Whats Hot On TV

This afternoon we have some dance and pairs finals for skating, and tonight we have the women’s finals. I enjoy watching skating during key times in between football seasons and during the Olympics. So we’re not quite done with football yet, but without it on this weekend at all, I’m making an exception. One bummer of the evening is that Saturday Night Live is a repeat. I hate when that happens.

1. Figure Skating U.S. Championships. From Cleveland, the pairs and dance finalists compete.

2. Back to School. Classic Rodney Dangerfield. He stars in this film as a millionaire store owner who goes back to college alongside his son. Sally Kellerman and Robert Downey, Jr. costar. 2:00 PM CT Comedy Central

3. The Last Mimzy. A kids sci-fi fantasy film with a brother and sister that find a toy and a stuffed animal from the future, and the toy begins to make this normally gifted boy much more so, while the stuffed animal gives directions to the little girl. Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, and Rainn Wilson star. 6:00 PM CT HBO Family

4. Game Show In My Head. A Brooklyn waitress takes a stab at the game in the first half hour of the show tonight. 7:00 PM CT CBS

5. Crusoe. While rescuing men from a capsized boat, Crusoe and Friday find Mr. Blackthorn among the survivors, and this raises Friday’s suspicions. 7:00 PM CT NBC

6. Cops. A truck that’s carrying golf carts is chased in Harris County, Texas, a suspicious person seen driving around a Las Vegas mall parking lot is questioned by officers, and police in Rialto, California, go to the scene of an accident. 7:00 PM CT Fox

7. Game Show In My Head. It’s a Dallas standup comic’s turn to take on this game in the second half hour of the show tonight. 7:30 PM CT CBS

8. Figure Skating: U.S. Championships. From Cleveland, the women’s finals are expected to include Rachael Flatt, Ashley Wagner, Caroline Zhang, and defending champion Mirai Nagasu.

9. America’s Most Wanted. Shown tonight is the capture in Mexico of a man wanted for the slaying of his ex last summer. The fugitives that are featured include an Albanian man wanted for the murder of a young woman in the Albanian capital, a man accused of molesting his own daughter, and a man accused of burning down his house after killing his family. 8:00 PM CT Fox

10. The Deer Hunter. While we’re talking Oscars lately, here’s an Oscar-winning film about the impact of the Vietnam War, starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep. 8:50 PM CT AMax East

11. 48 Hours Mystery. The 2006 Huntington Beach, California, murder of Barbara Mullenix is examined. Mullenix had been stabbed more than fifty times before her body was dumped in Newport Harbor. 9:00 PM CT ABC

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