1) Figure Skating, 3 p.m., USA Network, and 8 p.m., NBC. It’s the last competition day for the world championship. That has the pairs in the afternoon, men at night … and a clear change. NBC has always highlighted the women, but this time the top American contender is a guy, Ilia Malinin (shown here). The women’s finals were Friday, on cable. Read more…
1) Figure Skating, 8 p.m., USA Network. Approximately forever, women have been top-billed in American coverage of figure-skating. (Shown here is an Olympics skater.) Not this time. The best spot in the World Figure Skating Championships — Saturday night on NBC — goes to the men; women are relegated to tonight on cable. Peacock will start coverage of the women at 6 p.m.; earlier, it has rhythm dance at 11:20 a.m. Read more…
1) Basketball. The college tournament begin with perhaps the day’s best match-up – MSU vs. MSU. Michigan State (shown here) annd Mississippi State, seeded No. 9 and 8 in a 16-team quadrant, collide at 12:15 p.m. on CBS– which also has games at 2:45, 7:10 and 9:40. Other games are on TruTV (12:40, 3:10, 7:25 and 9:55); TNT (1:30, 4, 6:50 and 9:20); and TBS (2, 4:30, 7:25 and 9:55). Read more…
1) “Wild Cards” season-finale, 8 p.m,, CW. For the new, low-budget version of CW, this has been a bright spot, wth likable people in clever plots. But there are only 10 episodes in the first season and talks have dragged on about a second. Giacomo Gianniotti (shown here) plays a cop, working with a semi-reformed scam artist (the delightful Vanessa Morgan). Now he’s drawn into a case from her shaky past. Read more…
1) “Extended Family,” 8:30 p.m., NBC. After a quarter-century as a writer-producer-actor, Mike O’Malley gets to craft the ultimate St. Patrick’s Day episode. Yes, it’s two days late and (sometimes) a tad silly. But ii does double-duty: It has the usual cliches – Jim’s dad (shown here), after all, has an Iriish bar in Boston – but follows with a sharp reality check. Read more…
1) “Photographer,,” 8 and 9:21 p.m., National Geographic Channel. After triumphing with “Queens,” Nat Geo again shows it knows great photography. This six-part, three-Monday series starts with Cristina Mittermeier (whose photo is shown here) and Paul Nic, a married duo whose photos make them activists for the ocean. That’s followed by Anand Varma and egg embryo photos. Others will range from fashion to war. Read more…
1) “Nolly” opener, 9 p.m., PBS. In real life, “Nolly” Gordon was a British TV pioneer, a talkshow host and program executive with a soap opera built around her. Fame and awards followed. It was a makeshift era, captured brilliantly by writer Russell Davies (“Doctor Who”) and Helena Bonham Carter (shown here). “Nolly” is funny and warm … and then, mid-way in the first of three parts, takes a sudden shift. Read more…
1) “NAACP Image Awards,” 8-10 p.m., CBS, BET and VH1. Queen Latiifah returns as host, with special honors for musicians (New Edition, Frankie Beverly), designer June Ambrose and 25-year-old poet Amanda Gorman. There are awards for TV, music, books and movies – with best-picture nominees “American Fiction,” “Rustin,” “Oppenheimer,” “They Cloned Tyrone” and the vibrant “The Color Purple” (shown here). Read more…
1) Basketball tournaments. Thirteen college conferences have their semi-finals today, with the finals Saturday. That includes the ACC (shown here) on ESPN and the Big 12 on ESPN), both at 7 p.m. ET and about 9:30. Also, the Big East is at 8 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1. Read more…
1) “Grey’s Anatomy” season-opener, 9 p.m., ABC. Here’s one of the last shows to return post-strike … and one that people really missed. It’s the 20th season, tying the show with “Gunsmoke” for No. 3 among dramas (trailing only two “Law & Order” shows). The season starts with a doctor (Teddy) and patient (Sam) in peril. Meredith re-thinks her research and the young interns (shown here is Adelaide Kane as Jules Millin) face a tough case Read more…
