FRIDAY
MARCH 7
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

WNET-Ch. 13 NY, 9:00 p.m. ET

This is a repeat, but a very valuable and welcome one, presenting an encore of the Great Performances telecast of the 1992 Madison Square Garden concert saluting Bob Dylan’s 30 years as a recording artist. He’s still going more than 20 years later, but some of the other concert performers are not:  George Harrison and Richie Havens, just to name two. But my, what a lineup, and what performances: Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, The Band, Eddie Vedder, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Roger McGuinn and more. Including Dylan. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

Smithsonian, 9:00 p.m. ET

Set at a century-old opera house nestled in the Shenandoah Valley in West Virginia, this combination biography and concert special salutes the life and music of Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. – better known as “Dr. John.” If you like his music, and you should, tuning in to the Smithsonian Channel at 9 p.m. ET is the right place and the right time.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Before the TV series, there was the book. After the book, and before the TV series, there was the movie – and this is it. In 2004, Billy Bob Thornton played the dynamic, quietly noble coach of a Texas high school team, the part that, on TV, eventually won Kyle Chandler a well-deserved Emmy. And who, in this movie, plays the part of the coach’s wife, portrayed so superbly on NBC’s Friday Night Lights by Connie Britton? Why, it’s… Connie Britton!

 
  
 
 

The Movie Channel, 10:05 p.m. ET

Before South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone dazzled Broadway with The Book of Mormon, they tackled another outrageous mix of genres in this 2004 comedy film – easily the best marionette secret agent action movie musical ever made. And past that, it’s really, really funny on its own – and, in its treatment of North Korea, eerily prescient.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 11:35 p.m. ET

Apparently, Jimmy Fallon likes to end each Tonight Show week with a show that’s potent enough to keep him smiling until Monday. Opening week, he ended with a show teaming him with Justin Timberlake. And tonight, he ends his third week with Stephen Colbert. Also on the bill: Keri Russell, star of FX’s The Americans, which is back with Season 2.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.