MONDAY
OCTOBER 7
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Various Networks, Check local listings

All eight postseason teams take the field today, in four games televised back to back: the first on MLB Network, the others on TBS. At 1 pm. ET, the American League’s Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics, tied in the series at 1-1, play Game 3 in this best-of-five series at Detroit. At 3 p.m. ET, the action switches to TBS, where the National League’s St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates play Game 4, with the Pirates enjoying a 2-1 edge. At 6 p.m. ET, it’s Game 3 of the American League’s Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Ray series, with Boston winning every game this far, with a chance to close out the series tonight. Then, at 9:30 p.m. ET, the National League’s Atlanta Braves face the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4, with the Dodgers enjoying a 2-1 edge and home-field advantage.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

In last week’s cliffhanger, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) let it be known that he saw his fiancé Robin and best friend Ted embracing on Central Park’s carousel. Tonight, the two old bros have it out, hoping to clear the air in the days before Barney and Robin are supposed to get married.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

This sweet film, by Katie Dellamaggiore, looks at a program at one junior-high school in Brooklyn that has excelled in producing nationally competitive chess players. You might come to this POV program expecting a chess version of Fame, with driven students fighting their way to Nationals. But what you get, in addition to that, is a story about dedicated teachers, parents who inspire and sacrifice to help their kids do well, and federal and state politicians and programs that drain these programs of money, and thus life. You end up rooting not only for the kids of I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, but for parents, teachers, students and extracurricular school activities everywhere. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

Tonight is Part 6, which, like the others, has an absurdly long title: 1953-1957 – The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the Seams. And it has a swollen focus to boot, trying to cover, and explain, a global explosion of innovative cinema, including several from France and Japan. In the latter country, the films of director Akira Kurosawa, including his landmark 1954 movie Seven Samurai (pictured here), proved massively influential on a world scale.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 1:00 a.m. ET

This 1957 Japanese movie (pictured) is one of two classics by director Akira Kurosawa shown tonight by TCM, both starring Toshiro Mifune, presented tonight by TCM as a tie-in to its latest Story of Film: An Odyssey documentary series entry. Also tonight, at 3 a.m. ET: Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, Seven Samurai.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.