THURSDAY
OCTOBER 30
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TNT, 8:00 p.m. ET

Now that baseball is over, it’s time to switch to basketball – at least for tonight, when the game offers enough subtext and drama to warrant a lot of attention. The visiting team is the New York Knicks, and the home team is the Cleveland Cavaliers, marking LeBron James’ return to that club, and city, since he left Cleveland for the Miami Heat. Thomas Wolfe was wrong, at least when it comes to basketball and Akron, Ohio native James. As he proves tonight, you can go home again.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 8:31 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Allison Janney won two Emmys this year – one for her dramatic supporting actress work on Showtime’s Masters of Sex, and one for her comedic supporting actress work here. So if you’ve never seen Mom, here’s your chance. It’s back for Season 2 with Janney playing one of the Mom parts on this sitcom. Another: Anna Faris, playing Janney’s daughter.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 9:01 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Not a recommendation, just an observation. This is the final season of this sitcom, which has gone on much longer than anyone involved in it dared dream – especially after the controversial departure of Charlie Sheen. Jon Cryer’s co-star, ever since, has been Ashton Kutcher, but this season will be the last lap around the track for both of them. So it’s time to pull out the Halloween costumes – a zombie Elvis for Kutcher, and, for Cryer, a costume that’s just Ducky.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Holmes and Watson are back, but Kitty’s here, too. And if you Sherlock Holmes fans remember a certain Baskerville hound much more than you do a character named Kitty, here’s a fun flashback of sorts. And this Kitty is played by Ophelia Lovibond, who sounds like a character Sir Arthur Conan Doyle might have concocted on his own. Then again, so does the star of PBS’s Sherlock import, Benedict Cumberbatch. Lucy Liu, Jonny Lee Miller stars.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Things are moving kind of slowly on this show as it plays out its final season. First Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) is barely getting around after his “episode,” and now his son Crosby (Dax Shepard) is fretting about slow times at the Luncheonette. Too little music coming out, too few musicians coming in…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.