Laurel’s TV Picks

Best Bets

New My Boys (TBS, 8:30pm and 12:30am)
New Fear Itself (NBC, 9pm)
New Swingtown (CBS, 9pm)
Season premiere of Penn & Teller: Bulls…! (Showtime, 9pm, 9:30pm)
New Reno 911! (Comedy Central, 9:30pm)
Jason Bateman, Teri Garr, Keyshia Cole on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)
Billy Bob Thornton, Lewis Black on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm)
Steve Carell, Jewel on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings)

Recommended Reruns

How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 7pm)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 8pm – 10pm)

News & Notes

Fourth Street Fantasy Convention begins tomorrow afternoon in Minneapolis.

Daytime

“Confronting The Attacker” in this rerun of Oprah (syndicated, check our local listings) from November 2006.

Primetime Grid

Primetime

An Atlanta homeowner wants a bigger place closer to town on Designed to Sell (HGTV, 7pm and 11pm).

The team updates a car from the a mid-’50s on a new Overhaulin’ (TLC, 7pm and midnight).

New episodes of Speeders (TruTV, 7pm and 11pm, 7:30pm and 11:30pm).

Betty tries internet dating and Justin starts hanging out with the wrong crowd at school in thsi rerun of Ugly Betty (ABC, 7pm).

Betty: It’s not like I’m writing “Betty loves Henry” all over my notebook.
Daniel: (pointing to her notebook) Um . . .
Betty: Shut up.
  from Ugly Betty

Lily asks her friends to see a play that she’s in and Barney gets his revenge later in this classic rerun of How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 7pm). Meanwhile Ted and Robin have issues with the “stuff” they’ve kept from prior relationships.

Barney: (to Ted) “Your place is too cluttered. It’s like you’re living in a Bennigan’s.”
  from How I Met Your Mother

A movie is shot in Smallville (CW, 7pm) and some folks making it see Clark use his powers. Oh-oh!

Clark: “The fan stalking Rachel must have seen me catch that bullet. He’s the only one who knew that it was real. Now he think’s I’m a superhero.”
Chloe: “Oh my God, Clark. This guy’s blog gets, like, 10,000 hits a day. One post, and all of sudden you’re everyone’s Wonder Boy.”
Clark: “Can you track this Warrior Angel comic to its owner?”
Chloe: “I’d be a pretty lame sidekick if I couldn’t.”
  from Smallville

Rerun of the “Eddie Loves Baseball” episode of Keen Eddie (Sleuth, 7pm and 10pm, also at 5pm and midnight Saturday and at 1pm on Sunday).

Lonny Ross and Keith Powell (of 30 Rock) scout for talent in Miami in this new episode of Last Comic Standing (NBC, 7:30pm – 9pm). Hosted by Bill Bellamy.

Brian Doyle-Murray guest stars as a cranky neighbor on a new episode of The Bill Engvall Show (TBS, 8pm and midnight; also on Sunday at 4pm and Monday at 10pm).

A chopper honoring the New York Giants on American Chopper (TLC, 8pm and 10pm).

“Fire Trucks” are the subject on a new Ultimate Factories (National Geographic Channel, 8pm and 11pm; also on Saturday at 5pm). Followed by a rerun of the “John Deere” episode.

A contemporary makeover for a “lackluster living room” on Rate My Space (HGTV, 8pm and midnight).

Two new episodes of Newlywed, Nearly Dead (Fine Living, 8pm and midnight, 8:30pm and 12:30am). About newlyweds who aren’t doing so well.

New episode of Smoking Gun Presents: World’s Dumbest (TruTV, 8pm and midnight).

Rebroadcast of the final two episodes of season two of Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 8pm, 9pm). Two pivotal hours for this show. Remember Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and how he needed a heart? Izzie risks everything to get him a heart transplant. Burke is operated on after being shot and there’s a prom at the hospital. Chris O’Donnell, Loretta Devine, and Tessa Thompson guest star.

George: “Bailey’s treating us like children, we’re not children! We shouldn’t have to sit out here like we’re in time-out or something.”
Meredith: “It is a time-out. What we did is way in need of a time-out.”
Cristina: “You realize we could get kicked out of the program for this?”
Izzie: “Not we, I did this. I did this. You’re probably right, maybe I should run. But I’d rather be running towards someone than running away.”
  from Grey’s Anatomy

There are deaths on the set of a horror film in this rerun of CSI (CBS, 8pm). Will Sasso (of Less Than Perfect, MADtv) guest stars.

A young girl is trapped in a coma by her stepmother in this rerun of Supernatural (CW, 8pm).

Dean: “I thought all those things ended with everyone living happily ever after.”
Sam: “No, no, not the originals. See, the Grimm Brothers stuff was kind of like the folklore of its day, full of sex, violence, cannabalism. Now, it got sanitized over the years and turned into Disney flicks and bedtime stories.”
Dean: “So you think the murders are what, a re-enactment? That’s a little crazy.”
Sam: “Crazy as what? Every day of our lives?”
  from Supernatural

I think I forgot to mention that Sleuth is airing episodes of shortlived series Robbery Homicide Division (Sleuth, 8pm and 11pm; also on Saturday at 6pm; and on Sunday at 1am and 2pm).

P.J. hosts a dinner parties for singles, but things don’t go as planned (of course) in this new episode of My Boys (TBS, 8:30pm and 12:30am; also on Saturday at 10pm). And her brother Andy has hired an attractive nanny, which has him on his best behavior when he’s at home. I had a chance to screen this episode and it’s cute and fun, as you might expect from this show.

Tonight’s new episode of anthology series Fear Itself (NBC, 9pm) was written by Daniel Knauf (who wrote for Carnivale) and directed by Ronny Yu. Colin Ferguson (of Eureka) is one of the stars in it along with Josie Davis, Gig Morton, Nicole Leduc, and Clifton Collins Jr. A prisoner tries to protect his family after he switches bodies with another prisoner (who is probably nastier than him, I’m guessing).

The “War on Porn” is the subject of the season premiere of Penn & Teller: Bulls…! (Showtime, 9pm, 9:30pm; also on Friday at 9pm and 9:30pm; lots of additional airings on various Showtime stations).

Mary J. Blige, Dashboard Confessional, and James Blunt on Live From Abbey Road (Sundance, 9pm; also on Friday at 8pm and 1am).

The Millers have an eventful housewarming party on a new episode of Swingtown (CBS, 9pm).

A look at the “Dangerous Earth” on a new episode of Tougher in Alaska (History Channel, 9pm and 1am; also on Wednesday at 10pm and 2am). “Alaskans have learned to live with seismic changes and geographical challenges throughout history, including volcanoes, glaciers and deadly storms.”

Season premiere of Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV, 9pm, 10:30pm, 2:30am). Runtime of 90 minutes.

Empty-nesters want to move from Alaska to Hawaii on House Hunters (HGTV, 9pm and 1am).

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, midnight; also on Friday at 5pm and many other times).

Wiegel’s father gets out of prison and wants to see her on a new Reno 911! (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm; also Sunday at 10:30pm and 12:30am).

Late Night

Series premiere of MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives (Soap Net, 10pm).

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

Bishop N. T. Wright on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).

Jason Bateman, Teri Garr, Keyshia Cole on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Wanda Sykes, James McAvoy, Duffy on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm).

Anne Hathaway, Romany Malco, My Morning Jacket on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

Billy Bob Thornton (as both regular guest and musical guest), Lewis Black on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).

Steve Carell, Jewel (will talk and also perform) on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings). ABC says that Carell will interview Jimmy as if Jimmy is Carell and he is Jimmy or, um, something. Confused yet?

Adam Carolla, Cloud Cult on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).