SUNDAY
MARCH 31
2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 2:00 p.m. ET

The remaining two games in this weekend’s Elite 8 are played today, before prime time, and televised by CBS. First up is the Midwest regional final at 2 p.m. ET, featuring No. 2 Kentucky vs. the team that just knocked top-seeded North Carolina out of the tournament, No. 5 Auburn. Then, at 5 p.m. ET, CBS presents the weekend’s final contest: the East regional final, No. 1 Duke vs. No. 2 Michigan State.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 8 of this series finished playing earlier this month in the U.K. – but tonight, it begins its run here in the U.S. Therefore, if you want to avoid all spoilers, avoid the Midwife corner of the Internet. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 8:00 p.m. ET

New Media, played by Kahyun Kim, gets even more involved this week, as the old and new gods continue to prepare for battle.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new drama series is a family affair: Actress Ruth Wilson, star of The Affair, plays her own grandmother, the title character, in a fact-based drama drawn from that grandmother’s memoirs. Check local listings. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower

 
  
 
 

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode had enough deaths, especially of beloved characters, to call it a season. But war between the evil Whisperers and our beleaguered heroes hasn’t even boiled over yet. Tonight’s episodic title, “The Storm,” suggests what might be coming. Then again, last week’s episode was titled “The Calm Before,” yet had a higher body count than most.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES FINALE: This is Part 4 of the revisiting of the Serial murder case – the concluding installment, although, even now, conclusions may be… inconclusive. But it may be recently updated enough to include not only court rulings from earlier this month, but the results of newly conducted DNA tests on surviving evidence in the murder of 18-year-old high school student Hae Min Yee, and the subsequent murder conviction of her former boyfriend, Adnan Syed.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight is episode three of this new season, and watch carefully – even some of the strongest alliances among characters on this program are about to be tested, and maybe even shattered. And that includes not only a business partnership, but a marriage…

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This sleeper treat of a dark comedy series, which won some well-deserved Emmys for its freshman season of work, returns tonight with the Season 2 premiere. Welcome back, Bill Hader. Welcome back, Henry Winkler!

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:30 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This show, a long-shimmering jewel in HBO’s comedy crown, returns for its latest – and final season. For many viewers, it may be increasingly difficult to watch a TV show and witness anything genuinely funny about the topic of politics – but Veep manages, despite current events, to pull it off.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET

For many viewers, it may be increasingly difficult to watch a TV show and witness anything genuinely funny about the topic of politics – but John Oliver manages, despite current events, to pull it off.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.