SUNDAY
APRIL 8
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 2:00 p.m. ET

Tiger Woods kicked his golf club in frustration, and later apologized. Fred Couples couldn’t maintain his inspirational run for the ages – and for the aged. But on the last day of this year’s Masters, Phil Mickelson remains standing – only one shot behind the lead, and in an enviable position to get his fourth green jacket, a feat only Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer have attained. Reason to watch? Absolutely. For a perspective on this year’s tournament, see TVWW contributor Gerald Jordan’s new Crossing Jordan column HERE.
 
  
 
 

Discovery, 8:00 p.m. ET

The Making Of is tonight’s title – and this is one of my favorite installments of the entire series, because it shows how hard the filmmakers have to work to get these astounding shots. Decades ago, the PBS series Nova launched itself with a similar behind-the-scenes special, and they continue to impress and delight me. How in the world did the photographers capture the exact moment when a frozen waterfall thawed and gave way? This hour will tell you: They barely got there in time, and only by luck was it just after the sun rose. And that’s just for starters. Then there's the guy with the penguins... For my review of this show on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, click HERE.

 
  
 
 

National Geographic, 8:00 p.m. ET

Between his adventurous solo voyages into the ocean depths and the 3-D release of Titanic, James Cameron has gotten a titanic amount of media coveage of late. And tonight, he gets two hours of prime time to explain and explore his ideas and enthusiasms about that tragic luxury-liner disaster 100 years ago. According to TVWW’s Diane Werts, it’s only an early salvo in a week-long parade of Titanic-related TV – and the best is yet to come. Read her For Better or Werts column HERE.
 
  
 
 

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

I should throw out a Spoiler Alert, I suppose, before pointing out that last week’s Season 2 premiere rebooted the entire plot by exonerating the prime suspect, again. But maybe there should be such a thing as a Spoiled Alert – as in, “Warning! Warning! Danger! Danger! This show is wandering around in a fog.” I’m still watching, but I’m having a hard time caring, and a harder time believing. For my review of this show on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, click HERE.
 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

This series, on the other hand, has returned for its latest series as compelling and unpredictable as ever. Who would have thought, after we didn’t see January Jones’ Betty Draper at all in the season premiere, that she’d dominate last week’s episode so heavily? (And, in part, I mean that literally.) Mad Men prides itself in going in all sorts of unexpected directions, yet maintains an air of consistent surprise. Tonight, for example, Jon Hamm’s Don Draper is caught in an elevator in a compromising position – but is he going up? Or going down? For my review of this show on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, click HERE. (What can I say? We're busy around here at TVWW.)
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.