MONDAY
DECEMBER 26
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

AMC, 12:00 p.m. ET

Well, I sure screwed this up. It figures I couldn’t escape from 2016 without getting sick one last time. This one appears to be a standard nasty cold – no hospital visits required – but it sure did knock me out for the count last night and, to this point, today. Sorry today’s Best Bets are posted so late, especially since they arrive too late to point to the absolute beginning of this outstanding Breaking Bad marathon. Mea culpa. To Keith Robin, and all you other wonderful readers who have passed on good and immensely warming holiday wishes, thanks so, so, so much. Don’t give up on me, or the other writers and editors, or the site just yet. We’re all hoping that 2017 is the year we end up Breaking Good…

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

No, it isn’t, because this was broadcast live earlier this month. But it’s a good chance to revisit, or visit, the latest staging of NBC’s live theatrical productions, a tradition that goes back on TV more than 60 years. Here’s to tradition, and history – because I go back more than 60 years, too...

 

 
  
 
 

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

This one-man play, billed as a comedy, technically is neither “one man” nor wholly comic. Written by Duncan Macmillan and performed by Jonny Donahoe, it’s a play in which the audience around Donahoe is called on, many times, to participate. It’s also a play in which the leading character tries to process the confusion, as a child, of his mother’s suicide attempt – the first of many. The boy’s reaction is to compile what he hopes is a persuasive list of things worth living for – hence, the Every Brilliant Thing of the title.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Ravi Patel, the Master of None and Scrubs performer who occasionally strides outside his comfort zone as an Indian-American standup comic and actor to write or do other ambitious stuff, decides to take a big leap in this very personal documentary, filmed and co-directed by his sister, Geeta. He allows his parents to set him up on a series of arranged meetings, ostensibly to find him a wife. And for reasons this documentary will make clear, all the women have to have the same name as his already – and it’s not to match the monograms. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.