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MONDAY
FEBRUARY 12
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 
2018 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES

Various Networks, 2:40 a.m. ET

NBCSN is all over the Olympics today, showing a few live, but mostly taped, events throughout most of the day and night. In fact, it’s easier to say when NBCSN is not televising coverage today: from 3-5 p.m. ET. Otherwise, it’s there, showing something. Over on CNBC, there’s only one scheduled event: delayed coverage of the mixed doubles semifinal in one of my favorite Winter Olympic sports, curling (pictured). Other coverage can be found, of course, on NBC’s Olympics website, as well on the network’s broadcast coverage today, which is detailed below.
 
  
 
 
2018 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES

NBC, 3:00 p.m. ET

Today’s NBC coverage (some of it Today’s NBC coverage) runs in the morning hours, then resumes in the afternoon from 3-5 p.m. ET, in prime time from 8-11:30 p.m. ET, and for a final burst from 12:05-2 a.m. ET, when all coverage will be live. In prime time, live coverage was scheduled to include the combined downhill run, and late night to feature – also live – the combined slalom gold medal final run in men’s alpine skiing. But wind gusts of 50 mph postponed the opening events in men’s downhill Sunday in Pyeongchang (pictured), so who knows what’s really going to be performed, much less televised, as scheduled?

 
  
 
 
ATOMIC HOMEFRONT

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

Somewhere on our globe, there’s a fire raging closer to a mostly forgotten pocket of nuclear waste – and the fire, like the radioactive material, is underground. That’s surprising enough, but what’s really surprising is where that hidden ticking danger is located: suburban St. Louis. Starting in 1942, a processing plant in that city supplied some of the uranium for our country’s first atomic bombs, the ones that eventually ended WWII. But the radioactive waste from that processing that wasn’t shipped elsewhere ended up being buried in a local landfill – and now it’s like a time bomb with a lit fuse, on a very, very large and dangerous scale. Rebecca Camissa directs. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

 
  
 
 
CABARET

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Bob Fosse’s choreography for this 1972 film version of the famous musical, itself based on the semi-autobiographical prewar Berlin stories by Christopher Isherwood, is fabulous. Fosse’s work as film director, though, is even more superb, and he manages, in this version of the story, to make every musical number feel totally of the moment. Liza Minnelli became a star, and icon, as American-in-Germany lounge singer Sally Bowles, a hot mess of a central character, and Joel Grey earned just as many accolades as the seedy cabaret’s master of ceremonies. Michael York is the naïve visitor to Berlin who gets drawn into Sally’s web, and he’s good too – but watch not only how Fosse treats and photographs these three characters, but how he frames and propels each musical number. TCM’s “31 Days of Oscar” is saluting Best Director winners tonight in prime time, and leading off with Cabaret, and Fosse’s Oscar-winning triumph, is an excellent move. And it isn’t the film’s only Oscar, by the way. Cabaret earned eight in all, including Academy Awards for Minnelli, for Grey, and outstanding editing and cinematography – each of them richly deserved.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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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