TUESDAY
MARCH 4
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

This series is attempting a reboot of sorts, redefining its tone, and its mission, as it heads into its midseason lap. This episode continues the adventures of last week, with one agent captured, another fighting to survive, and a bunch of the rest manning a seeming suicide mission to infiltrate enemy headquarters and rescue their own. S.H.I.E.L.D. is on a mission, and so is A.B.C. …

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This series of interstitial shorts, hosted by Conan O’Brien, returns for March with more of Johnny Carson’s vintage interviews from his days (nights, really) on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Starting at 8 p.m. ET, they run in 12-minute blocks, and lead up to the 9:15 p.m. ET showing of 1960’s original, Rat Pack-laden Ocean’s Eleven. The interviews begin at 8 ET with Carson’s 1976 interview with James Stewart, followed by, in order: Jack Lemmon (1979), Sally Field (also 1979), Diane Keaton (1972), and two stars from Ocean’s Eleven: Angie Dickinson (interviewed in 1980) and Sammy Davis Jr. (1972).

 
  
 
 

WNET-Ch. 13 NY, 9:30 p.m. ET

Recorded last year at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, CA, this is the first televised concert featuring Steve Martin playing it straight – except for some funny between-songs patter – as he plays the banjo and works through his old and new collaborations with singer-songwriter Edie Brickell and their backing band, the Steep Canyon Rangers. The working relationship between Brickell and Martin was like a reverse Bernie Taupin-Elton John arrangement: Martin would write the music first, then send it to Brickell, who would come up with the lyrics. The results often surprised them both, and can surprise audiences, too. “Yes, She Did” sets a suicidal story to happy music, “Sarah Jane and the Iron Mountain Baby” is a new song that sounds proudly traditional, and “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs” – well, that sounds like pure Steve Martin, all the way. A fun concert, worth seeking out during PBS pledge month – which is why you have to work extra hard to find it. New York’s WNET-Ch. 13 shows it tonight, but… Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

In this week’s new episode, Will (David Walton) promises to look after Marcus (Benjamin Stockham) – and does so by taking him to a California pool party hosted by Lil Jon. It’s not your average pool party, though: It has tigers out of cages, and women in them.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week, Boyd (Walton Goggins) took the Crowes to a “business trip” that ended with a bunch of dead bodies – but Boyd, thanks to playing the Crowes as his unexpected hole card, wasn’t one of them.  Now there’s more impending death in the offing, and there’s also a missing Crowe, a case that Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) is determined to solve. And Wendy, the cleverest and prettiest of the Crowes, played by Alicia Witt, is bound to hold the key.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.