Girls, on HBO
Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham stars as Hannah, a young writer who shares life's ups and downs with a close-knit group of girlfriends in this new episode. The critically acclaimed series also stars Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet.
Love, Lust or Run, on TLC
Style expert Stacy London uses her fashion expertise to help nursing student Desiree in this new episode. A mother of two, Desiree wants to be taken seriously by her classmates, but her appearance is more party animal than serious student.
How to Get Away With Murder, on ABC, CTV
SAG Award winner Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, a top-notch criminal defence attorney who also teaches law at Middleton University. The critically acclaimed drama also stars Alfred Enoch, Matt McGorry, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King and Karla Souza as five of her students.
Code Black, on CBS, CTV
Patients once again flood the ER as doctors and nurses race to save lives in this season finale of the thrilling medical drama. Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden leads the cast as Dr. Leanne Rorish, the ER Residency Director.
Married at First Sight, on A&E
Six weeks after getting married to a complete stranger, the participants must decide whether to stay together or go their separate ways in this two-hour season finale. A panel of relationship experts matched the six singles in this reality TV show.
The Biggest Loser, on NBC
The remaining contestants face the music at the final weigh-in before finding out who the winner is in this season finale. This season, Dolvett Quince and Jennifer Widerstrom train the contestants while former trainer Bob Harper serves as host.
New Releases for the week of February 21 - 27
Spotlight
When Marty Baron (Schreiber) takes over as the editor of The Boston Globe in 2001, he learns that the newspaper has a "Spotlight" team -- a group of journalists, led by Robby Robinson (Keaton), that focuses on in-depth investigative pieces that can take months to research. When a small article in the paper about a pedophile priest catches Baron's eye, he has the Spotlight team investigate the story more thoroughly. When it's finally published, their findings shock the world and rock one of the world's oldest institutions to its core with allegations that dozens of priests in the city were known pedophiles -- a fact covered up by the local Catholic Archdiocese.
Director: Tom McCarthy. Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Brian d'Arcy James. 2015. 128 min. Biography.
The Good Dinosaur
When the asteroid that should have wiped out the dinosaurs instead narrowly misses Earth, life goes on pretty much as usual for the prehistoric beasts. After millions of years, the dinosaurs have developed civilization. A young apatasaurus named Arlo (Ochoa) works on a farm with his family, but is too cowardly and timid to help out with most of the chores. After his father (Wright) is killed in a flash flood and Arlo becomes separated from the rest of his family, he ends up befriending a feral "pest" -- a young human cave boy, whom Arlo names Spot (Bright).
Director: Peter Sohn. Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Frances McDormand. 2015. 93 min. Animation.
I Smile Back
It's the perfect suburban life for Laney Brooks (Silverman): she has a handsome and loving husband (Charles), two beautiful, smart children and a lovely home. Behind the scenes of this perfect life, though, it's a different, darker story. She takes drugs, commits adultery and even disappears for days on end. As her destructive actions threaten to rip her family apart for good, Laney tries to ignore the many temptations that surround her to finally face the unresolved issues that she's dealt with since her childhood.
Director: Adam Salky. Stars: Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles, Skylar Gaertner, Shayne Coleman. 2015. 85 min. Drama.
Blue Bloods, on CBS, CTV
New York City Police Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) is the patriarch of a family of police officers and lawyers in this drama. Bridget Moynahan stars as his daughter, an assistant D.A. who serves as a legal and moral compass for the family.
New Releases for the week of February 14 - 20
Steve Jobs
The year is 1984, and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (Fassbender) is riding high after the successful launch of the Macintosh computer. Behind the spotlight, though, lives a troubled man who humiliates and belittles his subordinates, alienates Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Rogen) and refuses to acknowledge his daughter from his ex-girlfriend, Chrisann (Waterston). Over the course of the next several years, as Jobs launches three different computer products at two different companies, his personal relationships and ambitions push him to become one of the fathers of the modern digital computing age.
Director: Danny Boyle. Stars: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Kate Winslet, Katherine Waterston, Michael Stuhlbarg. 2015. 122 min. Biography.
Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (Cranston) is one of the most celebrated screenwriters in Hollywood during the 1940s. However, he refuses to hide his communist sympathies, speaking publicly about his support of organized labour and joining the Communist Party. As paranoia about communists sweeps the nation, Trumbo and many of his peers are thrown into prison. After serving their sentences, they find themselves blacklisted in the film industry and unable to find work. Now living in poverty, Trumbo begins ghostwriting, and watches from the sidelines as others receive credit for his Academy Award-winning screenplays. Meanwhile, his family life deteriorates as his wife (Lane) and children need to find jobs to support the struggling family.
Director: Jay Roach. Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Michael Stuhlbarg, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., John Goodman. 2015. 124 min. Biography.
The 33
Mario Sepúlveda (Banderas) is, along with 32 others, a gold miner from the Chilean city of Copiapó who becomes trapped deep beneath the Earth's surface when the mine shaft collapses. In the rescue chamber, they find an empty first aid kit, a non-functional radio and very little food. Back on the surface, public outrage grows as news of the mining company's horrible safety record spreads, and the government vows to find any survivors and bring them home to their families in this true story based on the 2010 disaster.
Director: Patricia Riggen. Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin. 2015. 127 min. Biography.
Grandfathered, on Fox, City TV
Jimmy (John Stamos) and Sara (Paget Brewster) stop at nothing to find out who bit Edie (Layla/Emelia Golfieri) at school in this new episode. Elsewhere, Gerald (Josh Peck) and Vanessa (Christina Milian) meet with a tech investor (guest star Drake Bell).
