WEDNESDAY

FEBRUARY 19

2014

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Various Networks, Check local listings

With so few days left in the Sochi Olympics, things are getting serious. Today, beginning at 9 a.m. ET, you can watch taped coverage, on MSNBC, of the remaining semifinal in women’s curling, with Sweden vs. Switzerland (the other semifinal, Canada vs. Great Britain, was shown live earlier on USA Network). And starting at 10 a.m. ET, you can see hours of live coverage of ladies’ figure skating on NBCSN, and experience the impressive commentary duo of Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir. For a full review, see Monique Nazareth’s MNtv. With different commentators, women’s skating will be reprised in prime time on NBC as well, along with taped coverage of gold medal events in, among others, men’s alpine skiing and women’s bobsled. For live coverage of all events, go to NBCOlympics.com.

INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO

Bravo, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s new edition of Inside the Actors Studio profiles an actress who’s proven impressively chameleonic during her short but impressive career: Amy Adams, who’s played everything from a three-dimensional Disney princess in Enchanted to a feisty schemer in American Hustle. And when James Lipton asks her to identify her favorite swear word, chances are she’s already uttered it on screen, in American Hustle.

TOPPER

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

When I was young, watching the TV series Topper, I didn’t know a movie version had preceded it. But here’s proof. In this enjoyable 1937 comedy, Constance Bennett and Cary Grant play the elegant ectoplasmic spirits who haunt the living, trying to spice up their lives a bit.

THE REAL POMPEII

National Geographic, 9:00 p.m. ET

With the new disaster movie Pompeii premiering this weekend, National Geographic is presenting this new documentary, which visits the actual Italian site of history’s most famous volcanic disaster. I’ve toured Pompeii, and seen these frozen-in-the-moment body casts for myself. (I’ve also stared lengthily at the surviving painted-on-the-walls “menus” at the local Pompeii whorehouses, which listed available services in such matter-of-fact detail, it was like reading a dollar menu at McDonald’s. I’d have stayed even longer to read and memorize the list, but I didn’t want to make an ash of myself.)

FLEMING: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE BOND

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

MINISERIES FINALE: I wasn’t very impressed with this new miniseries account of James Bond author Ian Fleming’s early exploits. Staring Dominic Cooper, it’s a bit overdone, and left me neither shaken nor stirred. But for those who haven't followed it thus far, here comes the finale. However, on a scale of 1 to 10, I rank it far below 007.

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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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