(These are slightly out of order; the Feb. 22 one is right below this one.)
1) Winter Olympics. It’s the last full day, with a flurry of medal finals. The USA Network is mostly live from 4 a.m. ET to the hockey bronze-medal game, at 2:40 p.m. NBC is mostly live from 10 to 6, then repackages the day from 8-11 p.m. And CNBC has curling, from 1-7 p.m.
2) Skating gala, 2:55 to 3:15 p.m. ET and 3:50 to 4:30. Amid all of that competition, here’s the opposite. It’s a figure-skating exhibition, with no rules, no judges and lots of dazzle. The medalists — including the U.S.’ Chock-and-Bates dance duo (shown here) and solo sensation Alysa Liu — can simply have fun.
3) “Miracle” (2004), 7 and 10 p.m., FX. As we wait for this year’s gold-medal hockey game (8:10 a.m. ET Sunday on ABC), we can see the story of the most famous one ever. Kurt Russell plays Herb Brooks, coaching a bunch of college kids to face unbeatable Soviet pros at the 1980 Olympics.
4) “Elsbeth,” 8 p.m., CBS. This terrific show will finally return to new episodes on Thursday. Until then, we settle for reruns, including this one, with a former supermodel seeking revenge.
5) Mega-movies, Turner Classic Movies. Here are epics — one (“Cleopatra,” 1963, 3:30 p.m. ET) quite clunky, others well-crafted. There’s “Ben-Hur” (1959) at 7:30 a.m. ET; “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962), 11:30 a.m.; “Gone With the Wind” (1939), 8 p.m.; and “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), midnight.
— Mike Hughes, TV America