Laurel’s TV Picks

Best Bets

New Not Going Out (BBC America, 7:40pm, 10:40pm, 12:40am)
NBA Finals: Celtics at Lakers (ABC, 8pm)
New 30 Days (FX, 9pm, 10pm; also on Friday at 10pm)
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound (Starz, 9pm, midnight, 2am)
Mark Wahlberg, Jeff Peckman, Alanis Morissette on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)
Carl Reiner, Rachel Dratch, Augustana on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm)

Recommended Reruns

NCIS (CBS, 7pm)
Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 8pm, 9pm)
Bones (TNT, 9pm)

Daytime

Rerun of the “Dr. Oz: A Special Report on Death” episode of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings). Includes footage from the documentary Crazy, Sexy, Cancer.

Primetime Grid

Primetime

David Beckham on another special “Game Night” episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 7pm).

Baseball: Atlanta at Cubs (WGN, 7pm).

A Marine intelligence officer is found dead in a motel room in a small town in this rerun of NCIS (CBS, 7pm). Guest stars include John Beasley (who was “Irv” on Everwood), Mark Derwin (of The Bonnie Hunt Show, various soap operas), and Brian Howe (who also appeared on The Bonnie Hunt Show; he also was a regular on Journeyman and A Minute with Stan Hooper).

Gibbs: “Give me some good news, Abby.”
Abby: “I’m not pregnant.”
Gibbs: “Too much information!”
  from NCIS

New episode of Spice Up My Kitchen (HGTV, 7:30pm and 11:30pm).

A new episode of Not Going Out (BBC America, 7:40pm, 10:40pm, 12:40am). Remember that episodes of this show have a runtime of 40 minutes.

The chefs are challenged to teach “cooking-impaired housewives” in this new episode of Hell’s Kitchen (FOX, 8pm). The winner of the challenge gets some cooking lessons from chefs Mark Peele and Ben Ford.

Authorities uncover the secret life of young mother Paige Birgfeld while investigating her disappearance on 48 Hours Mystery (CBS, 8pm).

Rerun of the third episode of Reaper (CW, 8pm) which is titled “All Mine”. Sam and his friends hunt an escaped soul who uses insects to kill people. The vessel in this episode is a toaster. Robert Foxworth guest stars.

Reruns of two episodes of Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 8pm, 9pm) from this past October. In the first episode, a teacher is charged with rape but she claims the student pursued her. Guest stars include Melissa Joan Hart (of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch), Kyle Gallner (of Veronica Mars and Big Love) and Annie Potts are among the guest stars. Elizabeth Keifer (”Blake” on Guiding Light) also appears in the episode.

A routine Coast Guard rescue becomes a battle against nature on a new Deadliest Catch (Discovery, 8pm, 10pm, midnight).

Pollution may be causing blindness in crocodiles in Costa Rica on Dangerous Encounters With Brady Barr (National Geographic, 8pm and 11pm).

Hulk Hogan on Larry King Live (CNN, 8pm, 11pm, 2am).

Environmentally friendly business on Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Sundance, 8pm; also on Friday at 9am).

Dean and Derek create a tumbled brick courtyard on a new Rock Solid (DIY, 8:30pm and 12:30am).

Football star Ray Crockett sees what it’s like to live as if paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for 30 Days (FX, 9pm, 10pm; also on Friday at 10pm).

A look at comic books and the movies made that are based on them in the new special Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound (Starz, 9pm, midnight, 2am). Includes clips from movies, pictures of comic book pages, and lots of interviews. Nothing especially new here, but it’s yet another interesting look. Includes footage from the new Hellboy sequel and Iron Man and other new movies along with older ones.

The team searches for a missing plant manager in this rerun of Without A Trace (CBS, 9pm) which was directed by Eriq La Salle (of ER).

In the second rerun of Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm) tonight, the only witness to a beating is a woman’s mentally challenged daughter. Aidan Quinn (of Canterbury’s Law, The Book of Daniel), Paulina Gerzon (of The Sopranos), Peter Riegert, Vincent Spano, and Jayne Atkinson (of 24) guest star.

Season finale of Work Out (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, midnight).

New Baseball Tonight (ESPN, 9pm).

A look at scientific evidence of how the cat became the most popular pet on earth on Explorer: Science of Cats (National Geographic, 9pm and midnight).

The participants reunite in the season finale of The Alaska Experiment (Discovery, 9pm and 1am).

The supervolcano Toba erupts on Sumatra a very long time ago on Mega Disasters (History Channel, 9pm and 1am).

An investigator discovers a group of dogs trapped in a kennel and a horse is discovered deformed and neglected on a new episode of Animal Cops Houston (Animal Planet, 9pm, midnight, 4am).

A look at the lives of four stars of adult movies on a new Secret Lives of Women (We, 9pm and midnight).

Rerun of the “Two Bodies in the Lab” episode of Bones (TNT, 9pm) from season one. Brennan tries online dating and winds up getting shot at– yeah, that’s pretty much how those things go. Just kidding! The always fabulous Adam Baldwin guest stars; these days he’s on Chuck, but he’s also been a regular on Day Break, The Inside, and (of course) Firefly.

Late Night

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

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

Mark Wahlberg, Jeff Peckman, Alanis Morissette on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Justin Timberlake, Karen Allen, Sheryl Crow on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Carl Reiner, Rachel Dratch, Augustana on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).

Jeff Corwin, Jamie Lidell on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

Seann William Scott, Emmanuelle Chriqui, N.E.R.D. on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, will air later than usual because of basketball game).

Maria Menounos, Local H on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).