TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 25
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

This series returns from its winter hiatus with the primary focus not on the New Directions glee club, but on two of its graduates, now employed by a Broadway show preparing to open. One is Lea Michele’s Rachel, who has scored the lead role, once played by Barbra Streisand, in a revival of Funny Girl. And the other is Naya Rivera’s Santana, who has just been hired as Rachel’s understudy. All About Eve, anyone?

 
  
 
 

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

After its sneak preview launch following Saturday night’s Olympic Games, About a Boy presents its second episode. It’s a warmer, better sitcom than most NBC efforts the past few years – but whether viewers will give NBC the benefit of the doubt, much less a half hour of their time, is at this point an open question. But series creator Jason Katims, with his TV versions of Parenthood and Friday Night Lights, has earned the right to some viewer loyalty. David Walton, Minnie Driver and Benjamin Stockham star.
 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

This new edition of Frontline examines the almost unprecedented transfer of power that led to a living Pope stepping down and abdicating his power as head of the Catholic church. What were the issues behind the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, and how is the inner circle at the Vatican reacting to the new trail being blazed by his successor, Pope Francis? The question, in this case, is this: Where there's white smoke, is there fire? Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Justified took last week off, after an episode in which there were so many showdowns and confrontations, it felt like watching a boxing match with several juicy undercards. And tonight, the various plots put several characters on the move: Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) on the trail of a con artist, and Boyd and the Crowes heading towards Florida, continuing their very unlikely, positively incendiary association by expedience.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

This 1946 David Lean movie is a classic film version of a classic Charles Dickens novel. It’s got something for everyone, with Tony Wager and John Mills splitting the role of Pip, and Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson splitting the role of Estella, with Martita Hunt as an appropriately creepy Miss Havisham. For my dad, the most memorable part of Great Expectations, when he saw it as a young teen, was the sudden scare of the convict jumping out of the tree. For me, when I first saw the film at about the same age, it was Jean Simmons as the young Estella. So beautiful. So icy. So mercurial.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.