Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Best Bets
New NCIS (CBS, 7pm)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (ABC, 7pm)
New The Mentalist (CBS, 8pm)
New Eli Stone (ABC, 9pm)
New Without a Trace (CBS, 9pm)
New Leverage (TNT, 9pm and 11pm)
Don Rickles, Joanna Garcia on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm)
Courtney Cox, Bradley Cooper, the Cure on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings)
News & Notes
Abbreviated picks today, sorry about that.
Gold Box Deal of the Day at Amazon is on Arrested Development – The Complete Series (Seasons 1, 2, 3)
The “TV Holi-Daily Deal” today is on La Femme Nikita – The Complete First Five Seasons
Primetime Grid
| Tue | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | A Charlie Brown Christmas | According to Jim | According to Jim Rerun | Eli Stone | ||
| CBS | NCIS | The Mentalist | Without a Trace | |||
| NBC | The Biggest Loser: Families Season finale | Momma’s Boys Series premiere | ||||
| FOX | House Rerun | Fringe Rerun | Local Programming | |||
| CW | 90210 Rerun | Privileged Rerun | Local Programming | |||
| TNT | Leverage also at 11pm | |||||
Primetime
The team is stuck working on a case over Christmas in this new episode of NCIS (CBS, 7pm). Yay! This should be fun. Peter Coyote and Kay Lenz guest star.
New Spice Up My Kitchen (HGTV, 7:30pm and 11:30pm).
The lead suspect in a case is Patrick Jane’s former psychiatrist in this new episdoe of The Mentalist (CBS, 8pm). Elisabeth Rohm, of Angel and Law & Order, is among the guest stars.
Steve Guttenberg guest stars on According to Jim (ABC, 8pm).
Eli is determined to find out if he’ll be alone for the rest of his life in this new episode of Eli Stone (ABC, 9pm).
A TV weatherman goes missing after showing up to work with a wound on a new Without a Trace (CBS, 9pm). It sounds like historical reinactment may be involved.
The team travels to Kentucky to help a horse trainer who has lost everything in this new episode of Leverage (TNT, 9pm and 11pm; also on Saturday at 11am). Mark Sheppard guest stars; he was “Badger” on Firefly and memorably guest starred in a number of episodes of Battlestar Galactica. I’ve seen this episode and I enjoyed it. Not great TV, but entertaining.
No Law & Order: SVU tonight, instead there’s the series premiere of Momma’s Boys (NBC, 9pm) on a special night and time. Three mothers want to help their sons meet the “perfect woman” in this new reality/game series. 32 eligible women share a big mansion with the mothers and sons. The show’s regular timeslot will be Mondays at 9pm.
Late Night
Hall & Oates, Philip Seymour Hoffman on a rerun of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
Richard Haass on a rerun of The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
Tom Cruise, Fall Out Boy on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Jim Carrey, Rosario Dawson, Relient K on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).
Don Rickles, Joanna Garcia (of Privileged) on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).
Eva Mendes, Ken Mink, Fleet Foxes on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).
Courtney Cox, Bradley Cooper, the Cure on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).
Bam Margera, the Dan Band on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
