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With community, cable and streaming, the trendy tv panorama is an enormous one. Here are among the reveals, specials and flicks coming to TV this week, Feb. 12-18. Details and instances are topic to alter.
Monday
NCIS 9 p.m. on CBS. This nautical-flavored police procedural is again for its twenty first season. Since its premier in 2003, it has spawned 5 spinoff collection: “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “NCIS: Hawai’i,” “NCIS: Sydney” and “NCIS: Origins.” We can anticipate the latest of the three, “Origins,” to debut someday this season in a backdoor-pilot episode. You’d surprise what number of naval crimes a writing crew may presumably give you, however they present no indicators of slowing down.
THE HOST (2006) 11:45 p.m. on Flix. The director Bong Joon Ho acquired worldwide popularity of his 2019 movie “Parasite,” however his monster epic a couple of man’s quest to rescue his daughter from a mutated creature within the Han River is to not be missed. It’s a pastiche that nails each style it splices, shifting deftly from incisive satire to campy horror/sci-fi to searing household drama.
LA BREA 9 p.m. on NBC. This sci-fi drama a couple of household separated by a sinkhole that opens up a time portal (certain!) will air its collection finale, a continuation of final week’s episode “The Road Home.” The present was marginally well-liked throughout its first season, incomes itself a People’s Choice nomination for sci-fi/fantasy present, and although it was nominated once more the subsequent yr, this third and remaining season solely ran for six episodes. If you’ll miss watching the present or need a D.I.Y. expertise, see: tar pits.
Wednesday
GHOST ADVENTURES: SCREAMING ROOM 10:01 p.m. on Discovery. If you time your Valentine’s dinner plans properly sufficient, you possibly can arrive dwelling to pour just a few good glasses of purple wine, cuddle as much as your sweetheart and activate essentially the most romantic viewing materials possible: Zak Bagans, a “paranormal investigator” and proprietor of a haunted museum in Las Vegas with a dulcet-toned bro voice who, right here, rewatches an episode of his personal ghost-hunting actuality present, “Ghost Adventures.” I’m actually solely half-kidding about its V-Day airing date — I do discover ghosts romantic.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) 10 p.m. on TCM. If you like a extra standard, if doomed, romance, flip to this beloved historic epic starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. The movie’s large scale and sweeping photographs of the huge snowy landscapes (which earned it an Oscar for greatest cinematography) evoke a grand, starry-eyed love with endurance.
Thursday
FREAKY FRIDAY (2003) 5:50 p.m. on Freeform. Though there are a number of display screen variations of Mary Rodgers’s kids’s e-book, so far as I’m involved this early-aughts gem, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, is the one one which issues. With leather-based chokers, studded belts and chunky highlights, the movie’s fashions have come full circle and have gotten well-liked once more. The solely factor higher than the conspicuous outfits and stellar performances is the infectious pop-punk soundtrack.
YOUNG SHELDON 8 p.m. on CBS. This prequel spinoff to “The Big Bang Theory,” which was placed on maintain due to the current strike by the Writers Guild of America, will return from its two-year hiatus for its seventh and remaining season. Since it’s a prequel, there may be not a lot thriller to the principle character’s arc, nevertheless it’s all concerning the journey, proper?
Friday
THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) 5:35 p.m. on Flix. Before Jacob Elordi’s Bathwater candle grew to become a social-media fixation, there was Matt Damon’s skimpy neon swimsuit. In different phrases, in the event you can’t get sufficient of “Saltburn,” strive watching “The Talented Mr. Ripley” — each are predicated on class nervousness and love triangles. Tune in for extra rich folks and sexual debauchery — there’s no must restrict your self to “Murder on the Dance Floor” kind enjoyable.
Saturday
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (2007) 3:30 p.m. on HBO. If you’re nonetheless craving extra night-vision footage after “Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room,” look no additional than this up to date traditional. This was the primary movie launched by Blumhouse Productions, which impressed its mannequin of manufacturing wide-release movies on low budgets. The naturalistic fashion appears minimalistic on rewatch, however these child powder footsteps nonetheless make me shiver. They additionally show that horror strategies needn’t be gory or overcomplicated to be efficient.
Sunday
TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY 9 p.m. on HBO. Issa López, the director of the spectacular “Tigers Are Not Afraid,” is that this season’s showrunner, and her moody, surreal contact is seen in every single place. So far, we’ve seen ominous oranges, frozen our bodies screaming to life, heavy-handed title name-dropping and sinister sigils, however few solutions. Will the twisting thriller get a satisfying conclusion?
LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER 11 p.m. on HBO. The Emmy-award-winning present (which this yr defeated “Saturday Night Live” for greatest scripted selection collection) returns for its eleventh season. With one other tense election yr upon us, you’re going to wish some humor to manage.
