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Winter Olympics (8 p.m., NBC). The event of the night should be the men’s super-G, with Bode Miller looking for his second medal of the Olympics. There’s also men’s and women’s skeleton (basically luge, but headfirst), ski jumping and the opening number in ice dancing.

“Ricky Gervais Show” (9 p.m., HBO). Series premiere. Ricky Gervais (the guy from the original, British “The Office”) and partners Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington get the animated treatment for their ridiculously hilarious podcasts. There’s no way this can’t be awesome.

“Life and Times of Tim” (9:30 p.m., HBO). Season premiere. Season 2 of the animated series kicks off with more awkwardness, poor decision-making and general humiliation by slacker Tim. This series passed under the radar when it hit in fall 2008, but it’s a comic gem that’s definitely worth checking out. Here’s a preview of what to expect:

There’s pretty much nothing else on primetime, and I’m barely even exaggerating.

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Tiger Woods new conference (8 a.m., every major sports and news outlet). I guarantee you, this will be a complete waste of airtime, as he’ll give a vague, cookie-cutter pseudo-“apology” and try to launch a PR campaign to win back fans. I hate contrived “news” events like this, and it’ll be treated to more analysis than the State of the Union.

Other Olympic TV

NBC: 3-5 p.m. — Women’s Cross Country-15km Pursuit Gold Medal Final; Men’s Figure Skating-Gold Medal Final Analysis.

USA: 9 a.m.-noon — Women’s Curling-USA vs. Russia.

MSNBC : noon-2:30 p.m. — Men’s Ice Hockey-Belarus vs. Sweden.
9 p.m.-midnight — Men’s Ice Hockey-Finland vs. Germany

CNBC: 2 p.m.-10 p.m. — Men’s Curling-USA vs. France; Men’s Ice Hockey-Czech Republic vs. Latvia; Women’s Curling-Denmark vs. Canada.