Laurel’s TV Picks

Saturday, June 5, 2004

These are Laurel’s super abbreviated picks for Saturday (it’s like a day off, except not quite ‘cuz I can’t resist mentioning a few things).

Best Bet for Saturday: Comedy Central airs episodes from the first hilarious season of Reno 911! (Comedy Central, 5pm – 12:30am). The second season starts this week.

Other stuff on this Saturday: An Addams Family marathon starts on TV Land at 5am (and runs ’til 5am Monday). Trio airs lots of Cop Rock. MSNBC has D-Day specials. The Belmont Stakes airs on NBC on Saturday afternoon. Rocco fans (and those who enjoy watching him squirm) may not want to miss the season finale of The Restaurant (NBC, 7pm).

Laurel will return with a “normal” edition of the TV Picks for Sunday.

Friday, June 4, 2004

Ray Romano, Ron Eldard, Richard Donner, Michael Madsen, and Jon Favreau on Dinner For Five (IFC, 9pm and midnight)
Ben Stiller, an NBA roundtable with NBA commissioner David Stern, Counting Crows on On The Record with Bob Costas (HBO, 10pm)

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Some TV DVDs newly available for pre-orders: Season 1 of Magnum, P.I.; Season 1 of Manchild; Season 1 of The Apprentice; Season 14 of Law & Order; Season 5 of Law & Order: SVU; Season 3 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent; and Seasons 1 & 2 of Lateline (cool shortlived series that starred Al Franken, Miguel Ferrer, Robert Foxworth). [More TV on DVD at dvd.tvpicks.net] When you order via these links, you help support this site (thanks!).

Check out my Fall 2004 Schedule Grid Preview if you haven’t already; you can even jump right to the grid for the Central timezone or for Eastern/Pacific.

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

Roseanne Barr, Rachel Dratch, Chicago on a rerun of The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Jewel, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Jay Hernandez on a rerun of The Sharon Osbourne Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Is This Normal?” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

Home and fashion makeovers on a rerun of the “While You Were Out Makeovers” episode of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

Baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs (WGN, 2pm).

“Beneath You” and “Same Time, Same Place” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 3pm, 4pm).

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

“A Rib For All Seasons” episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 6pm).

Inside the Actors Studio: Russell Crowe (Bravo, 6pm).

BBQ Unwrapped (Food Network, 6:30pm).

Katie Couric interviews O.J. Simpson, teens who do what folks call “extreme driving,” an interview with Jody Gorran (man who is suing Atkins, Inc.), and hotel security tips on Dateline NBC (NBC, 7pm – 9pm).

God tells Joan to join the debate team on a rerun of Joan of Arcadia (CBS, 7pm).

Lisa Rinna hosts a new episode of Merge (Lifetime, 7pm and 10pm). This is the home makeover show where couples merge their styles or something. Well, one of those shows. In this new episode, the guy likes a gameroom look, the woman likes florals and pastels. Oh-oh.

Baseball: Houston Astros at St. Louis Cardinals (ESPN, 7pm).

The Travel Channel takes you to Hawaii tonight with a series of specials. Ah, Hawaii.

More episodes of TV flops on Trio: Cop Rock (Trio, 7pm, 10pm, 1am), My Mother the Car (Trio, 8pm and 11pm, 8:30pm and 11:30pm), and Pink Lady and Jeff (Trio, 9pm and midnight).

Series premieres of Good Girls Don’t (Oxygen, 8pm), Show Me Yours (Oxygen, 9pm), and Naked Josh (Oxygen, 9:30pm). With a new episode of Girls Behaving Badly (Oxygen, 8:30pm) thrown in the mix. None of these new series have received good reviews (or at least I haven’t seen them). I haven’t had a chance to screen these, so don’t know much about them. If you’re curious, you can read more about the series on the Oxygen website.

Oakland A’s pitcher Barry Zito guest stars on a rerun of JAG (CBS, 8pm). Dean Stockwell (of Quantum Leap) also guest stars.

A&E in Concert: Aerosmith: You Gotta Move (A&E, 8pm – 10pm; midnight – 2am).

The Smothers Brothers play contractors who get a gig on Morning Chicago on Life with Bonnie (ABC, 8:30pm). They do their thing, of course.

Ray Romano, Ron Eldard, Richard Donner, Michael Madsen, and Jon Favreau on Dinner For Five (IFC, 9pm and midnight). Season 1 is coming out on DVD in August (you can pre-order now).

Interviews with Lindsay Lohan, Shia LaBeouf, Scarlett Johansson, Mandy Moore, Molly Ringwald, & Jon Cryer (the latter two on what it was like to move on from teen stardom) on 48 Hours Investigates (CBS, 9pm).

An expedition back to the shipwrecked Titanic on 20/20 (ABC, 9pm).

Clinton & Stacy of What Not To Wear (TLC, 9pm and midnight) take on a “bohemian in her 40s.”

Touching Evil (USA, 9pm and 11pm). Rerun, not a new episode. Next new episode airs on Monday.

Wayne Newton appears (as himself), a con artist takes advantage of Delinda on a rerun of Las Vegas (NBC, 9pm). Paul Ben-Victor and Vincent Ventresca (of the shortlived Sci-Fi series The Invisible Man) guest star.

Ben Stiller, an NBA roundtable with NBA commissioner David Stern, Counting Crows on On The Record with Bob Costas (HBO, 10pm; also at 9am Saturday and lots of other times).

The very first episode of NewsRadio (Biography, 10pm and 2am).

Iron Chef America: Tag Team Finale (Food Network, 10pm).

A woman is found strangled in the press box of a high school stadium on a rerun of C.S.I. (Spike TV, 10pm).

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

Billy Crystal, Alex Rodriguez on a cool rerun of The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Jerry Seinfeld, Amber Brkich and Rob Mariano, Wayne Newton on a rerun of The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

He’s your (scary, strange) friend when things get rough: H.R. Pufnstuf (TV Land, 11pm, 11:30pm, midnight, 12:30am).

Ethan Hawke, Neil Young, Omid, Djalili on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).

Vanessa Williams, Barry Manilow on a rerun of Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

Cooler Than Usual Lineup: James Caviezel, Lacey Chabert, Joe Jackson on a rerun of The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (CBS, check your local listings).

Eliza Dushku (of Buffy, Tru Calling), the Pussycat Dolls featuring Carmen Electra, Camp Freddy on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings). From Las Vegas.

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