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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 5
2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 
RAY ROMANO: RIGHT HERE, AROUND THE CORNER

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Ray Romano, star of CBS’s Everybody Loves Raymond sitcom, stars in his first standup comedy special since the Nineties – specifically, since 1996, the year Raymond, and Raymond, went on the air on CBS. Right Here, Around the Corner is a double bill of sorts: two different sets, both taped at New York comedy clubs.

 
  
 
 
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CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: CBS launched this new talent competition series immediately after the Super Bowl on Sunday – and enough viewers woke up, or fought off boredom-induced slumber, to give it a sizable post-Bowl audience rating. Tonight that same premiere episode is repeated, in the show’s regular Monday time slot. The talent on hand is global, and aggressively unusual – an America’s Got Talent writ large – but the host and judges here are much more likable. Drew Barrymore, Faith Hill and RuPaul are the judges, and the host is CBS’s own immensely likable, and talented, James Corden. And for once on this website, this is a literal Best Bet.

 
  
 
 
2019 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

Various Networks, 9:00 p.m. ET

Postponed from last month, and held tonight in the House chamber only because we have resolved one government shutdown this year and not yet embarked on another, is the 2019 State of the Union Address. President Donald Trump is delivering the speech again this year, for the second time – but for the first time in his presidency, he’s not preaching to, or in front of, a majority of the converted. The Democrats in the chamber, adding up both House and Senate congresspeople, now outnumber the Republicans – and this year, seated behind Trump as he speaks on camera, Vice President Mike Pence will be there as usual, but former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will be replaced by his Democratic successor, Nancy Pelosi, which will change the on-camera optics considerably. But this is Trump’s chance not only to enumerate the places where the United States is doing well, but to address the major issues facing and dividing our country – once and for wall. Where to watch? Just about any broadcast network and cable news outlet.

 
  
 
 
INSIDE THE NFL

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Inside the NFL says farewell until next season, by deconstructing the New England Patriots’ plodding victory against the Los Angeles Rams. Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis should have fun on this show, at least: All season on Inside the NFL, he’s been stressing the importance of the defense, while the QBs on this analysis show have laughed at him, quoting each week’s wildly super-sized offensive stats. So now Lewis gets to talk Super Bowl LIII, where the score at halftime was 3-3, the final score was 13-3, and the Rams’ offensive drive chart was a painfully dull exercise in failure, and the Patriots’ defensive supremacy: punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, field goal, punt, interception, missed field goal, game over.

 
  
 
 
DRUNK HISTORY

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s new Drunk History episode, on “Trail Blazers,” tells one story in particular that I can’t envision how they’ll actually pull it off. It’s a moment in history I teach, and show vintage TV news coverage of, every term in my TV History & Appreciation class at Rowan University: the 1957 crisis at Little Rock, when the governor of Arkansas refused to integrate a high school there, defying the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court establishing and demanding integration in public schools. The “Little Rock Nine” were a test case of young African-American students with excellent grades, sent to school as an angry community gathered outside, and, eventually, the National Guard was sent in by President Eisenhower to enforce the law. What’s funny about that, even when told in an alcoholic slur? I’m not sure. Young actress Amandla Stenberg (pictured out of costume) stars as Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Nine.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.
 
 
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