thursday
Thanks to Jesse and to another anonymous donor for donations yesterday. You rock.
Financial advice for the unemployed, today on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).
Higgin’s half brother, an irish priest (played by John Hillerman) visits on Magnum, P.I. (A&E, 4pm).
Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (TCM, 4:30pm).
Vamp!Willow from an alternate universe shows up in the “Doppelgangland” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 5pm). And then Faith and the mayor are up to no good in “Enemies” (FX, 6pm).
Rachel tells her father she’s pregnant and that Ross is the father on Friends (NBC, 7pm).
New episodes of Family Guy (FOX, 7pm) and The Tick (FOX, 7:30pm).
Scrubs (NBC, 7:30pm) moves to a post-Friends timeslot during sweeps. But I think most right thinking people are now watching The Tick after Friends.
Catherine and Grissom investigate “the world of fetish clubs” as they work a case on C.S.I. (CBS, 8pm).
Did you hear that there’s going to be a storm on ER (NBC, 9pm) tonight? Of course you did, that information is unavoidable. I fear for the young med student introduced last episode. And I also fear for Carter’s Grandma, of course (no, I haven’t read any spoilers or anything, I’ve just watched a lot of ER over the years).
“Incredible Theft” episode of Poirot (A&E, 9pm and 1am).
Rerun of last Friday’s episode of Once and Again (Lifetime, 10pm). Lily throws a baby shower for Tiffany and Jake questions his role in the kid’s life.
John Stamos on The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight). Plus a look at how “Harry Potter will change our lives forever” and Lewis Black’s “Back in Black.”
Steve Martin, Earl Scruggs on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm). You know that you should watch any time Martin is a guest on The Late Show, right?
Allison Janney is on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm). Some other guests, too, but I’d only be watching for Janney. Though now the Tonight Show website doesn’t list Janney as a guest, so maybe she isn’t on after all. Grrr.
Ted Danson, Craig Bierko on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm). Bierko is usually a great talk show guest.
Lucy Lawless on The Late Late Show (CBS, check your local listings).
1987 NCAA Final (ESPN Classic, midnight). Indiana vs. Syracuse. A classic game. Syracuse was my team back in those days (whereas everyone else in my high school was rooting for Indiana, grrr).
Part 1 (of 2) of “Fallen Heroes,” the season six finale of Homicide: Life on the Street (Court TV, midnight). Lots of bad things happen and truths come to light as the Mahoney saga finally comes to a bloody, bloody end. Andre Braugher won a well-deserved Emmy for his work in this two-parter (specifically for the second half which airs tomorrow). These are the final episodes for Reed Diamond as Mike Kellerman and Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton, though Diamond would return for a couple episodes in the seventh season and both would return for Homicide: The Movie.
