SATURDAY
AUGUST 25
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 12:30 p.m. ET

Both the International and U.S. Finals are played today, in games that will decide who plays in tomorrow’s championship contest. At 12:30 p.m. ET, in the International Finals, it’s Japan vs. Asia-Pacific (South Korea). That’s followed at 3:30 p.m. ET by the U.S. Finals, with the Southeast team from Peachtree City, GA facing the West team, the undefeated Hawaii squad. The winners advance to tomorrow’s ultimate game of the 2018 season.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1956 drama, adapted by Tennessee Williams from his one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, stars Karl Malden as a cotton gin owner who has been married for two years – to his “Baby Doll” wife, played by Carroll Baker, who is just about to turn 20. That impending birthday marks the age at which, according to a prearranged agreement with her father, the cotton gin owner is allowed to finally consummate the marriage with his virgin bride, who has spent the marriage thus far teasing him, and everyone else within sight, with her ripening sexuality. (Good old Tennessee Williams.) Elia Kazan directed this steamy Southern story, which, upon its release, was given a “C” by the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency. And that wasn’t a “C” as in a passing grade. It was “C” for “Condemned.” And tonight at 8 p.m. ET, it’s highlighted in prime time as part of an all-day salute to Carroll Baker by TCM – a.k.a., in this case, Turner Condemned Movies.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new three-part nature series, shown in March on BBC One, premieres on BBC America tonight, with Liz Bonnin and a team of scientists visiting nature’s most famous archipelago, the virtual birthplace of Darwinism. Episode one, “Cauldron of Life,” starts with the volcanically active Western islands, and includes a search for a rare species close to extinction: the pink iguana.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.