SATURDAY
JUNE 3
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SPECIAL: This is the easiest, and most obvious, TV recommendation of the night. Fifty years (and a day or two) after The Beatles released the groundbreaking 1967 concept album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, PBS presents a new special, co-produced by Apple Corps Ltd. With the full support of the Beatles estate. Directed by Francis Hanly and hosted by Howard Goodall, this special uses audio outtakes from the Sgt. Pepper sessions to help deconstruct and reconstruct the making of one of rock music’s most influential albums. (Though not even the group’s best, but that’s a debate for another time.) The album’s newly released stereo remix by Giles Martin, son of original Beatles producer George Martin is one source for revelation and wonder. This TV special is another. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2016 movie, sort of a cross between The X-Men and a Dickensian boarding house, is a Tim Burton film that almost got unnoticed as a Tim Burton film, but it’s clearly got his take on it – and, like Barry Sonnenfeld with The Addams Family and A Series of Unfortunate Events, benefits greatly from his visual playfulness. Eva Green, so great in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful (and also prominent in Burton’s own, less impressive Dark Shadows remake), stars as the title character. Her colorful costars include Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, and Allison Janney.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

In tonight’s episode, in the sequences in the past now set in 1849, young Eli must trust an unlikely ally in order to survive his latest set of ordeals. Meanwhile, his older counterpart, back in 1915, has problems, and allies and adversaries, of his own.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s new episode, “The Lie of the Land” (lie, not lay – get it?), concludes this unofficial trilogy story line about the menacing alien monks. In the first episode, the end of the Earth turned out to be an artificial test-run simulation before the monks’ actual invasion. In the second episode, the blinded Doctor (Peter Capaldi) regained his sight, but potentially at the loss of Earth for real. But tonight, the Doctor and his companions have one last chance to save the planet, and themselves. Things look grim – but even in a season when he’s supposed to regenerate to another form (and a new star playing the title role), never bet against the Doctor.

 

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.