TV Barn's TV Picks for Aug. 24

Which radio personality was among the first VJs on VH-1?

A) Al Franken
B) Leeza Gibbons
C) Whoopi Goldberg
D) Don Imus
E) Howard Stern

[Tune in to the bottom of the column where the answers comes first!]

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TV Barn's TV Picks for Thursday, August 24, 2006
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings

7 p.m.
"Codename: Kids Next Door" (Cartoon)

7:30 p.m.
"The Black Carpet" (BET)

7:55 p.m.
"Shorty McShorts' Shorts" (Disney): "Boyz on Da Run"

8 p.m.
Will Chicken James be tossed out of the coop, or will King James Bile end his sentence on "Big Brother: All-Stars" (CBS)?

"Hurricane Katrina Babies" (Discovery Health)
"Biography" (Biography): Hugh Hefner & Russell Simmons
Preseason football (Fox): Miami at Carolina

9 p.m.
"Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" (Sci Fi) when it involves catching bad buys in a mall and being mocked by children?

"Murder City" (BBC America) investigates skulduggery involving a buried cranium.

"The First 48" (A&E)
"A Fake Haunting" (Discovery): "Ghost Soldier"
"UFC Unleashed" (Spike)
"Craving Adventure" (Travel)

10 p.m.
Marriages crumble, gunshot wounds are treated and America wonders how many more weeks until "E.R." returns instead of "Windfall" (NBC).

Peter Jennings work lives on in "Out of Control: AIDS in Black America" ("PrimeTime," ABC).

"American Eats" (History): "BBQ: Results Show"
"Hooked: Monster Fish" (National Geographic)
"Most Evil" (Discovery): "Deadly Desires"
"Wild 'n Out" (MTV)
"The Ultimate Fighter" (Spike)
"The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time" (GSN): 7
"Throwdown With Bobby Flay" (Food)
"Animal Planet Heroes Phoenix" (Animal Planet): "The Desert"

10:30 p.m.
"Ace of Cakes" (Food)
"Pimp My Ride" (MTV)
"Crimefighters" (BBC America): "Open All Hours"

11 p.m.
"TNA iMPACT!" (Spike)

midnight
"They Started on Soaps 6" (SOAPnet)

12:30 a.m.
"Shin Chan" (Cartoon)

BABY, TALK TO ME
* Conan loans Charlie his masturbating bear sketch.
* Martin Short is completely mental I must say on "The Daily Show."
* Janna Levin explores the Platonist incompleteness theories of Kurt Gödel and the mechanical decision theories of Alan Turing on "The Colbert Report."
* Mark Wahlberg, wigmaker Ruth Regina and M. Ward entertain Dave's funky bunch.
* Craig meets the most interesting people. My stars. Folks like Denis Leary, Lewis Dix and Matt Goss.

VJ AND SILENT BOB
WNBC's D) Don Imus helped the channel roll out the barrels of fun. (Bonus trivia fact: VH-1 dropped the hyphen in 1994.)

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