1) College football national championship game, 7:30 p.m. ET,. ESPN and ESPN2, with pre-game at 7. This is the finish that fans might prefer: There were two tight semi-finals, eacb unsettled until the final play. Surviving were Washington (shown here)and Michigan, undefeated and ranked No. 2 and 1 when the regular season ended. Now they collide. Read more…
Crafting a new edition of HBO’s “True Detective,” Issa Lopez had opposite impulses.
One was to go with sorta-familiar characters.. “I’d heard that people just write themselves over and over again,” she said, in a press forum. “That might be true.”
And the other was to go with a wildly unfamiliar setting. She did that, too.
“True Detective: Night Country” (shown here) — starting at 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, on HBO and Max — gives us Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as police detectives. Tough and relentless, they may have the qualities Lopez hopes to see in herself. “They are also the women that I fear I am,” she said. “They have flaws that I see in myself.”
But the location? This is set in the Alaskan Arctic and filmed in Iceland, a zillion or so miles from her turf. “I’m Mexican, so I was not prepared,” she said. Read more…
