Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Best Bets
New Pushing Daisies (ABC, 7pm)
New Bones (FOX, 7pm)
New Criminal Minds (CBS, 8pm)
New Life (NBC, 8pm)
New Law & Order (NBC, 9pm)
New Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, 9:01pm)
New Friday Night Lights (The 101 on DirecTV, 8pm and 11pm)
Martin Short, Sarah Vowell, Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm)
James Lipton, Sara Gilbert, Sarah McLachlan on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm)
News & Notes
ABC has not (yet) ordered more episodes of Pushing Daisies and they’ve completed filming of all thirteen episodes (which were previously ordered). (Tonight’s episode is the sixth for this season.) Most folks think that will be it for the show and it will be canceled, but all is not lost quite yet– it appears the only thing that could save this remarkable show is if more viewers tune in tonight than have previously. Ratings need to be really good tonight (and next week) for the show to have any chance of survival. If you like the show or just approve of original television that isn’t like the rest of the stuff out there, please watch tonight and get other people to watch (especially any Nielsen families you may know!). If you have a DVR (like a TiVo), please record the show tonight as the DVR numbers sometimes are counted for ratings purposes. (Heck, if you can record the show on your TiVo tonight, please do so even if you don’t intend to watch the show.)
My fellow Vidiot of TeeVee wrote an excellent piece about Pushing Daisies recently which you should check out. Nathan loves the show and today is his birthday and the best gift you could give him is to watch and/or record the show tonight. Happy Birthday, Nathan!
Still sick, but better than I was on Monday and Tuesday. Somewhat abbreviated picks as a result.
Primetime Grid
| Wed | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Pushing Daisies | Private Practice | Dirty Sexy Money | |||
| CBS | Old Christine | Gary Unmarried | Criminal Minds | CSI: NY | ||
| NBC | Knight Rider | Life | Law & Order | |||
| FOX | Bones | House rerun | Local Programming | |||
| CW | America’s Next Top Model Season finale, also at 8pm on Sunday | Stylista | Local Programming | |||
| FX | Sons of Anarchy also at 10:06pm | |||||
Primetime
Fred Willard guest stars as a magician whose assistants are being killed off on a new Pushing Daisies (ABC, 7pm). Stephen Root (of NewsRadio) also returns as a man who claims to have some connection to Ned’s father. You need not have seen previous episodes to follow this show– please give it a chance. I’ve heard this is an excellent episode.
A body is found on a plane that Booth and Brennan are on en route to China on a new Bones (FOX, 7pm).
New episodes of Time Warp (Discovery, 7pm and 11pm, 7:30pm and 11:30pm).
Jason Alexander (of Seinfeld), Ali Landry, and Nicholas Brendon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) guest star on a new Criminal Minds (CBS, 8pm). This episode was written by showrunner Edward Allen Bernero. Paul Michael Glaser (of Starsky and Hutch) directed the episode, he also plays “Detective Garrity” in this episode.
Women who only date cops are somehow involved in the latest case on Life (NBC, 8pm).
Billy Dee Williams and Alexis Denisof (who was “Wesley” on Angel and Buffy) guest star on Private Practice (ABC, 8pm).
New episode of Friday Night Lights (The 101, 8pm and 11pm; also airs on Friday at 8pm and 11pm). The 101 is a station that’s only available on DirecTV; these episodes of Friday Night Lights will air eventually on NBC, but probably not until February.
Special “Viewer’s Choice Threeequel” episode of MythBusters (Discovery, 8pm and midnight).
New Inside the NFL (Showtime, 8pm).
Another excellent new episode of Law & Order (NBC, 9pm). Colm Meaney and Jena Malone are among the guest stars.
New Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, 9:01pm).
Sons of Anarchy (FX, 9pm, 10:06pm, 12:11am; also on Sunday at 10pm). DVR Alert: this episode has a running time of 66 minutes.
New Prototype This! (Discovery, 9pm and 1am; also on Sunday at 10am).
Chris Daughtry, Nelly, Marshall Faulk, Julia Ormond, Rumer Willis, and Scott Wolf all guest star in the 100th episode of CSI: NY (CBS, 9pm).
New Top Chef (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm).
Season finale of TV Land Myths & Legends (TV Land, 9pm and midnight).
New K-9 Cops (Animal Planet, 9pm, 11pm, 4am).
Season finale of South Park (Comedy Central, 9pm and 11pm).
New Estate of Panic (Sci-Fi, 9pm and 11pm; also on Friday at 3pm).
New Chocolate News (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm).
Late Night
Check out Sue Trowbridge’s Late Night Page for late night talk show lineups.
