Laurel’s TV Picks

Duck Dodgers (Cartoon Network, 10:30am, 3pm)
Trading Spaces (TLC, 7pm and 10pm; 8pm and 11pm)
Season premiere of Hack (CBS, 8pm)
WKRP in Cincinnati (TV Land, 11pm – 1am)

Reruns of The West Wing and Angel debut in syndication this weekend. Check your local listings to see when and where they air in your neck of the woods.

Don’t forget to check out the 2003-04 Fall Schedule Grid (with premiere dates) and the TV on DVD page.

More airings of Fashion Police: Primetime Emmy Awards (E!, 7am, Noon).

Rugrats (Nick, 7am, 7:30am); SpongeBob SquarePants (Nick, 8am, 8:30am); The Fairly Oddparents (Nick, 9am, 9:30am).

“Beet It” episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 8:30am). If you love Good Eats, you’ll want to get Alton Brown’s award-winning book I’m Just Here For the Food and also his new book Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen

Invasion of the Neptune Men on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Sci-Fi, 8am).

Looney Tunes (Cartoon Network, 9am).

Paul McCartney in Red Square (A&E, 9am, 9pm).

Ally McBeal (FX, 9am, 10am). “Queen Bee” and “Home Again.”

Women and Shoes: A Love Story (We, 10am). Lizz Winstead investigates.

Duck Dodgers (Cartoon Network, 10:30am, 3pm). Fun new show! Worth watching just for the opening credits (with theme song performed by Tom Jones & the Flaming Lips).

A&E weekend lineup: The Incurable Collector (A&E, 11am), House Beautiful (A&E, 11:30am), All Year Round with Katie Brown (A&E, Noon), The Well-Seasoned Traveler (A&E, 12:30pm), Sell This House! (A&E, 1pm), Makeover Mamas (A&E, 1:30pm).

Reruns of Trading Spaces (TLC, 11am), While You Were Out (TLC, Noon), and What Not To Wear (TLC, 1pm).

The Animated Century (Bravo, 11:30am).

Baseball (FOX, Noon).

Rerun of I Love The ’70s (VH1, 2pm – 9pm).

Rocket Power (Nick, 2pm, 2:30pm); The Fairly Oddparents (Nick, 3pm, 3:30pm); and SpongBob SquarePants (Nick, 4pm, 4:30pm).

Rerun of Food Network’s tribute to burgers and fries: Emeril Live: Burgers and Fries (Food, 2pm); “Hamburgers” episode of Unwrapped (Food, 3pm); “French Fries” episode of Unwrapped (Food, 3:30pm); “Daily Grind” (ground beef) episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 4pm); “French fries” episode of The Best Of . . . (Food, 4:30pm).

Trading Spaces Family (TLC, 5pm).

Reruns of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo, 5pm, 6pm).

While You Were Out (TLC, 6pm).

Back to back new episodes of Trading Spaces (TLC, 7pm and 10pm; 8pm and 11pm).

Couple of reruns of recent episodes of Reno 911! (Comedy Central, 7pm and 10:30pm, 7:30pm and 11pm). Funny funny stuff.

“Olshansky attempts to protect a young man from corrupt DEA agents who want him dead for being the only witness to their multiple homicides” on the season premiere of Hack (CBS, 8pm). David Morse and Andre Braugher star.

Mannion returns to D.C. on the season premiere of The District (CBS, 9pm).

Paul McCartney in Red Square (A&E, 9pm).

Rerun of Peacemakers (USA, 9pm).

Battle Eggplant on Iron Chef (Food Network, 9pm and midnight).

“Retro Future House” on Monster House (Discovery, 9pm and midnight).

Duane Martin on The Orlando Jones Show (FX, 10pm).

New MAD TV (FOX, 10pm).

“Best of Chris Kattan” on Saturday Night Live (NBC, check your local listings).

Chris Isaak, Norah Jones on Austin City Limits (PBS, check your local listings).

Special all-WKRP edition of the Kitsch-en in memory of Gordon Jump: WKRP in Cincinnati (TV Land, 11pm – 1am). Episodes that focus on Mr. Carlson. The one where he finds out he and his wife are having a baby. And the one where the baby is born. The Christmas episode (a la Scrooge). And the one where Mr. Carlson and his wife plan to renew their wedding vows.

Picks for Sunday will be online late Saturday or early Sunday (by Noon if at all possible).

Part 2 of the 2-part series finale of China Beach (History Channel, 5am Sunday).

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