MONDAY
JANUARY 29
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Acorn TV, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: The creator of Love, Lies & Records, also shown by Acorn TV, is Kay Mellor, who is the mind behind this new six-part drama about three women who are friends, and who, for a TV series, are notably mature. Miranda Richardson, Phyllis Logan and Zoe Wanamaker star. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 

Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week, Fox successfully launched this new medical series with a two-night premiere that drew viewers in  the double digits of millions – which, these days, is a lot. Tonight's Episode 3, with Matt Czuchry still at dead center… but with other characters either introduced or profiled more than before.

 
  
 
 

TNT, 9:00 p.m. ET

This period serial killer series continues – and while it’s got some occasional scenes of interest, it’s also arriving at a time when dramas about serial killers, on television, outnumber those telling stories about just about any other profession or activity. So if you’re going to do one these days, it has to stand out, and not just because it’s set at an earlier time.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

This 1934 screwball comedy remains one of the most honored movies of all time, which is one reason to make a special effort to watch, or revisit, when it makes a prime-time uninterrupted and unedited showing, as it does tonight on TCM. Clark Cable plays a reporter on the run with a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert), in a script adapted by Robert Riskin from an existing short story, and directed by the great Frank Capra. It Happened One Night, as it happened, was the first movie to sweep the five major awards at the Oscars: Best Actor and Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. And there’s yet another reason to watch: The film was one of the last made under before Hollywood began rigidly enforcing its self-imposed production code. So this film is a bit more naughty, and sly, than it could have been had it been released just a year later.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.