Laurel’s TV Picks

Best Bets

Alfred Hitchcock movies, uncut & letterboxed on TCM tonight
New The Riches (FX, 9pm, 10pm, midnight)
Forest Whitaker, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Your Lips Your Lips on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm)
Helen Mirren, professional yodeler Wylie Gustafson, Carbon Silicon on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm)

News & Notes

. . . and I’m back. Was weird to actually get used to not doing the picks, but I think I needed a break. I do really need to figure out a way to earn some money with this site though because having no income and just depending on my husband’s income is getting old (and making us somewhat broke or at least unable to do as much as we’d like and get things fixed around the house, etc). So if you’ve got ideas, send ‘em my way. And keep those donations coming. I will be thanking those who donated and getting back to people later this week (probably tomorrow), I’m just busy catching up with stuff today. Sorry for the lateness and being briefer than usual, but at least I’m back, right?

If you follow the Minnesota Twins and/or baseball in general, you might want to check out WinTwins.net as it’s another site of mine, though with contributions from my husband Kevin and our friends Tim, Peter, and Marissa. I’ll be at the game tonight (and at the games on Wednesday, Thursday, and possibly Friday).

And if you haven’t checked out this year’s TeeVee April Fool’s Site, you should go see it. It is, in my humble opinion, hilarious. I didn’t contribute anything this year, but those Vidiots who did really wrote some great stuff.

Some news from ABC: Women’s Murder Club will move into the Tuesday at 9pm timeslot at the end of April and proceed to air three new episodes. Boston Legal will move to Wednesdays at 9pm and air new episodes starting at the end of April. One downside of all this is that Men in Trees will disappear from the schedule for a while, but new episodes will air on Wednesdays at 9pm starting at the end of May (after Boston Legal has aired their three new episodes). I will, of course, cover this stuff here and as usual this is all subject to change.

Primetime Grid

Primetime

Hitchcock movies on TCM: The Birds (TCM, 7pm, letterboxed) and Marnie (TCM, 9:15pm, letterboxed). Tippi Hedren stars in both.

New American Idol (FOX, 7pm).

New Beauty and the Geek (CW, 7pm).

Season premiere of Hell’s Kitchen (FOX, 8pm).

New Last Restaurant Standing (BBC America, 8pm, 11pm, 1am).

Nebulas are the subject of a new episode of The Universe (History Channel, 8pm and midnight).

New episode of The Riches (FX, 9pm, 10pm, midnight). Third episode of the second season.

New special Live to Be 150 … Can You Do It? (ABC, 9pm).

Conclusion of a new two-part episode of CSI: Miami (CBS, 9pm).

New Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern (Travel Channel, 9pm, 10pm, 1am).

Rerun of an early episode of NCIS (USA, 9pm).

Rerun of another early episode of Bones (TNT, 9pm).

Late Night

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

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

Sen. John McCain, Cat Power on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

David Beckham, Sherri Shepherd, the B-52’s on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

More Hitchcock on TCM: Psycho (TCM, 11:30pm, letterboxed) and Topaz (TCM, 1:30am, letterboxed).

Forest Whitaker, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Your Lips Your Lips on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).

Helen Mirren, professional yodeler Wylie Gustafson, Carbon Silicon on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

Ryan Phillippe, the third eliminated celebrity from “Dancing with the Stars”, Carole King on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

Kerri Kenney, Hellogoodbye on a rerun of Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).