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MARCH 23
2015

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TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Speaking of Grey Gardens, tonight TCM presents a special lineup in tribute to the late Albert Maysles, who, with his brother David, made a series of pioneering documentaries – three of which are shown tonight. The evening begins with 1976’s Grey Gardens, their chillingly bizarre, intimate and unforgettable portrait of the mother and daughter, relatives of Jackie Kennedy, who later were reimagined in a docudrama, played by Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Matt Wolf directed this documentary, but Lena Dunham, one of its executive producers and on-air interviewers, is the spiritual tour guide. The subject she’s profiling is Hilary Knight, the illustrator of the Eliose children’s books about the precocious little girl who lived in New York’s Plaza Hotel. Dunham clearly is enchanted by the man’s free-spirited drawings, his artifact-filled home and his uninhibited imagination, which results in home-movie “productions” that make this feel like an unofficial sequel to Grey Gardens. The documentary takes Knight’s side in his quick falling out with Kay Thompson, author of Eloise – and when you see and hear her irritatingly imitating the voice of her young alter ego, you’re likely to take Knight’s side as well. And since Dunham sports a tattoo of Eliose, this is a peek into her psyche as well as Knight’s.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week, we got to see Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill working more closely alongside Jonathan Banks’ Mike Ehrmentraut. This week, we get to see Jimmy working closely with his older brother – on a case that may point the path to how Jimmy began to slip into the moral ambiguity of his alter ego, Saul.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 11:45 p.m. ET

In the summer of 1969, the Woodstock music festival, eventually immortalized in a documentary film, exemplified the premise and promise of the flower-power generation. But before that year was out, another rock concert showed the other, ugly side of that coin, when the Rolling Stones watched from the stage as their own security team of Hell’s Angels assaulted, and killed, a concertgoer. The Maysles brothers were filming, and this nonfiction movie is their harrowing account – not only of a death at an outdoor music event, but of the proverbial death of the Sixties itself.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 12:37 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This ought to be interesting. James Corden, who won a Tony on Broadway for his comic antics, becomes the latest performer from abroad to sit behind the desk of an American TV talk show. Craig Ferguson, who held this job for a decade before Corden inherited it, made it work, quickly, by being true to his own tastes and personality – and I expect Corden to do the same. For more, see Bianculli’s Blog.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.