Thursday, April 17, 2008
Best Bets
New Smallville (CW, 7pm)
New My Name is Earl (NBC, 7pm)
New 30 Rock (NBC, 7:30pm)
New The Office (NBC, 8pm)
New Scrubs (NBC, 8:31pm)
New Eli Stone (ABC, 9pm)
Ewan McGregor, John Cho and Kal Penn, Seether on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm)
Daytime
“What Would You Dare to Live Without?” on Oprah (syndicated, check our local listings). Two families that “live excessively” are challenged to live with only the bare necessities for one week. No word on if they sing that song from The Jungle Book while they do so.
Primetime Grid
| Day | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Lost Rerun | Eli Stone Season finale | ||||
| CBS | Survivor: Micronesia | CSI Rerun | Without A Trace Rerun | |||
| NBC | My Name is Earl | 30 Rock | The Office | Scrubs | ER | |
| FOX | Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? | Don’t Forget the Lyrics! | Local Programming | |||
| CW | Smallville | Supernatural Rerun | Local Programming | |||
Primetime
Earl is still in that very boring coma of his on My Name is Earl (NBC, 7pm). I haven’t been wild about the last couple of episodes, here’s hoping this one is better. Beau Bridges and Michael Pena guest star. Randy tries to cross another item off Earl’s list.
Tonight’s new episode of Smallville (CW, 7pm) promises to show us “the day Clark and Lex became mortal enemies.” Dun-dun-DUN!
One castaway makes “the ultimate sacrifice” on a new episode of Survivor (CBS, 7pm). No, no one dies or anything, they just give up immunity.
Two-hour “enhanced” rerun of Lost (ABC, 7pm). Episodes are “Ji Yeon” and “Meet Kevin Johnson”. These are the two most recent episodes, the next new episode airs next week.
Liz’s ex-boyfriend Dennis becomes a hero of some sort and Jack wants to book him on the show on a new 30 Rock (NBC, 7:30pm). Dean Winters returns to the show for this one, Tim Conway also guest stars. Winters was most recently seen as Sarah Connor’s ex on The Sarah Connor Chronicles, he also played Tommy’s brother on Rescue Me and was “Ryan O’Reily” on Oz.
Rerun of the second episode of CSI(CBS, 8pm) of this season. The cases involve a go-kart and a hip new restaurant where patrons dine in the dark.
Michael becomes fascinated by a woman modeling a chair in an office supply catalog in this new episode of The Office (NBC, 8pm - 8:31pm). Kevin and Andy try to win back Dunder-Mifflin’s stolen parking spaces.
Rerun of the “Mystery Spot” episode of Supernatural (CW, 8pm). Sam keeps reliving the same, rather traumatic, day over and over again.
J.D. and Turk try to “prove their masculinity” and the Janitor stars a hospital newspaper in this new episode of Scrubs (NBC, 8:31pm). I still love this show.
Special 90-minute edition of Baseball Tonight (ESPN, 8:30pm).
The teams try to find a private investigator who goes missing in this rerun of Without A Trace (CBS, 9pm). Directed by series regular Eric Close.
Eli has surgery in the season finale of Eli Stone (ABC, 9pm). And there’s a case involving a man’s right to die. Guest stars include George Michael, Jayne Brook (of John Doe, Chicago Hope), and Richard Schiff (of The West Wing). No word yet on if this show will be back for another season; if you like it as much as I do please watch, check out the official site, and let ABC know how you feel.
Neela has a strange daydream during work after she pulls an all-night shift in this new episode of ER (NBC, 9:01pm). Aida Tuturro (who was “Janice” on The Sopranos) guest stars.
Lil’ George and the gang join George Sr. on a camping trip to Baghdad during spring break in a new episode of Lil’ Bush (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm) titled “Weekend at Saddamy’s”.
Late Night
Uma Thurman on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
Sen. Hillary Clinton, Rep. Patrick Murphy on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
Kelly Ripa, Dr. John P. Holdren, the Black Keys on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Ewan McGregor, John Cho and Kal Penn, Seether on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm).
Matt Lauer, Ryan Reynolds, A Simple Plan on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).
Henry Winkler, Jason Aldean on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).
Jesse “The Body” Ventura Alert! Dax Shepard, Jesse Ventura, John Mulaney on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings).
Sheryl Crow, Zach Cregger & Trevor Moore on a rerun of Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
