Laurel’s TV Picks

Best Bets

New The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family, 7pm and 11pm)
Season finale of 30 Days (FX, 9:05pm, 10pm)

Recommended Reruns

NCIS (CBS, 7pm)
Bones (TNT, 8pm, 9pm)
Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm)
Without A Trace (CBS, 9pm)

News & Notes

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to wish me a happy birthday– I really appreciated hearing from you! Unfortunately I was sick with nasty cold from Thursday onward, but was well enough on my birthday to go see the Twins win a ballgame at the Dome with my parents and husband. Thought I was over the worst of it then, but was back to being awfully sick on Sunday. I’m still under the weather, but better than I was yesterday. I hope to do more celebrating once I feel better.

Daytime

Rerun of the episode “Jessica Seinfeld’s Delicious Secret with Dr. Oz” on Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

Primetime Grid

Primetime

Rosalind Russell movies on Turner Classic Movies. Check their website for schedule and full details.

Grace isn’t sure if she can or should forgive Jack, rumors begin about Amy in the second episode of The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family, 7pm and 11pm).

Donut Run, Crazy Beams, Pole Vault, the Toothbrush Sweeper, Big Balls, Launch Pads, and Sucker Punch are among the obstacles included in this week’s episode of Wipeout (ABC, 7pm).

Al Roker hosts Celebrity Family Feud (NBC, 7pm). In this episode, “The Hickeys” face off against the “Camden County All-Stars” (both teams are from My Name Is Earl); the second match-up is The Office vs. American Gladiators.

The team updates a boring bathroom on a new Designed to Sell (HGTV, 7pm and 11pm).

A dead sailor may have died of an unintentional drug overdose, but that wouldn’t make for a very compelling episode of NCIS (CBS, 7pm) now would it? Nah, probably not. During the course of this case, McGee uses his fame as a novelist to get the gang into a club.

Abby: “I hereby accept your challenge. We will meet on the field at dawn. Weapons: caffeine-fueled intellect versus cold silicate based intelligence. Until then I bid you a good day sir.” (turns to see Ziva and McGee staring at her) “Hi.”
Ziva: “Hi. You talk to your mass spectrometer?”
Abby: “Yeah, sometimes. Why?”
McGee: “You challenged it to a duel.”
  from NCIS

A look at 1981, 1982, and 1983 on I Love the ’80s: 3D (VH1 Classic, 7pm – 10pm).

Kate moves back to America in the season premiere of Not Going Out (BBC America, 7:40pm, 10:40pm, 12:40am). The second season/series begins airing on BBC America. DVR/VCR Alert: This comedy has a running time of 40 minutes.

New episode of Deadliest Catch (Discovery, 8pm, 10pm, midnight). The Northwestern fights the ice pack; The Wizard sets off with tempers flaring and a new greenhorn; Phil’s future on the Cornelia Marie is questionable.

The final two compete one last time and the winner is revealed in the season finale of Hell’s Kitchen (FOX, 8pm).

Cincinnati detectives try to find a young man seen running from the scene of a shooting; Miami police find 1-year-old twins in the back of an SUV and their mother dead in the driver’s seat on The First 48 (A&E, 8pm and midnight).

Warren Beatty is honored on AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (USA, 8pm – 10pm, 11pm – 1am).

Authorities suspect another doctor may be the killer when a Harvard-trained eye surgeon is stabbed outside his office on 48 Hours Mystery (CBS, 8pm).

One of the games in this round of I Survived a Japanese Game Show (ABC, 8pm) involves competitors wearing velcro suits and jumping onto a velcro wall. The other is called “Pedal Fast or Big Splash” and this is how the press release describes it: “Two teammates riding tricycles take turns trying to stay on a moving conveyor belt. The other teammates ride stationary bicycles and control the speed of the conveyor belt with their own pedaling — the faster they pedal, the slower the conveyor goes. The team with the most time in the marked area wins, and a team plays until both tricycle riders drop into a giant ice-filled pool of water.”

Two reruns of Bones (TNT, 8pm, 9pm). First two episodes of season two. In the first episode, a train is derailed by a car on the tracks and Brennan meets her new boss (”Cam” played by Tamara Taylor). Ray Wise, who plays the Devil on Reaper, is among the guest stars. In the second episode, the body of a pregnant woman is found in Delaware Bay.

Booth: (on the phone with his son) “Monkeys are Daddy’s favorite! They’re just like people!”
Brennan: “Actually, three million base pairs of the genome differ in protein encoding and other functional areas.”
Booth: “What?”
Brennan: “The differences between chimps and humans.”
Booth: “I’m talking to a four-year-old, Bones.”
  from Bones

Sam tries to stop an untalented musician from selling his soul to the Devil in this rerun of Reaper (CW, 8pm). And Sock’s Mom gets married.

Bobby Flay takes on a Washington D.C. chef known for his Belgian specialty, Moules Frites on a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Food Network, 8pm and 11pm).

Shark attacks on Untamed and Uncut (Animal Planet, 8pm, 11pm, 3am).

A Glasgow family goes to eco-boot camp on Outrageous Wasters (Sundance, 8pm). Has a runtime of 70 minutes.

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

New five-minute “minisode” of Rescue Me (FX, 9pm) debuts on FX. These episodes are supposed to each stand alone. They are available online after they debut each Tuesday on FX; supposed to be available on Hulu, YouTube, MySpace, Crackle, and elsewhere.

Morgan Spurlock spends 30 days on an Indian Reservation in the season finale of 30 Days (FX, 9:05pm, 10pm).

A 70-year-old retired science teacher who chooses to live with wild bears is profiled on a new episode of Primetime: The Outsiders (ABC, 9pm). You can read more this story on the Primetime website.

An investment banker is murdered and one of the suspects is a pro football player in this rerun of Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm). Things get rather ugly when the football player is outed. Guest stars include Bailey Chase (of Saving Grace), Beverly D’Angelo, Rick Hoffman (of Jake in Progress), Peter Gerety (of Homicide, The Wire), and Bill Pullman.

The team searches for a missing woman who is searching for her missing son in this rerun of Without A Trace (CBS, 9pm). Guest stars include Lindsay Frost, Tony Todd, David Starzyk (of Close to Home), and Camille Guaty (of Las Vegas, The Nine).

A deadly jet collision on Mega Disasters (History Channel, 9pm and 1am).

New episode of Flipping Out (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm).

Tori throws a party for Liam’s first birthday; Loni Anderson, Denise Richards, and Carmen Electra appear in this new episode of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood (Oxygen, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm, 1am).

Season premiere of Baldwin Hills (BET, 9pm and 1:30am).

Child brides are the topic on a new Secret Lives of Women (We, 9pm and midnight).

Rebroadcast of the new episode of Weeds (Showtime, 9pm, 9:30pm) that debuted last night.

Late Night

Aaron Eckhart, Dara Torres, Los Lonely Boys on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Selma Blair, Sig Hansen, Little Jackie on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

The rest of the late night talk shows are in reruns this week, check out Sue Trowbridge’s Late Night Lineups page for guest listings.