THURSDAY
APRIL 28
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This new special, recorded at last year’s TCM Film Festival, has international movie star Sophia Loren interviewed in front of an appreciative, film-savvy audience. This time, though, the interviewer is not TCM host Robert Orborne, but Loren’s own son, Edoardo Ponti. And their very intimate 75-minute conversation is followed by a string of Loren’s films, starting with 2014’s The Human Voice, a film short based on Jean Cocteau’s one-woman play, with Loren as star and her son as the film’s director. Also shown tonight are her famously boisterous performance opposite Marcello Mastroianni in 1964’s Marriage Italian Style (at 9:45 p.m. ET, pictured), and her performance opposite Gregory Peck in Stanley Donen’s 1966 mystery, Arabesque (at 12:45 a.m. ET).

 
  
 
 

CBS, 8:31 p.m. ET

Just a note: Garry Marshall, who oversaw the migration of Neil Simon’s Broadway and movie versions of The Odd Couple into a superb TV sitcom version starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, guest stars tonight, playing Oscar’s father, Walter. He’s not writing his own lines, so I don’t know if Garry Marshall will be funny tonight – but when he was a regular fixture on the TCA press tour in the 1970s and 1980s, talking about his shows such as Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Mark & Mindy, no one was funnier.
 
  
 
 

CNN, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s documentary installment is about the early 1980s development, and subsequent impact, of MTV. The title alone suggests you’ll be able to see, and hear, at least a portion of the first video ever played on MTV when it launched in 1981: “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by a British band called The Buggles.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week, we found out something horrifying about another of the infamous biological experiments being carried out on unwilling patients, including at least one of our favorite clones. And tonight’s episode sees the return of another of those clones: Tatiana Maslany (of course) as Rachel.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

On this week's episode, Amy Schumer visits Game of Thrones, plays host to guest star Liam Neeson, and appears at a gun show.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.