Laurel’s TV Picks

Tuesday TV picks can be found in the tomorrow section of these picks.

Everwood (WB, 8pm)
The West Wing marathon (Bravo, 6pm – 1am)
Johnny Damon (of the Boston Red Sox), Anne Heche, the Donnas on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)

Check out TV Tattle and TV Barn for news.

Sci-Fi mini-marathon du jour: Star Trek (Sci-Fi, 7am – 3pm).

Roseanne Barr, Orlando Jones, L.A. fireman Alan Naeole on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Kathryn Morris, Darrell Hammond, Survivor castoff on The Tony Danza Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

John Mellencamp on The Jane Pauley Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Custody Battles Update” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Cheating Husbands Confess” on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Two To Go” and “Grave” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, Noon, 1pm).

“Love, Daisies and Troubadours” episode of Gilmore Girls (ABC Family, 4pm). Season 1 finale.

“I Fall To Pieces” episode of Angel (TNT, 4pm).

Jeri Ryan (of Star Trek: Voyager) and Michael Rapaport join the cast of Boston Public (We, 6pm and midnight) in the first episode of season 2. Billy Zane and Kathy Baker guest star.

A special “election eve” marathon of campaign/election themed episodes of The West Wing (Bravo, 6pm – 1am; some of these air Tuesday 2pm – 6pm). Episodes are “Manchester” parts 1 & 2 (Bravo, 6pm, 7pm); “Posse Comitatus” (Bravo, 8pm); “College Kids” (Bravo, 9pm); “Game On” (Bravo, 10pm); “Election Night” (Bravo, 11pm); “Process Stories” (Bravo, midnight).

“Use Your Noodle 2″ episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 6pm).

Rerun of the latest episode of The Biggest Loser (USA, 6pm).

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

Frontline: The Choice 2004 (PBS, check your local listings). A look at candidates Bush and Kerry. I’m told this is fairly fair and balanced as these things go.

Simon gets kicked out of his dorm for letting a school friend stay with him on 7th Heaven (WB, 7pm). Pretty soon the whole Camden gang is involved in trying to help kids who need homes.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC, 7pm) airs a special “how’d they do that?” episode that looks at how they managed the episode that aired last night. I guess.

USA has Law & Order: SVU reruns this evening; while TNT has Law & Order reruns. TBS airs plenty of sitcoms, of course.

Doctors Brown and Abbott both advise their kids to abstain from sex on Everwood (WB, 8pm) and their kids get suspicious when they both get the same talk on the same day. Nina and Bright each ask someone out with interesting results.

Danny, Mike, and Ed search for a missing casino employee (and inventor) on Las Vegas (NBC, 8pm). They also prepare “their youth football team for the Casino League Championship game.” Um, okay. James McDaniel (of NYPD Blue) guest stars as a casino owner. The Black Eyed Peas also guest star.

Rerun of the “Crazy Chin” episode of Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS, 8pm) from last season. Funny Robert-centric episode.

Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Annabella Sciorra star in Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story (Lifetime, 8pm). With Jason London and John Kapelos.

“Southern” and “BBQ” Unwrapped (Food Network, 8pm and midnight; 8:30pm and 12:30am).

Soldier’s Pay (IFC, 8:35pm and 11pm) is the “true story of U.S. soldiers in Iraq who found $700 million in cash.”

Alan upsets Charlie on a rerun of Two and a Half Men (CBS, 8:30pm) by choosing “harebrained cousins” to be Jake’s guardians in the event of his death (rather than Charlie).

One of the team members is killed in the line of duty on a rerun of this season’s premiere episode of C.S.I. Miami (CBS, 9pm).

Clips of political sketches from Saturday Night Live are featured in Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2004: The Great Debates (NBC, 9pm).

Mondo Magic (A&E, 9:30pm and 1:30am) visits Vancouver.

Battle for Ozzfest (MTV, 9:30pm).

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

Another fine season 1 episode of Without A Trace (TNT, 10pm).

How Clean Is Your House? (Lifetime, 10pm, 10:30pm).

Chris Noth (of Law & Order) on Crossing Jordan (A&E, 10pm and 2am). Part 1 of 2.

Dave Attell, Kevin Hart, Judy Gold, Greg Giraldo on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).

Red Sox/Idiot Alert! Johnny Damon (of the Boston Red Sox), Anne Heche, the Donnas on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Dr. Phil McGraw, the Neville Brothers on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Adam Arkin guest stars in the “Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale” episode of Monk (USA, 11pm).

James Garner, Busy Philipps on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm).

Shannen Doherty, Phil Jackson, the Pussycat Dolls on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings, will be later than usual ‘cuz of Monday Night Football).

Duchovny Alert! Guest host David Duchovny; with guests Garry Shandling, Shane West (of ER, Once and Again), the Pussycat Dolls on a rerun of The Late Late Show (CBS, check your local listings).

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Michael Michele (of Kevin Hill, ER, Homicide), Duran Duran, Steriogram on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).

Sundance has a Tanner ‘88 marathon.

“Two To Go” and “Grave” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, 6am, 7am).

“Dear Boy” episode of Angel (TNT, 7am).

Sci-Fi mini-marathon du jour: The Outer Limits (Sci-Fi, 7am – 3pm).

“Presidential election coverage; advice for seniors; Jim Miller; centennial of the banana split” on Today (NBC, 7am – 10am).

Election coverage, Liam Neeson, Frank Pellegrino on Good Morning, America (ABC, 7am – 9am).

The Early Show (CBS, 7am – 9am).

Jude Law, Laura Prepon, Ruben Studdard on Live with Regis and Kelly (syndicated, check your local listings).

Anne Heche, Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray on The View (ABC, check your local listings).

“Love, Daisies and Troubadours” episode of Gilmore Girls (ABC Family, 10am). Season 1 finale.

Kevin James, Shannen Doherty on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

Cameron Mathison, Karen Duffy on The Tony Danza Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Midlife eating disorders” on The Jane Pauley Show (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Families on Fire: Managing Crisis” on Dr. Phil (syndicated, check your local listings).

“Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet” on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

A special “election day” marathon of campaign/election themed episodes of The West Wing (Bravo, 2pm – 6pm). Episodes are “College Kids” (Bravo, 2pm); “Game On” (Bravo, 3pm); “Election Night” (Bravo, 4pm); “Process Stories” (Bravo, 5pm).

“Lessons” and “Beneath You” episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX, Noon, 1pm).

“Sadie, Sadie . . .” episode of Gilmore Girls (ABC Family, 4pm). First episode of season 2.

“Rm w/a Vu” episode of Angel (TNT, 4pm).

“Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail” episode of The West Wing (Bravo, 6pm and 10pm).

“The Case For Butter” episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 6pm).

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

Tuesday Best Bets:
New Gilmore Girls (WB, 7pm)
New Kevin Hill (UPN, 7pm)
New Veronica Mars (UPN, 8pm; also a rerun of last weeks episode at 6pm on MTV)
New Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo, 9pm and 11pm)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Election Night 2004: Prelude to a Recount (Comedy Central, 9pm)

Check out Zap2it’s Best Bets for tonight and Tom Heald’s Remote Patrol.

Election coverage will be all over TV, of course. Check out the election day weblog at Teevee.org.

I’ll return with full picks for Wednesday by Noon Wednesday.

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