THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 5
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Every Thursday this month, TCM is saluting the movies and legacy of actress Kim Novak. Tonight’s tribute kicks off with a very rare interview with the long-retired Novak, mounted last year as part of a special TCM event. It covers, among other things, how she became a star, how she rebelled, and why she retired so young. TCM host Robert Osborne conducts the interview.
 
  
 
 

TCM, 9:00 p.m. ET

This 1958 Alfred Hitchcock movie is one of Kim Novak’s greatest film roles – two of them, actually. Jimmy Stewart plays a man obsessed with the memory of a former love, in a role that challenges him to use every bit of his innate likability to keep his character from seeming overly creepy. But Novak, as the object of his desires, is embraced from the start, especially by Hitchcock’s camera views.

 
  
 
 

USA, 9:00 p.m. ET

Two women in Michael’s life – both of them deadly, and neither of them exactly fond of the other – meet face to face tonight, in a heated confrontation that may not end well for both of them. Especially since this is the penultimate episode of Burn Notice, which means not even the regular characters are completely safe.

 
  
 
 

Flix, 9:45 p.m. ET

Terry Jones directed this Monty Python’s Flying Circus compendium of sketches and other delightful nonsense, and also appears in the 1982 film’s most memorable, audacious sketch. Opposite John Cleese as an obsequious waiter, Jones plays Mr. Creosote, a gluttonous patron so fat, and so overfed, that the ingestion of “one thin mint” at the end of dinner is enough to… well, see for yourself. But not while you’re snacking.
 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

This latest season is only two episodes old so far – but in both of them, the killer has managed to either display or dispatch his victims in startlingly unusual ways. And we’re only at the halfway point, with more episodes tonight and tomorrow – and with Idris Elba, as Luther, already anger that he hasn’t deciphered enough clues to put the murderer away.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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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.