most groundbreaking entry in that genre, NBC’s St. Elsewhere. But when one of its cast members, Ed Begley, Jr., gives his series credit for being the first to dramatize complex medical procedures in a realistic way, don’t take his word for it. For starters, there’s that Fifties show starring Richard Boone, Medic, that did for doctors what Dragnet did for cops. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

This is episode two of this excellent new FX series – and if you saw the premiere, all I need to say is that tonight’s second episode is even better. If you haven’t seen the premiere, though, catch up quickly. Fargo is the latest show to add to your required weekly viewing list.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 11:35 p.m. ET

Here’s one to watch: a true start to the late-night passing of the guard, this time at CBS. Among tonight’s guests on this new edition of Late Show, current host David Letterman says hello to future host Stephen Colbert. And I’d stay tuned, afterward, for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Ferguson will have seen a preview feed of Letterman’s taping just before taping his own Monday night show – and is just unpredictable enough to comment on it, if he’s so inclined.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.