1) Winter Olympics, NBC. The first full day has mostly-live coverage from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, then repackages it from 8-11. Figure-skating continues its team event, with men’s short program (1:45 to 3:15) and then the free dance finals — including U.S. leaders Madison Chock and Evan Bates (shown here) from 4-5 p.m.. Also: free-skiing (8 a.m.), speed-skating (10:05), luge (12:45 p.m.) and a snowboarding final (3:15 p.m.).
2) More Olympics. The USA Network starts at 4 a.m. ET and goes all day, except 7:30-9:30 a.m. It has finals in men’s Alpine skiing (5:30 to 6:45 a.m..) and men’s snowboarding (1:30-2:45 p.m.), plus women’s hockey, with the U.S and Finland (10:40 a.m.). Also: CNBC from 5-11 p.m. and Peacock with multi-channels all day.
3) “Tracker,” 8 p.m., CBS. In the rerun of a good episode, teens vanish in the Santa Cruz Mountains; Colter finds there was a secret plan. That’s followed by a “Watson” rerun, with an athlete’s fast-growing cancer.
4) “I Am Richard Pryor,” 8-10 p.m., CW. Pryor grew up in his grandmother’s brothel in Peoria, Ill., was expelled from school at 14 and was jailed in the Army. He then soared, winning five best-comedy-album Grammys and the first Mark Twain Prize for humor. This 2019 film has comments from colleagues, his manager, an ex-wife, authors and modern admirers.
5) Movies. At 8 p.m., HBO has the indie gem “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017). It won Oscars for Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell and was nominated for best picture. Others have Tom Cruise: the first “Top Gun,” 7 p.m., Paramount Network; its sequel 6:45, Showtime; “Days of Thunder,” 8, Sundance; the latest “Mission Impossible,” 8, MGM+.
— Mike Hughes, TV America