WEDNESDAY
OCTOBER 4
2017

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PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 36 opener for Nature, so this particular PBS series has been around for quite a while. And tonight, it devotes itself to following the birth and early life of an elephant, where workers at Botswana’s Abu Camp work hard to raise the elephant baby to be strong enough to release back in the wild. It was born, by the way, after 661 days of pregnancy. So if you’ve recently had a baby, or are having one, don’t dare make any elephant comparisons. In gestation terms, arguably, you had it easy. Though, I know, it’s easy for me to say that… For a full review, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters.  Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

AT&T Audience Network, 8:00 p.m. ET

Episode 9. Tonight’s episode is titled “Ice Cream, You Scream, We All Scream” – and since the show’s deranged killer, Brady (Harry Treadaway), has been seen driving an ice cream truck since the premiere episode, this particular episodic title is not that difficult to parse.

 
  
 
 

AXS TV, 9:00 p.m. ET

Paul Simon’s Graceland album was released in 1986, and took the music industry by storm. Some argued he was taking advantage of indigenous music and artists, others thought he was inadvertently supporting apartheid. But what he was doing was making a terrific album, and collaborating globally in a way that opened the door even more for what we now commonly call “world music.” All I know is, when the new-fangled technological miracle known as the compact disc finally was launched in the States, the first CD I bought, to test out the sonics, was Graceland. Tonight, this one-hour Classic Albums special presents a track-by-track breakdown, of the music and the politics.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

The title of tonight’s Frontline isn’t just an examination of boisterous rhetoric. Rather, it’s an examination of the allegation that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had his half-brother killed – and what that may mean regarding the dictator’s temperament and determination. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.