THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 13
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Various Networks, Check local listings

As Olympics days go, this one’s kind of quiet – though anyone competing today would have cause to disagree. For the U.S., the biggest events may be men’s short skate and figure skating. NBC is building tonight’s tape-delayed prime time show around them, beginning at 8 p.m. ET, and you can watch it live beginning at 10 a.m. ET on NBCSN.  And, of course, all events can be seen live on NBCOlympics.com.
 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

Are the contestants still in the Hollywood round? Yep. And against the Olympics, Fox isn’t so much spending time as killing it.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET

Denis O’Hare has been one of my favorite character actors since I saw him play Charles Guiteau, who shot and killed President James A. Garfield, in Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical Assassins. He also played the Vampire King of Louisiana in HBO’s True Blood, and has been featured in different incarnations of FX’s American Horror Story, usually suffering disfiguring tragedies in each. And tonight on Rake, he plays the latest client of Greg Kinnear’s Keegan Deane – a man accused of killing a man he met online. And, after that, eating him.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

On a slow night, why not watch an enjoyable, well-made big-budget superhero movie? You don’t have to have seen either of the other Iron Man films to get into this one, especially with the irresistibly charming central performance by Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. But watch, too, for Don Cheadle as another metal-suited hero, who matches Stark punch for punch – and also matches Downey quip for quip.

 
  
 
 

Sundance, 9:00 p.m. ET

This 1988 comedy is one of my daughter Kristin’s favorite guilty pleasures – or maybe just one of her favorite movies, period. Melanie Griffith stars as a secretary who seizes an opportunity to work her way up the corporate ladder through very unusual means. Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford star, and the movie’s director is Mike Nichols.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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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.