SATURDAY
APRIL 23
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Sundance, 7:00 p.m. ET

Francis Coppola’s opening scene of this 1970 biography of Gen. George S. Patton was all it took to make this an indelible memory for that decade’s film fans. Even the image, of George C. Scott, as Patton, delivering a speech to soldiers while standing in front of a giant American flag, brings it all back…

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1968 movie was the film debut of Barbra Streisand, who won an Oscar recreating her Broadway triumph portraying legendary vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies musical comedienne Fanny Brice. Omar Sharif co-stars as love interest Nicky Arnstein, but it’s Streisand who counts here, singing such classics as “People,” “My Man,” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” And look for Mrs. Strakosh – she’s played by Mae Questel, who, much earlier in her career, provided the cartoon voices of both Olive Oyl and Betty Boop.

 
  
 
 

Destination America, 9:00 p.m. ET

Originally presented by the Syfy network, this 2014 special was presented at the time as a “documentary,” but it has about as much of a connection to verifiable fact and logical thought as Tang does to orange juice. Is the moon being used as a base of operations by aliens? Are there artificially made towers and pipelines on the lunar surface? No and no. But that doesn’t stop this “documentary” from suggesting as much. It’s a fun TV show to watch, though it really belongs on The Gullible Network.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

This 2014 film was lauded as one of the scariest movies in recent years, and is all about a curse, and malevolent spirit, that may be transmitted sexually. Finally: Some good news for the unwillingly celibate. Maika Monroe stars.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET

Here’s an instant special not to miss. Saturday Night Live has replaced tonight’s scheduled repeat with a compilation of appearances by and sketches about Prince, who died Thursday at age 57. Prince first performed on SNL in 1981, and waited 25 years to perform on the show again in 2006. His final appearance was in 2014, where he performed an unbroken, three-song, eight-minute set. All that, and lots of sketches featuring “The Prince Show,” a funny faux talk show with Fred Armisen as the shy Prince, and Maya Rudolph as his co-host Beyoncé.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.