FRIDAY
JANUARY 18
2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This British import from ITV, which was televised there last fall, pulls off the same tricky balancing act as Showtime’s U.S. adaptation of Shameless: It creates characters so believable that you actually begin to worry about them and even root for them. (I know, that’s the goal of every scripted show, but I rarely forget that I’m only watching actors in a TV program.) The first three episodes of Butterfly are available today, and they introduce a family that’s no longer as tightly knit as it once was. The parents are separated, and their two kids include a teen girl and an 11-year-old boy, Max, who has begun identifying as a girl – and every family member has a different reaction and approach to Max’s gender dysphoria. The subject is handled beautifully, with all the questions and conflicts explored realistically and sensitively. And before the first episode is halfway through, you’ll be drawn inexorably into the world of this well-meaning British family. Anna Friel, who co-starred in ABC’s lovely Pushing Daisies series, plays the mom – and Callum Booth-Ford stars in the central, and superbly portrayed, role of Max.

 
  
 
 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 5 for this third-act comedy series, starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and the entire season arrives today. Nudity and mind-altering substances definitely included.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s been two months since Bill Maher presided over an installment of his live, comically barbed dissection of current events. And he returns, for the start of Season 17 of Real Time with Bill Maher, one day after new allegations suggest that President Donald Trump may have suborned perjury by directing his attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about his real estate negotiations with Russia during his campaign for president. Among tonight’s scheduled guests are two reliably candid talkers: former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, whose time in office just ended this week, and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

Give Howie Mandel all due credit – lots of it – for reinvention. In the early 1980s, he was a young standup comic whose goofy act included lots of props, and included such oddball moves as pulling a surgical glove down over his forehead and letting it slowly snap off into the air. Then he joined the initial cast of NBC’s St. Elsewhere, becoming a central member of the ensemble of what was TV’s most daring drama at the time, doing very solid work. Then, after a quiet period, he emerges on a different type of TV entirely: as a judge on America’s Got Talent, and, now and again, a game-show host on Deal or No Deal. And tonight, Mandel stars in his first solo TV comedy standup special in two decades. It comes from Atlantic City, emanating from the comedy club that bears his name – which allows Mandel to use his name three times in the program’s title. That’s funny. And the show hasn’t even started yet…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.