TV Barn's TV Picks for Oct. 12

BLAMMO!
What's the problem with cartoon kid Adam Lyon?

A) His babysitter is an elephant.
B) His brother is a zebra.
C) His gym partner is a monkey.
D) His mother is Joan Rivers.
E) His TiVo thinks he's gay.

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TV Barn's TV Picks for Thursday, October 12, 2006
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings

7:30 p.m.
PETE REPEAT
"30 Rock" (Bravo; also 11)

8 p.m.
"Survivor: Cook Islands" (CBS) in search of a new gimmick divides the tribes by virginity. Not surprisingly, it's all the contestants vs. Jeff Probst.

"My Name Is Earl" (NBC) and I stole a pretty kitty. You're not watching? 'Tis a pity.

A creature stalks "Smallville" (CW) and demands Clark mate with her. Has Anna Nicole broken through her restraints again?

Babe Ruth's record may be broken on tonight's champion series game (Fox). No, nothing to do with batting, we meant his arrest record.

Audra McDonald and friends perform the work of Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright and Broadway composers Adam Guettel and Ricky Ian Gordon "Live From Lincoln Center" (PBS).

"Ugly Betty" (ABC) lands a top photographer from her past to shoot for the magazine.  Can she survive an extreme makeover?

"Ancient Rome: The Modern Stadium" ("Where Did It Come From?", History) chronicles the history of the $8 beer.

FULL MARX
... or, TCM DVD Theater, featuring Dick Cavett's interview with Groucho Marx, followed by "A Day at the Races" (9), "Animal Crackers" (midnight), "Monkey Business" (1:45 a.m.), "Horse Feathers" (3:15) and "Duck Soup" (4:30).

8:30 p.m.
Good grief! "The Office" (NBC) goes through counseling sessions after a regional manager dies.

"Masterchef Goes Large" (BBC America)

9 p.m.
Can Addison prove her might on "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)? We think she can, we think she can, we think she can.

The "Supernatural" (CW) boys meet a fellow vampire hunter who's, like, totally buff.

The model carrying briefcase #15 on tonight's "Deal or No Deal" (NBC) is named Earl.

UNNECESSARY
"CSI" (CBS): Kevin Federline. Plot: Tourists hoping to beat the odds in the clubs get bludgeoned to death instead. Will Britney's hubby take the rap for it?

Attic, uh! There's a terror above in "A Fake Haunting" (Discovery).

Ronnie has a date for the ESPY Awards she can't get out of but also a corset she can't get out of on an all-new "Veronica's Closet" (NotBC).

"Pizza acrobats attempt to break a Guinness world record" on "Pizza Champions" (Food). Is that a chunk of moon in your eye? No, it's amore with marinara.

"Joan Cusack's Local Flavor" (Travel): Portugal
"Guns: Machines of War" (National Geographic)
"The First 48" (A&E)

10 p.m.
A sly private eye may have caused two people to die. Will he jump the "Shark" (CBS)?

A nanny is needed in both the "ER" (NBC) and at home.

Ex-wives, double dates, the mad puncher, wedded bliss, secrets and karaoke are among this week's "Six Degrees" (ABC).

"Fake Sensing Murder" (Discovery) tracks a random killer to entertain random viewers.

"Murder City" (BBC America)
"Naked Science" (National Geographic): "Forensics Under Fire"
"Real World/Road Rules Challenge" (MTV)
"Dallas SWAT" (A&E)
"Moms on the Road: Africa" (Travel)
"Committed: The Christies" (BET Jazz)
"The Ultimate Fighter" (Spike)
"The Underground" (Showtime)

10:30 p.m.
As if the Teletubbies, SpongeBob and Mr. Rogers hadn't turned enough of the nation's children into homosexuals, "Drawn Together" (Comedy Central) presents "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Round Table." Send in your protest postcards now!

11 p.m.
"TNA iMPACT!" (Spike)
"White Boyz in the Hood" (Showtime)

12:30 a.m.
"Inuyasha" (Cartoon)


Please visit the Late Night TV Page and pbs.org for late-night listings.


ZOWIE!
A typo in his name made the school system think Adam was a "Lion" and sent him to Charles Darwin Middle School, where, according to the title of his Cartoon Network show, C) "My Gym Partner Is a Monkey."

-- posted by Jon Delfin