FRIDAY
JULY 6
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ESPN, 8:00 a.m. ET

Andy Murray, the Scottish tennis player who has just battled his way to his fourth Wimbledon semifinal, has yet to win this U.K.-hosted event, but always has the home crowd squarely rooting for him. Today, the 4th-seeded Murray, after emerging victoriously from a dramatic match with seventh-seeded David Ferrer, faces No. 5 seed Jo-Wilifried Tsonga of France. Tune in early – and if Murray manages to battle his way to the final, get ready to witness bedlam. Well, not the actual Bedlam – though that’s relatively nearby. 

 
  
 
 

AMC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Forty years after it was made, this 1972 John Boorman film remains powerful, potent and, in terms of adventure stories set on and near the water, pretty much unsurpassed – it’d be the perfect double feature with The African Queen. Deliverance stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty as suburbanites out for a weekend adventure on a river about to be dammed, and getting a lot more adventure than they imagined. It’s a primal movie, with music, sequences, images and lines of dialogue that will never, ever leave you. Squeeeeal like a pig!

 
  
 
 

HBO Family, 8:30 p.m. ET

This 1980 movie isn’t shown much on TV, and some of our TVWW readers have asked about its availability on DVD – so it’s worth pointing out that here it comes again, in case anyone wants to record it for a home library. Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall star, and Robert Altman directs, but the biggest and most surprising draw here is that the music and lyrics are written by Harry Nilsson.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

This is the penultimate installment of this animated series, and boy, am I going to miss it when it’s gone. This show, week in and week out, has given me more laughs on a Friday night than I thought anyone or anything could coax out of me. On tonight’s new installment, Karl Pilkington explains to Ricky Gervais that before he donates a kidney to someone, he’d like to meet the would-be organ-donor recipient beforehand to size them up. Even if it’s a sickly little kid – because, Karl asks, what if the kid is a jerk?

 
  
 
 

Discovery, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Ariel Tweto is used to rugged plane trips: her father, Jim, runs the small Alaskan airline featured in this series, servicing the bush country as well as coastal towns. Earlier this year, she was featured on a cushier trip, as one of the invited guests when CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson went to Scotland – and was thoroughly charming. So tune in and see more of her, as she continues to pursue her dream of earning her pilot’s license.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.