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JULY 3
2017

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Showtime, 5:00 p.m. ET

You may or may not have noticed, but there was no Episode 9 of Twin Peaks: The Return last night. Showtime took the holiday weekend off and will present the next episode in the series this coming Sunday. Meanwhile, Showtime is repeating the episodes to date, in a two-day catch-up marathon presented today and tomorrow. Today, beginning at 5 p.m. ET, are the first four episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return, where you’ll see, by my count, at least four different Coopers, all played by Kyle MacLachlan: the real Cooper in the Black Lodge flashbacks, the Bob-possessed Cooper there and afterward, the evil Cooper doppelgänger with the long hair and sooty complexion, and the clueless Cooper doppelgänger with no memory but an amazing lucky streak at the casinos. If that doesn’t make any sense, maybe you haven’t watched this series yet. Or maybe you have…

 
  
 
 

CNN, 8:00 p.m. ET

CNN did this the other night and is doing it again tonight: repeating installments of its marathon documentary series, The Seventies, in preparation for this weekend’s unveiling of its newest entry in the series, The Nineties. I appear in the episode devoted to television, but given recent headlines, I’d recommend paying even closer attention to the episode about Watergate. CNN, by rebroadcasting The Seventies, is repeating history, true, but these days, history also seems to be repeating itself.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

This new episode takes a look at the war in Syria – and what makes it stands out is that it’s a long look, explaining the conflicts over a five-year period, beginning with the Arab Spring protests of 2011. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

Syfy, 12:00 a.m. ET

It’s an annual tradition at Syfy, the 4th of July marathon of Twilight Zone episodes, and it begins at midnight ET tonight, so get ready for the earliest batch, which in these overnight hours includes Carol Burnett and Jesse White in a Rod Serling-written 1962 episode, “Cavender is Coming.” Of special interest when watching this episode: Burnett told me she had a major crush on Serling at the time, though nothing happened and he was, at the time, happily married.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.