BEST TIME EVER WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
NBC, 10:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: Last Tuesday, broadcast TV premiered the most eagerly anticipated series of the year: Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, broadcast TV premieres another, which I’m eagerly anticipating, at least. Based on a long-running live British variety series, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, it’s an anything-goes variety, sketch and stunt series, a format that makes room for both musical numbers and Candid Camera-type pranks. And it’s live – and if anyone can make this format work again and bring back the variety series, it’s this guy. Good luck, Neil.