STUMBLE -- "Media Day" Episode 102 -- Pictured: Jenn Lyon as Courteney Potter -- (Photo by: Jocelyn Prescod/NBC)

Best-bets for Nov. 14: broad comedy, new and (very) old

1) “Stumble,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. In last week’s opener, an intense cheer-team coach (Jenn Lyon) was fired from Sammy Davis Senior Junior College, where her husband is the football coach. She went to a nearby school and assembled a makeshift team, which collapsed (literally). Now (shown here), she shares a media event with her old school. Sight gags — some of them quite funny — abound. Read more…

1) “Stumble,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. In last week’s opener, an intense cheer-team coach (Jenn Lyon) was fired from Sammy Davis Senior Junior College, where her husband is the football coach. She went to a nearby school and assembled a makeshift team, which collapsed (literally). Now (shown here), she shares a media event with her old school. Sight gags — some of them quite funny — abound.

2) “Twelfth Night,” 9-11 p.m., PBS. Already a broad comedy, this gets even broader, stretching for Shakespeare-in-the-Park laughs. There are some great moments from Peter Dinklage and Lupita Nyong’o, plus clever stagecraft and sweet music. And there are excesses: At times, alas, Sir Toby Belch is not the broadest character onstage.

3) “Sheriff Country,” 8 p.m., CBS. The show is done with the overwrought tale of the sheriff’s daughter as a murder suspect. Now it’s down to regular business, starting with protecting a witness. That’s followed by “Fire Country” (crisis at a drive-in) and “Boston Blue,” with a story reflecting a real-life art heist in Boston.

4) “One to One: John and Yoko,” 8 p.m., HBO. In 1971, John Lennon, 30, moved to Greenwich Village with his wife, Yoko Ono. This documentary captures a busy stretch in their New York lives.

5) “Nouvelle Vague,” Netflix. It’s a movie about a movie: Richard Linklater
directs a film about the making of the trend-setting “Nouvelle Vague.” Also today, Netflix has “The Crystal Cuckoo,” a Spanish drama series with English sub-titles. That comes a day after its “The Beast in Me,” an eight-parter with Claire Danes as a famed writer, suspicious of her neighbor.
— Mike Hughes, TV America

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