Here are selected primetime television highlights for Monday, January 30, 2012;
8 P.M. (Lifetime) UNFAITHFUL (2002) Diane Lane, in an Oscar-nominated role, plays Connie Sumner, a Westchester County housewife who surrenders to an erotic whim and embarks on an affair with a French rare-book dealer in Manhattan (Olivier Martinez) that spins wildly out of control. Richard Gere is Connie’s devoted husband.
8 P.M. (TCM) JANE EYRE (1944) Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles
10 P.M. (OWN) OPRAH’S NEXT CHAPTER Oprah Winfrey travels to Haiti with the actor Sean Penn nearly two years after the earthquake that devastated the capital city, Port-au-Prince, killing 316,000 and leaving a million homeless. She learns about his work with the J/P Haitian Relief Organization, which has housed more than 20,000 of the displaced. She also speaks with an American teenager who runs an orphanage; a Haitian woman who is working to rebuild her country through art; and the fashion designer Donna Karan, who has created business opportunities for local artists.
10 P.M. (WLIW) Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey, Series II - Part Three Isobel and Cora lock horns over control of Downton's medical role. Mrs. Bird starts a soup kitchen.
10 P.M. (E!) FASHION POLICE: THE 2012 SAG AWARDS Joan Rivers, Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos critique the attire worn by celebrities to Sunday night’s ceremony.
10 P.M. (WNBC) ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS Kate Snow reports on the political views of Florida residents on the eve of the Republican presidential primary there. Other segments look at biomedical research on chimpanzees and re-shoring, in which overseas manufacturing is returned to the United States.
10 P.M. (HBO) BLACK SWAN (2010) Natalie Portman in the role that earned her an Academy Award, stars as Nina, a ballet dancer teetering on the brink of insanity as she tries to break out of the corps and into the dual lead of “Swan Lake”: the Swan Queen and her villainous black swan twin. Mila Kunis is Lily, the sultry newcomer who is everything the increasingly tormented Nina is not, as their company’s artistic director, Thomas (Vincent Cassel), insists on pointing out. And Barbara Hershey plays Nina’s mother, a former dancer who desperately wants her daughter to achieve everything she never could.
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