SUNDAY

AUGUST 23

2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

TCM, 9:00 a.m. ET

Debbie Reynolds is the star being saluted today by TCM – and while the must-see film, by far, is 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain, which is shown tonight at 8 ET, and is one of the best movie musicals ever made, there’s another movie from the same era, shown much earlier in that day, that I can’t wait to see. Made the year after Singin’ in the Rain, in 1953, and shown at 9 a.m. ET, it stars Reynolds and Bob Van in a teenage romantic comedy called The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (pictured). It inspired the 1959-63 TV sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which many people may not know was a TV spinoff – and which, I guess, was titled that way because it was too risqué, in the late Fifties, to have a TV show about teens with the word Affairs in the title.

WYNDHAM GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

CBS, 3:00 p.m. ET

The Wyndham Championship is by no means a major golf tournament – and normally, I wouldn’t recommend it as TV Worth Watching. But Tiger Woods, who usually doesn’t even bother with this lower-tier PGA event, entered after failing to make the cut last week at the last major tournament of the year, because he’s fallen so low in the international golf rankings, with standings and with points, that it’s the only way he might qualify to play in the FedEx Cup postseason, which begins next week in New Jersey. But to make that cut, Woods would have to win this tournament outright, or finish in a solo second place, to earn enough points to play next week. Since he hasn’t won a tournament in years, it’s a tall order – but after three rounds, with only today’s final round at the North Carolina Wyndham course to go, Woods is two strokes behind leader Jason Gore, and is in a three-way tie for second place, at 13 under par. Woods played 28 holes without a bogey, displaying a consistency and determination that’s been missing from his game for quite a while. So can he grind out a win? The odds are against him – but it’s a dramatic story, either way.

SHOW ME A HERO

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

Parts 3 and 4 of 6. Oscar Isaac continues to burn brightly as a Yonkers politician in this fact-based story from David Simon and his collaborators, who include director Paul Haggis. And what seemed at first to be the story of a young politician on a meteoric rise, becomes, by tonight’s two episodes, something much more complicated – just like its characters. For my full review, see Bianculli’s Blog, or read and hear my review at NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross website.

FEAR THE WALKING DEAD

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: It almost had to happen. When AMC’s The Walking Dead became a phenomenon – the most popular scripted series on cable TV (and the second most popular scripted TV series right now, period, behind only CBS’s NCIS) – AMC concocted a spinoff talk show, The Talking Dead, just to discuss what had happened each week in zombie land. But starting tonight, the network presents an official prequel, featuring an all-new cast of characters, and set on the other side of the country from The Walking Dead. Kim Dickens stars, and the action begins about when Rick, in the parent program, lapses into his coma. It’s a deliberately slow start, but it’s certainly captivating – and since the characters don’t yet know they’re at the beginning of a zombie apocalypse, their ignorance, in itself, is very dramatic. For full reviews, read and hear my review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross website, and check out Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes.

MASTERS OF SEX

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

This week’s new episode features a lot of previously unexplored couplings – and one has something to do with one of the week’s guest stars: Sarah Silverman in a recurring role.

THE BRINK

HBO, 10:32 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Tonight’s installment is episode ten, the season finale. It’s called “Will There Be Consequences?” – and there will, because this show already has been renewed for a Season 2. So while, once again, Tim Robbins, Jack Black, and company seem to be on the edge of global disaster here, expect them to pull it back in a bit, so they can act crazy again in 2016.

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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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