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MONDAY, Feb. 13
Humans
The eight-episode second season picks up several months after the events of the first, with Niska (Emily Berrington) still at large and in possession of the consciousness code, as a new emerging form of intelligent life—the synths—and an already established one—humanity—fight for their places in the world. Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Jessica Jones) joins the cast as Dr. Athena Morrow, a leading artificial intelligence expert driven by her own motives to create a new kind of machine consciousness (10 p.m., AMC).
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
This Independent Lens documentary examines the unusual passion of black musician Daryl Davis, who meets and befriends members of the Ku Klux Klan in an attempt to change their minds (10 p.m., PBS).
TUESDAY, Feb. 14
Valentine’s Day Movie Marathon
Snuggle up and settle in with someone special for hours of back-to-back romance and rom-coms with Maid in Manhattan, Think Like a Man Too, Sex Tape and The Vow (12 p.m., FXX).
You Me Her
Season two of this grown-up comedy continues the contemporary adventures of a grad student (Priscilla Faia) who’s moved in with a suburban couple (Greg Poehler and Rachel Blanchard) in TV’s first “three-way” rom-com (8:30 p.m., Audience).
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15
Doubt
Katherine Heigl stars in this new drama series as a lawyer falling for her high-profile client (Steven Pasquale), and Laverne Cox (from Orange is the New Black) plays a transgender attorney fighting passionately for justice (10 p.m., CBS).
Hacking the Wild
Andy Quitmeyer, a “digital survivalist,” goes deep into some of the most remote parts of the world in this new reality series armed with nothing but everyday technology to survive in the wilderness (10 p.m., Science Channel).
THURSDAY, Feb. 16
Superstore
A freezing winter day in St. Louis quickly becomes miserably hot inside Cloud 9 when a thermostat breaks and the heater malfunction magnifies angry tensions between Amy (America Ferrera)s, Jonah (Ben Feldman) and the warehouse employees (8 p.m., NBC).
Mysteries at the Museum
In “Mutually Assured Missteps,” host Don Wildman inspects a sleek fighter jet, an antique steam locomotive and a rare print of the Declaration of Independence (9 p.m., Travel Channel).
FRIDAY, Feb. 17
Dr. Ken
Pat (Dave Foley) refuses to accept the diagnosis from Dr. Ken (Ken Jeong) that his stressful relationship with girlfriend Megan (guest star Gillian Vigman) is causing his mysterious rash. Meanwhile, Dave (Albert Tsai) wonders how to break up with Emily (guest star Zooey Jeong, Ken Jeong’s real-life daughter) without hurting her feelings (8:30 p.m., ABC).
Great Performances: New York City Ballet in Paris
If your tastes run toward tutus, tune in to watch one of the best troupes in the world as they take the stage in the City of Lights for a dazzling performance of the neoclassical dance masterpieces of the Walpurgisnact Ballet (9 p.m., PBS).
SATURDAY, Feb. 18
Britney Ever After
The tumultuous story of pop princess Britney Spears (Natasha Bassett) is dramatized in this made-for-TV movie, which also features Nathan Keyes as Justin Timberlake, Clayton Chitty as Kevin Federline and other actors as Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Spears’ mom, Lynne (8 p.m., Lifetime).
The Zoo
Go behind the scenes at the Bronx Zoo, a New York institution and global leader in animal care and species conservation, in this new docu-series filmed over an eight-month period on the facility’s 265-acre campus, home to more than 6,000 animals (10 p.m., Animal Planet).
SUNDAY, Feb. 19
The Paley Center Salutes NBC’s 90th Anniversary
Five-time Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer hosts this all-star tribute to the network whose prolific broadcast heritage includes Sing Along With Mitch, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Monkees, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Friends, The Office, Saturday Night Live, Hill Street Blues, The Voice, This Is Us and hundreds of other iconic shows (9 p.m., NBC).
Billions
Law, money, power, sex and ego collide with the soul of New York City in the balance in season two of this steamy series set in the financial hedge-fund world, starring Maggie Siff, Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis and Malin Ackerman (10 p.m., Showtime).
The Good Fight
In this spinoff from The Good Wife, an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer (Rose Leslie) while also wiping out the savings of her mentor and godmother (Christine Baranski). Forced out their law firm, thy join another—and prepare to fight (8 p.m., CBS All Access).
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Former Beatle George Harrison’s autobiography, first published in 1980, has now been rereleased in a handsome expanded edition. I Me Mine—The Extended Edition (Genesis Publications) spans the full length of his life and musical career, with hundreds of his lyric sheets—including more than 50 presented here for the first time—accompanied by his commentary, plus a collection of rare and previously unpublished photos.
The movie Loving is based on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the Virginia interracial couple whose arrest for their “mixed” marriage led to an historic Supreme Court battle. In the film, the Lovings (Joel Eggerton and Ruth Negg) are visited by a photographer from Life magazine (Michael Shannon), who spends several weeks documenting them as they go about their lives in the midst of the trial. Now those actual photos from the real-life, real Life photographer, the late photojournalist Grey Villet, have been collected in The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait (Princeton Architectural Press), with text by his wife, Barbara Villet, a former Life reporter and writer. The book includes dozens of images not included in Villet’s original 1958 magazine photo essay.
Here’s looking at you: Noah Isenberg’s We’ll Always Have Casablanca (W.W. Norton) is a splendid retrospective on one of Hollywood’s most beloved movies, which was awarded Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and featured iconic performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. The book’s publication is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the movie’s release in late January 1943.
NEW ON DVD
Hailee Steinfeld is terrific in The Edge of Seventeen (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) as a teenager navigating the tricky threshold between high school and young-adulthood. With Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgewick, Haley Lu Richardson and Blake Jenner. Extras include gags and outtakes, and deleted scenes.
Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin and newcomer Joe Alwyn star in director Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), about a young Army private’s celebratory homecoming after a harrowing battle in Iraq—and the disconnect between what really happened on the battlefield and the lavish hero’s welcome he receives at his hometown football game.
Space aliens have landed, and Amy Adams wants to find out what they’ve got to say in the critically lauded Arrival (Paramount Home Media Distribution), a smart, gorgeous, intensively contemplative movie that’s about communication and cooperation instead of ka-booms and combat. Bonus content include behind-the-scene features on the movie’s musical score and sound design, and principles of time, memory and language—key components to the story, if you haven’t seen it.
In Arrival, the space aliens communicate through logograms, circular swirls with complex meanings. For the film, the designs were fashioned by artist Martine Bertrand, who created this exclusive one (left) just for our readers—in alien alphabet, it says Parade!
We’re not worthy! Party on! And celebrate the 25th anniversary of Wayne’s World, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey’s loving 1992 Saturday Night Live spinoff spoof about a pair of aimless teenage metal-heads, with this excellent double disc set that contains the original movie, its 1993 sequel and rockin’ bonus features (Paramount Home Media).
AT THE MOVIES
When a mercenary (Matt Damon) is imprisoned behind the Great Wall in ancient China, he discovers some of the greatest wonders of the world, including marauding beasts and a massive army of elite warriors, in the action-adventure fantasy The Great Wall.
When one school teacher (Charlie Day) gets another teacher (Ice Cube) fired, he’s challenged to an after-school showdown in Fist Fight, a comedy that also features Dennis Haysbert, Jillian Bell and Christina Hendricks.
In director Gore Verbinski’s mystery-thriller A Cure for Wellness, an ambitious young executive (Dane DeHaan) is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from a mysterious “wellness center” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa’s mysterious treatments are not what they seem.
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