NBC Sports Network, 4:00 a.m. ET
If you want to get up early (or stay up late) to watch live coverage of the Olympic Games from London, NBC Sports Network is the first and best place to go. As for NBC's prime time, expect it to be built around Michael Phelps. Period.
Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET
I recommended, and watched, this 1964 James Bond movie back on July 7 — and I’m doing it again today, only three weeks and a few days later. Why? The answer, as well as a question for you, is in my latest
Bianculli’s Blog, which you can read
HERE.
Lifetime, 8:00 p.m. ET
Sometimes TV is like a box of chocolates – and here’s a tasty confection from 1994, one that earned Oscars for Best Picture, for Tom Hanks as Best Actor, and four others. Gary Sinise, in a key supporting role as Lieutenant Dan, is one secret ingredient of this historical mash-up. Another is Mykelti Williamson (pictured), who plays the sweet, and slow, Bubba – and who, last season, played the much smarter, and much less sweet, Limehouse on FX’s Justified.
USA, 9:00 p.m. ET
Here’s a super piece of guest casting: Laura Vandervoort, who played Supergirl on Smallville, guest stars as a beautiful widow who may be a murderess as well. And she also may be appearing in future episodes, because her chemistry with Matt Bomer, as Neal, didn’t escape the show’s producers.
ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET
Episode 4 in Terence Wrong’s latest, satisfyingly popular nonfiction medical series is loaded with tense cases, including a 4-year-old girl with a large tumor in her heart (her family is shown here, talking to the pediatric heart surgeon) and a man whose eating disorder compels him to eat metallic objects. (“Honey, have you seen my car keys?”)