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MARCH 1

2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Kate Beckinsale stars in this new series, and is the main reason to watch. She plays the title character, a woman trying to manage her grief after her husband is among the victims of a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Except that, once she sees a fleeting glimpse of a man in subsequent news footage, a man wearing the same type of brightly colored baseball cap her husband always sported, this purported widow is convinced her husband is alive – and goes on a dangerous search for him. This drama covers so many years and flashbacks that the narrative plays out in bursts, hopscotching through time and places, and feels like a thriller-genre time-tripping version of Slaughterhouse-Five. When the plot cards are unshuffled, the narrative isn’t all that surprising or compelling – but Beckinsale often is. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

MOVIE PREMIERE: Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor directed this fact-based drama, about a young teen in Malawi who was witnessing his village falling victim to an encroaching famine, and decided to do something about it. Using books borrowed from a school library and materials borrowed from scrapyards, he designed and built a windmill, which furnished his village with both water and electricity. Ejiofor, who wrote the screenplay as well, also plays the father of the teen, William Kamkwamba, who’s played by Maxwell Simba (seen here with Ejiofor).

HUGO

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 20100 Martin Scorsese movie is a biography in disguise – the story of one of the pioneers of film back in its infancy, told in a way that builds suspense even regarding the subject of its admiration. Hugo is a delicious movie: beautiful to watch, comforting to lose yourself in, and full of fabulously focused performances. Asa Butterfield plays the title role, an orphan child living deep within the hidden rooms of a Parisian train station in 1931 – and other players include Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee. Richard Griffiths and others. If you’ve never seen this, please do. It’s Scorsese’s love letter to cinema history, and you’ll love his love letter, too.

THE SHOP

HBO, 10:30 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This laid-back yet intensely honest talk show from LeBron James impressed me greatly during its first season, with just a few monthly installments. And it begins Season 2 with another enticing lineup: Maverick Carter, Anthony Davis, Antonio Brown, Jerrod Carmichael, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz, and Jamie Foxx. The talk always begins with sports, but very shortly includes fame, race, and lots more.

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW

BBC America, 11:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s new installment is a compilation show, piecing together some of the funniest and most entertaining moments from this season. Which means, minute for minute, it’s bound to be more entertaining than just about any TV show you can watch tonight.

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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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