SUNDAY

NOVEMBER 23

2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

THE KENNEDY CENTER MARK TWAIN PRIZE: JAY LENO

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

The latest honoree of this prize, named after the greatest humorist and political satirist in American history, is Jay Leno. Guests assembled for the night’s festivities include Leno’s Tonight Show successor, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jerry Seinfeld and Betty White. Not to rain on Leno’s parade, but every year at this time, I wonder: Why in the hell hasn’t this award been bestowed upon the Smothers Brothers, whose sense of humor, and outrage, matched Mark Twain’s in deed as well as spirit? Check local listings.

THE WIZARD OF OZ

TBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

This is one of the video snippets in my current Personal Theory of TV Evolution exhibit at the apexart gallery in New York’s TriBeCa – in a display about the earliest TV programming I can remember. Except, back then, the entire 1939 movie was in black and white, at least to me, because, as a young kid, I was watching on my family’s black-and-white TV set. Back then, you had to wait a year for Oz to show up on television. Now you can watch it any time, on your own DVD – but it’s still worth mentioning whenever it’s shown on television. So here it is… 58 years after it was broadcast the first time.

THE WALKING DEAD

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

After a series of harrowing episodes showing one or two of our hardy survivors at a time, tonight’s adventure reunites many of them in a “gang’s all here” kind of reunion. Well, many of them, anyway. And they’re reuniting for yet another grim and risky battle – this time to mount a surprise invasion of the medical facility where two of their own are being held against their will.

HOMELAND

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week, Saul (Mandy Patinkin) escaped from captivity, and was led by Carrie (Claire Danes) to safety – until he wasn’t. What a dramatic episode. And what’s to happen this week, now that Saul is back in enemy hands, and the identity of the CIA double agent has been exposed?

THE GOOD WIFE

CBS, 9:30 p.m. ET

MIDSEASON FINALE: Last week, I asked, “Could things get any worse for poor Cary Agos (Matt Czuchry)?” The answer was yes – he now has a bodyguard, and even though he had a clear-the-air face-to-face conversation with Bishop, the danger remains palpable. And tonight, in an episode titled “The Trial,” Cary faces a judge, and a jury, in the trial that may send him away for 15 years.

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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.

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