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TUESDAY
AUGUST 25
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 
A FEW GOOD PIE PLACES

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Rick Sebak, a sort of modern-day Charles Kuralt obsessed with all things mildly decadent (ice cream! Hot dogs!), presents two nationally touring PBS specials tonight. The first, eschewing the usual “best” frameworks of on-the-road food shows, more modestly presents, to quote the title, A Few Good Pie Places. Modestly, but no less enthusiastically… For a full review, see Tom Brinkmoeller’s Raised on MTM. Check local listings.
 
  
 
 
A FEW GREAT BAKERIES

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Here’s the second of Rick Sebak’s food-tour PBS specials tonight (he’s pictured here, with a happy baker). This one is about bakeries – and since tonight’s other documentary is about pies, you could almost consider this a sequel. Or a sister series. Whatever it is, the two shows, taken together, are one yummy Sebak-to-back treat. For a full review, see Tom Brinkmoeller’s Raised on MTM. Check local listings.
 
  
 
 
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES

El Rey, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: The first season of this Robert Rodriguez series, based on the giddily playful and gory movie he made with Quentin Tarantino, pretty much followed, and expanded upon, the script of that film. But for Season 2, all bets are off, all stories are new, and the action no longer takes place in that secluded, vampire-filled dive. And watch out: the vampiress has a gun!
 
  
 
 
BE COOL

Starz!, 9:35 p.m. ET

This 2005 movie, based on an Elmore Leonard novel, is a 10-years-after sequel to 1995’s Get Shorty, which also was based on a Leonard novel. That first film starred John Travolta as mobster turned movie “maker” Chili Palmer. In the sequel, Chili still is chillin’ in Hollywood, in a script that gets to reunite Travolta, 11 years later, with his female co-star from 1994’s Pulp Fiction: Uma Thurman. And yes, they’re dancing again.
 
  
 
 
PUBLIC MORALS

TNT, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Edward Burns created this new TNT series, wrote it, stars in it, and even directed a couple episodes. He plays a tough New York vice cop in the 1960s, surrounded by other cops, mobsters and even family members who are just as tough as he is. It’s evocative of classic cop movies like Serpico and The French Connection – and it looks great, and starts with a slow-simmering but intriguing murder plot. For my full review, listen today to NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, or visit the Fresh Air website. And for a full review on TVWW, see Uncle Barky's Bytes.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.
 
 
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