On which series was the question recently asked, "Do you have extra batteries in your pants?"
A) "The Amazing Race"
B) "Dancing With the Stars"
C) "House"
D) "Prison Break"
E) "Survivor"
TV Barn's TV Picks for Saturday and Sunday, September 23-24, 2006
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
SON VOLT
On which series was the question recently asked, "Do you have extra batteries in your pants?"
A) "The Amazing Race"
B) "Dancing With the Stars"
C) "House"
D) "Prison Break"
E) "Survivor"
[Plug into the bottom of the column for the correct AAnswer.]
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SATURDAY
5 p.m.
"Network Star Confidential" (E!; premiere): "Chick Magnets"
7 p.m.
"Tutenstein" (Discovery Kids)
7:30 p.m.
"Growing Up Creepie" (Discovery Kids)
8 p.m.
The Notre Dames battle the Michigan Dames (ABC).
PETE REPEAT TRIPLE FEATURE
"Jericho" (CBS) followed by "Smith" (CBS) at 9 p.m., and switch over to "Kidnapped" (NBC) at 10 p.m.
It's ventriloquist night on "Cops" (Fox). At least there seem to be an abundance of dummies.
"Where Have All the Parents Gone?" (CNN), and who will raise the orphans of AIDS?
NON-SWEEPS-PLOITATION?
Girls Gone Wild! Paris Hilton! Robbery! Stone Phillips! Khaaaaaan! "Dateline!" (NBC).
Christopher Walken stars in "Wedding Crashers" (HBO), the fourth work in Hallmark's "Sarah, Plain and Tall" trilogy.
"Mrs. America 2006" (WE)
"Victorian Reborn" (History)
"Fantastic Four" (Cartoon)
"The Replacements" (Disney)
"Property Ladder" (TLC)
"Flight 29 Down" (Discovery Kids)
8:30 p.m.
"American Dragon: Jake Long" (Disney)
9 p.m.
"America's
Most Wanted: America Fights Back" (Fox) solves the murder of a homeless
woman using DNA evidence. Can we send them over to "Vanished"?
A viewer write-in contest named this week's cheesetastic schlockfest: "Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep" (Sci Fi). I would have gone with something flashier, like "Vicki: Tentacles of the Deep!"
"Cold Case Files" (A&E)
"Naruto" (Cartoon)
"Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol" (Spike)
"Serious" (Discovery Kids)
"Flip That House" (TLC; also 9:30)
"Male, 33, Seeks Puberty" ("Hot Docs," BBC America)
10 p.m.
Death, exciting and new. Come aboard, we're expecting you. "48 Hours Mystery" (CBS) soon will be making another run.
"Bobobo-bo Bo-Bobo" (Cartoon)
"Body of Evidence: From the Case Files of Dayle Hinman" (Court)
"Headbanger's Ball" (MTV2): Mastodon
Jorge Arce vs. Masibulele Makepula Bobobo-bo (HBO)
10:30 p.m.
"Samurai 7" (IFC)
11 p.m.
"MADtv" (Fox): Howie Mandel, Chingy
midnight
"Talk Show With Spike Feresten" (Fox): Mary Lynn Rajskub
12:30 a.m.
"Bleach" (Cartoon)
1 a.m.
"Eureka 7" (Cartoon)
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SUNDAY
CBS start times might be reliable this week.
7 p.m.
Is
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf overcharging for a 10-point
inspection and full oil change? "60 Minutes" (CBS) sends in its hidden
cameras for an ambush.
"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (ABC; also 8) heads north to Alaska to help an old lady and the dozen other people living in her shoe. Then it's a road trip to Seattle with construction help from several members of the Seahawks.
"Drake & Josh" (Nickelodeon)
"Football Night in America" (NBC)
7:30 p.m.
"Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" (Nickelodeon)
8 p.m.
Online dating and offline divorce plague "Three Moons Over Milford" (ABC Family; season finale).
Marge becomes the town handyman, while Bart finds a new way to torture Principal Skinner on "The Simpsons" (Fox).
"Can horses smell fear?" Find out on the season of change: "The Amazing Race 10" (CBS).
"Her Fatal Flaw" (Lifetime)
"My Husband's Three Wives" (TLC)
"Platinum Weddings" (WE)
"Zoey 101" (Nickelodeon)
"Hangin' With" (VH1 Classic): Asia
"THS Investigates Curse of the Lottery" (E!)
8:15 p.m.
The Horses hope to buck the War Reenactors (NBC).
8:30 p.m.
"WILL AND GRACE" WOULD HAVE BOOKED JENNIFER BEALS PATROL
"American
Dad" (Fox): Curtis Armstrong, "Queer as Folk's" Scott Lowell, Paget
Brewster, Christine Baranski, Beau Bridges, Swoosie Kurtz. Plot: The
search for American Car.
9 p.m.
New daughters, new husbands,
old husbands who refuse to go away and new loves await the "Desperate
Housewives: Make This Season Suck Less" (ABC).
"Cold Case" (CBS) is appalled at a pair of teens who mauled a mall.
UNNECESSARY PRINCESS LEIA IN HER SLAVE GIRL OUTFIT, DID WE MENTION THAT WAS TOTALLY HOT, PATROL
"Family Guy" (Fox): Carrie Fisher, Patrick Warburton. Plot: Tanks for the memories ... and shooting at the neighbors.
It seems like old Thames when a body drifts by on "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series V: The Seed of Cunning" ("Mystery!", PBS).
"Celebrity Fit Club" (VH1) tries to get out of doing a triathlon.
"Lionel Richie Special" (BET)
"Search for Noah's Ark" (National Geographic)
9:30 p.m.
Michael Rapaport at a comic book convention?!? No wonder they call it "The War at Home" (Fox).
10 p.m.
Can the team coax the info it needs from a traumatized 12-year-old "Without a Trace" (CBS)? Sure, why not.
NEW-SENSE
"Terms
of Endearment" + "Ordinary People" - endearment - ordinary x ("Six Feet
Under" - "Quincy M.E.") = "Brothers & Sisters" (ABC). Radio talk
show host moves to Alaska ... oh wait, that's Anne Heche. Radio talk
show host moves to California and learns that her family thought
"thirtysomething" was a heartwarming comedy. The terrorists will
release these Fox News Channel guys but they demand that Sally Field's
role be made larger and you reshoot the entire series pilot eight times
and make it more grim. How dark can this show be with Ally McBeal and
the Flying Nun, you ask? Let's skim the official ABC description ...
"compelling drama" ... "perceived perfection" ... "cautiously learning
about love" ... "temptation, deception and grief" ... "the maze of
American life" ... "flawed, contradictory and forgivable" ... "the
pressures, limitless options and the struggle to grow beyond our
backgrounds into ourselves." An A.A. meeting sounds like more fun.
Old flames and recent burning make "Angela's Eyes" (Lifetime) smoky.
SURREALITY
Wine flows and hos row on "The Flavor of Love" (VH1). Word to your baby's mama.
"The Girls Next Door" (E!) get the boot. Italy, that is.
Things are running smoothly for Michael on "The Wire" (HBO), while Asher is feeling down in the dumps.
Yasmin flies off the handle on "Footballers Wives: Overtime" (BBC America). I usually do that in coach class.
Traps are set for the "Brotherhood" (Showtime; season finale). And not just at the Irish wedding.
"Cereal-Scapes" (Food)
"The Dudesons" (Spike)
"Bridezillas" (WE)
10:30 p.m.
"The Venture Brothers" (Cartoon)
"Mile High" (BBC America)
11 p.m.
"Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam" (HBO): Jay Phillips, Dominique, Tony Roberts
"Icons" (G4): "British Music Invasion"
11:30 p.m.
"Bureau of Alien Detectors" (Toon Disney)
"Robot Chicken" (Cartoon)
11:45 p.m.
"Metalocalypse" (Cartoon)
midnight
"Squidbillies" (Cartoon)
12:30 a.m.
"Tom Goes to the Mayor" (Cartoon)
Don't you have to work in the morning:45 a.m.
"12 oz. Mouse" (Cartoon)
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WALTZING MATILDA
The titillating question was asked of B) cha-cha-cha champ Mario Lopez.
PLUG AWAY
Mr.
Heald recently taped an edition of "The Paul Goebel Show" (The TV Geek
from "Beat the Geeks") podcast, taking a look at the new fall season,
the merits of the British model of TV seasons/series, Katie Couric's
new sign-off and a heckuva lot of other amusing topics. You can find it
at Yakkyakk.com/kingoftv.html, TheKingofTV.com and naturally, iTunes.
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