MONDAY

SEPTEMBER 24

2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 12 for this very long-running, still very funny sitcom – and it’s been announced that it’s coming to an end of its own volition, so savor them even more than usual. What I like most about this series is how organically and charmingly its characters have evolved, especially the peripheral characters who, over the years, have become more and more central. And following at 8:30 p.m. ET is the much younger, still sweet Young Sheldon.

THE VOICE

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This is cycle number 15 for this best of all current reality competition series. And while the talent and the structure, season in and season out, continue to shine and to entertain, I worry when the familiarity of the show will begin to breed contempt. For now, though, I’m still planning, and looking forward, to seeing – and hearing – what’s in store.

JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

Susan Lacy, who ran American Masters for so many years, is the woman behind this documentary, which is original in structure and touching in its honesty. Instead of dividing Jane Fonda’s life into segments devoted to her films, or her various causes, the first four of Five Acts in the title are assigned to prominent men in her life: father Henry, and husbands Tom Hayden, Roger Vadim, Ted Turner. The final act, fittingly, is her own. And while the films in which Fonda starred are shown sparingly, and not even sampled at enough length to give the full measure of her development and talent, Jane Fonda in Five Acts is so truthful and evocative, and it’s because of the honesty and self-reflection in Fonda’s own running commentary of her very storied and varied life. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

SCORSESE IN THE 70S

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This week’s installment of this salute to Martin Scorsese in the 1970s presents three please-record-and-watch elements. The evening starts at 8 p.m. ET with Italianamerican, his 1974 salute to his mother. Then comes 1978’s The Last Waltz (pictured) at 9 p.m. ET, the farewell concert by The Band – and, with guest appearances by Bob Dylan and many, many others, one of the best concert films ever made. Then, at 11:15 p.m. ET, his early, 1972 drama, Boxcar Bertha, starring Barbara Hershey, Bernie Casey, and both John and David Carradine.

BETTER CALL SAUL

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s episode ended with a cliffhanger, with Rhea Seehorn’s Kim planning some sort of scheme to help one of Jimmy’s cronies avoid jail time. But while Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) is slipping ever closer to the Saul Goodman persona (he already has the business cards for his shady drop-phone business), Kim is making it on her own as a respected attorney – so this could be leading to a major separation. And we know that’s coming, somewhere, because Kim is nowhere to be found in Breaking Bad.

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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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