TUESDAY
JUNE 5
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TCM, 7:30 a.m. ET

April showers bring May flowers – and on TCM, May flowers bring June musicals. Tuesdays and Thursdays this month, TCM devotes all day, and even prime time, to the Hollywood musical. There are plenty on view today to see, and hear, including some old Busby Berkeley classics and other pivotal early movies. Kicking it off this morning is 1933’s Footlight Parade, a prototypical musical featuring Berkeley’s iconic choreography and stars Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell – but all three are put to better use in 1934’s Dames, which follows at 9:30 a.m. ET. And in prime time, at 8 p.m. ET, pay particular attention to the rarely televised The Broadway Melody from 1929. Starring Anita Page and Bessie Love (pictured) as an aspiring Broadway sisters act, it was the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar. For that matter, it was the first sound picture to win, period.
 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: After a very lengthy hiatus between seasons, AMC’s Humans returns for Season 3. A year has passed on this show’s narrative as well, and the “synths” – this pre-Westworld term for its engineered humanoids – have been divided into two easily identifiable subgroups. As in Westworld, there are the functioning, unquestioning, human-like artificial beings – and then there are the “aware” ones, who have some semblance of identity and motivation beyond their programming. But in Humans, the manufacturers have mandated that these two groups are differentiated by eye color. If their eyes are bright green, beware…

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

We’re almost at the end of this season of Legion, and I’m not even sure where we are, geographically or emotionally. But I do know that the events of the past few episodes, tough as they may be to describe and explain, have gotten David very, very angry. And when he gets angry, things around him tend to be in grave danger. Tonight, with an important missing body about to be located, the term “grave danger” may well have a greater meaning.

 
  
 
 

National Geographic, 10:00 p.m. ET

In tonight’s Episode 8, the younger Picasso, played by Alex Rich, sets out to design a ballet – which leads him to also have designs on a beautiful ballerina, Olga Khoklova (played by Sofia Doniants), who is destined to become Picasso’s first wife, and an early muse.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.