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2018
Feb
14
 
 
A lot of shows bill themselves as unusual love stories and to be fair, a lot of them are. You’ve still never seen one quite like This Close...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
14
 
 
Once again, NBCSN is wall-to-wall today, going with 24 uninterrupted hours of coverage, some of it live, from early morning today until the same time tomorrow. Among today’s highlights: live coverage of USA vs. Slovenia in men’s ice hockey (starting at 6:30 a.m. ET), and live coverage of USA vs. Canada in women’s hockey (starting at 10:10 p.m. ET). Oh, and though coverage is taped, at 12:30 a.m. ET, NBCSN presents the match between USA and Great Britain in women’s curling
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
14
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: SundanceTV’s streaming platform, Sundance Now, presents its first original TV production with this six-episode series, based on a web series called Fridays. Both are created, written by, and star Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern – who, like the characters they play, are deaf. In This Close, Stern plays a Hollywood publicist, whose boss (played by Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Cheryl Hines) barely makes an effort to accommodate her hearing-impaired employee. Feldman p
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
14
 
 
NBC presents Olympics events today, after its Today extended coverage, from 3-5 p.m. ET, and again from 8-11:30 p.m. ET and 12:05-1:30 a.m. ET. Live events figure prominently in tonight’s prime-time block, include the reliably scheduled pairs’ gold medal final in figure skating – and, weather permitting, live skiing events as well.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
14
 
 
In tonight’s new Episode 5 of this American Crime Story miniseries, we finally get to spend a little more time with Edgar Ramirez and Penelope Cruz as Gianni and Donatella Versace (pictured). But, as with most of this series, the focus is primarily on flashbacks following Gianni Versace’s killer, Andrew Cunanan, played by Darren Criss. Tonight, Cunanan meets Naval officer Jeffrey Trail, played by Finn Wittrock – who, like Criss, has worked with Assassination of Gianni Versace e
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
13
 
 
All eyes have been on the sky lately with the recent launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, but Elon Musk isn’t the only one bringing us closer to the stars...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
13
 
 
Eight decades before September 11, another terrorist struck an unnervingly similar blow at what was considered another symbol of America’s evil economic tyranny: Wall Street...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
13
 
 
Let’s face it. It was kinda fun watching Canada waltz to an Olympic gold medal in the team figure skating event this past weekend...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
13
 
 
NBCSN is wall-to-wall today: 24 uninterrupted of coverage, some of it live, from early morning today until the same time tomorrow, at which time the cycle begins again. Highlights will vary according to your interests, but mine includes the live coverage, at 7:10 a.m. ET, of the USA women’s hockey team facing the Olympic athletes from Russia – competing individually, not representing their nation, because of Russia’s official exclusion from this year’s Winter Games. Also,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
13
 
 
On NBC, the scheduled live coverage for outdoor events is held hostage to the already inclement and unpredictable weather, so both women’s alpine skiing in the slalom, including the gold medal run, and the gold medal final in the halfpipe for men’s snowboarding may be postponed. But the pairs’ short program in figure skating will proceed as scheduled live in prime time, in the 8-11:30 p.m. ET NBC block. Coverage also runs on the network today from 3-5 p.m. ET and from 12:05-1:3