TUESDAY

JANUARY 9

2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET

Grease is the word, or at least the 1978 movie, that has charmed more than one generation of audiences. It was adapted for film from the slightly more raunchy Broadway musical, and hit casting nirvana by pairing future film icon John Travolta with Australian pop star Olivia Newton-John. Encore is showing the oft-televised Grease tonight, but is following it with the much lesser-seen sequel, 1982's Grease 2, starting at 9:53 p.m. ET. Taking over the male heartthrob role is Maxwell Caulfield, but the new Sandy later emerged as a film icon in her own right: Michelle Pfeiffer (pictured).

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "INTO THE AMAZON"

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

This is an adventure story, of early exploration deep into the Amazon, that just happens to be true. And captivating, because it features a U.S. President, Theodore Roosevelt, as one of its brave protagonists. It’s a voyage down the unexplored Amazon in 1914, a trip so treacherous that Roosevelt begged to be left behind to die. For full reviews, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters and David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. Check local listings.

THIS IS US

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

MIDSEASON PREMIERE: NBC’s most popular dramatic series is back, with new episodes, for 2018. The broadcast networks are calling this kind of thing a “midseason premiere,” presumably because it takes less time and space to say than “returning, finally, with fresh episodes after a long holiday, pre-holiday and post-holiday string of reruns.”

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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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