TUESDAY
JULY 23
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CW, 8:00 p.m. ET

Did this series, which CW revived last week after several years of dormancy after its ABC run, continue to delight, even with new host Aisha Tyler? Yes. Try it – you’ll like it. I promise.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 8:00 p.m. ET

With this 2006 movie, the James Bond franchise was rebooted yet again, introducing Daniel Craig as the actor who still plays Bond today. This film recycles the title of the one Ian Fleming novel whose rights were sold elsewhere prior to the establishment of the “official” cinematic Bond franchise, starting with the inimitable Sean Connery. That’s why, on the CBS anthology drama series Climax! in 1954, Barry Nelson got to play American spy “Jimmy Bond” in a TV adaptation of Casino Royale. It’s also why the same title was sold for a star-studded (and delightful) Bond spoof movie in 1967, in which David Niven played a retired James Bond pressed back into service. If you discount the satirical Casino Royale, but count the tacky TV version, that means Craig is following in the footsteps of Nelson, Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan. Which, if my count is correct, makes him actor number 007 to play 007.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s edition of Drunk History focuses on the city of Atlanta, and one of its inebriatedly told stories has to do with the invention of Coca-Cola, and features a familiar face, even under the tacky beard, from Saturday Night Live.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

This 1944 movie has a plot which should be seen by all fans of Lost. It’s about a ship, during wartime, housing a small group of passengers with an even smaller crew. Where are they headed? How did they get there? And when and how do they disembark? I’d tell you more about this allegorical mystery, but I don’t want to risk offending the Spoiler Alert Police – a mere 69 years after this film, starring Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet and John Garfield, was made.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 11:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Lisa Kudrow is back with another season of her comedy series, one of the earliest good comedies to originate on the Internet. And this season, while her fabulous core cast is back (including Victor Garber and Alan Cumming), we also get such new guest stars as Steve Carell, Billy Crystal and Matt LeBlanc.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.