NBC Sports Network, 10:00 a.m. ET
NBC is broadcasting the Olympics on its parent broadcast network most of the day and evening, and is saving one particularly high-profile event for prime time: the women’s volleyball gold-medal match. But in daytime, on this penultimate day of competition, tune to NBC Sports Network at 10 a.m. ET for the men’s soccer finals, with Mexico vs. Brazil, both of them vying for their first Olympic gold medal in this particular sport.
More Max, 7:15 p.m. ET
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HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
Leonardo DiCaprio, in this 2011 film biography, plays J. Edgar Hoover, the doggedly determined and fiercely power-protecting inaugural director of the FBI. Directed by Clint Eastwood, in somewhat of a departure for this particular director.
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Stanley Kubrick made a lot of daringly bold movie choices – but simply choosing to try and adapt this hugely controversial Vladimir Nabokov novel for the screen, in the conservative era of 1961, was one of his boldest. The title character, in the book, was a 12-year-old nymphet. For the movies, Kubrick cast a 14-year-old actress, Sue Lyon – but sublimated and deflected the pedophilic subtext of the novel by stressing the comic and satiric elements, and handing those chores to Peter Sellers.
Animal Planet, 9:00 p.m. ET
In this new installment, Tracy Morgan hires the crew to design a shark tank built around the theme of the movie Jaws. You won’t soon forget the final result. Animal Planet: Tanks for the memories!