Daniel Craig's "Casino Royale" on USA is a Friday TV pick

"Casino Royale"

Daniel Craig makes a great James Bond in this 2006 reboot of the spy franchise. Director Martin Campbell gives us some great action sequences and then there's the always reliable Judi Dench as M. Tonight, 8 tonight, USA Network (seattletimes.com/tvlistings).

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times staff

Also on today

"Great Directors: Steven Spielberg," 5 p.m. (TCM): Turner Classic Movies continues its monthlong tribute to those behind the camera with four films by Spielberg, introduced by "Spielberg on Spielberg," Richard Schickel's 2007 documentary.

"Patton 360," 9 p.m. (History): "On Hitler's Doorstep" chronicles the move by Gen. George S. Patton Jr. and his forces into the French region of Lorraine in 1944.

"What Not to Wear," 9 p.m. (TLC): Chelsea, a 28-year-old roller-derby vixen, has succumbed to wearing a uniform of ripped jeans and T-shirts while caring for her sick grandparents.

"Ghost Adventures," 9 p.m. (Travel): In this Season 2 premiere, Zak Bagans, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin travel to Ione, Calif., to investigate Preston Castle, a one-time reformatory that housed juvenile offenders and abandoned children and was the site of numerous deaths from tuberculosis and yellow fever — and an unsolved murder.

"Fox Legacy with Tom Rothman," 10 p.m. (Fox Movie Channel): Rothman looks at the creation of "How Green Was My Valley," John Ford's Oscar-winning 1942 drama about a Welsh mining family.

"Duck Season" (2004), 10 p.m. (Sundance): Two unsupervised 14-year-olds, played by Diego Cataño and Daniel Miranda, while away a Sunday afternoon by drinking Coke and playing video games until a slightly older next-door neighbor (Danny Perea) and a pizza-delivery guy (Enrique Arreola) join in the action.

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