Day: August 25, 2022

Week’s top-10 for Aug. 29: parks, performers & “Patient,” plus pause in romance

1) “America’s National Parks,” 8 and 9 p.m. today through Thursday, then 9 p.m. Friday, National Georaphic. This starts today with opposite worlds — the Everglades and the 277-mile-long Grand Canyon. It ends Friday with the fury and beauty of trhe Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (shown here), where one volcano erupted for 35 years, burying a road under 100 feet of lava,. It’s beautifully filmed, with Garth Brooks as narrator.

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Best-bets for Aug. 27: Football opener in … Ireland?

1) Football, 12:30 p.m. ET, Fox. The college football season, an American tradition, is starting in Dublin, Ireland. That’s where Nebraska(shown here)  and Northwestern – each back from a 1-8 Big Ten season – collide. There’s also a game on Fox Sports 1 (Connecticut/Utah State, 4 p.m. ET) and four on the CBS Sports Network – Austin Peay/Western Kentucky (noon) … Idaho State/Nevada-Las Vegas (3:30 p.m.) … Charlotte/Florida Atlantic (7) … Vanderbilt/Hawaii (10:30). Read more…