The opening ceremonies for the Olympics aren’t until tomorrow night, but the action, in a few sports, actually begins today. Tonight in prime time, events include the figure skating team event, men’s and pairs short program, and freestyle skiing (moguls). For a figure skating preview, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters.

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PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli

Nina and Lance go through some soul-searching and reevaluate their relationship, in tonight’s episode. And with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein playing those roles, respectively, the problems of this familiar Portlandia due should prove much, much funnier than it might sound.

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A FIND FROM THE ICE AGE OFFERS US A VIEW OF THE 'FIRST FACE OF AMERICA' By David Hinckley

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, best known to casual fans as the site of the good-time beach resort Cancun, turns out to harbor a raft of surprising clues about deeper matters like the history of humankind...

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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE — NO, SERIOUSLY. THIS COULD BE AN OLYMPIC STORY FOR THE AGES By Alex Strachan

The Winter Olympics has a captive audience, TV-wise...

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QUEER EYE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was a Bravo series than ran from 2003 to 2007. When it began, it was a breath of fresh TV air: Even in that early era of reality TV and makeover shows, it was a decidedly and unusually warm-hearted series, with more heart than heat. That made it different from the Gordon Ramsay model, and also came at a time when the show’s very premise – five gay guys advising straight men on fashion, cooking, grooming, decorating and other lifestyle f

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LONESOME DOVE By David Bianculli

Yesterday, Encore showed Parts 1 and 2 of this unsurpassed 1989 Western miniseries. Tonight, it concludes its showing with Parts 3 and 4 – and nearly 30 years after it was televised by CBS, Lonesome Dove remains one of the high points in TV history. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star, and both men are fantastic: Duvall with his grand and playful dialogue, and Jones with his quiet reticence, saying so much with so little. In the history of Westerns, you can go straight from the movies o

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THE X-FILES By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is called “Kitten,” and asks whether the original X-Files duo, Scully and Mulder, should continue to trust Skinner, their original FBI boss and champion. Perhaps the truth is in here – but I wouldn’t count on it being the final word.

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INSIDE OUT By David Bianculli

This 2015 Disney Pixar movie is being shown in prime time, which broadcast TV doesn’t do as much as it used to. But this is a family affair, and it also happens to be, like almost everything put out by Pixar, a wonderful little film. Amy Poehler provides the voice and personality of Joy, one of several emotions personified within the conflicted brain of a young girl named Riley, who’s not exactly thrilled that she and her family are moving to a new city. Other prominent emotions are

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY By David Bianculli

Best Visual Effects Winners are being saluted tonight on TCM’s “31 Days of Oscar,” and the prime-time showcase begins with what I consider the most far-reaching, astounding-for-its-time special effects and visual effects movie of all: Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s an astounding movie in every visual aspect, even before it gets to the part set in the future. Take, for example, that now-iconic black monolith. Not even the latest iPhon

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THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY By David Bianculli

It’s now episode four, and Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss) gets even more lethal… clearing his path towards the murderous act in this miniseries’ title.

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