Laurel’s TV Picks

Picks for Sunday morning are online in the tomorrow section.

Probably the Olympics (on NBC et al) or Humphrey Bogart movies (on TCM).
Teen Titans (Cartoon Network, 7pm)

Sorry these are late and somewhat abbreviated, I’ve got family in town and we’re dealing with settling stuff. Plus I’m getting ready to move. Ugh. I’m wiped out.

TV DVDs due out this Tuesday: Season 1 of Da Ali G Show, the Babylon 5 movie collection, Season 1 of Dinner For Five, Season 1 of Happy Days, Best Of Here’s Lucy, the complete Lateline (featuring Al Franken & Miguel Ferrer), Season 1 of Laverne & Shirley, and Season 1 of Saved By The Bell: The College Years. [More TV on DVD]

Some of the cool TV DVDs newly available for pre-orders: Seasons 1 & 2 of Seinfeld, Season 3 of Seinfeld, special Seasons 1-3 Seinfeld gift set, Season 2 of SCTV, Greg The Bunny, Season 4 of Dawson’s Creek, Season 1 of That ’70s Show, and Season 1 of The O.C.. Please do check out the TV on DVD page. Thanks to everyone who orders DVDs or signs up for Netflix via that page.

You can find out all about the Olympics (including TV schedule data) at www.nbcolympics.com. They can cover it all better than I can.

TCM Star of the Day is Humphrey Bogart: The Black Legion (TCM, Noon); The Maltese Falcon (TCM, 1:30pm); They Drive By Night (TCM, 3:15pm); High Sierra (TCM, 5pm); Casablanca (TCM, 7pm); Passage to Marseille (TCM, 9pm); The Enforcer (TCM, 11pm); In A Lonely Place (TCM, 12:30am); The Petrified Forest (TCM, 2:15am); and San Quentin (TCM, 3:45am).

Comedy Central reruns this season of Last Comic Standing today. Final episodes air in primetime.

Duck Dodgers mini marathon (Cartoon Network, 2pm – 5pm).

ESPN has an afternoon of 2004 World Series of Poker.

Reruns of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo, 2pm, 3pm).

Party Starters (Food, 2pm). Rerun of the “Casino Surprise” and “Greek Festival” episode that was the one they aired as a sneak preview a few weeks back.

An hourlong edition of Barefoot Contessa (Food Network, 3pm) about “A Barefoot Summer Weekend.”

Baseball: Chicago White Sox at Boston Red Sox (WGN, 6pm).

You can find out all about the Olympics (including TV schedule data) at www.nbcolympics.com. They can cover it all better than I can.

TCM Star of the Day is Humphrey Bogart: Casablanca (TCM, 7pm); Passage to Marseille (TCM, 9pm); The Enforcer (TCM, 11pm); In A Lonely Place (TCM, 12:30am); The Petrified Forest (TCM, 2:15am); and San Quentin (TCM, 3:45am).

Part 1 of the 2-part season finale of Teen Titans (Cartoon Network, 7pm). Have no fear, a new season starts soon.

Rerun of the most recent episode of The Amazing Race 5 (CBS, 7pm). The six remaining teams travel through Egypt.

Real life tale of a pride of 29 lions, a cheetah family, and a leopard on Big Cat Diary (Animal Planet, 7pm – 9pm; 10pm – midnight).

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern are turned into 8-year-olds on Justice League Unlimited (Cartoon Network, 7:30pm).

Great Garlic Cook-Off (Food Network, 8pm and midnight).

Laurie and Laura are the designers on this episode of Trading Spaces (TLC, 8pm and 10pm) in Salt Lake City. Followed by another episode (TLC, 9pm and 11pm).

Willie Nelson and Friends: Outlaws and Angels (Trio, 8pm – 10pm; 11pm – 1am). Rerun of this concert with lots of guests (including Jerry Lee Lewis; Toby Keith; Kid Rock).

A snitch is murdered and an M.E. goes missing on a new episode of Missing (Lifetime, 9pm).

Rerun of the latest Six Feet Under (HBO, 9pm).

Rerun of the series premiere of Navy NCIS (CBS, 9pm). Though technically the pilot for the show were a couple of episodes of JAG.

Italian Spinach is the ingredient on Iron Chef (Food, 9pm and 1am).

Rerun of the episode of Crossroads (CMTV, 9pm) with Melissa Etheridge and Dolly Parton.

You can find out all about the Olympics (including TV schedule data) at www.nbcolympics.com. They can cover it all better than I can.

The Venture Brothers (Cartoon Network, 10pm and 1am).

Rerun of The Graham Norton Effect (Comedy Central, 10pm).

Rerun of MAD TV (FOX, 10pm).

The First 48 (A&E, 10pm).

No Saturday Night Live rerun ‘cuz of the Olympics.

Roy Orbison on (an obviously old) Austin City Limits (PBS, check your local listings).

Rerun of the latest episode of The 4400 (USA, 11pm). With guest stars Billy Campbell (of Once and Again) and Mark Valley (of Keen Eddie).

VH1 has a Surreal Life marathon (VH1, 11pm – 2am).

TCM Star of the Day is Humphrey Bogart: The Enforcer (TCM, 11pm); In A Lonely Place (TCM, 12:30am); The Petrified Forest (TCM, 2:15am); and San Quentin (TCM, 3:45am).

TCM Star of the Day is Burt Lancaster: The Kentuckian (TCM, 5am); Birdman Of Alcatraz (TCM, 7am); The Train (TCM, 9:30am); The Hallelujah Trail (TCM, Noon); Apache (TCM, 3pm); Airport (TCM, 4:30pm); Run Silent, Run Deep (TCM, 7pm); Come Back, Little Sheba (TCM, 9pm); Elmer Gantry (TCM, 11pm); Lawman (TCM, 1:30am); and The Swimmer (TCM, 3:15am). Here are some tips for those of you who aren’t all that familiar with a lot of classic movies: TCM usually airs the stars best known films in primetime– so those are good ones to check out if you’re new to a particular star’s work or simply haven’t heard of the films on a given day this month. There’s also lots of great information about the stars and the movies over at the TCM website. Well worth checking out, they cover this all better than I can.

ESPN Classic airs many episodes of their great Sports Century series today.

“Toast Modern” episode of Good Eats (Food, 7am).

Christi & Edward help some families in Delaware on Trading Spaces: Family (TLC, 8am).

Miss the series premiere of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (Cartoon Network, 9am – 10:30am)? Here’s another chance to catch the 3-part pilot. The series is from the creator of Powerpuff Girls and involves a home for castoff imaginary friends. It’s cute and cool.

Surreal Life marathon (VH1, 10am – ).

Eric McCormack (of Will & Grace) hosts a look at NBC’s new fall series in the Fall Preview Special (Bravo, 10:30am).

USA Network airs a “Chunk of Monk” marathon (USA, 11am – 9pm). Episodes are:
“Mr. Monk Goes to the Carnival” (USA, 11am);
“Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man” (USA, Noon);
“Mr. Monk and the Airplane” (USA, 1pm);
“Mr. Monk Goes Back To School” (USA, 2pm);
“Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect” (USA, 3pm);
“Mr. Monk Goes To The Theater” (USA, 4pm);
“Mr. Monk and the Three Pies” (USA, 5pm);
“Mr. Monk & The Panic Room” (USA, 6pm);
“Mr. Monk & The Blackout” (USA, 7pm);
“Mr Monk & The Girl Who Cries Wolf” (USA, 8pm).

Michael “lightens up” on Easy Entertaining With Michael Chiarello (Food, 12:30pm).

Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs (WGN, 1pm).

I’m still working on the rest of Sunday picks, should have them online by Noon.

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