Laurel’s TV Picks

Gilmore Girls (WB, 7pm)
Less Than Perfect (ABC, 8:30pm)
Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm)
MI-5 (A&E, 9pm and 1am)
Rerun of the second episode of Karen Sisco (USA, 11pm)

TV DVDs due out today: the big Battlestar Galactica set, Season 2 of Dark Angel, Season 1 of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Season 2 of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Forever Knight, Season 2 of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, The Incredible Hulk, Season 1 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Season 1 of Law & Order: Special Victim’s Unit, and Taken. The Indiana Jones movies finally come to DVD on Tuesday, too.

While the Season 3 of Homicide: Life on the Street DVD set officially isn’t due out ’til October 28th, I can tell you that the first of the sets folks have ordered through this website is shipping. I can also tell you that the set absolutely rocks! Yes, I wish there were more extras; but the extras it has are cool and the episodes look and sound wonderful. All original music is intact. One of the best seasons from one of the best series to ever air on television. My favorite series of all time.

Other TV DVDs due out on Tuesday the 28th (pre-order now to get ‘em by the 28th): Brooklyn South, Season 2 of Coupling (UK), Season 2 of Farscape, Looney Tunes – The Golden Collection, Season 1 of Married with Children, and Season 4 of The Sopranos.

Season 1 of Roswell is due out on DVD on February 17th and is now available for pre-orders. And Season 1 of Curb Your Enthusiasm is due out on January 13th and is also now available for pre-orders. [More TV on DVD]

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Betty White, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lucy Lawless, Chaka Khan on The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Jim Belushi, Mo’nique, two-time world poker champion Jennifer Harman, Joss Stone on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Geoffrey Rush, Pat Benatar, Carlos Benard (of 24), slang expert David Burke on The Sharon Osbourne Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Going for Broke” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“The World’s Most Talented Kids” plus Mandy Moore, Bow Wow on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Entropy” and “Seeing Red” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 3pm, 4pm).

“Eternity” episode of Angel (TNT, 4pm).

“17 People” episode of The West Wing (Bravo, 6pm and 10pm).

Reruns of Ned and Stacey (We, 10am and 6:30pm) are now airing on We. Thomas Haden Church and Debra Messing star. She poses as his wife so she gets to live in his swank apartment (and he has a wife which he thinks will help him with his career), hijinks ensue. Felicity is still airing at 11pm or 11:30pm most weeknights.

ESPN and ESPN2 are both airing a lot of episodes of Playmakers tonight, if you wanted to catch up with that show.

Baseball: New York Yankees at Florida Marlins (FOX, 7pm). Game 3 of the World Series. Series is tied 1-1.

Rory goes on her first date since breaking up with Jess and Lorelai invites Luke to join her for movie night (since Rory isn’t around) on Gilmore Girls (WB, 7pm).

Instead of a new episode of Navy NCIS, CBS airs a “special” episode of JAG (CBS, 7pm) they’re calling “JAG-NAVY NCIS The Beginning” which will feature “moments from the episodes that introduced NAVY NCIS.” Okay.

Moesha guest stars on Whoopi (NBC, 7pm).

John Larroquette and Christine Baranski wonder if it’s their fault their sons aren’t very good boyfriends on Happy Family (NBC, 7:30pm).

GQ Men of the Year Awards (Spike TV, 8pm). Live.

There’s a father-son basketball game on tonight’s One Tree Hill (WB, 8pm; rerun on Sunday at 4pm). Need I say more?

Frasier makes a deal with a Star Trek fan who promises to teach the doc enough Hebrew to deliver his speech at his son’s Bar Mitzvah in exchange for a Scott Bakula autograph. But when Frasier doesn’t manage to get him the autograph, the fan vows revenge (oh-oh) on a rerun of Frasier (NBC, 8pm). And Daphne finds out about Niles’ fling with Lilith.

“Sparks fly when Claude reconnects with her high-school crush; Kipp and Lydia fight over an expensive shampoo; Carl bullies people into using his suggestion box” on Less Than Perfect (ABC, 8:30pm). One of the funnier sitcoms on the air these days.

The guys enter an air-band contest on The Mullets (UPN, 8:30pm)

The detectives find a dead newborn baby and that’s just the beginning on Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm). Diane Neal joins the cast as ADA Casey Novak. Yes, last week’s episode was the last for Stephanie March, who announced she was leaving the show quite a while ago; she’ll be missed.

Tom goes undercover on MI-5 (A&E, 9pm and 1am).

Season finale of Nip/Tuck (FX, 9pm, 10pm).

The detectives track a serial killer on NYPD Blue (ABC, 9pm).

Amy deals with a case where a young man, who was molested by a priest when he was a kid, tries to run over a priest in a parking lot on Judging Amy (CBS, 9pm).

Rerun of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo, 9pm and 11pm). The one with the port authority policeman.

Angel (TNT, 10pm) reruns from last season are airing on Tuesday nights at 10pm on TNT.

Unwrapped (Food Network, 10pm weeknights) and Good Eats (Food Network, 10:30pm weeknights) are two of Food Network’s best shows. The latter is one of my favorite shows anywhere.

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

“Xmas Story” episode of Futurama (Cartoon Network, 10:30pm and 1:30am).

Cory Kahaney, Keith Robinson, Bob Golub, Greg Proops on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).

Dr. Phil McGraw, David Bowie, a Top Ten List presented by Miss America on a rerun of The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Rosie O’Donnell, Boy George, Jack Black on a rerun of The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Rerun of the second episode of Karen Sisco (USA, 11pm). The one with Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman. I told y’all it would air this weekend, but it didn’t. Is airing now (for sure).

Julian McMahon (of Nip/Tuck on The Orlando Jones Show (FX, 11pm and 12:30am).

Clyde Peeling, Simon Cowell, Wendy Northcutt on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).

David Arquette, Anna Faris, Something Corporate, guest co-host Anthony Anderson on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

Juliette Lewis, Joe Lawrence, Mark Ronson on a rerun of The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (CBS, check your local listings).

Larry King, the Raveonettes on a rerun of Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jon Meacham on Today (NBC, 7am – 10am).

Donna Summer, Peter Dinklage, HealthCare in America on Good Morning, America (ABC, 7am – 9am).

Katie Holmes on The Early Show (CBS, 7am – 9am).

Michael Clarke Duncan, Travis Fimmel (of Tarzan), Alejandro Sanz on Live with Regis and Kelly (syndicated, check your local listings).

Cuba Gooding, Jr; Mandy Moore performs, an Iraqi war widow, another “View from Your Hometown” candidate, with guest co-host Angie Martinez on The View (ABC, check your local listings).

David Arquette, Merv Griffin, Linda Dano, Jamie Oliver on The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Charlie Sheen, Debra Jo Rupp (of That ’70s Show), Groucho the singing parrot, Anthony Hamilton on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Victor Webster (of Sex and the City), Dame Edna, Chad Michael Murray (of One Tree Hill), Fuel on The Sharon Osbourne Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Consumed With Conceiving” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Oprah Throws a Party” and Rod Stewart on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

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