Today’s Best Bets
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Seven Worlds, One Planet
AMC | 9:00 pm
The new episode "Antarctica" takes the show's crew to Earth's coldest, windiest and least hospitable continent, where survival for penguin chicks means running a predator gauntlet of both hungry orca and leopard seals. Among the other highlights, the BBC cinematographers capture unprecedented footage of great whales in one of the world's most spectacular feeding spectacles, while far below, brilliantly colorful starfish and gigantic worms thrive on the seabed. […]
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What on Earth?
SCIENCE | 11:00 pm
Evidence of a mysterious 5,000-year-old structure suddenly appears in Ireland; a top-secret machine that can see back in time; a satanic pentagram in the snow that points to witchcraft in the New World. […]
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MLB Baseball
MLBN | 9:00 am
Baseball is back, if only in exhibition form and today MLB Network is expected to showcase Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays as they visit the New York Yankees at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla. The Yanks handily won the American League East last year with 103-59 record before falling to Houston in the ALCS. The Blue Jays look to their young players like Guerrero in hopes of improving upon last year's 67-95 effort. […]
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NBA Basketball
ABC | 8:30 pm
The roughly two-month stretch run to the NBA playoffs begins for Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks where the Eastern Conference is theirs to lose. Chasing them is Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers who are battling for position in the East with several teams. Many feel that this could be a preview of the Conference Finals come June, but there's a lot of basketball to be played between now and then. […]
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Almost Family
FOX | 8:00 pm
Fox hasn't made any official announcement about the fate of this freshman drama, but it doesn't bode especially well for the show that the network is burning off the final two episodes of Season 1 in a Saturday night slot. First, in "Permanent AF," the trial against Dr. Bechley (Timothy Hutton) starts with the prosecution making an opening statement so powerful that it scares Leon. Then, in the finale, "Expectant AF," Roxy (Emily Osment) takes drastic action to help Isaac (Mustafa Elzein). […]
