Laurel’s TV Picks

Due to a couple of family emergencies, Laurel is taking a break from doing TV picks until August 1st or possibly August 4th or later. Thanks for your patience! For details, see her weblog or journal.

Don’t forget to visit the TV on DVD page, I recently added a bunch of new series to the list (including some very cool ones that are forthcoming).

Series airing new episodes this summer which are worth watching: Monk (USA Fridays, 9pm and 11pm, reruns during the week); Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Tuesday nights on Bravo, with reruns airing during the week); Reno911! (Comedy Central, Tuesday nights); MI-5 (Tuesday nights on A&E, reruns during the week, not entirely new as it aired in the UK); Trading Spaces & Trading Spaces Family (both on TLC, new episodes on Saturday and Sunday night, reruns all the time). My favorite series of the Reality Bunch: The Amazing Race (on CBS) and The Restaurant (on NBC). And of course the various late night talk shows frequently have new episodes, the best of this lot are The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight Monday-Thursday), The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm weeknights), and Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm weeknights).

Best Reruns You Might Not Know Are On The Air: China Beach on the History Channel at 5am most Sundays, Sports Night still airs on Comedy Central (though on a kindof irregular schedule), Now and Again (Sci-Fi, most Sunday nights at midnight), and Hill Street Blues (Bravo, weekdays at 1pm).

Keen Eddie (FOX, 7pm)
Scrubs (NBC, 7:30pm)
C.S.I. (CBS, 8pm)
Kyle Secor on Without A Trace (CBS, 9pm)
Joaquin Phoenix, Scott Thompson, Cheap Trick on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm)

After Friends leaves the airwaves, NBC will air a spinoff called Joey with Matt LeBlanc starring in it as the character he played on Friends all these years.

I updated the mailing list page for this site. That’s where you can go to learn more about subscribing to the tvpicks.net mailing list, it’s also where you go to subscribe or unsubscribe. We’ve left topica.com at long last, the list is now ad free! I still recommend reading the picks on this site itself, but the emails are a great way to be notified when this site is updated. (Other ways? If you have a livejournal, put the user “tvpicks” on your “friends list.” If you have a blogroll or something like that, I do ping weblogs.com when this site is updated).

If you’ve got a weblog or some other sort of website, have you linked to this site lately? Remind folks this site exists and that I’m back from vacation. (If you’d like to use a button to link to the site, you can find some on the About page).

You can now pre-order Season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD. You can also pre-order Firefly on DVD (which will come with a bunch of extras, including unaired episodes).

I’ve updated the Homicide: Life on the Street Video FAQ with details about the Season 3 DVD set which is due out October 28th.

Bette Midler, Andy Dick on a rerun of The Caroline Rhea Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Kathy Griffin, Nia Vardalos, Joan Rivers, Margaret Cho, Rita Rudner on a rerun of The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Parenting Follow-ups” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

Rerun of the “It’s About Time!” episode of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings). Homes that needed serious cleaning/organization, folks that really needed makeovers, that sort of thing.

“Lie To Me” and “The Dark Age” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 5pm, 6pm).

More of the 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons on VH1.

Two different episodes of The Secrets of Forensic Science (TLC, 6pm and 1am, 8pm and 11pm).

Eddie and Pippin uncover a bizarre love triangle while investigating a jewel heist on Keen Eddie (FOX, 7pm).

Joan Collins gives a tour of her favorite places in London in Joan Collins’ London (Travel, 7pm and 10pm).

History of the Beach: The Turning Tides of History (History Channel, 7pm-9pm; 11pm-1am).

Eric McCormack and Jack Black on Primetime Glick (Comedy Central, 7pm).

Ron Howard is profiled on Biography (A&E, 7pm and 11pm).

“J.D. wrestles with his feelings for Elliot; Dr. Cox and Carla misread each other’s signals when treating a hypochondriac” on Scrubs (NBC, 7:30pm).

The team investigates when a movie goer is stabbed to death (while in the theater, that is) on C.S.I. (CBS, 8pm).

Dave Attell visits Reno (Comedy Central, 8pm), Columbus (Comedy Central, 9pm and 11pm), and Toronto (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm) on Insomniac with Dave Attell.

Minnie Driver guest stars on Will & Grace (NBC, 8pm). It’s followed by a “special presentation” of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (NBC, 8:30pm). Looks like a special version of the “Butch” episode shortened down to a half-hour.

Kyle Secor and Stacy Edwards guest star on Without A Trace (CBS, 9pm). A man’s wife is abducted from a parking garage. Third episode of this series.

Pratt’s roommate leads him to a wounded robber on ER (NBC, 9pm).

Rerun of this week’s episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo, 9pm).

” Evil Dr. Cesarian injects models with instant fattening implants” on Stripperella (TNN, 9pm).

Fry learns the secret ingredient in Slurm on Futurama (Cartoon Network, 10pm).

Joseph Wilson on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).

Joe Pantoliano on The Orlando Jones Show (FX, 10pm).

Yet another airing of the “Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus” episode of Monk (USA, 10pm).

William Stephenson, Greg Giraldo, Ray Garvey, Jim Norton on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).

Sylvester Stallone, British Open champion Ben Curtis, Queens of the Stone Age on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Luke Wilson, Paige Davis, Toby Keith on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Joaquin Phoenix, Scott Thompson, Cheap Trick on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).

Danny Provenzano, Vincent Pastore, Michelle Branch, guest co-host Lil’ Max$o on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

John Leguizamo, Jennie Finch on The Late Late Show (CBS, check your local listings).

Gabrielle Union, Sam Roberts on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).

Sylvester Stallone, Cuttino Mobley, Chef Douglas Rodriguez on Live with Regis and Kelly (syndicated, check your local listings).

Antonio Banderas, Daryl Sabara, Train on The View (ABC, check your local listings).

Martin Short, Tom Arnold, Jim Belushi, Howie Mandel, Jeff Foxworthy on a rerun of The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Joe Pantoliano, The Smothers Brothers on a rerun of The Caroline Rhea Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Your Etiquette Questions Answered” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“People Ask the Darndest Things” on a rerun of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).
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