Laurel’s TV Picks

Johnny Depp & Marg Helgenberger on King of the Hill (FOX, 6:30pm)
The Simpsons (FOX, 7pm)
Cloris Leachman and Betty White on Malcolm in the Middle (FOX, 8pm)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC, 8pm)
Crossing Jordan (NBC, 9pm)
Harvey Birdman (Cartoon Network, 10:30pm and 1:30am)

TV DVDs due out this Tuesday: Series finale of Friends, Season 1 of Have Gun Will Travel, Invader Zim Volume 1, Season 1 of Jonny Quest, Season 1 of Survivor, Season 1 of The Waltons, and Season 9 of The X-Files. Also The rest of the X-Files sets are now available at lower prices than ever before (hooray!). [More TV on DVD]

Carol Burnett and Friends marathon continues (TV Land, 5am Saturday – 5am Monday).

Christina Ricci, Heather Locklear, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dame Edna, Bobby Cannavale, John Pankow, Jon Bon Jovi, and Vanessa Williams guest star on Ally McBeal (FX, 6am, 7am).

The Dame Edna Experience! (Trio, 7am – Noon; 4pm – very late, past 1am).

Breakfast With the Arts: Hall & Oates Live by Request (A&E, 7am – 9am).

Mythbusters marathon (Discovery, 8am – 5pm).

Clean Sweep (TLC, 10am), Trading Spaces (TLC, 11am), While You Were Out (TLC, Noon).

Museum of the Moving Image Awards (USA, 11am).

Baseball: Houston Astros at Atlanta Braves (TBS, Noon).

Baseball: Colorado Rockies at Chicago Cubs (WGN, 1pm).

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy marathon (Bravo, 1pm – 6pm).

NBA Playoffs on ABC starting at 2:30pm (pregame at 2pm).

NHL Playoffs on ESPN starting at 3pm.

Alton Brown educates us about salt in Good Eats: Eat This Rock (Food Network, 4pm).

The Dame Edna Experience! (Trio, 4pm – 2am or later).

Film Essential: Random Harvest (TCM, 5pm).

Amy tags along to Ephram’s audition for Julliard, Andy tries to convince his mentor to undergo surgery, Bright isn’t so sure he wants to attend his graduation on Everwood (WB, 5pm). Betty White guest stars again as Bright’s other Grandma. Is a good episode, second to last of the season. The season finale airs Monday night.

Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone (ABC, 6pm – 10pm). With a preview of the next Harry Potter movie, some “bonus footage” and interviews.

A London-based Saudi dissident says Saudi Arabia framed the British government for the Riyadh bombings, book written by women in prison, tortured Britons, Vietnam soldier Hugh Thompson on 60 Minutes (CBS, 6pm).

Tim Russert and his father, crash data and unsafe roads, three mothers who are trying to lose weight, and the story of a U.S. colonel who convinced 50 different women they were his sole girlfriend on Dateline NBC (NBC, 6pm – 8pm).

Johnny Depp and Marg Helgenberger guest star on King of the Hill (FOX, 6:30pm). Hank suffers a back injury, Depp plays Hank’s yoga instructor.

Homer and Marge learn their love was meant to be in what sounds like a very sweet episode of The Simpsons (FOX, 7pm).

The winner of Survivor: All-Stars (CBS, 7pm – 9pm) is revealed live at Madison Square Garden. Followed by Survivor: All-Stars: Reunion (CBS, 9pm). May run long.

NBA Basketball: Detroit Pistons at New Jersey Nets (TNT, 7pm).

Baseball: Philadelphia Phillies at Arizona Diamondbacks (ESPN, 7pm).

The History of Poker (History Channel, 7pm and 11pm).

“Gideon conspires with two demons to make the girls part of ‘Witch Wars,’ a new demonic reality television show where demon contestants compete in a series of contests to hunt down the Charmed Ones, with the winning demon acquiring the witches’ powers” on Charmed (WB, 7pm).

Charlize Theron on Inside The Actor’s Studio (Bravo, 7pm and 11pm).

A mob informant and an undercover cop are murdered on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC, 8pm).

Cloris Leachman and Betty White guest star on Malcolm in the Middle (FOX, 8pm). Lois and the boys visit her father’s secret perfect Canadian family. Hal and Dewey prepare for a father-son 5K race.

Charisma Carpenter (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and the June issue of Playboy) guest stars on The Division (Lifetime, 8pm).

The Homes That Made Hollywood: The ’50s (HGTV, 8pm and midnight).

An author of science fiction novels is found dead with bite marks on his neck (and he just happened to be working on a vampire novel) on Crossing Jordan (NBC, 9pm).

Rerun of the latest episode of The Shield (FX, 9pm).

Harvey beomes addicted to tanning lotion on a hilarious new episode of Harvey Birdman (Cartoon Network, 10:30pm and 1:30am). The first few times I watched this series, I just didn’t find it all that amusing and I wasn’t sure I “got it.” But Cartoon Network sent me the first three episodes of this season (including this one, titled “SPF”) and I found them all absolutely hilarious.

New Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Cartoon Network, 11pm and 2am).

Farscape (Sci-Fi, midnight).

“I Was Made To Love You” and “The Body” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 6am, 7am).

The cast of The Partridge Family, Laura Linney, Jill Rappaport, James Caan, self-image on Today (NBC, 7am – 10am).

Peter O’Toole on Good Morning, America (ABC, 7am – 9am).

A Million-dollar check is presented to the Survivor: All Stars winner on The Early Show (CBS, 7am – 9am).

Regis vs. Kelly in the Tech Challenge, George Huff (from American Idol) on Live with Regis and Kelly (syndicated, check your local listings).

Part 1 (of 2) of the pilot episode of Sliders (Sci-Fi, 9am).

Laura Linney, Senator Hillary Clinton, women from The Swan on The View (ABC, check your local listings).

Sci-Fi Channel Mini-Marathon: Now and Again (Sci-Fi, 10am – 3pm). Episodes 11-15. I should’ve been taping these marathons of this fabulous show. Eric Close (of Without A Trace), Dennis Haysbert (of 24), Margaret Colin, Heather Matarazzo, and Gerrit Graham star.

Christina Ricci, Josh Duhamel (of Las Vegas) on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Vanessa Marcil, Richard Roxburgh, James Marsden, Elefant on The Sharon Osbourne Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Jon Cryer, Lauren Holly, Art Smith. Dr. Gadget, Brutha on The Wayne Brady Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Parenting 101: Parenting Bloopers” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Wynonna, Ashley and Naomi Judd: A Follow-Up” on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

No reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on FX.

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

“Manchester, Part 1″ episode of The West Wing (Bravo, 6pm and 10pm).

In primetime on Monday, you won’t want to miss the stunning season finale of Everwood. You’ll also find new episodes of Las Vegas, Everybody Loves Raymond, Two and a Half Men, 7th Heaven, and others. ABC finally airs the movie of A Wrinkle In Time (Gregory Smith of Everwood and Kyle Secor of Homicide are among the castmembers). Full details on all this stuff and more in my tv picks for Monday. I hope to have them online by Noon on Monday.
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