TUESDAY
APRIL 26
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last night’s edition had a lot of performances with emotional tugs and pulls – and also a lot of song choices that made for a very impressive live TV show. (Alison Porter, shown here, was a standout once again.) Tonight we get the results, as one talented contestant is eliminated, and the remaining candidates are regrouped as the Top 10 for the 2016 cycle of The Voice.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Deejay Alan Freed assembled lots of seminal rock ’n’ roll acts into touring shows, and also placed them in a series of 1950s movies. This 1956 film is the third of five such ventures – and though The Ventures aren’t on the bill, lots of other great early rock acts are, including Chuck Berry, La Vern Baker, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Connie Francis is heard, too, but not seen – she provides the singing voice of the character played by Tuesday Weld, the star of this frothy little concoction. And Freed stars too, providing his own voice.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

This series has been renewed for another season, which means ABC is happy – or happy enough – with the way this season has been going. And while it’s been a very drawn-out story line, it’s culminating in some more dramatically substantive and surprising episodes. The former agent Grant Ward, now a resurrected, mind-influencing other-dimensional Inhuman called The Hive, has emerged as this season’s “Big Bad” (a villain-identifying term coined by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, an executive producer of this show as well) – and tonight’s episode has Coulson (Clark Gregg) and his few remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. cohorts launching a seemingly suicidal counter-attack. But since the show’s been renewed…

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Part 2: This repeat installment takes the idea of national parks and wilderness conservation into the 20th century. When I was a kid, I collected U.S. postage stamps, and there was a commemorative stamp devoted to conservationist John Muir – a five-cent stamp with a drawing of a man dwarfed by giant sequoia trees. After watching this episode, I learned why and how Muir earned his country’s stamp of approval. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

MINISERIES: This new adaptation of John Le Carre’s 1993 spy novel continues. Tom Hiddleston stars as a hotel manager, Olivia Colman as a determined detective, and Hugh Laurie as a wealthy and ruthless international arms merchant. Last week’s premiere episode was all about establishing these three characters and their motivations. Tonight, the detective recruits the hotel manager to infiltrate, and spy on, the arms dealer’s operation. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.