Laurel’s TV Picks

Joan of Arcadia (CBS, 7pm)
Hope & Faith (ABC, 8pm)
Hugh Jackman, Spike Lee & Chuck D & a roundtable discussion of the film Do The Right Thing, Liz Phair on On The Record with Bob Costas (HBO, 10pm)
Lauren Graham (of Gilmore Girls), Paula Abdul, Old Crow Medicine Show on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm)

Lots of good stuff at TV Tattle this week, in case you haven’t visited there lately.

Sci-Fi mini-marathon du jour: Stargate SG-1 (Sci-Fi, 10am – 3pm).

Hugh Jackman, Al Roker, Mary J. Blige, Betty DeGeneres on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Jenny McCarthy, Zachary Levi (of Less Than Perfect), Bryan Cranston (of Malcolm in the Middle) on The Sharon Osbourne Show (syndicated, check your local listings; WGN, midnight).

Megan Mullally, Leonard Maltin, Lamont Dozier on The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Extreme Marriages” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

The cast of Friends on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings). I think this is the last we’ll hear from them for a while. Finally.

“I Was Made To Love You” and “The Body” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 3pm, 4pm).

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

NBA on ESPN, MLB on TBS.

God asks Joan to take a cosmetics class on Joan of Arcadia (CBS, 7pm). Shelley Long plays the cosmetics teacher. Also Kevin runs into the girl he last dated before his accident.

Timmy Turner and Jimmy Neutron work together in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius – The Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour (Nick, 7pm – 8pm).

Sandra Bullock guest stars on George Lopez (ABC, 7pm).

Katie Couric interviews Hugh Jackman, immigrant marriage fraud, yearlong hidden camera investigation into the company Quixtar on Dateline NBC (7pm – 9pm).

Season finale of What I Like About You (WB, 7:30pm).

A&E’s Live by Request Starring Blondie (A&E, 8pm and midnight).

Rebecca Budig and Cameron Mathison guest star on Hope & Faith (ABC, 8pm). Soap star Budig plays the actress who replaced Faith her soap.

Harm helps the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq on JAG (CBS, 8pm).

Mila Kunis (ofThat ’70s Show) guest stars on Grounded For Life (WB, 8pm). Someone goes to space camp on the season finale.

Kevin Pollak, Laura Kightlinger, Jeff Ross, Hector Elizondo, and Jon Favreau on Dinner For Five (IFC, 9pm).

Rerun of Touching Evil (USA, 9pm and 11pm). Next new episode airs on Monday night.

The description of tonight’s What Not To Wear (TLC, 9pm and midnight) in tv listings sounds pretty harsh: “Her family wants a formerly beautiful woman to care more about how she looks.” Um. So she’s hideous now? Puhlease.

Barbara Walters interviews Teresa Heinz Kerry, Walters also interviews Kate Hudson, exercise equipment for kids on 20/20 (ABC, 9pm).

Gene Simmons guest stars as a father who blames the police for the death of his son; he “throws the weight of his crime organization in an all-out operation to kill as many police officers as possible” on Third Watch (NBC, 9pm).

Get Rocked With Gina Gershon (IFC, 9:30pm).

Hugh Jackman, Spike Lee & Chuck D & a roundtable discussion of the film Do The Right Thing, Liz Phair on On The Record with Bob Costas (HBO, 10pm). Airs again a bunch of times.

A case involving “robotic sports” on a rerun of C.S.I. (Spike TV, 10pm).

Rerun of this week’s The Shield (FX, 10pm).

Kelsey Grammer, Orchestra Baobab featuring Trey Anastasio and Dave Matthews on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Anna Nicole Smith, Al Roker, Thornley on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

H.R. Pufnstuf (TV Land, 11pm, 11:30pm, midnight, 12:30am).

Lauren Graham (of Gilmore Girls), Paula Abdul, Old Crow Medicine Show on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).

Jenny McCarthy, Dr. Drew Pinsky, father and son contortionists Moses and Trey Lanham on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

Carl Reiner, Rebecca DeMornay, Elefant on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (CBS, check your local listings).

Jamie Foxx, Dave Foley, Hurry-Up Offense, Cooper Temple Clause on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).

Will try to have picks for Saturday online by midnight.

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