MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 4
2017

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Showtime, 7:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: The final two episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return premiered last night on Showtime – and if you missed them, are available again in this repeat doubleheader. Much of this series reboot annoyed more than enchanted me, I’ll admit, but once Dale Cooper finally was himself again, so to speak, I found myself leaning forward with anticipation, and disbelief, the same way I did when watching the original Twin Peaks in the Nineties. Wow, Bob, Wow... And with that final cliffhanger, doesn’t there have to be more? For a buildup to the finale, see Roger Catlin’s TV Eye.
 
  
 
 

A&E, 8:00 p.m. ET

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: If you’re not at all into rap music, then this new A&E documentary is no B.I.G. deal. And if you prefer your documentaries to be more objective than reverential, then this music-filled biography, like the recent HBO documentary on Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, may disappoint more than impress. But, like that recent HBO effort, Biggie: The Life of the Notorious B.I.G. is full of colorful and surprising stories. It paints the life of Christopher Wallace as one full of luck, risk, talent, and bravado, and with some still unsolved and puzzling mysteries. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Take note, especially if you’re French: Tonight TCM has scheduled a special five-movie tribute to the recently departed Jerry Lewis. Five movies, starting in prime time at 8 p.m. ET with his 1963 crowd-pleaser, The Nutty Professor (pictured). Also included: At 10 p.m. ET, his later-career 1983 dramatic role as a kidnapped talk show host in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, followed at midnight ET by 1952’s The Stooge, in which he and Dean Martin tried to capture both the alchemic magic and offstage tensions of their show-biz partnership. Rounding things off: at 2 a.m. ET, 1960’s The Bellboy, which has some of Lewis’ best comedy set pieces, and, finally, at 3:30 a.m. ET, 1964’s The Disorderly Orderly. The first offering, The Nutty Professor, is indeed a great place to start, and features Stella Stevens as a la-la-la-la nice laaaady.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 8:30 p.m. ET

ABC presented its fall preview special yesterday. CBS also sees the wisdom of tossing off such a special on a Labor Day Weekend, but if you’re curious, you can sample, among other things, Young Sheldon, which is a Big Bang Theory prequel which gives the Wonder Years treatment to scenes from the early childhood of the character established, and voiced as an adult looking back on his own youth, by Jim Parsons.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.