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2014
Feb
8
 
 
Chadwick Boseman plays Jackie Robinson in this 2013 baseball biopic, and Harrison Ford plays Branch Rickey, in a movie written and directed by Brian Helgeland.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
8
 
 
If you’re hooked on HBO’s True Detective, you won’t want to miss this. Tonight’s guests, on this new edition of The Graham Norton Show, include Matthew McConaughey, who shares the couch with Julianne Moore, Sheryl Crow, and Alan Davies.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
8
 
 
Tonight’s show really ought to be called The Moaning of Death, because Death, not Life, is tonight’s topic. And in his travels this week examining that topic, Karl Pilkington visits, among other stops, Ghana, where he visits a place that makes custom coffins – and orders a special two-person casket for himself and his girlfriend Suzanne. It’s a casket big enough to accommodate two adults, with a handy divider in between – and it’s made in the same shape as a g
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
7
 
 
This week, Bill Moyers speaks with Bill McKibben, the author and activist who has become an ardent environmentalist. At the moment, McKibben is focusing on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline – the subject of a new State Department environmental impact study. Before Congress gets a chance to debate its results, McKibben is calling on President Obama to reject the project and defy the powerful oil company lobbyists. Moyers & Company airs from Friday to Sunday on local public TV statio
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
7
 
 
The Opening Ceremonies are presented tonight – with an opportunity to set the stage, emotionally as well as competitively, for the XXII Olympic Winter Games to come. Six years ago, at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, China used the Opening Games to present an extraordinary exhibition of pomp and circumstance from Beijing. The most recent Winter Games, from Vancouver in 2010, was, by comparison, more of a high school talent show affair – and London’s Summer Games of 2012 opened wi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
7
 
 
As part of Black History month, PBS and American Masters present this biography of Alice Walker – the first such film study of the author of The Color Purple. The film is written, produced and directed by Pratibha Parmar. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
7
 
 
This unorthodox, unforgettable film series by writer-director Richard Linklater is a true collaboration with his leading actors, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. The films are about the love and evolving relationship between Delpy’s Celine and Hawke’s Jesse, a story first told in 1995’s Before Sunrise. Next, nine years later, came 2004’s Before Sunset, followed another nine years later by this 2013 continuation of their story. When we first saw them in this (so far) trilogy,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
7
 
 
Tonight’s scheduled guests on this new outing include Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio and conservative humorist P.J. O’Rourke. Oh, and some politicians, too.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
6
 
 

Fifty years ago – on Feb. 7, 1964 – The Beatles touched down at JFK airport, launching the British Invasion in America. Two days later, they stormed The Ed Sullivan Show, and changed the world…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Feb
6
 
 
With car insurance companies wallpapering commercial time 24/7, they need the most clever jokes and characters... Here's the Geico pitch that makes its discount strategy as commonly known as other obvious standards – like the oldest trick in the book...