TUESDAY
AUGUST 28
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TCM, 6:00 a.m. ET

We’re down to the last few days of August, which means the final days of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” salutes, where a single performer is showcased for an entire day and night. Today’s recipient is Lew Ayres, and the high point is his starring role in one of the first, and still best, antiwar war movies ever made. It’s called All Quiet on the Western Front, it’s about the brutal battles and conditions of what became known as World War I, and it was released in 1930, just a few years after sound came to the cinema. That’s televised at 8 p.m. ET, and is a prime offering for movie fans. For TV fans, there’s also a daytime double feature of the two movies, from the same decade, that inspired the popular Sixties TV medical series Dr. Kildare, starring Richard Chamberlain. At 12:15 p.m. ET, TCM is showing 1938’s Young Dr. Kildare, with Ayres in the title role (pictured), followed at 1:45 p.m. ET by the 1939 sequel, Calling Dr. Kildare. In both movies, Lionel Barrymore plays the fledgling physician’s crusty mentor, Dr. Gillespie.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Part 1 of 2. Ken Burns and company crafted this superb artistic and personal biography of author Samuel L. Clemens in 2002, presenting it as a two-part PBS special. The network is repeating it tonight and next Tuesday, and I highly recommend you record it, because it’s exactly the type of TV documentary that rewards repeated viewing. Oh, and I might as well mention, for the first time, that I’m traveling to Twain’s summer home in Elmira, NY, to deliver a clip-filled lecture for the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies and its “The Trouble Begins” Twain-related lecture series. My topic for the October 17 lecture? Mark Twain, TV Star. For more details, read here. Check local listings.
 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

SCHEDULE CHANGE: This last minute replacement substitutes tonight’s scheduled new edition of Frontline with a repeat, from April, that examines the life and achievements of John McCain, who died Saturday at age 81. It serves as a proper legacy, though the best legacy of all may well end up being the letter to America McCain wrote in his final days, and directed to be read posthumously. It has been, and it’s inspirational. Check local listings.


 
  
 
 

HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: What a great idea for a TV talk show. No audience, no desk, no couch – just a barber shop, where LeBron James, in this new show from HBO Sports, hosts a small group of invited guests, who hang around “the shop” and engage in some freewheeling, topical conversation. The guests for this opening edition hint at how wide-ranging James expects the guest list to be as well: The shop patrons for tonight’s opener include New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball player Candace Parker, Golden State Warriors NBA player Draymond Green, Snoop Dogg… and Jon Stewart.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.