FRIDAY
JUNE 29
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Public Television, Check local listings

In HBO’s new drama series The Newsroom, Jeff Daniels plays a veteran newsman who ultimately decides to take the brave step of “speaking truth to stupid.” In real life, Bill Moyers is doing that already – as exemplified by this week’s new essay, in which he describes what we should really be thinking about during the upcoming Fourth of July holiday. Moyers & Company is shown by local public TV stations between Friday and Sunday. To find it in your local area, click the schedule HERE.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

And here’s a same-week repeat of the premiere of The Newsroom, repeated in case you haven’t yet seen it. I urge you to stay with this series, though – by episode four, it really clicks, and the characters and issues become equally compelling. Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer star.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

TCM is devoting the evening to women-in-jeopardy films. Big deal, I hear you say: Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network do that every night. Hmm. Good point. (Quiet, though — I'm working here.) But these are some earlier, classic entries in the genre — starting with this 1950 thriller, in which a women (Ida Lupino) suspects her husband of murder, and of wanting to kill her as well. And, of course, she’s right. Howard Duff co-stars.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:15 p.m. ET

Boy, am I going to miss this show when it’s gone. Tonight, Karl Pilkington explains why he thinks “the worm has turned” is such a stupid saying. And, as with so many observations by Karl, there’s a special brand of genius to his simplistic point of view.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

If I’ve kept track accurately, this is the last installment of this series before Maher takes the rest of the summer off. This is another show I’ll miss while it’s gone – but this one, at least, is coming back. Tonight’s guests include someone who ought to generate a lot of conversation, regardless of what’s happening in the news: Jack Abramoff.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.