TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2014

07:50 Finding Bigfoot 12:35 Shake It Up 08:40 Fast N’ Loud 13:00 Good Luck Charlie 09:30 Border Security 13:25 Austin & Ally 09:55 13:45 A.N.T. Farm ‘RoboCop’ remake 00:15 Doctors 10:20 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 14:10 Jessie 00:45 Stella Edition 14:35 Dog With A Blog 01:30 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 10:45 How Do They Do It? 15:00 Wolfblood pats down the original 02:15 One Foot In The Grave 11:10 How It’s Made 15:25 Gravity Falls 02:45 The Office 11:35 What Happened Next? 15:50 Good Luck Charlie 12:00 What Happened Next? he original 1987 “RoboCop,” Dutch director Paul 03:15 The Shadow Line 16:10 Violetta Verhoeven’s first Hollywood film, isn’t so much a 04:15 The Weakest Link 12:25 Head Games 17:00 A.N.T. Farm T 05:00 Me Too! 13:15 Mythbusters movie to revere as a bit of brutalism to behold. It had 17:20 Austin & Ally a grim comic vibe, satirizing the savagery of both corporate 05:20 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 14:05 Border Security 17:45 Gravity Falls 05:40 Boogie Beebies 14:30 Auction Kings 18:10 Jessie bloodthirstiness and justice-seeking rampages. Paul 05:55 Garth And Bev 14:55 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 18:30 Good Luck Charlie Weller’s RoboCop was a techno-Frankenstein created to 06:05 The Large Family Edition 18:55 Dog With A Blog tame Detroit’s rampant crime: Dirty Harry for dystopia. 06:15 Me Too! 15:20 Countdown To Collision 19:20 Violetta Remaking “RoboCop” is like trying to recreate a nightmare. 06:35 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 16:10 Fast N’ Loud 20:05 Jessie That’s one reason why plans to remake the film were meant 06:55 Boogie Beebies 17:00 Ultimate Survival 20:30 Wolfblood 17:50 with mostly dubious derision: Hollywood, particularly 07:10 Garth And Bev nowadays, isn’t in the business of nihilism. Post-apocalyptic 07:20 The Large Family 18:40 One Car Too Far 07:30 The Weakest Link 19:30 films may be all the rage, but a movie about a cop’s dead 08:15 One Foot In The Grave 20:20 How Do They Do It? body shoved into a robot is a tad darker than Jennifer 08:45 Absolutely Fabulous 20:45 How It’s Made Lawrence running through the woods. 09:15 Eastenders 21:10 Auction Kings 00:15 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita Directed by Jose Padilha (the Brazilian filmmaker who 09:45 Doctors 00:45 Street Food Around the made the excellent documentary “Bus 174” before shifting 10:20 The World Of Stonehenge World into action with “Elite Squad”), this “RoboCop” has updated 01:10 Bondi Rescue 11:10 Stella the dystopia with some clever ideas and better acting, 12:00 The Weakest Link 02:05 Street Food Around the World while at the same time sanitizing any satire with video- 12:45 One Foot In The Grave game polish and sequel baiting. The smartest addition 13:15 Absolutely Fabulous 02:35 Eat Street 13:45 Eastenders 00:40 Time Warp 03:30 Bondi Rescue comes early, shifting the story to Tehran, where the global 14:15 Doctors 01:30 Weird Connections 03:55 Street Food Around the company OmniCorp has drones stopping and frisking in the 14:45 The World Of Stonehenge 02:00 The Gadget Show World streets. We’re introduced to this by talk show host Pat Novak 15:35 Stella 02:25 Tech Toys 360 04:25 Banged Up Abroad (Sam Jackson), who appears throughout the film, brazenly 16:25 The Weakest Link 02:50 Alien Encounters 05:20 George Clarke’s Amazing promoting Pentagon propaganda, trying to convince what 17:10 Eastenders 03:45 How The Earth Works Spaces he calls a bizarrely “robot-phobic” American public that 04:35 Prototype This 06:15 Mega Food 17:40 Doctors OmniCorp drones can make the US safer, too. 18:10 The World Of Stonehenge 05:25 Prophets Of Science Fiction 07:10 Bondi Rescue 06:15 The Gadget Show 07:35 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita It’s a damning starting point that already positions 19:00 As Time Goes By America as the propagator of emotion-less killing machine. 19:30 The Office Specials 06:40 Tech Toys 360 08:05 Street Food Around the 20:15 The Shadow Line 07:05 Superships World When the story shifts to Detroit, it gives the whole film the 21:15 Silent Witness 08:00 Strangest Weather On Earth 08:30 Bondi Rescue frame of: Would we treat ourselves how we treat those 22:55 Last Man Standing 08:25 Strangest Weather On Earth 09:25 Street Food Around the abroad? Opening the US market to its drones is judged 23:45 Eastenders 08:50 World imperative by OmniCorp. CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael 09:40 The Gadget Show 09:55 Eat Street Keaton) is flanked by executive Liz Kline (Jennifer Ehle) and 10:05 Tech Toys 360 10:50 Bondi Rescue marketing wizard (Jay Baruchel, brilliantly smarmy). To turn 10:30 What’s That About? 11:15 Street Food Around the 11:25 Superships World the political tide, they decide they need (literally) a more 12:20 Prototype This 11:45 Banged Up Abroad human face. 00:00 Homes Under The Hammer 13:10 Prophets Of Science Fiction 12:40 George Clarke’s Amazing For their RoboCop prototype, they find Detroit police 00:50 Come Dine With Me 14:00 How The Earth Works Spaces detective Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), who has been bad- 01:40 MasterChef Australia 14:50 Weird Connections 13:35 Mega Food ly maimed by a car bomb meant to derail his pursuit of a 02:35 MasterChef Australia 15:20 The Gadget Show 14:30 Bondi Rescue drug kingpin. Gary Oldman (always good, less frequently 03:20 Celebrity Fantasy Homes 15:45 Tech Toys 360 14:55 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita tested) plays the scientist who preserves little more than 04:10 Cash In The Attic 16:10 Alien Encounters 15:25 Street Food Around the Murphy’s brain in his new steel body, controlling his emo- 05:00 Bargain Hunt 17:00 Prophets Of Science Fiction World tions and memory with lowered levels of dopamine. From 05:45 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 17:55 Prototype This 15:50 Bondi Rescue 06:10 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 18:45 Superships 16:20 Bondi Rescue here, the film (scripted by Joshua Zetumer, Edward 06:35 Baby Borrowers USA 19:35 What’s That About? 16:45 Street Food Around the BREAKING POINT ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION Neumeier and Michael Miner) generally follows the origi- 07:15 Celebrity Fantasy Homes 20:30 How Tech Works World nal’s plot, letting Murphy clean up Detroit before his per- 08:05 Cash In The Attic 20:55 How Tech Works 17:15 Eat Street 20:10 Swamp Men 14:00 I Think I Do-PG15 sonality begins to break through and his attentions turn to 08:50 Homes Under The Hammer 21:20 Europe’s Secret Earthquakes 17:40 Maverick Chef 21:00 Caught In The Act 16:00 Hotel Transylvania-PG his maker. Any thought-provoking satires slide away in a 09:45 Masterchef: The Professionals 22:10 The Gadget Show 18:10 Bondi Rescue 21:50 Dead or Alive 18:00 The Guilt Trip-PG15 torrent of bullets, which fly in the way they only can in 10:30 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 22:35 Tech Toys 360 18:35 Street Food Around the 22:40 World’s Deadliest Killer Three 20:00 The Sweeney-18 video games or (questionably) PG-13 rated movies. 10:55 Baking Mad With Eric Lanlard 23:00 How Tech Works World 23:30 How Big Can It Get 01:45 Bait-PG15 22:00 Small Apartments-18 11:20 The Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook 19:05 Banged Up Abroad 03:45 Battleship-PG15 11:45 Come Dine With Me 20:00 Eat Street 06:00 The New Daughter-PG15 12:35 Baby Borrowers USA 20:30 Maverick Chef 08:00 Snow White And The 13:20 Celebrity Fantasy Homes 21:00 Bondi Rescue Huntsman-PG15 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 21:30 Street Food Around the 10:15 Batman: The Dark Knight 01:30 Futbol Mundial 14:05 Antiques Roadshow 00:00 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody Stewart World Returns Part One-PG15 02:00 Dubai World Cup Carnival 15:00 Britain’s Dream Homes 00:45 Sonny With A Chance 01:00 The Colbert Report 22:00 Extreme Tourist Afghanistan 11:45 Men In Black 3-PG 06:00 PGA European Tour Weekly 16:00 Design Star 01:05 Sonny With A Chance 01:30 Modern Family 22:55 Deadly Arts 13:45 Snow White And The 06:30 Inside The PGA Tour 16:45 Bargain Hunt 01:30 Suite Life On Deck 02:00 Modern Family 17:30 Cash In The Attic 23:50 Street Food Around the Huntsman-PG15 07:00 Top 14 01:50 Suite Life On Deck 02:30 It’s Always Sunny In 09:00 PGA Tour Highlights 18:20 Antiques Roadshow World 16:00 Paycheck-PG15 02:15 Wizards Of Waverly Place Philadelphia 10:00 Futbol Mundial 19:15 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 18:00 Men In Black 3-PG 02:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 03:00 The Cleveland Show 10:30 Total Rugby 20:10 Food Glorious Food 20:00 Breaking Point-18 03:00 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody 03:30 How To Live With Your 11:00 Live AFL Nab Challenge 21:00 Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen 22:00 Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines-18 03:20 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody Parents 14:00 PGA European Tour Weekly Secrets 03:45 Sonny With A Chance 04:00 Seinfeld 14:30 Live PGA European Tour 21:30 Come Dine With Me 04:05 Sonny With A Chance 00:20 Predator CSI 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 18:30 Trans World Sport 22:20 Antiques Roadshow 04:30 Suite Life On Deck Leno 19:30 Snooker 23:15 Bargain Hunt 01:10 Hooked 04:50 Suite Life On Deck 02:00 Snake Underworld 05:30 Seinfeld 22:30 Total Rugby 05:15 Wizards Of Waverly Place 06:00 Raising Hope 00:00 Bob Funk-18 23:00 Live Super League 02:50 Swamp Men 02:00 Loser-PG15 05:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 03:45 Caught In The Act 06:30 Friends 06:00 Austin & Ally 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 04:00 Mad Buddies-PG15 04:40 Python Hunters 06:00 The Longest Yard-PG15 06:25 Dog With A Blog 05:35 Snake Underworld 08:00 Seinfeld 06:45 A.N.T. Farm 09:00 The Simpsons 08:00 Snow Day-PG 06:30 Swamp Men 10:00 Celtic Pride-PG 07:10 A.N.T. Farm 09:30 The Mindy Project 00:00 Inside The PGA Tour 00:30 What Happened Next? 07:25 Caught In The Act 12:00 Mad Buddies-PG15 07:35 Wolfblood 10:00 Hot In Cleveland 00:30 Futbol Mundial 00:55 What Happened Next? 08:20 Dead or Alive 14:00 Drop Dead Fred-PG 07:55 Gravity Falls 10:30 Friends 01:00 Trans World Sport 01:20 Head Games 09:15 World’s Deadliest Killer Three 16:00 Celtic Pride-PG 08:20 My Babysitter’s A Vampire 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 02:00 NHL 02:10 Mythbusters 10:10 How Big Can It Get 18:00 Daddy Day Camp-FAM 08:45 Jessie Leno 04:00 Top 14 03:00 One Car Too Far 11:05 Jobs That Bite! 20:00 Mash-18 09:05 Good Luck Charlie 12:00 Two And A Half Men 06:00 Trans World Sport 03:50 Border Security 12:00 Hooked 22:00 Under New Management- 09:30 Shake It Up 12:30 Seinfeld 07:00 HSBC Sevens World Series 04:15 Auction Kings 12:55 Shark Island PG15 09:55 Austin And Ally 13:30 Friends 10:00 Golfing World 04:40 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 13:50 Swamp Men 10:15 A.N.T. Farm 14:00 How To Live With Your 11:00 ICC Cricket 360 Edition 14:45 Caught In The Act 10:40 Dog With A Blog Parents 11:30 Top 14 05:05 How Do They Do It? 15:40 Dead or Alive Kinnaman (“The Killing”) is a Swedish actor with an 11:05 Suite Life On Deck 14:30 The Mindy Project 13:30 Total Rugby 05:30 How It’s Made 16:35 World’s Deadliest Killer Three urban American swagger. Whereas Weller had to do most of 11:25 My Babysitter’s A Vampire 15:00 Hot In Cleveland 14:00 NHL 06:00 Sons Of Guns 17:30 How Big Can It Get his acting through his chin (obscured by the RoboCop suit), 11:50 That’s So Raven 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 16:00 Trans World Sport 07:00 One Car Too Far 18:25 Jobs That Bite! Kinnaman is a considerably stronger force, raging at his 12:15 Hannah Montana Stewart 01:00 Hide Away-PG15 17:00 Futbol Mundial 19:20 Shark Island 16:00 The Colbert Report 03:00 The Intouchables-PG15 17:30 Live Dubai World Cup dehumanization. The fine Australian actress Abbie Cornish 16:30 Last Man Standing 05:00 A Christmas Kiss-PG15 Carnival lends the otherwise metallic film a few moments of fleshy 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 07:00 Lying To Be Perfect-PG15 21:30 HSBC Sevens World Series warmth. 18:00 Men At Work 09:00 Hide Away-PG15 What leaves an impression in “RoboCop”? It’s Keaton’s 18:30 The Goodwin Games 10:45 Argo-PG15 trim and affable CEO. He and his cohorts make for one of 19:00 The Mindy Project 13:00 Beneath Hill 60-PG15 19:30 Hot In Cleveland 15:15 Oh Christmas Tree-PG the most accurate portraits of corporate villainy, not 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 17:00 The Forger-PG15 because they’re diabolical, but because they don’t think 00:00 Chelsea Lately they’re doing anything wrong. Keaton, a too seldom seen Leno 19:00 Nobody Walks-PG15 00:30 The Spin Crowd 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 21:00 Flight-18 01:25 Style Star motor-mouth energy, plays Sellars as an executive simply Stewart 23:15 Cosmopolis-18 02:20 E!ES removing obstacles (ethics, scientific prudence, public safe- 21:30 The Colbert Report 03:15 Extreme Close-Up ty) to accomplish what the corporation demands. The film’s 22:00 Modern Family 04:10 E!ES best moment is Baruchel cowing and explaining he’s “just in 23:00 Don’t Trust The B In 05:05 E! Entertainment Special marketing.” But PR is really the primary driver of “RoboCop,” Apartment 23 06:00 THS with every action managed, refracted and spun. Will it seem 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 07:50 Style Star at all prophetic years from now when Amazon.com drones 01:45 Smashed-PG15 08:20 E! News are delivering tooth paste through the air? — AP 03:15 Shadow Dancer-PG15 09:15 Opening Act 05:00 The Last Weekend-PG15 10:15 Married To Jonas 00:00 C.S.I. 07:15 Cinderella PT 1-PG15 10:40 Chasing The Saturdays 01:00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. 09:00 Cinderella PT 2-PG15 11:10 Eric And Jessie: Game On 02:00 American Horror Story: 11:00 Someday This Pain Will Be 12:05 E! News Coven Useful To You-PG15 13:05 Extreme Close-Up Fox’s ‘Gotham’ casts 03:00 The Client List 13:00 Playdate-PG15 13:35 THS 04:00 Scandal 15:00 Thorne: Scaredy Cat-PG15 14:30 Style Star 05:00 Twisted 17:00 Someday This Pain Will Be 15:00 Keeping Up With The 06:00 C.S.I. Useful To You-PG15 Kardashians Penguin, Alfred 07:00 Burn Notice 19:00 The Lady-PG15 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 08:00 Body Of Proof 21:00 A Dangerous Method-18 18:00 E! News ox’s upcoming Batman origin story “Gotham” has cast 09:00 Scandal 23:00 Extremities-18 its Penguin, faithful Wayne family butler Alfred, and 10:00 Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. F the boss and fiancee of Det. James Gordon. “Another 11:00 Twisted Earth” actor Robin Lord Taylor (pictured) will play Oswald 12:00 Emmerdale 12:30 Coronation Street Cobblepot - perhaps better known to comic-book fans as 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 01:00 Love And Honor-PG15 00:30 The Haunting Of The Penguin. With the brains of a chess grandmaster and 14:00 Body Of Proof 03:00 Chimpanzee-PG 01:30 The First 48 the morals of a jackal, Oswald Cobblepot is a low-level psy- 05:00 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most 15:00 C.S.I. 02:30 My Ghost Story chopath who hides his sadistic lust for power behind an Wanted-PG 16:00 Emmerdale 03:30 My Ghost Story exquisitely polite demeanor. Sean Pertwee (“Alan 07:00 Salmon Fishing In The 16:30 Coronation Street 04:30 The Haunting Of Partridge”), meanwhile, will play Alfred Pennyworth, a Yemen-PG15 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 05:30 Private Crimes tough-as-nails ex-marine from East London who has loyally 18:00 Body Of Proof 09:00 Cheerful Weather For The Wedding-PG15 06:00 Beyond Scared Straight served Thomas and Martha Wayne. After their deaths, he 19:00 The Carrie Diaries 07:00 The First 48 20:00 American Idol 11:00 The Makeover-PG15 becomes fiercely protective of their young son, Bruce 13:00 Frankenweenie-PG 08:00 Homicide Hunter Wayne. 22:00 Devious Maids 09:00 Homicide Hunter 15:00 Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds “Burn Notice’ alum Zabryna Guevara will play Capt. Away-PG 10:00 Beyond Scared Straight 11:00 Frenemies Essen, Gordon’s boss at the GCPD Homicide Squad. Essen 17:00 Cheerful Weather For The balances police work and politics with Machiavellian skill. Wedding-PG15 11:30 Frenemies 18:45 Oz The Great And Powerful 12:00 Beyond Scared Straight Rounding out the crop of new castings is Erin Richards 00:00 Sutures 21:00 Now You See Me-PG15 13:00 Born To Kill (“Breaking In,” “Being Human”), who’ll play Barbara Kean, 01:45 Vacancy 14:00 Fatal Vows Gordon’s fiancee and a sophisticated emergency room 03:45 Bait 15:00 Frenemies doctor. Kean is described as joyful, but with an edge of vul- 05:45 Battleship 15:30 Frenemies nerability. She stands by her future husband, which can be 08:00 The New Daughter 00:00 The Greatest Movie Ever 16:00 Born To Kill difficult in a city as corrupt as Gotham. “Southland” alum 17:00 Curious & Unusual Deaths 10:00 Snow White And The Sold-PG15 Ben McKenzie has been cast as Gordon. From Warner Bros. Huntsman 02:00 Red Dawn-PG15 17:30 Private Crimes 12:15 Batman: The Dark Knight 18:00 Homicide Hunter Television, “Gotham” is based on characters published by 04:00 Arthur Christmas-PG DC Comics. Bruno Heller (“The Mentalist,” “Rome”) wrote Returns Part One 06:00 Winx-FAM 19:00 The First 48 13:45 Men In Black 3 08:00 Hotel Transylvania-PG 20:00 The Devil You Know the pilot script and will serve as executive producer, while 15:45 Snow White And The 10:00 Mandie And The Secret 21:00 Beyond Scared Straight Danny Cannon “CSI,” “Nikita”) will direct and executive pro- Huntsman Tunnel-PG 22:00 Private Crimes duce the pilot. — Reuters SMASHED ON OSN MOVIES FESTIVAL 18:00 Paycheck 12:00 Red Dawn-PG15 22:30 Born To Kill