TUESDAY

MAY 8

2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

I know, I agreed that this series had failed to earn a regular Best Bets slot at this point of the season. But hey: this is prom night. And Brittany (Heather Morris), as class president, is doing everything she can to see her very specific, and peculiar, visions come true. Meanwhile, speaking of visions: Finn and Rachel look very decked out for the occasion.

THE ROARING TWENTIES

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in the same movie, about bootlegging in the twenties? Made in 1939, this caught both guys in top form – and Priscilla Lane, too. You’d expect the drama, and the tough-guy talk – but the music may come as a surprise.

THE VOICE

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: The person with “the voice,” and the recording contract, is identified tonight. I’m rooting for Juliet Simms, but Jermaine Paul is pretty impressive, too. Whatever happens this season, The Voice itself already has won, and stolen much of the spotlight from American Idol.

FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER

Fox Movie Channel, 9:00 p.m. ET

With The Avengers cracking the $200 million U.S. box office mark its first weekend in release, that makes all Marvel-based movies newsworthy for one reason or another. This 2007 film, a disappointing sequel to the first Fantastic Four film, can be looked at now as a relative strikeout – the year before Marvel hit a home run, and started The Avengers franchise, with its first Iron Man movie. For my Bianculli’s Blog about previous Marvel missteps, click HERE.

UNITED STATS OF AMERICA

History, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Randy and Jason Sklar are identical twins, and stand-up comics, who host this irreverent look at the facts, and foibles, behind the figures – the strangeness behind the statistics. For example, the average male on Earth today is expected to live about 900 months, and is estimated to spend 198 of those months – or 22 percent, by my figuring – watching television. That’s an outrageous, unbelievable statistic! It seems so low…

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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.

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