WEDNESDAY

APRIL 24

2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Showtime 2, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2005 movie, reportedly based on a true story, provided the unlikely inspiration for a Broadway musical that’s just now on the Great White Way, with music by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein. It’s about a man who inherits an unprofitable shoe company, and tries to reverse its fortunes, and his, by specializes in fetish footwear. What a heel!

THE ENTERTAINER

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tony Richardson directed this 1960 movie adaptation of the John Osborne play, which stars Laurence Olivier as fading vaudeville star Archie Rice. Written specifically for Olivier, it’s a demanding role, and a spectacularly shaded performance. Because Olivier is TCM’s Star of the Month, a full night of other Olivier movies follows, including 1957’s The Prince and the Showgirl at 1:30 a.m. ET.

SUPERNATURAL

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

It’s a geekapalooza episode, again, as genre darling Felicia Day returns for another guest spot as Charlie, a big fan of the Winchester brothers. Day, of course, came to prominence in one of the geekiest genre success stories of all, as the leading lady in Joss Whedon’s Internet sensation, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, starring Neil Patrick Harris.

NOVA: "MONSTERS"

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Once, while traveling to Australia and whiling away the absurdly long flight by reading Bill Bryson’s Down Under travel book In a Sunburned Country, I startled nearby passengers by laughing out loud – suddenly and almost convulsively – when Bryson claimed to have learned about a certain kind of local poisonous jellyfish by “browsing through a fat book titled, if I recall, Things That Will Kill You Horridly in Australia, volume 19.” Well, tonight’s Nova could be volume 20. Or volume 1, since it goes back millions of years in Australia’s fossil records, telling us of Dinosaurs Down Under that make Tyrannosaurus rex seem like a prehistoric pussycat. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Australian kronosaurus. Check local listings.

THE AMERICANS

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Elizabeth (Keri Russell, pictured), Phillip (Matthew Rhys) and Stan (Noah Emmerich) are all pushing hard to get intel from their respective contacts in this episode – and time is of the essence, at least in terms of this season’s story arcs. Next week is the show’s Season 1 finale.

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