TV Barn's TV Picks for aug. 26-27

Gilbert Gottfried, Howie Mandel, Michael J. Pollard and Frank Welker are among the men who've portrayed/voiced what fictional character?

A) Dr. Watson
B) Hamlet
C) Iago
D) Lex Luthor
E) Mister Mxyzptlk

[Head to the bottom for the correct answer. You know you want to.]

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TV Barn's TV Picks for Saturday and Sunday, August 26-27, 2006
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings

Aaron Barnhart's Emmy preview is up at kansascity.com and will eventually be unregistrationally linked from tvbarn.com, he typed optimistically.

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3:30 p.m.
Little League World Series (ABC)

5 p.m.
"Child Star Confidential" (E!): "TV Princesses"

7 p.m.
SORRY TO HAVE KEPT YOU WAITING
The final two unaired episodes of "Courthouse" (Sleuth; also 8) are released from their holding cell. What, you don't remember this 1995 CBS series? You can catch the entire run starting at 10 a.m.

"Sharpe's Waterloo" (BBC America)
"Filter" (G4): "14 Things That Will Scar You for Life"
"Rock Countdown" (MTV2): New Found Glory

7:30 p.m.
"Icons" (G4): Lollapalooza

8 p.m.
The Jacksonville Titos take on the Tampa Bay City Rollers (CBS) on S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night.

See some of the "other" Emmys given out at the "2006 Creative Arts Awards" (E!).

Shirley MacLaine, Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz star in an un-chick flick from Curtis Hanson, the family-minded "In Her Shoes" (HBO). FUN FACT: The movie was originally set at the "Odor Eaters" factory in White Plains, New York.

"Profiles in Courage: A Kennedy Legacy Special" (NBC) honors the book, the award and its recipients on a night when everyone's at home and watching TV.

"Ottoman Empire: The War Machine" (History)
"Property Ladder" (TLC)

9 p.m.
Puddle of Mudd guitarist Paul Phillips wants to stop the rapist who's using his name on "America's Most Wanted" (Fox). Oh, THAT Paul Phillips.

"Monkey Dust" (Sundance) dusts Slobodan Milosevic and Lord Byron.

WHAT'S OPERA, DOC?
"Rent" (Starz!)

"Dragon Sword" (Sci Fi)
"Flip That House" (TLC; also 9:30)
"Naruto" (Cartoon)
"Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol" (Spike)

9:30 p.m
"Zatch Bell" (Cartoon)

10 p.m.
"Bobobo-bo Bo-Bobo" (Cartoon)
"Headbanger's Ball" (MTV2): Lamb of God

10:30 p.m.
"Samurai 7" (IFC)

11 p.m.
"Russell Peters: Outsourced" (Comedy Central)

midnight
"Soapography" (SOAPnet; also 12:30)
"Game Head" (Spike)

1 a.m.
"Eureka 7" (Cartoon)

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SUNDAY
3:30 p.m.
Little League World Series (ABC)

6 p.m.
THE WAY WE WORE
Kirstie Alley is Gloria Steinem in "A Bunny's Tale" (WE). Really, that's who you went with to play yourself as a Playboy Club waitress? Sorta sets the feminist movement back a few decades, doncha think?

7 p.m.
Excess Hollywood logrolls on a "Red Carpet Special" (NBC, if you're not watching TV Guide or E! starting at 6). "Hey, what are you planning on getting Star Jones Reynolds for her divorce?"

"Just Legal" (WB) continues its burn-off as Cooper and Skip defend a young Muslim rape victim. I'm sorry, it's against my religion to have a lawyer named "Skip."

"dLife: For Your Diabetes Life" (CNBC) helps you plan a healthy meal for Labor Day picnics. As Bill Cosby's Noah said to God, "RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

IIIIIIIIIIGHT."

"The Taming of the Shrew(d)" gets painted a shade of Clintone #10 as "ShakespeaRe-Told" (BBC America) casts its modern-day Kate as a canny politician.

"60 Minutes" (CBS)
"Dungeons & Dragons" (Toon Disney)
"Wild Kingdom" (Animal Planet): "Elephant Family: Bonds of Life"

7:30 p.m.
"Nip/Tuck" creator and "Running With Scissors" director Ryan Murphy discusses "Life After Film School" (Fox Movie Channel).

8 p.m.
A gift to the school has strings attached, but the lunar landscape doesn't with "Three Moons Over Milford" (ABC Family).

Mike and Will down in Chilltown liked winning a lot, but Chicken George who lived North of them in the "Big Brother: All-Stars" (CBS) house, succeeding did not.

Conan O'Brien presides over "The 58th Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards" (NBC).

Brooke Burns stars as a "Trophy Wife" (Lifetime) framed by someone else who's after the gold she hoped to dig.

"Jane Goodall's Heroes" (Animal Planet)
"Surviving Urban Disasters" (Discovery Science)
"Violent Earth: New England's Killer Hurricane" (History)
"Platinum Weddings" (WE)

8:30 p.m.
"Let's Just Play: Go Healthy Challenge" (Nickelodeon)

9 p.m.
I don't want her you can have her she's too fat for me as it's time for the crews to trade one another a (non)losing teammate on "Celebrity Fit Club" (VH1). We'll swap you Chastity Bono for Bono.

EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY
* The future of the town is determined in the series finale of "Deadwood" (HBO) -- let's do some TV movies!
* Will the future be saved in the present, on "The 4400" (USA) or is this all relatively past dense?

Witness the spectacle of the Gay Games and Out Games with the "CBS News on Logo."

On "Bride vs. Bride" (WE), the bride is high but we're holding on. She's gonna be your #1.

"Surviving Katrina" (Discovery)

10 p.m.
One of our virii is missing on "Angela's Eyes" (Lifetime). First person to say "whoops" is fired.

EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY
* If Ari can't save the Ramones project on "Entourage" (HBO), he wants to be sedated. Actually, it's not a bad idea anyway.
* Johnny tries to stop the assassination of the president in "The Dead Zone" (USA). As opposed to when he was Christopher Walken and tried to kill future chief Martin Sheen to prevent nuclear annihilation?

Bruno's baby recovers from being brutally bounced in his buggy on "Footballers Wives: Overtime" (BBC America).

"Brotherhood" (Showtime) heads on a a road trip.

The girls have a pants-on dance-on invoking "The Flavor of Love" (VH1).

"Mind of Mencia" (Comedy Central)
"Bartender Battle" (Food)
"Bridezillas" (WE)
"Intervention" (A&E)
"The Revolution" (History): "A President and His Revolution"

10:30 p.m.
EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY
The Mrs. walks out on "Lucky Louie" (HBO). Why not? The audience has.

"Reno 911!" (Comedy Central)
"Mile High" (BBC America)

11 p.m.
"Engineering New Orleans" (Discovery)

11:45 p.m.
"Metalocalypse" (Cartoon)

midnight
YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER
Episodes 2 & 3 of "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" (Sci Fi) air at last.

12:30 a.m.
"Tom Goes to the Mayor" (Cartoon)

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SDRAWKCAB TI YAS
They're among the many mischievous men who've voiced the impish Superman villain E) Mister Mxyzptlk.


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