MONDAY
FEBRUARY 10
2014

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Various Networks, Check local listings

You can watch any of today’s Olympics events live on NBCOlyympics.com – but today, the TV networks present mostly tape-delayed coverage. Curling, for example, which starts its competition live at midnight ET, is shown on TV beginning at 3 a.m. ET on NBCSN, with taped coverage of Germany vs. Canada. Other taped curling events include women’s curling at 5 a.m. on USA Network, with U.S. vs. Switzerland, and men’s curling, also on tape delay, at 5 p.m. ET on CNBC, when the U.S. plays Norway. And check out Norway’s uniforms – eight different outfits, each more attention-getting than the last. Here’s a Norwegian player, for example, in a pair of rose-painted knickers from a recent Olympics practice round. He’s got to have a lot of stones to wear that – but, like all curling athletes, he’s got a lot of stones, right at his feet. There are other sports on TV today, of course, including cross-country skiing, snowboarding, and speedskating on NBC in prime time. But, as always, I’m pushing curling. What’s not to love about what amounts to heavyweight shuffleboard on ice?

 
  
 
 

IFC, 8:00 p.m. ET

So many TV series in prime time right now owe their existence to this 1991 serial-killer thriller, from the direct descendent of NBC’s Hannibal to the spiritual twisted sisters of NBC’s The Blacklist and Fox’s The Following, that it makes sense to pay close attention to the original article. Anthony Hopkins kills it, in more ways than one, as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the cannibalistic killer who manipulates new FBI profiler Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster). Hopkins and Foster won Oscars for their work as leading actors, just as Jonathan Demme won for directing, Ted Tally for best (adapted) screenplay, and the film itself for Best Movie. Those top five awards had been swept by a film only twice before: by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975, and, before that, by It Happened One Night in 1934.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

This new documentary is by Antony Thomas, who won a Peabody Award in 2011 for his sensitive, thoughtful, brave work in For Neda. In Questioning Darwin, he handles twin subjects, by recounting the life and works of beliefs of Charles Darwin himself, and also looking at those who teach the science of evolution in classrooms today. Or refuse to.

 
  
 
 

Sundance, 9:00 p.m. ET

In 1980, two years after he starred in Dennis Potter’s brilliant British miniseries Pennies from Heaven, but eight years before he became a movie star thanks to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bob Hoskins starred as a tough British gangster in this modern film noir, whose requisite femme fatale is a real killer: Helen Mirren, in one of her early standout film roles as well. This drama, because of its toughness and its controversial ending, was shelved from distribution – until a young company named HandMade Films, co-created by former Beatle George Harrison, came to the rescue.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 11:00 p.m. ET

On tonight’s new installment, David Steinberg’s guests, there to discuss comedy, are comic actors from different generations – who, in other movies, also play serious roles. One is Jonah Hill, who’s gone from Superbad and Get Him to the Greek to Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street. The other is Alan Arkin, the Second City veteran whose movie career has encompassed everything from Wait Until Dark and Catch-22 to Little Miss Sunshine and Argo.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.