21ST ANNUAL MOVIES FOR GROWNUPS AWARDS

Friday, Feb. 17 on PBS

Recorded at the end of January and again hosted by Alan Cumming, this year’s installment of AARP’s annual ceremony honors movies from 2022 that have resonated with older (50plus) audiences, and the stars of those films who have defied notions of what actors and actresses can or can’t do as they get older, including 60-year-old Best Actress nominee Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and 60-year-old Best Actor nominee Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick).

DOGS IN THE WILD: A “NATURE” MINISERIES

Wednesdays, Feb. 8-22 on PBS nominated as Best Supporting Actress

Jamie Lee Curtis, who is also nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, will receive this year’s Career Achievement Award. AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins explains that Curtis’ “longstanding, ever-increasing career shatters Hollywood’s outmoded stereotypes about aging, and it exemplifies what AARP’s Movies for Grownups program is all about.”

Films nominated in the Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups category are Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans (which leads the field with six nominations overall), Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, The Woman King and Women Talking

Nominees for Best TV Series are Abbott Elementary (ABC), The Old Man (FX), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), The White Lotus (HBO) and Yellowstone (Paramount Network).

A full list of nominees can be found at aarp.org.

The “dog days” might traditionally fall during the late summer, but you’ll get a nice dose of canines on television a few days during this latewinter month with the return of a long-running programming favorite, and the debut of a new miniseries. That miniseries is Dogs in the Wild, a three-part special installment of PBS’ Nature that travels the globe to reveal the secrets of the most successful carnivore on the planet: the canids. From the recognizable and familiar, like foxes, wolves, African wild dogs and coyotes, to the lesser-known ones, such as the Japanese raccoon dog, New Guinea singing dog, dholes and dingoes, wild members of the canine family have established themselves on every continent except Antarctica. Of course, the most widespread and recognizable member of this varied group is the one that shares many of our homes as a beloved member of the family: Canis familiaris, the domestic dog. — Jeff Pfeiffer

Puppy Bowl Xix

Sunday, Feb. 12 on ANIMAL PLANET

Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl returns for its 19th year as a Super Bowl programming alternative, with 122 adoptable puppies from 67 shelters and rescues across 34 states taking to the gridiron in the threehour special. During the game, audiences will also meet 11 special-needs puppy players looking for their forever homes. An hour before the main event begins, a pregame show will offer, among other things, a first look at this year’s Kitty Halftime Show, for fans of Felis catus (domestic cat).