Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Best Bets
New Greatest American Dog (CBS, 7pm)
Series premiere of NextWorld (Discovery Channel, 7pm and 11pm)
New MythBusters (Discovery Channel, 8pm and midnight)
Howard Dean on The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight)
Kerri Walsh & Misty May-Treanor, Neil Patrick Harris, Nas on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm)
Gov. Mike Huckabee on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am)
News & Notes
The deadline for entries to win Masters of Science Fiction: The Complete Series
Daytime
TCM aims their spotlight on Tony Curtis today. You can read more here. They feature twelve films he was in, including: Operation Petticoat (TCM, 11:45am, letterbox) and The Rat Race (TCM, 2pm).
Tennis: U.S. Open coverage starting at 10am on USA.
Primetime Grid
| Wed | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Wife Swap Rerun | Supernanny Rerun | Democratic National Convention | |||
| CBS | Greatest American Dog | Criminal Minds Rerun | Democratic National Convention | |||
| NBC | America’s Got Talent | Democratic National Convention | ||||
| FOX | Bones Rerun | Local Programming | ||||
| CW | America’s Next Top Model Rerun | Pussycat Girls Rerun | Local Programming | |||
Primetime
CSPAN, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and other stations air coverage of the Democratic National Convention starting tonight. CSPAN starts their coverage at 4pm, CNN starts coverage at 5pm, MSNBC begins their coverage at 6pm, and PBS coverage starts at 7pm. ABC, CBS, and NBC have coverage at 9pm. There’s coverage all over the place.
Baseball: Red Sox at Yankees (ESPN, 6pm) followed by Baseball Tonight (ESPN, 9pm or so).
Tennis: U.S. Open (USA, 6pm). Men’s First Round & Women’s Second Round.
Turner Classic Movies shines their spotlight on Tony Curtis today and tonight. You can read more here. They feature twelve films he was in, including the classics: Some Like It Hot (TCM, 7pm, letterboxed), Sweet Smell of Success (TCM, 9:15pm, letterboxed), and The Defiant Ones (TCM, 11pm, letterboxed). Great stuff.
The dogs and their owners meet an elephant in one challenge, in another they work with stunt trainers and are given a chance to fly on a new episode of Greatest American Dog (CBS, 7pm).
Series premiere of NextWorld (Discovery Channel, 7pm and 11pm; also on Sunday at 8am). The subject of the first episode of this new series is “Future Intelligence” and the episode covers technology “that could put android helpers in the home, create network commuters, and connect entire cities to the Web.” Sounds good to me! Check out the official site for the show to find out more about this new series.
Rebroadcast of the final two episodes of last season of Bones (FOX, 7pm – 9pm). FOX has them on the schedule as one two-hour special episode, though they aired as separate hours originally. If you watch this show and somehow missed these, you definitely should catch them before the new season starts. The new season starts a week from tonight with a special two-hour episode which finds Brennan and Booth in the U.K. I’ve had a chance to see that episode and it’s good stuff, as you might expect, with some interesting developments for some of the characters. I’ll be writing more about that in my picks next week, of course.
Sweets: “What were you doing?”
Bones: “He was drinking beer and reading a comic book.”
Booth: “I was taking a bath!”
Sweets: “You read comics and drink beer naked?”
Booth: “Wait a minute. Bones bursts into my bathroom, alright, and I’m weird for being naked?!”
from Bones
Film students interview Shawn Ryan (creator of The Shield) on Life After Film School (FOX Movie Channel, 5:30pm, 7:30pm; also on Thurdsay at 10pm and Friday at 4:30pm with additional airings this weekend).
The team tests (somehow) to see if NASA did really land on the Moon in a new episode of MythBusters (Discovery Channel, 8pm and midnight; also airs on Thursday at 9pm and 1am).
The designers “learn that fashion doesn’t always have to be conventional” on a new Project Runway (Bravo, 8pm, 10pm, 1am; also on Thursday at 3pm and 8pm). I should think that they know this, but maybe things get really unconventional in this episode. That could be fun.
The students refine their designs and one design emerges as the winner on a new episode of Architecture School (Sundance, 8pm and midnight; also on Saturday at 1:30pm and Sunday at 5:30pm).
Michael prepares a feast for 300 country music fans and musicians at the Grand Ole Opry on a new episode of Dinner Impossible (Food Network, 9pm and midnight).
Two new episodes of Criss Angel Mindfreak (A&E, 9pm and 1am, 9:30pm and 1:30am).
A look at some “Deep Sea Killers” in this new episode of Jurassic Fight Club (History Channel, 9pm and 1am). An undersea battle between the megalodon, a 50-foot cousin of the great white shark, and the “biting sperm whale” with 44 teeth equal to those of a tyrannosaurus rex.
Season finale of Shear Genius (Bravo, 9pm and midnight; airs again on Thursday at 6:59pm and Friday at 1am).
The Cowboys prepare for their first pre-season game of the season on a new episode of Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Dallas Cowboys (HBO, 9pm; check listings for additional airings on various HBO stations).
A new episode of Taboo (National Geographic, 9pm and midnight; also on Saturday at 5pm) looks at “Extreme Healing”. Something about placing health in “the hands of the spirit world”. Um. What?
JoJo and Team Blackout prepare for their first live performance on a new episode of Run’s House (MTV, 9pm).
It’s “Red States vs. Blue States” on a new episode of Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm). With Paul F. Tompkins and Patton Oswalt.
New episode of Under Construction (DIY, 9:30pm and 1:30am). Preceded by a rerun (DIY, 9pm and 1am). In the new episode, Design Tech works on hiring a new receptionist; the guys work on some framing and a roof.
Late Night
It’s possible that coverage of the Democratic National Convention will run a little long on the networks and push the local news and some late night talk shows a little late.
New episode of Red Hot and Green (HGTV, 10pm and 2am).
The “Going Bananas” episode of Good Eats (Food Network, 10pm and 1am).
Howard Dean on The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
Gov. Mike Huckabee on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
New episode of Haulin’ House (HGTV, 10:30pm and 2:30am).
Kerri Walsh & Misty May-Treanor, Neil Patrick Harris (of Dr. Horrible, How I Met Your Mother), Nas on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Bill Maher, Henry Cejudo, Low vs Diamond on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm).
Tiger Woods, Vanessa Minnillo, Jimmy Carr on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).
Billy Bob Thornton, Lewis Black, the Boxmasters on a rerun of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).
Don Cheadle, Emma Stone, Lady Antebellum on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings).
Romany Malco, Sheryl Crow on a rerun of Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
