Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Best Bets
Lords of the Gourd: The Pursuit of Excellence (PBS, check your local listings)
Mythbusters (Discovery, 8pm and midnight)
Top Chef (Bravo, 9pm, lots of rebroadcasts)
New Rescue Me (FX, 9pm, 10pm)
News & Notes:
Today’s Amazon.com Deal of the Day is The Office: Seasons One and Two
Primetime Grid
| Wed | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | According To Jim Rerun | According To Jim Rerun | Just For Laughs Rerun | Just For Laughs Rerun | NASCAR in Primetime | |
| CBS | Power of 10 | Criminal Minds Rerun | CSI: NY Rerun | |||
| NBC | Most Outrageous Moments Rerun | Last Comic Standing | Dateline | |||
| FOX | ‘Til Death Rerun | ‘Til Death Rerun | Bones Rerun | Local Programming | ||
| CW | America’s Next Top Model Rerun | America’s Next Top Model Rerun | ||||
| FX | Rescue Me also at 10pm | |||||
Primetime
The “Pursuit of Excellence” series on PBS has been . . . excellent. How can you not want to watch Lords of the Gourd: The Pursuit of Excellence (PBS, check your local listings)? No? What if I tell you it’s about people who grow giant pumpkins and other goards? I’m so there.
Teachers must be the theme on Turner Classic Movies tonight as they’re showing Mr. Holland’s Opus (TCM, 7pm) and To Sir, With Love (TCM, 9:30pm).
New documentary Children of God: Lost and Found (Cinemax, 7pm).
Baseball: Dodgers at Cubs (ESPN, 7pm).
New episode of Mythbusters (Discovery, 8pm and midnight). Kari, Tory, and Grant put a radio-frequency identification conspiracy theory to the test; Adam and Jamie test two myths about weapons.
I’m not sure who is on Costas NOW (HBO, 8pm) tonight, but it’s usually worth a look.
Two new episodes of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (TBS, 8pm, 8:30pm).
Bodies are turning up in a remote part of Idaho on a rerun of Criminal Minds (CBS, 8pm). You know what that means: people are being hunted for sport.
Could a man have fallen from space? It’s up to Bones (FOX, 8pm) (and Booth) to figure it out in this rerun.
New episode of Top Chef (Bravo, 9pm, lots of rebroadcasts).
Rescue Me (FX, 9pm, also at 10pm).
ESPN Classic Remembers: 1972 Munich Tragedy (ESPN Classic, 9pm).
Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Kansas City Chiefs (HBO, 9pm)
Late Night
Sen. Barack Obama on a rerun of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
Richard Branson on a rerun of The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
Danny DeVito, Avril Lavigne on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Fred Thompson, Jerome Bettis, Travis Tritt on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm).
Clive Owen, Alan Alda, Dinosaur Jr. on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).
Drew Carey, Megalyn Echikunwoke on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).
Will Forte, Rilo Kiley on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).
Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Mat Kearney on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
Thursday Daytime
Teri Hatcher, Alan Alda on Live with Regis and Kelly (syndicated, check your local listings).
Regis Philbin, Larry David, Patti Scialfa on The View (ABC, check your local listings).
“Moms Who Made Millions” on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).
Eric Dane, Paula Deen, Antoinette “Butterscotch” Clinton on a new episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show (syndicated, check your local listings).
