TUESDAY
DECEMBER 31
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Syfy, 8:00 a.m. ET

William Shatner in 1960’s Nick of Time (3:30 p.m. ET), Burgess Meredith in 1959’s Time Enough at Last (7:30 p.m. ET), 1960’s classic The Monsters are Due on Maple Street (8:30 p.m. ET), another 1960 classic, The Eye of the Beholder (10 p.m. ET, pictured), and Agnes Moorehead in the mostly silent 1961 classic, The Invaders (10:30 p.m. ET). And the fun continues into the wee hours of the New Year, so enjoy.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 9:00 a.m. ET

AMC has been rocking it for days with its complete, sequential repeat of Breaking Bad.  (I couldn’t believe how many hours I lost to that marathon, even though I own the stunningly good, just-released boxed set on DVD.) Well, just in time for the New Year, AMC rolls out a complete sequential marathon of another excellent series, The Walking Dead – well, complete to date, since this series isn’t over yet. But just as with Breaking Bad, if you watch the opening scene of the opening episode (which, in this case, is televised today at 9 a.m. ET), you ought to be hooked for the duration. In 2013, AMC’s The Walking Dead ranked among the Top 10 series on all of television – an impressive feat for a cable series, beating out all a few of the most popular programs on broadcast TV. It’s like television is being taken over… by walkers.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic on the traditional New Year’s Eve concert from New York’s Lincoln Center, broadcast live by PBS – an impeccable use of public television. Tonight’s special guest artist is cellist Yo-Yo Ma, with the emphasis on music inspired by Latin dances. One selection is the cello concerto Azul, written expressly for Yo-Yo Ma by modern composer Osvaldo Golijov. Another is that classic of the modern canon, Ravel’s Bolero. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

If you want some background entertainment for your New Year’s Eve party, or just some foreground entertainment to slip nicely from one year to the next, here’s a strong option. TCM is presenting a triple feature of all three editions of That’s Entertainment, which are nothing-but-highlights compilations from the history of MGM musicals. The first one came out in 1974, and gathered as co-hosts an absurdly talented group of entertainers – all of whom are represented in the clips as well, starting with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 11:30 p.m. ET

This is the second annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve since the death of Dick Clark, who launched the franchise in 1972. ABC, out of respect, retains Clark’s name in the title, but the host these days (and these midnights) remains Ryan Seacrest, with help – if you can call it that – from Jenny McCarthy.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.