Laurel’s TV Picks

Best Bets

AFI’s 10 Top 10 (CBS, 7pm - 10pm)
NBA Finals, Game 6 (ABC, 8pm; rebroadcast at 2am on ESPN)
Steve Carell, Lance Armstrong, Dr. John on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)
Don Rickles, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson, Jewel on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm)

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Daytime

“Polygamy in America: Lisa Ling Reports” on a rerun of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings) from October 2007.

Primetime Grid

Primetime

Nine young people coming of age in China are part of a generation torn between traditional culture and new choices on “Young and Restless in China” on Frontline (PBS, check your local listings).

Yet another special from the American Film Institute, this one counts down their picks for the top ten movies in each of ten classic American genres on AFI’s 10 Top 10 (CBS, 7pm - 10pm). Features lots of clips and lots of interview snippets with folks who work in film.

Senator John McCain, Mike Myers on special game night edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 7pm).

Species try to outsmart each other with disguises, camouflage, and weaponry on Killing for a Living (Animal Planet, 7pm, 10pm, 2am).

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

New episode of Not Going Out (BBC America, 7:40pm, 10:40pm, 12:40am). DVR/VCR Alert: This comedy has a running time of 40 minutes.

The Lakers play the Celtics in Boston: NBA Finals, Game 6 (ABC, 8pm; rebroadcast at 2am on ESPN).

Jerry Springer hosts the season premiere of America’s Got Talent (NBC, 8pm - 10pm). The celebrity judges are David Hasselhoff, Piers Morgan, and Sharon Osbourne. As you might’ve guessed, the season begins with auditions all over the country.

The final four must prepare lunch for “80 very hungry, very picky, and very pregnant moms-to-be” on a new Hell’s Kitchen (FOX, 8pm).

A polar bear attack at a zoo is featured on Untamed and Uncut (Animal Planet, 8pm, 11pm, 3am).

Rerun of the fourth episode of Reaper (CW, 8pm). Sam wants some time off so he can go on a date, but the Devil isn’t wild about that idea. The escaped soul is a magician and the vessel is a white dove.

Sam: “We are not machines, we are not robots.”
Sock: “Be cooler if we were robots.”
Sam: “Yeah.”
  from Reaper

Johnathan joins the deck crew on the Time Bandit and promptly gets injured on a new Deadliest Catch (Discovery, 8pm, 10pm, midnight). Followed by After the Catch (Discovery, 9pm and 1am).

Jason Cameron and his team transform a lucky viewer’s landscape in just one day on Desperate Landscapes (DIY, 8pm and midnight).

Steve Carell Larry King Live (CNN, 8pm, 11pm, 2am).

Back to back reruns of Bones (TNT, 8pm, 9pm). In one of the episodes, a skull is found in the desert and Angela fears it may be that of her boyfriend; Clayton Rohner (of G vs. E) guest stars. The case in the other episode involves a really old finger bone and possible pirate treasure; it features guest stars Robert Foxworth and Rodney Rowland.

Booth: You know, where I come from when you say you’re driving a ways, it means forty-five minutes.
Angela: Out here, it means four hours.
Brennan: We’ve been driving five.
Sheriff Dawes: Maybe I should’ve said “quite a ways”.
  from Bones

A look at technology that helps the planet on Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Sundance, 8pm; also on Friday at 9am).

Don Johnson is profiled on a new Biography (Biography Channel, 8pm and midnight).

The melting of Arctic ice leads to new shipping lanes on Strait Through the Ice (Sundance, 8:35pm).

A look at how a catastrophic dam failure might be the next mega-disaster facing America on a new Mega Disasters (History Channel, 9pm and 1am). With a look back at a dam that gave way in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing 2,200 people in 1889.

Season premiere of Flipping Out (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, midnight, 2am).

Tori and Dean move back to L.A. and await the arrival of their second baby on the season premiere of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood (Oxygen, 9pm, 10pm, midnight).

“Three women live their lives despite their very unique sizes” on a new Secret Lives of Women (We, 9pm and midnight). The sizes are (according to the title of this episode): tall, small, and extra large.

More airings of the season premiere of Weeds (Showtime, 9pm, 9:30pm). In case you missed it last night.

Late Night

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

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

Steve Carell, Lance Armstrong, Dr. John on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Don Rickles, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson, Jewel on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Virginia Madsen, Darin Strauss, John Hiatt on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).

Megan Mullally, Brittany Snow, Detroit Octane on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

Kate Walsh, Jerry Springer, Chromeo on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, sure to air later than usual because of the basketball game).

Kathy Griffin, Gavin Degraw on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).