SATURDAY
MAY 3
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2013 comedy stars SNL graduate Jason Sudeikis as a guy who recruits a fake family to help him smuggle a large pot shipment across the U.S.-Mexico border. Said recruits are portrayed by, among others, Emma Roberts from American Horror Story: Coven as his daughter, and Jennifer Aniston as a stripper he hires to portray his wife. And now I have to select a picture to go with this item. Hmm, here’s a good one of Sudeikis. Then again…

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:30 p.m. ET

The return of Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer begins Monday, in a new, trimmed-down, 12-hour version of 24. As a teaser, Fox tonight presents a 30-minute special, recapping the character to date and giving enticing previews of what’s to come.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

Among the many things that happen to the many clones on Orphan Black tonight, one is that Alison gets to opening night in the Dexter-like blood-spatter musical, “Blood Ties,” in which she’s starring. What I’ve found out only recently is that Blood Ties is an actual musical, written not for this series, but for a fringe festival a few years ago.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

This 1966 comedy stars Carl Reiner, and is based on a novel by Nathaniel Benchley, so it’s got comedy cred in every frame. But watch, in particular, for a young actor named Alan Arkin. This was his first movie role, playing a Soviet submarine crewman whose vessel runs aground off the coast of New England – and it’s a star-making turn. Arkin has been brilliant, in both comedies and dramas, ever since, and holds his own here in a movie that also co-stars Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel and Eva Marie Saint.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET

Andrew Garfield is the guest host tonight, with musical guest Coldplay. If Garfield is as funny in the show as he is in the show’s teaser promos, this one should be a strong outing.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.