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DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG

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TV’s best bet of the night isn’t on TV, but it’s available, beginning today, on the web. It’s the new Joss Whedon mini-musical, and the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is presenting a kind of musical Batman (the camp 1960s version), starring Neil Patrick Harris as the titular villain. For more, and for where to find the three-part serial, see today’s BIANCULLI’S BLOG.

BASEBALL ALL-STAR GAME

Fox, 8 p.m. ET

Tonight it’s not only the players who are All-Stars – it’s also the field of dreams on which they’re playing. It’s the last season for the venerable, tenured Yankee Stadium, and gets to host the All-Star Game for the fourth and final time. Previous years as home field: 1977, 1960 and way back in 1939, when Yankee Joe DiMaggio hit the game’s only homer. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?...

CADDYSHACK

Golf, 8 p.m. ET

This super-silly, but not supercilious, 1980 golf comedy stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray – and is a well-chosen movie to show on the Golf Channel on a slow night.

PICNIC

TCM, 8 p.m. ET

This 1955 adaptation of the William Inge play stars William Holden as a mysterious drifter who gets off a train in a small Kansas town on Labor Day, and raises lots of notice, especially from the ladies, at the local holiday picnic. Chief among those women: the beautiful Kim Novak.

P.O.V.: THE LAST CONQUISTADOR

PBS, 10 p.m. ET

(Check local listings)

This is a faceoff where both sides have a strong case. John Houser is a sculptor who thinks big (his father was an assistant carver on Mt. Rushmore), and was commissioned by the El Paso city council to carve a giant statue of Spanish Conquistador Jean de Onate as one of a series of statues commemorating local history. The problem: Native Americans had less reverent memories of Onate, recalling tales of massacres and slavery targeting their people. They don’t want the statue built, and try to fight city hall to keep it from happening. The statue is beautiful. The past is ugly. This documentary, by Cristina Ibarra, is her first, and is an impressive, passionate fledgling effort.

RESCUE ME MINISODE

FX, 10 p.m. ET

I’ve finally pinpointed what’s wrong with these ultra-entertaining five-minute “minisodes.” They’re only five minutes long.

   
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