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Laurel's TV Picks for Friday - Sunday, January 7 - 9 Featured picks: Yay! My favorite new series Now and Again (CBS, 8pm Friday) is back with a new episode in which Theo has a crush on a mysterious woman, but is too nervous to make a move. Meanwhile, Heather also has a possible romance in the wings. And Michael is all-too aware of his own wedding anniversary. Sigh. Forget Once and Again and the rest, this is the most romantic show on the air. Plus it's got action! adventure! conspiracies! sci-fi stuff! Anyway. Watch. It just wouldn't be winter without watching the best Christmas episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (Court TV, 8pm, 11pm, 2am Friday) "All Through the House". It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of the series. Meldrick and Megan investigate a death, Munch and Bolander investigate the murder of Santa Claus, Munch meets his match in a kid named Fidel, Bayliss plays Hearts with Gee, Beau misses his family, Frank explains Christmas trees (er), and Danvers is home alone for the holidays. Nancy Marchand guest stars. It's character-driven, it's got humor and some holiday angst. Some happy endings, some not quite so happy. Love it. More Friday picks: Another reminder of the newish additions on the cool weekday rerun front: Chicago Hope (Lifetime, 7pm Friday) is a rerun of the one where Alan Arkin guest stars as an artist who claims he's Aaron's real dad (Aaron is played, of course, by Adam Arkin who is Alan Arkin's son). Great classic movie lineup on TCM tonight: Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in the legal drama Adam's Rib (TCM, 7pm Friday). Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, and Ralph Bellamy in The Awful Truth (TCM, 9pm Friday). Letterboxed Kiss Me Kate (TCM, 11pm Friday). Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren in The Madness of King George (Bravo, 8pm Friday). Pat Morita guest stars on a new episode of The Hughleys (ABC, 8:30pm). Why aren't more people talking about this funny and sharp and sometimes sweet sitcom? Love it. Premiere of Lexx: The Series (Sci-Fi, 9pm Friday). It looks really bad to me, but you never know. Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit (NBC, 9pm Friday) moves into Homicide's old timeslot-- Munch is back home again! Tracy Pollan guest stars as a rape victim in tonight's episode. Supposedly Dick Wolf is working on changing the series so it's more like Law & Order classic-- this is a good thing. Because early episodes really left me cold. Now if only Mariska Hargitay would go away (does anyone actually like her? I try to, I really do, but . . . ugh). Once and Again (Lifetime, 10pm Friday) is a rerun of the one where members of both families mingle at a school carnival and Lily is worried about letting the other Moms know about her involvement with Rick. It's called "The Scarlet Letter Jacket" appropriately enough. A solid episode. Kids in the Hall (Comedy Central, 10:30pm Friday). Dennis Miller Live (HBO, 10:30pm Friday) begins a new season. Still ranting after all these years. Tim Robbins is a guest on tonight's show. Paul Thomas Anderson (director of Magnolia and Mr. Julianne Moore) on The Late Show w/ David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm Friday). Bill Pullman on Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien (NBC, check local listings). More Saturday picks: Alas, there's been a change in TNT's formerly divine Saturday morning lineup, though it's still pretty good. Two ordinary crewman witness some amazing events in "The View from the Gallery" episode of Babylon 5 (TNT, 6am Saturday); a young purse-snatcher is in trouble on Due South (TNT, 7am Saturday); Ricardo Montalban guest stars on The Wild, Wild West (TNT, 8am Saturday); Brisco's childhood sweetheart needs his help on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr (TNT, 9am Saturday); and you can catch the Vietnam series Tour of Duty (TNT, 10am Saturday) from the very beginning (this is the pilot episode). Oh. My. God. Misfits of Science returns. On TV Land on Saturday and Sunday at 7am. Followed by Airwolf at 8am Saturday and Sunday also on TV Land. More Misfits of Science at 5pm on Saturday on TV Land. Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman (AMC, 9:30am Saturday). Deborah Kerr is torn between Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum in The Grass is Greener (AMC, 1:30pm Saturday). I absolutely love this movie. Great stars, great dialogue, great scenery. Dick Clark hosts the premiere of the game show Winning Lines (CBS, 7pm Saturday). Yawn. The Great Escape (TCM, 8:30pm Saturday). The incomparable Jonathan Winters is the guest on Uncomfortably Close with Michael McKean (Comedy Central, 8:30pm Saturday). AMC premieres (I think) it's James Bond Story (AMC, 9pm Saturday, 3am Sunday) and follow it (appropriately enough) with the special Hollywood Spies on Spies (AMC, 10pm Saturday, 4am Sunday). Jamie Foxx hosts, Blink 182 is the musical guest on a new Saturday Night Live (NBC, check local listings). (In Minnesota-- Cheers will air after SNL finally, though I'm sure SNL will still be delayed by some sports extra or something). If you've got a problem and no one else can help you, maybe you can hire The A-Team (TV Land, 11pm Saturday and Sunday). More Sunday picks: Lotsa classic old scary movies on TCM during the day and night on Sunday, check your local listings for Zombie flicks and King Kong and so on. Bobby cheats (say it ain't so!) on King of the Hill (FOX, 6:30pm Sunday). Heather Locklear guest stars as a teacher. Brian Dennehy in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (Showtime, 7pm Sunday). Bill Pullman directs and stars in a new version of The Virginian (TNT, 7pm, 9pm, 11pm Sunday). Just what the world needs, another primetime game show: Twenty One (NBC, 7pm Sunday) debuts. Maury Povitch hosts. If you watch any TV on FOX, you're probably already sick of hearing about Malcolm in the Middle (FOX, 7:30pm Sunday) which premieres this weekend. Whoa . . . remember the nasty necrophiliac from St. Paul, Minnesota in the episode "Irresistable" of The X-Files (FOX, 8pm Sunday)? He's ba-ack in a new episode. Yikes. And he's after Scully, of course. (If you don't remember, the videotape is available for sale and rental if you want to refresh your memory. It's one of the scarier episodes, IMHO). Two-hour season premiere of La Femme Nikita (USA, 8pm Sunday). Is Nikita brainwashed or is she faking memory loss? Andrew Kavovit (an Emmy-winner for his portrayal of Paul Stenbeck on As The World Turns) plays the title role in The David Cassidy Story (NBC, 8pm Sunday). This is the biopic that had the cooperation of Cassidy himself. The People's Choice Awards (CBS, 8pm Sunday) sound hideous beyond belief. I mean, Shasta McNasty is nominated for an award! Yikes! And Regis is back (sigh) with more of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire (NBC, 8pm). C'mon people, boycott these game shows already. Please? (A girl can dream . . . I just fear good dramas and comedies will be pushed off the schedule in favor of this stuff. Oh wait, that's already happened. Sigh. As if all the newsmagazines weren't problem enough). If you've got a problem and no one else can help you, maybe you can hire The A-Team (TV Land, 11pm Saturday and Sunday). More TV stuff (links, quotations, commentary, news) in my weblog. Got suggestions? Comments? Let me know what you think would improve this page. This page was updated on January 7, 2000 by Laurel Krahn who can be reached via email to laurel@windowseat.org. Don't be shy: recommend your favorite shows/episodes, TV related links, other cool stuff. Or just comment on what you like, what you don't like about this page. If you'd like to snail mail Laurel cool tv related stuff, she'd love that. 2240 S. Plymouth Road #309, Minnetonka, MN, 55305. The more info she has, the better this page will be. Copyright ©1999 Laurel Krahn unless otherwise noted. May not be redistributed without permission. |