SUNDAY

JANUARY 27

2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

SPECIAL PREMIERE: The live TV musical, which hit the heights early in the 1950s with NBC’s Peter Pan, was revived by the same network with NBC’s The Sound of Music Live! in 2013. Since then, other networks have picked up the challenge as well, and it’s all to the good. Tonight’s live Fox presentation of Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical Rent will be directed by Alex Rudzinski, who’s already proven his skill at this by directing Grease: Live for Fox and Jesus Christ Superstar for NBC. This live version stars Vanessa Hudgens, who played Rizzo in Grease: Live in 2016, and Gabriella in Disney’s non-live High School Musical long before that. Co-stars include Valentina (seen as herself on RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars), Tinashe (seen as herself on Fox’s Empire), and Jordan Fisher and Mario. And room is being made in here, somehow, for members of the original Broadway cast, including Idina Menzel, Daphne Rubin Vega, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Adam Pascal, and Fredi Walker. No word, though, on whether this production will include Adele Dazeem.

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE WILDEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH

Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This Showtime instant-documentary political analysis series returns just in time, covering the week in which President Trump, on Friday, signed a bill to reopen the government for three weeks, even though it contained no provisions for funding his infamous wall, which is why he called for the government shutdown in the first place. Maybe he just got tired of winning…

25TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS

TBS, TNT, 8:00 p.m. ET

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Megan Mullally hosts this silver-anniversary Screen Actors Guild awards show, which, among its other activities, presents a Life Achievement Award to Alan Alda, one of TV’s all-time biggest stars, thanks to CBS’s long-running, phenomenally popular M*A*S*H.

VICTORIA ON MASTERPIECE

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode is titled “Et in Arcadia,” and has the royal family on a family vacation – but reacting differently to the bucolic surroundings. Albert loves being away from home and isolated out in the country with the family, but Victoria longs to get back to the palace. And she’s the Queen, so guess who wins? Check local listings.

TRUE DETECTIVE

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

In tonight’s episode, in the earliest time line, the detectives find and pursue clues which may link the local church and the Purcell crimes. Mahershala Ali stars.

I AM THE NIGHT

TBS, TNT, 10:00 p.m. ET

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new six-part miniseries stars Chris Pine as a washed-up newspaper reporter in 1965, who ends up reheating a cold case that winds its way all the way back to infamous Black Dahlia murder, and beyond. India Eisley, from The Secret Life of the American Teenager, stars as a teenager whose past, and lineage, are crucial to his investigation. I Am the Night is a pet project by Patty Jenkins, who directed Pine in the Wonder Woman movie. She directs the opening episodes, and her husband, author Sam Sheridan, is the show runner. I Am the Night evokes the mid-Sixties perfectly, and the plot, and the feel, evokes Chinatown. It pales next to that direct comparison – but what doesn’t? I Am the Night, over its six hours, is a captivating character study, as well as a compelling mystery. For my review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website. And for our TVWW review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

CRASHING

HBO, 10:10 p.m. ET

In last week’s season premiere, Pete Holmes returned to New York, eager and determined to pick up his standup comedy career there after a long college tour. But it didn’t work out like he expected, leading him to reassess and question his life choices. So tonight, in search of answers and direction, Pete goes to Temple. University, that is…

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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.

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