THURSDAY

APRIL 26

2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Returning from a brief hiatus, this series takes us to Wolowitz’s bachelor party, which starts out as an all-male affair. But will it stay that way? These are geeks, after all – but this is a bachelor party. Talk about conflict…

COMMUNITY

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s new episode of Community takes on the Law & Order franchise – complete with sound effects – in a story about crime on campus. Why? Same reason anything happens on this show: the writers think it’s funny. And if enough viewers agree, they’ll be able to keep playing around.

30 ROCK

NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET

LIVE: Reprising an ambitious stunt from 2010, this series presents tonight’s episode live – with different versions for the East and West Coast, so you Lefties don’t have to feel left out. The plot has the show-within-a-show, TGS, being ordered by budget constraints to stop doing live shows – making the premise as meta as this prime-time gimmick is unusual. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are comfortable in the arena of live TV, of course – but the lack of a safety net always makes things more interesting. (New version at 8:30 p.m. WT.)

I AM

OWN, 9:00 p.m. ET

This 2011 film is by writer and director Tom Shadyac, who directed Ace Ventura, Pet Detective and looks a little like “Weird Al” Yankovic. It sounds like a remake of Sullivan’s Travels: a filmmaker who makes hit comedy movies has an epiphany and hits the road in search of greater truth. Except this is a documentary, and Shadyac isn’t kidding. Instead, he took some of his Hollywood profits and underwrote this very personal movie, in which he travels the world and poses the same two questions to the likes of Desmond Tutu and Noam Chomsky: “What’s wrong with the world?” and “What can we do about it?” My answers, though Shadyac didn’t ask me: 1) Jersey Shore, and 2) as Lot’s wife reportedly was advised, “Don’t look.”

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

In 1954, director Akira Kurosawa made this magnificent action movie, about a desolate village hiring out-of-work samurai to protect them from marauding bandits. Six years later, Hollywood presented this Americanized remake, setting the action in the Old West and making it work just as entertainingly. Stars include Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughan, James Coburn and, in the iconic role he reprised in robot form in Michael Crichton’s Westworld, Yul Brynner.

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