A brand new Jeopardy! format reunites gamers from previous teen tournaments. PBS’ American Experience tells the stunning origin story of the ever-present Monopoly board recreation. A Smithsonian documentary follows the religious journey that reworked rising boxer Cassius Clay into the celebrity named Muhammed Ali. On Presidents Day, TCM presents cinematic tributes to legendary White House residents.
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Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament
As youngsters, they made a very good impression throughout Jeopardy!’s two teen tournaments 4 seasons in the past. Now younger adults, most in school—just a few have graduated, with one nonetheless a high-school senior—27 of those gamers return to the Alex Trebek Stage to take part within the first ever “reunion” match, which is mainly a university match by one other identify. Nine quarterfinal video games air by March 2, with three semifinals and a two-game closing spherical airing by March 9. At stake: $100,000 and a spot on this yr’s Tournament of Champions.
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American Experience
Turns out Monopoly isn’t only a board recreation, it’s a metaphor for devious company shenanigans, as uncovered in an interesting American Experience episode that reveals the true origin of the sport. Parker Brothers created the legend that novice inventor Charles Darrow sketched the board on an oilcloth, however when economics professor Ralph Anspach ran afoul of Parker Brothers throughout a copyright swimsuit, he did some digging and found the sport (then generally known as “The Landlord’s Game”) was the creation of a radical feminist that had already grow to be well-liked from school campuses to Quaker communities. Sounds like somebody wants a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
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Cassius X: Becoming Ali
A two-hour documentary charts the religious transformation of up-and-coming boxer Cassius Clay within the late Nineteen Fifties and ’60s as he risked his profession and public picture by embracing his new faith of Islam and renaming himself Muhammed Ali. Among these interviewed: his biographer, sports activities journalists, Ali’s former girlfriend and Malcolm X’s eldest daughter
INSIDE MONDAY TV:
- PT 109 (8/7c, Turner Classic Movies): In honor of Presidents’ Day, the film channel presents an evening of biopics, beginning with the 1963 account of future president John F. Kennedy’s (Cliff Robertson) exploits on a Navy PT boat within the South Pacific throughout World War II. Followed by Henry Fonda as Young Mr. Lincoln (10:30/9:30c) in John Ford’s 1939 movie, and Ralph Bellamy as FDR in 1960’s Sunrise at Campobello (12:15 am/11:15c), with Greer Garson as Eleanor.
- For a a lot saltier presidential expertise, cable’s Starz Cinema replays all the season of the Watergate docudrama Gaslit (beginning at 4 pm/3c), with Julia Roberts as whistleblower Martha Mitchell and Sean Penn her disapproving attorney-general husband John, who’s concerned within the Nixon administration’s cover-up. (Dan Stevens and Shea Whigham go amusingly excessive as John Dean and G. Gordon Liddy.)
- America’s Got Talent: All-Stars (8/7c, NBC): The high 11 acts get another probability to impress America with their closing performances, with the outcomes introduced subsequent week.
- Fantasy Island (8/7c, Fox): The O.C.’s Melinda Clarke involves the island wishing for Instagram perfection in her life, then realizes her household was higher off the way in which they had been.
- All American (8/7c, The CW): A serious occasion rocks each the Crenshaw and Beverly Hills neighborhoods.
- Kids Baking Championship (8/7c and 9/8c, Food Network): The season ends in back-to-back episodes, with the remaining younger bakers making loaded cookies to get to the ultimate spherical, the place a multi-tiered birthday cake problem awaits.
- Quantum Leap (10/9c, NBC): Things get private for Ben (Raymond Lee) when he leaps into the physique of Kamini, the eldest daughter of Indian immigrants residing in 2009 Portland, Oregon. As he tries to stop their household restaurant from catching hearth, he makes a connection along with his personal Asian-American upbringing.
- Bloodlands (streaming on Acorn TV): In the ultimate two chapters of the Irish noir thriller, Tom’s (James Nesbitt) seek for a killer and for illicit lacking gold might deliver his downfall.
- DI Ray (streaming on PBS Passport and PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel): Before its linear premiere on PBS in July, subscribers can watch Parminder Nagra (The Blacklist) in a four-part crime drama as newly promoted U.Okay. police officer Rachita Ray, whose first task is a “culturally specific homicide.”