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2018
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22
 
 
To all the nice things said about Billy Graham since his death Wednesday morning, we probably should add one more: YouTube star...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
22
 
 
The big event covered today on the cable networks covering the Olympics is on NBCSN, where live coverage of the ladies’ free program in figure skating is provided from 8-10 p.m. ET. But also, because I’m obsessed with curling, let’s not that the men’s curling semifinals are covered on two different networks today: On NBCSN from 1:45-4:45 p.m. ET, and on CNBC from 5-8 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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22
 
 
And on NBC, the major Olympic event tonight, perennially one of the most popular televised events, occurs during the network’s 8 p.m.-midnight ET block, with live coverage of the ladies’ gold medal final in figure skating.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
22
 
 
I presume this is going to sound as weird to you as it does to me, so here goes. Tonight in an unusually cast celebrity Lip Sync Battle, one contestant is John Cho, who lip-syncs to “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” And the other, which is even harder to comprehend, is Ben Kingsley, who does his version of Elton John’s “Rocket Man.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
22
 
 
On tonight’s new episode, in this final season of Portlandia, Tracee Ellis Ross guest stars as a “photo booth coach.” Whatever that is.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
21
 
 
NBCSN’s big event today is the women’s ice hockey gold medal game, which will be televised live during the 10:45 p.m.-2 a.m. ET block. It’s a big event because the USA women’s team is vying for the gold. And earlier, much earlier, the USA Network shows the women’s ice hockey bronze medal game, in a live telecast from 2:30-5 a.m. ET. Also today, on NBCSN and elsewhere on cable, more curling!!  On NBCSN, there’s delayed coverage of men’s curling, with
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
21
 
 
Tonight, during NBC’s 8-11 p.m. ET prime-time block: live coverage of the first slalom run in men’s alpine skiing, and live coverage of the gold medal final in halfpipe in men’s freestyle skiing. And later, in the 11:35 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET late-night block, NBC plans coverage of the final gold medal slalom run in men’s alpine skiing.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
21
 
 
Opposite the Olympics, Fox is repeating a recent episode of The X-Files, but it’s my favorite episode in years – so if you didn’t see “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” when it was broadcast recently, directed and co-written by the delightfully twisted Darin Morgan, here’s another opportunity. Don’t miss it, because this episode begins with a Twilight Zone-like black-and-white sequence featuring a mysterious alien – and from that point on, never stop
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
21
 
 
The title of this week’s new Nature installment is anything but hyperbole. Sudan, pictured here, is the very last male Northern White Rhinoceros known to exist on the planet. (There’s a mother-daughter pair, but neither can raise young.) Sudan is 43 years old, with an ancestry that goes back five million years – and teams of biologists, zoologists and other scientists are searching frantically for a way to prolong the species while caring for Sudan. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
21
 
 
Tonight TCM is saluting Best Actress Academy Award winners in its ongoing “31 Days of Oscar” TV parade. Joanne Woodward won one Oscar, in this 1957 fact-based psychological study, for playing three roles – confused Eve White, saucy Eve Black, and more “normal” Jane – in this drama about a woman claiming to have multiple personalities. Almost 20 years later, Woodward went to the other side of the therapy net, and played a psychiatrist treating a similarly splin