SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 9
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Sundance, 8:00 p.m. ET

Barry Levinson, as both writer and director, made quite a name for himself with this 1982 character study – and also cast quite a few names who became stars in the years after this charming comedy was released. The movie focuses on a gang of friends on Baltimore, and there’s not a friend in the bunch who doesn’t pull his, or her, weight. Kevin Bacon. Paul Reiser. Daniel Stern. Steve Guttenberg. Ellen Barkin. Tim Daly. Mickey Rourke. All acting out one well-written scene after another.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

“Jobs! Jobs! Gee, don’t it get ya?” That’s the producer of a proposed new Broadway musical, set during the depression, imagining a closing number in which returning war veterans walk a breadline in the rain, coming home from battle to find unemployment and financial hard times. That turns out to be “Remember My Forgotten Man,” the remarkable closing number, sung by Joan Blondell, of this Depression-era Busby Berkeley movie musical as well – and 80 years later, it’s an astoundingly and sadly timely perspective. What a wild, unusual movie. Aline MacMahon, Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler and Blondell star.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

Episode 4. In tonight’s episode, the link, and the secrets, between Masterson the wealthy American (John Goodman) and his protégé Julian (Tom Hughes) become more evident – and more dangerous. It’s all part of a complex murder mystery, centered around the falsely accused bandleader Louis Lester (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and, this week, getting even more complex and sinister.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

I’m not quite sure how Norton has managed to super-size his already enjoyable talk show this season, but it’s been ridiculous, and ridiculously entertaining. What makes his talk show unique? For one thing, and it’s no small thing, he invites most of his guests out at the very start, so that, recently, Sir Paul McCartney sat next to Katy Perry for the entire show. And tonight, the seatmates include another Sir, as well as a Dame: Elton John and Judi Dench.

 
  
 
 

Cinemax, 10:00 p.m. ET

Director Ang Lee’s amazingly filmed fable receives its TV premiere tonight, and the bigger screen you can use to watch it, the better. What a visual treat… and what an unpredictable story.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.