Laurel’s TV Picks

Best Bets

New The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family, 7pm and 11pm)
Season finale of of Deadliest Catch (Discovery, 8pm and midnight)
New Road Tasted with the Neelys (Food Network, 8:30pm and 11:30pm) in Twin Cities
New The Cleaner (A&E, 9pm, 10pm, 1am, 2am)
Amanda Peet, Jon Hamm, Augustana on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)
Gillian Anderson, Dave Attell, the Duke Spirit on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm)

Recommended Reruns

NCIS (CBS, 7pm)
House (FOX, 8pm)
Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm)

Daytime

Rerun of the “Shlumpadinka Makeovers” episode of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings).

Primetime Grid

Primetime

More movies featuring TCM Star of the Month Rosalind Russell: Night Must Fall (TCM, 7pm), Velvet Touch (TCM, 9pm), and more. See the TCM website for details and full listings.

Grace and Jack’s plans don’t work out, Amy’s parents are having issues on a new The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family, 7pm and 11pm).

New episode of Wipeout (ABC, 7pm).

Al Roker hosts another new episode of Celebrity Family Feud (NBC, 7pm). Competitors are the Kardashians, Deion and Pilar Sanders, Tiki Barber, and Ed McMahon.

New Say Yes to the Dress (TLC, 7pm and 10pm; also on Friday at 7pm and 10pm).

Director Shepard meets an informant about Le Grenouille, but then the informant is killed in this rerun of NCIS (CBS, 7pm) from the season before last. J.C. MacKenzie guest stars, who was “Normal” in Dark Angel; NCIS star Michael Weatherly was also a regular on Dark Angel.

Ducky: “Thus reinforcing the spy world’s oldest maxim–”
Gibbs: “Don’t be a spy?”
Ducky: “Trust no one.”
  from NCIS

New episodes of The First 48 (A&E, 7pm and 11pm, 8pm and midnight).

New Killing for a Living (Animal Planet, 7pm, 10pm; also on Saturday at 2pm).

New Rock the Reception (TLC, 7:30pm and 10:30pm; also on Friday at 7:30pm and 10:30pm).

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.

Season finale of of Deadliest Catch (Discovery, 8pm and midnight). Followed by Deadliest Catch Special: Behind the Scenes (Discovery, 9pm and 1am).

New Must Love Kids (TLC, 8pm and 11pm).

The team treats a drug-using rock star in this rerun of House (FOX, 8pm).

House: “What makes you so sure that drugs are a mask for something else?”
Thirteen: “Drugs are always a mask for something else.”
House: “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard in my life.”
  from House

Andi’s life is threatened by an escaped soul in this rerun of Reaper (CW, 8pm). Michael Ian Black, Ken Marino, and Brandi Alexander guest star.

Sock: “Uncles are creepy by definition, okay. Have you not been watching your SVU?”
  from Reaper

New Outrageous Wasters (Sundance, 8pm; also on Friday at 9am). Has a runtime of 70 minutes.

Chile rellenos are the subject of a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Food Network, 8pm and 11pm).

Pat & Gina visit Minneapolis and St. Paul on a new episode of Road Tasted with the Neelys (Food Network, 8:30pm and 11:30pm).

An interview with NFL coach Bill Parcells, examining the sport of women’s gymnastics, the risks of equestrian events, and U.S. Olympic team member Lopez Lomong on a new REAL Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO, 9pm).

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.

William comes to the aid of a woman whose teenage daughter is involved with transporting drugs on a new episode of The Cleaner (A&E, 9pm, 10pm, 1am, 2am).

Hour-long season premiere of How To Look Good Naked (Lifetime, 9pm; also on Friday at 8am).

“A man is accused of shooting his wife and baby daughter in their Massachusetts home; a Missouri man is accused of slowly poisoning his wife to death with anti-freeze-laced sports drinks” on Primetime: Family Secrets (ABC, 9pm).

Olivia goes undercover in a prison to catch a rapist in this rerun of Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm). Intense, stressful episode.

A body is found after there’s an explosion in a hotel room in this rerun of Bones (TNT, 9pm). What complicates matters is that at least one of the suspects may have diplomatic immunity.

Brennan: “Debris embedded in the remains suggests an explosion.”
Booth: “So does that giant hole in the wall.”
  from Bones

A woman disappears after a shooting in an office building in this rerun of Without A Trace (CBS, 9pm).

A toxic chemical cloud on the season finale of Mega Disasters (History Channel, 9pm and 1am).

New Flipping Out (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, 1am).

New Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood (Oxygen, 9pm, 10pm, midnight).

A look at open relationships 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

Season premiere of General Hospital: Night Shift (Soap Network, 10pm; also Wednesday at 7am, Thursday at 9am, Friday and Saturday at 6am).

Rerun of the latest episode of Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm).

Rerun of the latest episode of My Boys (TBS, 10pm).

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

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

Amanda Peet (of the new X-Files movie, Studio 60, Jack & Jill), Jon Hamm (of Mad Men), Augustana on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Gillian Anderson (of The X-Files), Dave Attell, the Duke Spirit on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).

Reruns of the first two episodes (ever) of Without A Trace (TNT, 11pm, midnight).

Julie Chen, Adam Scott, Ricky Skaggs on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).

Jason Lee, Eva Amurri, Galactic on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

George Foreman, Alanis Morissette on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).

Bear Grylls on a rerun of Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).