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“Scandal,” “The Americans,” “The Walking Dead,” “Portlandia,” “Ripper Street,” “Vikings,” “House of Cards,” “Hannibal”—February sees the return of several TV favorites. New series also launch, including “The Red Road” on Sundance, “Mixology” and the Chicago-filmed “Mind Games” on ABC, “About a Boy” and “Growing Up Fisher” on NBC, “The 100” and “Star-Crossed” on The CW and a bunch of new Hulu offerings.

Don’t forget the Winter Olympics, Super Bowl and the new NBC late-night lineup with Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. Here’s a look at February’s TV premieres, finales, specials and movies. (My picks bolded; all times Central.)

Saturday, Feb. 1
7 | “Stan Lee’s Mighty 7,” HUB (movie premiere; Comic book creator helps alien become superheroes)
7 | “The Gabby Douglas Story,” Lifetime (movie premiere; Olympic gymnast’s biography)
8 | “The Incredible Dr. Pol,” Nat Geo Wild (season finale)
9 | “We Move Animals,” Nat Geo Wild (season finale)

Sunday, Feb. 2
9 a.m. | “Zombie Bowl,” AMC (seasons 1 & 2 marathon)
11 a.m. | “Kitten Bowl,” Hallmark (special)
4 p.m. | “Purina Pro Plan Incredible Dog Challenge,” NBC (special)
5 | “Fish Bowl,” Nat Geo Wild (special)
5 | “Super Bowl XLVIII,” Fox (special)¿
7 | “Weather Bowl 2014 Halftime Show,” Weather Channel (special)
8:58 | “Sherlock,” PBS (season finale)
9:30 | “New Girl,” Fox (post-Super Bowl fun)
10 | “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Fox (post-Super Bowl fun)

Monday, Feb. 3
6 | “El Senor de los Cielos (Lord of the Skies),” mun2 (telenovela premiere)
8 | “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful,” NBC (special)
8 | “Swamp People,” History (season 5 premiere)
8:30 | “Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story,” Showtime (doc; Comic’s life)
9 | “The Devils Ride,” Discovery (season 3 premiere)
10 | “Inside Comedy,” Showtime (season 3 premiere)

Tuesday, Feb. 4
8 | “Ravenswood,” ABC Family (season 1 finale)
8 | “The Amish: Shunned,” PBS (“American Experience” premiere; 7 former Amish reflect on decisions to leave community.)
8:30 | “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” Fox (new time slot premiere)

Wednesday, Feb. 5
7 | “Hunting Hitler’s Stolen Treasures: The Monuments Men,” Nat Geo (special; historians, movie’s actors shed light on greatest treasure hunt in history)
8 | “Revealing: Celebutante,” Sundance (special; a look at the power of fame)
8 | “Hoarding: Buried Alive,” TLC (season premiere)
8 | “Buy This Restaurant,” Food (series premiere; Aspiring owners choose between 3 space for their restaurants.)
8:30 | “Backroad Gold,” Travel (series premiere; Corky Coker looks for sweet deals on barn finds)
9 | “Top Chef,” Bravo (season finale)
9 | “Roman Catacomb Mystery,” PBS (“Nova” premiere; forensic investigation into hundreds of bodies found under Rome 2,000 years after being buried there)
9 & 9:30 | “Auction on Wheels,” Travel (specials; more sweet-deal hunting)
10 | “Super Skyscrapers,” PBS (4-part premiere; creation of 4 buildings)

Thursday, Feb. 6
9 | “The Spoils of Babylon,” IFC (miniseries finale)

Friday, Feb. 7
6:30 | “Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony,” NBC (From Sochi, Russia; check local listings for 2 weeks of programming)

Saturday, Feb. 8
6 | “Chance at Romance,” Hallmark (movie; kid sets his dad up with romantic weekend)
7 | “The Girl He Met Online,” Lifetime (movie; Gillian loses it when a guy she met online isn’t into her.)
8 | “Lil Bub’s Special Special,” Animal Planet (special; Amy Sedaris hosts)

Sunday, Feb. 9
7 | “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles,” CBS (music special)
8 | “The Walking Dead,” AMC (midseason 4 premiere)
9 | “Talking Dead,” AMC (midseason 4 premiere)
9 | “The Making of a Lady,” PBS (movie premiere; London woman finds danger in new living situation)
10 | “Comic Book Men,” AMC (midseason 3 premiere)
TTBA | “Fresh Meat,” Hulu (season 3 premiere)

Monday, Feb. 10
7:30 | “Top Gear,” BBC America (season 21 premiere)
8 | “Rachel vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off,” Food Network (season finale)
9 | “Spies of Mississippi,” PBS (“Independent Lens” premiere)

Tuesday, Feb. 11
8 | “Twisted,” ABC Family (midseason premiere)
8 | “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid,” PBS (“American Experience” premiere)

Wednesday, Feb. 12
8 | “Great Cathedral Mystery,” PBS (“Nova” premiere; investigation into how Florence’s towering cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—the Duomo—was built during the Renaissance)

Thursday, Feb. 13
10 | “Tattoo Titans,” CMT (series premiere; another tattoo competition)

Friday, Feb. 14
12:01 a.m. | “House of Cards,” Netflix (season 2 premiere)
9 p.m. | “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” Investigation Discovery (special)
TTBA | “Elite New Face,” Hulu (season 2 premiere)

Saturday, Feb. 15
8 | “Atlantis,” BBC America (season 1 finale)
8 | “Ghost Adventures,” Travel (season 9 premiere)
9 | “Outrageous Acts of Science,” Science (season 2 premiere)

Sunday, Feb. 16
7 | “BAFTA Awards,” BBC America (special)
7 | “Good Luck Charlie,” Disney (series finale)
7 | “Top Chef Estrellas,” Telemundo (series premiere; eight Hispanic celebs compete for charity)
9 | “Murder on the Home Front,” PBS (series premiere; pathologist and crime writer team up to solve murders in 1940 London)
TTBA | “Long Story, Short,” Hulu (series premiere; 20-somethings living in Toronto)

Monday, Feb. 17
5 | “Kickin’ It,” Disney XD (season premiere)
5:30 | “Lab Rats,” Disney XD (season premiere)¿
6:30 | “Breadwinners,” Nickelodeon (series premiere; animated ducks deliver bread)
7 | “Star-Crossed,” CW (series premiere; alien-human Romeo and Juliet story)
7 | “Breath of Freedom,” Smithsonian (special; WW II set stage for Civil Rights movement)
8 | “Worst Cooks in America,” Food (season 5 premiere)
9 | “Alaska Fish Wars,” Nat Geo Wild (season finale)
10:30 | “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” NBC (Fallon takes over.)
TTBA | “Farmed and Dangerous,” Hulu (series premiere; comedy from Chipotle (?) satirizing industrial agriculture)

Tuesday, Feb. 18
8 | “The Rise and Fall of Penn Station,” PBS (“American Experience” premiere)
9 | “Tosh.0,” Comedy Central (season 6 premiere)
9 | “Mennonite Made,” Nat Geo (pilot; Mennonite builders)

Wednesday, Feb. 19
9 | “How to Survive the End of the World: Monster Storm,” Nat Geo (special; what might happen if the environmental balance shifts)

Thursday, Feb. 20
6:30 | “Do or Die,” Nat Geo (series finale)

Friday, Feb. 21
8 | “Say Yes to the Dress,” TLC (season 11 premiere)
8 | “Sting: The Last Ship,” PBS (“Great Performances” premiere; concert special)
8 | “APB With Troy Dunn,” TNT (season finale)
9 | “Hello Ross,” E! (season premiere)

Saturday, Feb. 22
7 | “Status: Unknown,” Lifetime (movie premiere; 2 friends worry about a 3rd when random status posts show up online)
8 | “Ripper Street,” BBC America (season 2 premiere)
8 | “Secret Sex Lives,” TLC (special; is bigger better?)
10 (post-Olympics) | “About a Boy,” NBC (series premiere; sitcom based on Nick Hornsby book)

Sunday, Feb. 23
7 | “Winter Olympic Games Closing Ceremonies,” NBC (from Sochi, Russia)
7 | “The Amazing Race,” CBS (season premiere)
7 | “Food Court Wars,” Food (season premiere)
8 | “Sister Wives,” TLC (season 4 finale)
9 | “Castle, Secrets & Legends,” Travel (season 1 finale)
9 | “90 Day Fiance,” TLC (season 1 finale)
9:30 (post-Olympics) | “Growing Up Fisher,” NBC (series premiere; blind dad and family)

Monday, Feb. 24
7 | “The Voice,” NBC (season 6 premiere, part 1)
7 | “The Injustice Files: Sundown Towns,” ID (special)
8 | “Dallas,” TNT (season 3 premiere)
8 | “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Logo (season premiere)
8 | “Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,” HBO (doc premiere; African-American painter Mickalene Thomas directs profile of her mother, former runway model Sandra Bush)
9 | “Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey,” PBS (doc premiere; Paralympics sled hockey)
9 | “Private Lives of Nashville Wives,” TNT (series premiere; another one of those reality shows)
11:35 | “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” NBC (Seth Meyers takes over)

Tuesday, Feb. 25
7 | “The Voice,” NBC (season 6 premiere, part 2)
7 | “Glee,” Fox (spring premiere)
8 | “About a Boy,” NBC (time period premiere)
8 | “Rizzoli & Isles,” TNT (season premiere)
8 | “Amish Mafia,” Discovery (season premiere)
8:30 | “Growing Up Fisher,” NBC (time period premiere)
9 | “Mind Games,” ABC (series premiere; Two brothers use science of psychological manipulation to solve clients’ problems)
9 | “Perception,” TNT (season premiere)
9 | “Game of Arms,” AMC (series premiere; competitive arm wrestling)
9 | “Ink Master,” Spike TV (season 4 premiere)
9 | “Diggers,” Nat Geo (season premiere)
9 | “Chrome Underground,” Discovery (series premiere; Motoreum hunts for rare cars in undesirable places)
9 | “The Profit,” CNBC (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Border Rico,” Travel (season 1 finale)

Wednesday, Feb. 26
7 | “Survivor,” CBS (season 28 premiere)
8:30 | “Mixology,” ABC (series premiere; one night in bar life of 10 people)
9 | “The Americans,” FX (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Legit,” FXX (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Unsung Hollywood,” TV One (series premiere; profiles)
9:30 | “Ali G: Rezurection,” FXX (premiere; enhanced episode of “Da Ali G Show”)
9:30 & 10 | “Upload with Shaquille O’Neal,” truTV (winter premiere)

Thursday, Feb. 27
8 | “The Red Road,” Sundance (series premiere; clash between New Jersey community and neighboring Native American tribe)
8 | “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC (winter premiere)
8 | “Mary, Mary,” WEtv (season premiere)
9 | “Vikings,” History (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Portlandia,” IFC (season 4 premiere)
9 | “Scandal,” ABC (winter premiere)
9 | “Review,” Comedy Central (series premiere; Forrest MacNeil reviews intense experiences of life itself by living them.)
9 | “Best Ink,” Oxygen (season finale)
11:30 | “Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule,” Adult Swim (season premiere)

Friday, Feb. 28
8 & 8:30 | “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers,” Lifetime (network premiere; NBC show moves to Lifetime)
9 | “Hannibal,” NBC (season 2 premiere)
9 | “Game of Stones,” Discovery (series premiere; Gem Guys Inc. searches for rare gems all over world)
11 | “Joe Rogan: Live From the Tabernacle,” Comedy Central (stand-up special)

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