MONDAY
NOVEMBER 4
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Cristin Milioti, the titular mother finally introduced at the end of last season, makes her third appearance tonight, briefly. But watch, too, for another appearance by Anna Camp, who was so funny last week as the disastrous wedding-weekend date of Josh Radnor’s Ted. I spent a long time trying to place where I’d seen her before, then it finally clicked: She stole lots of scenes on HBO’s True Blood as Sarah, the anti-vampire, oversexed religious zealot.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: CBS has yet to fully cash in on the movie stardom of Melissa McCarthy, who starred in this sitcom before breaking out on the big screen, and has stayed with it ever since. This is the premiere episode of Season 4 – that’s how long this show has been around – and starts, this season, with a plot that breaks McCarthy’s Molly away from her school blackboard, and sends her out as a loose cannon into the wider world.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET

This series returns with a guest-star appearance worthy enough to note. John Noble, the standout star from Fringe, returns to a Fox genre show, this time playing a character called the Sin Eater. (Next week: Gordon Ramsay as the Sin Cooker?)

 
  
 
 

CBS, 9:30 p.m. ET

Allison Janney really gets to go for some broad comedy in tonight’s new episode. Her character hits menopause, and reacts with a series of crazy mood swings, from heated-angry to aging-denial– the latter which has her going even blonder and dressing more trendily than her daughter, played by Anna Faris.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 2:15 a.m. ET

Depending upon the content of each week’s documentary, this imported film history series either gets a prime-time slot, or is pushed to later at night. Tonight’s episode, Part 9, is the latest push yet, so if you’re following and enjoying this series, set your recorders, because it shows up at 2:15 a.m. ET, and has the clunkiest title yet: 1969-1979 – Radical Directors in the 70s Make State of the Nation Movies. And its focus includes movies from Australia, two of which are given the prime-time treatment by TCM: 1979’s My Brilliant Career (starring Judy Davis, pictured, at 8 p.m. ET), and 1975’s Picnic at Hanging Rock at 10:15 p.m. ET.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.