SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 24
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

This year’s live AMAs boasts, as usual, an eager lineup of top performers poised to grab the spotlight, especially to promote CD holiday sales. Justin Timberlake is here, and One Direction and plenty of others, but the primary scene-stealers are bound to be Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga. What can these two do, wear – or not wear – to have the Internet all abuzz tomorrow morning? I wouldn’t put it past Lady Gaga to wear a Miley Cyrus dress – not one loaned by her, but one made from her. As for Miley Cyrus? No idea whatsoever. The most shocking thing she could do, perhaps, would be to walk onstage in a demure outfit and perform a sweet ballad, with no gimmicks whatsoever. (For perspective, and reflection, here’s a picture from last year’s awards show: an onstage duet featuring Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

The star of The Carol Burnett Show, the beloved CBS variety series that ran for a dozen successful seasons back in the Sixties and Seventies, is honored as the recipient of this year’s Mark Twain Prize. She’s a very deserving recipient, and is toasted by an appropriate bevy of adoring celebrity peers and acolytes (Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tiny Fey, Amy Poehler) – but when is this organization going to recognize, and give the Mark Twain Prize, to another CBS variety act that premiered earlier the same year Burnett first appeared in 1967? I’m referring, of course, to the Smothers Brothers, whose political and social commentary, and persistence in taking on sacred cows, surely makes them ideal representatives of the true spirit of Mark Twain. Just putting it out there. Check local listings.
 
  
 
 

BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET

Yesterday, the 50th-anniversary episode of Doctor Who, simulcast around the globe. Today, the premiere of The Eleventh Doctor, the latest in the series of documentary salutes to the various incarnations of this long-running British institution. Doctor No. 11 is played by Matt Smith – and since the Doctor is supposed to have a total of only 12 incarnations, this documentary series, like the series itself,  should come to an end very soon. But it won’t. Expect a loophole of cosmic proportions. Literally.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

This series continues to amaze, and to find renewed energy by pitting former law-firm allies against one another, in court and out. What a way to revitalize an already excellent TV franchise in its fifth season: As on occasional seasons of Survivor, suddenly shuffle the team members. Former friends, and even lovers, are now on the opposite sides of the table. Sometimes even literally.
 
  
 
 

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s episode was a highly dramatic entry from left field. It was a flashback episode devoted solely to a currently dormant recurring character, David Morrissey’s The Governor, showing what happened to him after the destruction of his seemingly idyllic city (which was anything but).  Basically, it was a stand-alone futuristic episode of The Fugitive, with the Governor as a worn-out Richard Kimble, wandering around eluding zombies instead of a persistent Lieutenant Gerard. The episode ended with the same image from the end of the previous episode, with the Governor outside the gates of the prison fortress housing our regular “family” of zombie fighters. But is he there with ill intent, or seeking protection and absolution? Or, given this show’s chilling history, is it a little of both?

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.