TUESDAY
JUNE 26
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

HBO Family, 7:00 p.m. ET

It’s now 2012 – only three years until we reach (if we’re lucky) the future of 2015 as imagined in this fantasy time-travel film starring Michael J. Fox. Tonight HBO Family repeats the 1985 movie, followed at 9 p.m. ET by its 1989 sequel – which, like the original, takes place, in part, in 2015. (The rest, though, goes back to the past, and 1955.) Among the random predictions from the original film that came true: Miami now has a professional baseball team. 

 
  
 
 

IFC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Terrence Malick has directed only five movies in 40 years: 1973’s Badlands, 1978’s Days of Heaven, 2005’s The New World, last year’s The Tree of Life, and this 1998 war drama. An adaptation of James Jones’ autobiographical WWII novel, it focuses on the exhaustive, exhausting battles at Guadalcanal, starring Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John Travolta, George Clooney, and lots of others.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

This new edition of Frontline examines the wide disparity between costs and services in the dental industry, and how this affects both preventative and emergency care. For example: According to this report, only 10 percent of the dentists in Florida accept payment by Medicaid. For many more eye-opening, and mouth-opening, facts, watch this hour (check local listings). It tells the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth. Molar less…

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

This documentary focuses on the live performance career by the Beatles, from their earliest days in England and Germany to their official farewell concert at Candlestick Park. (And beyond, on the rooftop of Apple Studios.) Like other recently imported BBC America documentaries on this group, it’s not very thorough, and doesn’t add much to the canon – but there’s always a glimmer of something. In this case, it’s some of the more rare press conference footage.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 11:00 p.m. ET

This ought to be good: Tonight’s guest is Seth MacFarlane, the Family Guy guy promoting his first motion picture, Ted, in which he plays (via motion-capture) a “living” teddy bear.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.