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Globe Staff / February 26, 2008

THE SAFFRON ARCHES
The Gates
10 p.m., HBO
This documentary looks at the installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that stood in Central Park for 16 days in February 2005. Filming began in 1979, when the artists initiated decades of interactions with New York officials about getting permission to do the project. The movie concludes with footage of the completed piece, 7,503 gates hung with saffron-colored fabric.

Millionaire Matchmaker
10 p.m., Bravo
Hello, Dollars.

The Buddy Holly Story
8 p.m., TV Land
Before Busey was truly Busey.

Back to You
9:30 p.m., Channel 25
No, back to you.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Nova
8 p.m., Channel 2
Where PBS meets video games: This hour, called "The Four-Winged Dinosaur," uses animation to re-create the Microraptor, a newly understood dinosaur that is challenging old ideas about the origins of bird flight. The pigeon-size, feathered dinosaur had wings on its legs as well as its arms. Could it fly? Or was it an evolutionary dead end unrelated to the ancestry of birds?

According to Jim
9 p.m., Channel 5
Cheryl (cough-baby-cough) has (cough-desperate-cough) some (cough-gimmick-cough) news.

Jericho
10 p.m., Channel 4
A virus is on the way. Apocalypse is such a pain.

ON DEMAND
"Rounders"
Comcast
Another juicy Matt Damon movie, conventional but smoothly and tensely managed. It plunges us into the underground world of high-stakes poker played in dark caves where nobody shares the winnings with the IRS. Damon's poker wizard, trying to go straight as a law student, is sucked back into the game after his buddy, Edward Norton, plays a few bad hands with some bad-news heavies. (R, through April 3)

The Gates
10 p.m., HBO

This documentary looks at the installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that stood in Central Park for 16 days in February 2005. Filming began in 1979, when the artists initiated decades of interactions with New York officials about getting permission to do the project. The movie concludes with footage of the completed piece, 7,503 gates hung with saffron-colored fabric.

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