Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Best Bets
Series premiere of The Philanthropist (NBC, 9pm)
Primetime Grid
| Wed | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Wipeout | I Survived a Japanese Game Show | Primetime: Questions for the President | |||
| CBS | Old Christine Rerun | Gary Unmarried Rerun | Criminal Minds Rerun | CSI: NY Rerun | ||
| NBC | I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! Season finale | America’s Got Talent | The Philanthropist Series premiere | |||
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | Local Programming | ||||
| CW | America’s Next Top Model Rerun | Hitched or Ditched Rerun | Local Programming | |||
Primetime
Baseball: Yankees at Braves (ESPN, 6pm).
Reruns I’d recommend if you haven’t seen them before: episodes of Bones (TNT, 7pm, 8pm); episodes of NCIS (USA, 7pm, 8pm, 9pm); third ever episode of Leverage (TNT, 9pm) and a rerun of Criminal Minds (CBS, 8pm).
Season finale of Time Warp (Discovery, 7pm and 10pm).
“Phone Book Friction” on MythBusters (Discovery Channel, 8pm and 11pm).
New Gordon Ramsay’s F Word (BBC America, 8pm, 11pm, 1am).
New MonsterQuest (History Channel, 8pm and midnight).
New Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Food Network, 8pm and 11pm).
New Dog the Bounty Hunter (A&E, 8pm and midnight).
New episodes of Kitchen Impossible (DIY, 8pm and midnight), Renovation Realities (DIY, 8:30pm and 12:30am), Sweat Equity (DIY, 9pm and 1am), and Ten Grand in Your Hand (DIY, 9:30pm and 1:30am).
Series premiere of The Philanthropist (NBC, 9pm). James Purefoy (of Rome) stars as a billionaire playboy who turns philanthropist in this new series which was created by Tom Fontana (of Homicide, Oz). Also in the cast: Jesse L. Martin (of Law & Order), Neve Campbell (of Party of Five), Krista Allen (of The Starter Wife), Lindy Booth (of The 400), James Albrecht, and Michael Kenneth Williams (who was “Omar” on The Wire). Peter Horton directed the pilot which was filmed on location in South Africa. I liked the first episode and look forward to future episodes, even if there will probably only be eight of them. You can find out more on the website for the show.
New episode of of Top Chef Masters (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm; with additional airings this weekend).
President Obama answers questions about health care on a special edition of Primetime (ABC, 9pm).
Season premiere of The Real World (MTV, 9pm, 10pm, 1am; lots of other airings).
Rerun of Leverage (TNT, 9pm).
Rerun of the latest episode of True Blood (HBO, 9pm).
Two new episodes of Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (TBS, 9pm, 9:30pm).
New episode of Pitchmen (Discovery Channel, 9pm and midnight; also on Sunday at 10am).
New episodes of Tattoo Highway (A&E, 9pm and 1am, 9:30pm and 1:30am).
New episode of Reno 911! (Comedy Central, 9:30pm and 11:30pm).
Late Night
Reza Aslan on The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
Matthew Crawford on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
Ray Romano, St. Vincent on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Brandon McMillan, Kerry Washington, Wilco on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 10:35pm).
Mary Steenburgen, Bettye LaVette, Todd Sawyer on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:35pm).
Richard Branson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 11:35pm).
Josh Duhamel, Tracy Hutson, Bat For Lashes on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings).
Ida Maria on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
