Let the coverage of the Olympic Games begin

Posted February 10, 2010 10:00 pm

By Ted Cox

NBC takes over prime time for the next two weeks plus with its coverage of the Winter Olympics from Vancouver. Bob Costas again plays lead host to the coverage, starting with the opening ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, on WMAQ Channel 5.

Valentine's 'sext'As ever on the cutting edge, MTV looks at "Sexting in America: When Privates Go Public" at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14. It also addresses how teens sending and receiving sexually explicit text messages are being labeled sex offenders.Facing 'The Greatest'The Spike cable channel refuses to surrender sports to the Olympics when it premieres the documentary "Facing Ali" at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15. Ten of Muhammad Ali's top opponents - including Joe Frazier and George Foreman - talk about what it was like to face "The Greatest" inside and out of the ring.Star-crossed loversShakespeare meets MTV in Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet," with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes playing the star-crossed lovers. It's irreverent by definition, but it does try to retain much of the original language. It's at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, on Fox Movie Channel.False300338Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Juliet + Romeo." False

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