Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Best Bets
Season finale of Scrubs (ABC, 7pm)
New Human Target (FOX, 7pm)
New Ugly Betty (ABC, 9pm)
New Law & Order: SVU (NBC,9pm)
News & Notes
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! For more than twenty years, one can usually find me watching Boiled in Lead at First Avenue in Minneapolis each St. Patrick’s Day. Probably won’t make it this year, alas. Here are a couple of videos of songs from a show a few years back:
Boiled In Lead play “The Rushes Green” live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, March 17 2006.
Boiled In Lead play “Cunovo Oro” live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, March 17 2006.
And lately my favorite video for this day has been the Muppets performing “O Danny Boy”. It never fails to make me laugh.
Primetime Grid
| Wed | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Scrubs Season finale | The Middle Rerun | Modern Family Rerun | Cougar Town Rerun | Ugly Betty | |
| CBS | Old Christine Rerun | Gary Unmarried Season finale | Criminal Minds Rerun | CSI: NY Rerun | ||
| NBC | Mercy | Law & Order: SVU Rerun | Law & Order: SVU | |||
| FOX | Human Target | American Idol | Local Programming | |||
| CW | America’s Next Top Model | High Society | Local Programming | |||
Primetime
NBA on ESPN: Spurs at Magic (ESPN, 7pm), Bucks at Clippers (ESPN, 9:30pm). NIT Tournament action on ESPN2.
The med students finish their first semester on the season finale of Scrubs (ABC, 7pm).
Chance recruits an FBI agent to help him stop his former partner from assassinating a foreign dignitary on Human Target (FOX, 7pm). Autumn Reeser (who was “Taylor Townsend” on The O.C.) is among the guest stars.
Veronica treats a patient that reminds her of her own issues, Sonia mourns the death of her home health care patient, and some folks attend a St. Patrick’s Day fair on Mercy (NBC, 7pm).
New episode of Web Soup (G4, 7pm). Find out more about the show on the website for it.
New episode of Sweat Equity (DIY, 7:30pm and 2:30am).
Gary finds out he and Allison are still legally married on the season finale of Gary Unmarried (CBS, 7:30pm).
The team investigates reports of aggressive and territorial packs of sasquatches in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on MonsterQuest (History Channel, 8pm and 12:01am).
The team tracks a serial killer who keeps his victims’ eyes as souvenirs on a rerun of Criminal Minds (CBS, 8pm). I got so grossed out by this episode (even just the description of it) that it sat on my DVR for ages and as a result I have most of this season of the show piled up there. Eek. Still love the characters, but it seems like the show has gotten especially gruesome this year or else I’m more of a wimp about this stuff than I was last year.
Organizing a dresser, whoopie pies, birthday party invitations that include baseball trivia, and the fear of gym class (!?) on a new Whatever, Martha! (FLN, 8pm and midnight).
Bobby heads to New Jersey to challenge Omar Giner in a stuffed french toast showdown on Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Food Network, 8pm and 11pm).
New episode of 10 Grand in Your Hand (DIY, 8pm and 11pm).
New episode of The Inbetweeners (BBC America, 8:30pm, 11:30pm, 1:30am).
A promiscuous young girl claims she was raped and it’s up to Benson and Stabler to prove or disprove the crime on Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm)
Justin Loves his acting class (which is taught by a character played by guest star Carol Kane) and Betty likes a playwright she meets at his class on Ugly Betty (ABC, 9pm). This will be the last season of this show; four more episodes remain after this one.
Erica feels betrayed after learning her sister Sam had an affair with her friend and then she learns her brother may have kept something from her as well on a new episode of Being Erica (SOAPnet, 9pm and midnight; also on Thursday at 11pm and Friday at 5am). The second season of this Canadian series is now airing on SOAPnet, you can find out more about it on the page about the show.
Season premiere of South Park (Comedy Central, 9pm and 11:30pm).
MLB Preseason Baseball: Rangers at Mariners (MLB Network, 9pm).
Robert travels to an Ironman competition in Arizona and tries the culinary version of the Ironman triathlon on Dinner: Impossible (Food Network, 9pm and midnight).
New Shear Genius (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, midnight).
New episode of House Hunters (HGTV, 9pm and midnight).
Two new episodes of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (TBS, 9pm and 9:30pm).
New episode of The Locator (We, 9pm and 11pm).
New Dog the Bounty Hunter (A&E, 9pm and 1:01am).
New Addicted (TLC, 9pm and 11pm).
Series premiere of Ugly Americans (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11pm; also on Thursday at 9pm and Sunday at 10:30pm).
New Billy the Exterminator (A&E, 9:30pm and 1:31am).
New episode of House Hunters International (HGTV, 9:30pm and 12:30am).
Late Night
Snoop Dogg on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
Nell Irvin Painter on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
Gerard Butler, Mindy Kaling, Free Energy on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Dwayne Johnson, kid inventors, Switchfoot on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm).
Michael Sheen, Amy Ryan on a very funny rerun of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:35pm).
Dakota Fanning, Joseph Fiennes, the XX on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:35pm).
Gabourey Sidibe, Josh Hopkins, Gary Allan on a rerun of Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings).
Kat Von D, Dan Smith, Garfunkel & Oates, Metric on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
