Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Best Bets
New MI-5 (BBC America, 8pm and 11pm)
Series finale of Men in Trees (ABC, 9pm)
Season finale of Top Chef (Bravo, 9pm, 10:02pm, 11:02pm, 1am)
Mars: The Quest for Life (Discovery, 9pm and 1am)
Zooey Deschanel, Jakob Dylan on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)
Recommended Reruns
Criminal Minds (CBS, 8pm)
Daytime
Rerun of the “Oprah’s Neighbors Throw a Party! Plus Jamie Durie’s Flower Pot Makeovers” episode of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings) which originally aired back in May 2007.
Primetime Grid
| Wed | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Wife Swap Rerun | Supernanny Rerun | Men in Trees Series finale | |||
| CBS | Price is Right | Criminal Minds Rerun | CSI: NY Rerun | |||
| NBC | Deal or No Deal | Celebrity Circus Series premiere | ||||
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | Local Programming | ||||
| CW | America’s Next Top Model Rerun | Farmer Wants a Wife | Local Programming | |||
Primetime
Baseball: Atlanta at Chicago Cubs (ESPN, 6pm).
The top 20 dancers perform on a new So You Think You Can Dance (FOX, 7pm).
Minted U.S. coins, the G-forces of a washing machine, fishing rods; safety windshields, hang gliders, and building a Cessna jet on a couple of new episodes of Factory Made (Discovery, 7pm and 11pm, 7:30pm and 11:30pm).
The series premiere of In Plain Sight gets a couple of airings on Sleuth (Sleuth, 7pm – 8:30pm, 8:30pm – 10pm).
New (to the U.S.) episode of MI-5 (BBC America, 8pm and 11pm).
Rerun of the second episode of this past season of Criminal Minds (CBS, 8pm). With Gideon missing and the status of Hotch and Prentiss with the team in doubt, the rest of them work on tracking a serial killer in Milwaukee who uses a child as bait. Guest stars include Gordon Clapp (of NYPD Blue), Eddie Cibrian (of Third Watch), and Yvonne Jung (who had a recurring role on Third Watch). This was Mandy Patinkin’s last episode of the series.
Morgan: “Garcia, baby girl, please tell me something I want to hear.”
Garcia: “You are a statuesque god of sculpted chocolate thunder.”
Morgan: “How about something I don’t already know?”
Garcia: “I have a sweet tooth.”
from Criminal Minds
There’s a talent show, a hog roast, and a “hot and heavy date” on Farmer Wants a Wife (CW, 8pm).
Two episodes of John Ratzenberger’s Made in America (Travel Channel, 8pm and midnight, 8:30pm and 12:30am).
Joey Fatone hosts the series premiere of Celebrity Circus (NBC, 8:30pm – 10pm). Celebrities learn and perform circus stunts in this reality competition series. Here’s the list of competitors: Antonio Sabato Jr, Blu Cantrell, Christopher Knight (of The Brady Bunch), Janet Evans, Jason “Wee Man” Acuna, Rachel Hunter, and Stacey Dash.
Patrick woos Annie and there’s a town talent show in the series finale of Men in Trees (ABC, 9pm). I’m gonna miss this pleasant little show and hope that this is a decent episode to use as a series finale.
season finale of Top Chef (Bravo, 9pm, 10:02pm, 11:02pm, 1am). DVR/VCR Alert: Looks like it will run at least two minutes long.
A look at the Phoenix on Mars: The Quest for Life (Discovery, 9pm and 1am).
A look at the tournament that featured Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, and Jack Nicklaus in Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open (HBO, 9pm).
A hoarder, starving horses, and an abandoned golden retriever on a new Animal Cops Houston (Animal Planet, 9pm, midnight, 4am).
Jack Black is profiled on Biography (Biography, 9pm and 1am).
New episode of She’s Got The Look (TV Land, 9pm and midnight).
The team tries to figure out how a self-cleaning restroom leads to a drowning; they also deal with a case where a man who was on fire appears to fall to Earth or something like that in this rerun of CSI: NY (CBS, 9pm).
A couple new episodes of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (TBS, 9pm, 9:30pm).
Red Wings Squeeze Play (FOX Sports Net North, 9:30pm). It’s a half-hour version of a Rochester Red Wings game (they’re the AAA affiliate for the Minnesota Twins).
Late Night
Rick Shenkman on The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
David Hadju on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
Zooey Deschanel, Jakob Dylan on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Dana Carvey, Spencer Breslin, Priscilla Ahn on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm).
Mark Wahlberg, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).
Stockard Channing, Bill Engvall on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).
Kathy Griffin, Josh Peck, Esperanza Spalding on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings).
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Tristan Prettyman on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
