TUESDAY
AUGUST 6
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CW, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s guest star is Wilson Bethel, who plays Wade on the CW’s Hart of Dixie. That’s the down side of having this revival of Whose Line televised by CW – shameless and pointless self-promotion. But the core improv players, including Wayne Brady and Ryan Stiles, make this giddy little show worth watching anyway.

 
  
 
 

IFC, 8:00 p.m. ET

It’s a good night for movies on TV, starting with this Oscar-winning 2008 drama about an orphan in India who gets a chance at fame and fortune on a local TV quiz show. The orphan is played by Dev Patel, now one of the stars of HBO’s The Newsroom.

 
  
 
 

Sundance, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 1975 movie is a perfect example of the type of great film that was made in the 1970s, just before Hollywood started becoming obsessed by blockbusters (Jaws was released that same year, and changed the rules). Jack Nicholson is brilliant as the nonconformist who winds up in a mental ward, and keeps trying to stir up trouble, as well as his fellow inmates.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Alfred Hitchcock directed this 1940 film, a fairly early example of his artistry at milking psychological drama out of every situation (although a glass of milk, brilliantly lit from within, wouldn’t show up until Suspicion the following year). It’s his first movie made in Hollywood, and stars Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson, in a tale that proves it’s not paranoia if they are out to get you.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s show recounts history that took place in San Francisco, including Kristen Wiig as kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst – where the inebriated narrator explains that the media baron’s daughter was grabbed by a radical group, blindfolded, and held for almost two months in a closet “the size of a closet.”

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.