Laurel’s TV Picks

Best Bets

New Kyle XY (ABC Family, 7pm and 11pm)
Season finale of Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX, 7pm – 9pm)
New In Treatment (HBO, 8:30pm)
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin, and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (TCM, 8:30pm, 1:30am)
New Medium (NBC, 9pm)
New Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel Channel, 9pm, 10pm, 1am)

News & Notes

March is the anniversary month for this site, though I never could figure out an exact date for when I spun my TV picks off of my weblog and onto a separate page (and then domain name as those archives are lost). I’ve been doing the picks now for nine years, will be starting the tenth year now. Yikes!

Sorry about the lack of weekend picks and the late and slightly abbreviated picks today. I’m not doing so well, folks. If you’re new here, I suffer from chronic severe clinical depression and I’m definitely in one of the “really severe” periods right now. Hard to manage anything right now.

Daytime

“Drew Barrymore’s Million-Dollar Moment” on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings). Plus a follow-up to last night’s premiere of Oprah’s Big Give including a visit from the first competitor to be sent home and series judge Jamie Oliver.

Primetime Grid

Primetime

College hoops: Pittsburgh at West Virginia (ESPN, 6pm), Texas Tech at Kansas (ESPN, 8pm).

Special two-hour season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (FOX, 7pm). Here’s hoping that this week we find out more about what happened last week at the cabin (wasn’t that omission annoying?). I hope the show goes out with a bang, no word yet on if it will be back for another season. Thirteen episodes of this show were ordered for this season, but only nine were produced because of the WGA strike.

A school-wide cheating scandal rocks Kyle’s school on Kyle XY (ABC Family, 7pm and 11pm). Kyle and Josh are both suspects and will ned to clear their names.

TCM airs five films from their “Forbidden Hollywood” collection: The Divorcee (TCM, 7pm), Night Nurse (TCM, 9:45pm), Three on a Match (TCM, 11pm), Female (TCM, 12:15am), and A Free Soul (TCM, 2:45am). Along with the debut of the new special Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin, and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (TCM, 8:30pm, 1:30am, runtime of 75 minutes). You can read more about the movies and read more about the special on the TCM website.

Jools Holland on a new Top Gear (BBC America, 7pm and 10pm).

Barbara Walters has a look at “the private lives of Britain’s monarchy” on 20/20: The Royal Family (ABC, 7pm – 9pm).

Spring premiere of Little People, Big World (TLC, 7pm and midnight, 7:30pm and 12:30am). Two new episodes that involve preparation for Matt’s trial and then the actual trial.

Rerun of the classic “Slapsgiving” episode of How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 7pm).

Bob Einstein (a.k.a. Super Dave Osborne) guest stars on Welcome to the Captain (CBS, 7:30pm). Josh has a big meeting at Paramount, but Uncle Saul wants to help (oh-oh). Astrid fills in at the front desk while Jesus checks all the smoke detectors in the building.

Flame enters his first race and Kris appeals to the racing board to get her license reinstated on a new Wildfire (ABC Family, 8pm; also on Tuesday at 11pm).

Laura (Melissa George) pays another visit to Paul (Gabriel Byrne) on a new In Treatment (HBO, 8:30pm). Last week’s episode airs at 8pm in case you missed it and/or need a refresher in where things left off with these two. It’s, um, complicated.

Matthew goes to therapy thinking his issues are because of his mother, but it turns out they might be because of his sister on a new The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS, 8:30pm). Well, that’s no surprise. And Christine tries to get over her break-up with Mr. Harris, not realizing he totally left her for Gabriel Byrne and/or Melissa George (of In Treatment).

Allison’s loyalties are tested when her visions implicate a friend of her former boss’s in a crime on Medium (NBC, 9pm). Miguel Sandoval directed this episode, he also appears in the episode as Allison’s former boss Manuel Devalos. Gregory Itzin guest stars; you may know him best for having played “President Logan” on 24.

Bourdain is in Hawaii for a new Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel Channel, 9pm, 10pm, 1am).

Nick, Eddie, Phil, and Owen learn of the untimely death of a childhood friend on October Road (ABC, 9pm). Sounds like there will be flashbacks of them at age 10.

Series premiere of The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom (TLC, 9pm, 10pm). In the first episode of this new reality series, “a stay-at-home mother secretly goes back to work as a high-end fashion designer, while her husband tends to their daughters.”

It looks like TNT is rebroadcasting key episodes of season one of Saving Grace this week. With two episodes on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights at 9pm and 10pm. Tonight’s episodes are the first one (TNT, 9pm) and “Bring It On, Earl” (TNT, 10pm) which was the second episode. Holly Hunter stars.

Another season one rerun of Jericho (Sci-Fi, 9pm).

Late Night

Sen. Hillary Clinton on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).

Shashi Tharoor on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).

Kate Hudson, Jack Hanna on a rerun of The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Garth Brooks, Christina Ricci on a rerun of The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Brooke Shields, Ming Tsai, Michelle Biloon on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).

Howie Mandel, Leigh Killian, Kate Nash on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

Bobby Brown, Adam Levine, Maroon 5 on a rerun of Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

Tom Green, Chuck Prophet on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).