The Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (NBC, 6:30 a.m.; 8 p.m.) won’t have quite as many people involved as were in the 2008 winter event from Beijing, but it will be held in the Bird’s Nest, using the same producer, so it will likely conjure some pageantry anyway. Or you could go straight to the competitions with Switzerland vs. Sweden (USA, 8:05 p.m.) in curling, followed by women’s snowboarding at 10.
Uma Thurman stars as a woman whose son is kidnapped in the eight-episode thriller “Suspicion” (AppleTV+, streaming) which also stars Kunal Nayyar, Noah Emmerich, Georgina Campbell, and Elizabeth Hendsridge.
Alan Ritchson plays “Reacher” (Amazon Prime, streaming), based on the Lee Child novels about a former military police investigator suspected in a small town homicide. Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Kristin Kreuk and Bruce McGill costar in the eight-episode series.
The history of a famous Los Angeles showcase in the 199s is told in the documentary series “Phat Tuesdays: The Era of Hip Hop Comedy” (Amazon Prime, streaming) featuring the likes of Anthony Anderson, Dave Chappelle, Nick Cannon, Tichina Arnold, Snoop Dogg, Tiffany Haddish, Steve Harvey and Christ Tucker.
Sam Claflin stars as a writer who meets his translator (Veronica Echegui) in Mexico while doing a book tour there in the romantic comedy “Book of Love” (Netflix, streaming).
The National Geographic documentary “Torn” (Disney+, streaming) tells the story of climber Alex Lowe, whose body was recovered 17 years after he died in a Tibetan avalanche. His eldest son is the director. More mountain climbing is found in the 2015 documentary “Everest” (BBC America, 8:15 p.m.).