Aug

sunday

Best Bets:

William Holden movies on TCM
Duck Dodgers (Cartoon Network, 7pm)
Good Eats: Down & Out in Paradise (Food Network, 8pm-9pm, 11pm-midnight)
Now and Again mini marathon (Trio, 8pm- )
24 second season marathon (FX, 11pm Sunday-11pm Monday)

News:

You can now pre-order Season 1 of The West Wing in the US from amazon.com. Great deal, the set will include a bunch of extras (more than on the UK set) like commentary tracks, deleted scenes, blooper reel, behind the scenes info.

Don’t forget you can also now pre-order Season 3 of Homicide: Life on the Street. [Homicide Store | Homicide Video/DVD FAQ ]

Don’t forget to check out the 2003-04 Fall Schedule Grid (now with premiere dates!).

Some of the TV DVDs due out on Tuesday, September 2nd: Season 1 of Alias, Season 2 of Angel, Season 2 of C.S.I., Best of Designing Women, Saved By The Bell, and Season 2 of Xena, Warrior Princess. [More TV on DVD]

Daytime:

William Holden movies on TCM.

Monster movies on Sci-Fi.

Another great episode from the final season of China Beach (History Channel, 5am).

Tiny Toon Adventures (Nick, 5am, 5:30am).

M*A*S*H marathon (FX, 6am-5pm). Last day that M*A*S*H will air on FX, it moves to the Hallmark channel tomorrow.

Sports Night (Comedy Central, 6:30am).

SpongeBob SquarePants (Nick, 8am, 8:30am).

Flapjack episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 8:30am).

Peacemakers (USA, 9am).

Animal Planet has a Planet’s Funniest Animals marathon on today and tomorrow.

Johnny Depp on Inside The Actor’s Studio (Bravo, 10am).

Another airing of The 2003 MTV Video Music Awards (MTV, 10am).

Trading Spaces (TLC, 10am, 11am).

Reruns of the four first season episodes of The West Wing (Bravo, 11am, Noon, 1pm, 2pm) that aired Monday-Thursday.

Trading Spaces (TLC, 11am).

While You Were Out (TLC, Noon).

Still more airings of I Love The ’70s (VH1, Noon-3pm, 4pm-9pm).

Baseball: Atlanta Braves at Pittsburgh Pirates (TBS, 12:30pm).

Baseball: Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs (WGN, 1pm).

Mortician, funeral salesperson on Take This Job . . . (A&E, 1pm).

Unwrapped marathon (Food Network, 1pm-7pm).

Brilliant but Cancelled: The Pilot Season (Trio, 1:30pm).

Bonanza moves to TV Land (TV Land, 2pm-6pm; also 2pm-6pm Monday).

Kolchak: The Night Stalker (Trio, 4pm-8pm).

“Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater” episode of Monk (USA, 5pm).

Primetime Grid:
Sun
6:00
6:30
7:00
7:30
8:00
8:30
9:00
9:30
ABC
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Alias (Rerun) The Practice (Rerun)
CBS
60 Minutes (Rerun) Without A Trace (Rerun) Entrapment
NBC
Dateline NBC (Rerun) American Dreams (Rerun) Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Rerun) Law & Order (Rerun)
FOX
The Fight for the Fox Box Futurama (Rerun) The Simpsons (Rerun) King of the Hill (Rerun) Malcolm in the Middle (Rerun) Malcolm in the Middle (Rerun)  
WB
Gilmore Girls(Rerun) Charmed (Rerun) Charmed (Rerun)  
PAX
Candid Camera Doc (Rerun) Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (Rerun)  
Food
Unwrapped: Food on a Stick Amusement Parks Unwrapped Emeril’s Hawaiian Barbecue Good Eats: Down & Out in Paradise Beach Eats
Primetime:

William Holden movies on TCM.

Aw. It’s a classic first season episode of Gilmore Girls (WB, 6pm).

Preview of FOX Saturday morning programming on The Fight for the Fox Box (FOX, 6pm).

Leela and Bender attempt to collect honey from space bees on Futurama (FOX, 6:30pm).

Really good, though creepy, episode of Without A Trace (CBS, 7pm).

New episode of Duck Dodgers (Cartoon Network, 7pm).

Baseball: San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks (ESPN, 7pm).

Tom Hanks on Inside the Actor’s Studio (Bravo, 7pm and 11pm).

Alton Brown is stranded on an island (or is he?) in Good Eats: Down & Out in Paradise (Food Network, 8pm-9pm, 11pm-midnight). A really fun Good Eats special.

Trio airs a bunch of cool episodes of Now and Again (Trio, starting at 8pm).

The agency races to stop an apocalyptic event (yet again) on Alias (ABC, 8pm).

Yet another good rerun of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC, 8pm).

The cast of Everybody Loves Raymond on Larry King Live (CNN, 8pm, 11pm, 2am).

Late Night:

MI-5 (A&E, 10pm and 2am).

Law & Order: SVU (USA, 10pm, 11pm).

A 24 hour marathon of the second season of 24 (FX, 11pm Sunday-11pm Monday).

Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Cartoon Network, 11pm).

Tomorrow:

I’ll have full picks for Monday online by sometime this afternoon or evening if all goes according to plan.

24 marathon continues (FX, 11pm Sunday-11pm Monday).

Dennis Franz, astrologer Howard Sheldon on Live with Regis & Kelly (syndicated, check your local listings).

Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay Leno, Ricki Lake, Regis Philbin, Kelly Ripa on a rerun of The View (ABC, check your local listings).

Jamie Lee Curtis, John Ritter, Alyssa Milano, The Rock, Bear in the Big Blue House on the season premiere of The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Robert Duvall on a rerun of The Caroline Rhea Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Parenting 101″ on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“How I Got This” on a rerun of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

Al Franken, Grant Paulsen on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jay Mohr, Black Eyed Peas on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

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