WEDNESDAY

MAY 9

2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

That big sigh of relief you hear is from everyone at American Idol, who get to proceed to the end of this year’s music-competition finish line, from tonight on, without having to compete for attention with NBC’s The Voice.

THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Any youngsters who think The Hunger Games is this bold new idea in fiction and moviemaking – watch humans be hunted for sport – may enjoy being old-schooled by watching this movie, which is about a sociopathic big-game hunter who strands shipwreck victims on a deserted island, then hunts them down. Based on the classic short story by Richard Connell, it was filmed in 1932 – only eight years after its original publication. It stars Joel McCrea and, one year before starring in King Kong, Fay Wray.

MODERN FAMILY

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Yes, it’s synergy, since Disney owns ABC – but for this extended family, a trip to Disneyland is going to seem a lot less like product placement and a lot more like actual humor. This show has earned the benefit of the doubt, so expect something Goofy.

ED WOOD

Flix, 9:30 p.m. ET

With Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s latest collaboration, Dark Shadows, premiering later this week, here’s a chance to catch their 1994 teaming, in which Depp plays one of the worst, but most impassioned, film directors in history. It’s a delightful film, one in which all the Burton-Depp quirkiness is employed to perfection. Whether that happens in Dark Shadows – well, I’ll keep you posted.

CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: At the start of the season, Ted Danson showed up to take the reins of this long-running CBS crime procedural. He made it through the season, and restored stability to the show – and perhaps as a result, tonight’s episode gives him more dramatic things to do than usual. And there are other familiar TV faces on board, too, as guest stars, including Jaclyn Smith from Charlie’s Angels and Peri Gilpin from Frasier.

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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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