Laurel’s TV Picks

Season premiere of Star Trek Enterprise (UPN, 7pm)
Series premiere of Jake 2.0 (UPN, 8pm)
New episode of Peacemakers (USA, 9pm)
New Street Time (Showtime, 9pm)
New Reno 911! (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm)
Sharon Stone on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Sorry these were so late today. Family stuff, under the weather, all that jazz. Really hope to be back in the swing of things soon.

TV DVDs released yesterday: Season 2 of 24, Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, the complete Battle of the Planets, and Season 3 of Family Guy. [More TV on DVD]

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

Merv Griffin, Finola Hughes, Jessica Simpson on The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Breaking Teens’ Bad Habits” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston” on a rerun of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Doomed” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 3pm).

The cool “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet” episode of The West Wing (Bravo, 6pm and 10pm).

Baseball at both 6pm and 9pm on both ESPN and ESPN2. Games vary.

Season premiere of Star Trek Enterprise (UPN, 7pm). Lots of talk about how the show will go in a “new direction” this year. In my experience, a “new direction” generally means a “lousy direction” but one never knows. The show will focus on a new alien race and it’s Big Threat to Earth. They promise a lot more action (and T’Pol will have a sexier uniform).

Another airing of the Warren Zevon “Keep Me In Your Heart” episode of Inside Out (VH1, 7pm and 1am). A camera crew followed Zevon as he made his last record, visited The Late Show with David Letterman one last time, and like that. You can buy Mr. Zevon’s final album The Wind at amazon.com and elsewhere.

Ed (NBC, 7pm) returns to the NBC lineup (and it’s about time). If you missed the show last season, you missed an uneven season. Cool things about it? The addition of Daryl “Chill” Mitchell to the cast as Eli, departure of Dennis Martinez, Molly was made principal and given more to do, the return of Dr. Jerome, usual small quirky town charm, Sabrina Lloyd guest starred for a few weeks. The weakest stuff? Waffling on the Ed-Carol relationship (be friends or date, but make up your minds already!) when it didn’t seem like The Powers That Be agreed on where that story should go and no one in audience cared anymore. There were some clunky episodes and storylines, but I never could quite give up on the show because when it’s good it’s really fun and I’ve grown attached to these characters. Or at least the characters that don’t annoy me (like Ed & Carol so often do). Tonight’s rerun is of one where Frankie (Sabrina Lloyd) learns a bit more about Ed & Carol’s past and isn’t too happy about it.

“The President’s Story” on 60 Minutes II (CBS, 7pm). An interview with President Bush (from 2002) and pictures show what the President’s day was like on September 11, 2001. Essentially a rerun, I think, but with some updating maybe.

Moe babysits Maggie on The Simpsons (FOX, 7:30pm).

Series premiere of Jake 2.0 (UPN, 8pm). Jake is a National Security Agency computer tech who is accidently injected with some pretty cool nanites. Yes, nanites. Then he develops some interesting abilities (i.e. super powers). Christopher Gorham (of Popular) stars. Jake ends up getting to be a new special kind of NSA agent, but he’s also gotta keep his super powers under wraps. All this while pursuing a girl, of course. Why check out this new show? ‘Cuz David Greenwalt (of Angel and Miracles) is one of the creators & executive producers. Plus it sounds different.

Rock Crawlers on a new Junkyard Mega-Wars (TLC, 8pm and 11pm).

“Raising the Steaks” episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 8pm and 11pm).

Willow and Faith and even Angel (in a way) all work to help get rid of Angelus and bring back Angel (WB, 8pm).

The President works on a speech to give at Zoey’s graduation on The West Wing (NBC, 8pm). I got so frustrated with this show last year I actually stopped watching midway through the season. I hear something happens involving Zoey, though, right? (I did tape all the episodes, will catch up soon).

More Reality of Reality (Bravo, 8pm and midnight. Earlier installment airs at 7pm).

A “legendary gunfighter” named Cole Hawkins comes to town in a new episode of Peacemakers (USA, 9pm). Tom Berenger and Amy Carlson star.

New episode of Street Time (Showtime, 9pm). Rob Morrow and Scott Cohen star. Billy Dee Williams guest stars.

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Larry King Live (CNN, 8pm and 11pm and 2am). Discussing the 9/11 anniversary and terrorism.

Two-truck operators, meter maids, and parking ticket judges on Take This Job . . . (A&E, 9pm and 1am).

Roger Rees guest stars on Law & Order (NBC, 9pm).

New Reno 911! (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm).

Peacemakers (USA, 10pm).

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

Nora Dunn on The Orlando Jones Show (FX, 10pm).

Futurama (Cartoon Network, 10:30pm).

Ben Stein, Jim Norton, Greg Giraldo on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).

Sharon Stone, the Raveonettes on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Farrah Fawcett, George Wallace, Fountains of Wayne on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Kate Hudson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., O.A.R. on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).

Cheech Marin, Katherine Heigl, Nick Swardson, guest co-host Adam Carolla on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

Stephen Dorff, Loni Anderson, Rob Cantrell on The Late Late Show (CBS, check your local listings).

Holly Hunter, Seth Green, Switchfoot on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).

Daryl Hannah, Jeff Probst, Brian McKnight on Live with Regis and Kelly (syndicated, check your local listings).

Gary Sinese, Ben Stein, guest co-host Kit Hoover on The View (ABC, check your local listings).

Jason Alexander, Loni Anderson, Dylan Walsh, MTV choreographer Wade Robson on a new The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“My Personality Is a Problem” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Oprah Follows Up with Memorable Guests” on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

Series premieres of Mullets, Steve Harvey’s Big Time, & Run of the House.

Season premieres of Primetime Thursday & What I Like About You.
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