Best-bets for Feb. 28: Country classics, movie greats

1) “Country Music: Live at Ryman.” 9-11 p.m., PBS (check local listings). Here’s a rerun of a superb concert. Last fall, it preceded Ken Burns’ “Country Music” series, offering great moments. There’s jet-paced instrumental work from Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart (shown here), Vince Gill and more, plus deep emotion – a Johnny Cash song by his daughter Roseanne … a Hank Williams one by his granddaughter Holly … “I Will Always Love You” by Gill … and “Crazy,” sung with stunning power by Rhiannon Giddens. Read more…

1) “Country Music: Live at Ryman.” 9-11 p.m., PBS (check local listings). Here’s a rerun of a superb concert. Last fall, it preceded Ken Burns’ “Country Music” series, offering great moments. There’s jet-paced instrumental work from Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuar (shown hert, Vince Gill and more, plus deep emotion – a Johnny Cash song by his daughter Roseanne … a Hank Williams one by his granddaughter Holly … “I Will Always Love You” by Gill … and “Crazy,” sung with stunning power by Rhiannon Giddens.

2) “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955), 8 p.m. ET. Turner Classic Movies. It’s James Dean night at TCM. Giving us an intense young actor at his best. First is “East of Eden” (1955) at 5:45 p.m., then “Rebel,” with the superb casting of Dean, Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood. That comes during one of the final days for the annual “31 Days of Oscar.” It has Dustin Hoffman on Saturday (“The Graduate” and “Tootsie” at 6 and 8 p.m. ET), then concludes Sunday and Monday.

3) More movies, cable. AMC stacks great filmmakers: James Cameron’s “Titanic” (1997) is 2:30 p.m., with Martin Scorsese’s “GoodFellas” at 7 and Francis Coppola’s richly emotional “The Outsiders” (1983) at 10:05. And Showtime profiles two very different women – Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “On the Basis of Sex” (2018) at 7 p.m. and Imelda Marcos in the “Kingmaker” documentary (2019) at 9.

4) “MacGyver,” 8 p.m., CBS. Scrambling to help rescue people after a German building collapses, MacGyver finds a problem: Amid the rubble is an undetonated, 1,000-pound bomb from World War II.

5) And more: After giving up its Sunday slot (to specials and “American Idol), “Shark Tank” returns to its old spot at 8 p.m.Fridays on ABC. Also, “Heartland Docs, DVM,” featuring likable Nebraska veterinarians, is 9-11 p.m. ET today on Nat Geo Wild. And it’s an international day for Netflix – the series premiere of the spy series “Queen Sono” and the season-opener of “Babylon Berln,” a crime series set in 1929 Germany.

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