TV Barn's TV Picks for Feb. 5
TIME'S UP
When did Jack's first day start on "24"?
A) midnight
B) 8 a.m.
C) noon
D) 4:56 p.m.
E) 5 p.m.
[Time's a-wastin'. Get to the bottom of the column for the correct answer.]
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TV Barn's TV Picks for Monday, February 5, 2007
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
7 p.m.
UNNECESSARY "MURDER ONE" GUEST STAR PATROL
"Lincoln Heights" (ABC Family): Jason Gedrick. Plot: An old classmate robs a new convenience store.
7:30 p.m.
"Hotwyred" (BET)
8 p.m.
UNNECESSARY STAR DANCING PATROL (PART ONE)
"How I Met Your Mother" (CBS): Emmitt Smith. Plot: The gang tries to avoid learning who won the Super Bowl until after they can all watch it on tape. Oh, so we shouldn't spill that it was the (insert team name here)?
Michael and Sarah are strangers in the night, exchanging bodily fluids on "Prison Break" (Fox).
UNNECESSARY BOB PATTERSON PATROL
"Everybody Hates Chris" (CW): Jason Alexander. Plot: Only Chris shows up for school on a snow day.
"Antiques Roadshow" (PBS) appraises yellow diamonds. Whither the green horseshoes, purple hearts and orange stars?
Inside suitcase #18 on "Deal or No Deal" (NBC) is one of them terrorist "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" Light Brites.
A motocross momma and an Earth mother make the "Wife Swap" (ABC).
The kids are sighin' when dad wants to sell the scion of "Wildfire" (ABC Family).
"Beach Patrol" (Court; also 8:30)
"Gay, Straight or Taken?" (Lifetime; also 8:30)
"Incredible Journeys" (Animal Planet)
"Mystery ER" (Discovery Health)
8:30 p.m.
UNNECESSARY STAR DANCING PATROL (PART DEUX)
"The Class" (CBS): Jerry Rice. Plot: The gang swallows their pride while choking on chicken.
Bobby insists on joint custody for "All of Us" (CW).
9 p.m.
UNNECESSARY GUEST DWAYNE WAYNE PATROL
"Girlfriends" (CW): Kadeem Hardison. Plot: Are Girlfriends willing to date Ministerfriends?
"Heroes" (NBC) visits the trailer park. This can't be good.
Father and son bond between bomb blasts on "24: Day 6" (Fox).
An Asian American filmmaker sets off to learn why it seems that everyone she meets shares her name in "The Grace Lee Project" (Sundance).
UNNECESSARY GETTING BETWEEN HER AND HER CALVINS PATROL
"Two and a Half Men" (CBS): Brooke Shields. Plot: Charlie sets up and sabotages a blind date for his brother.
Three sisters have to learn to love again when their father sentences them to live under "[Nora Roberts'] Montana Sky" (Lifetime) for a year to earn their inheritances.
"Supernanny" (ABC)
"American Experience" (PBS): "The Living Weapon"
"The Kindness of Strangers" (BBC America)
"Combat Zone" (Military)
"E-Vet Interns" (Animal Planet)
"Digging for the Truth" (History): "King Tut: Secrets Revealed"
"Futureweapons" (Discovery): "Mission Invisible"
"Executive Leadership Awards" (CNBC)
"My Super Sweet 16" (MTV)
"WWE Monday Night RAW" (USA)
9:30 p.m.
TELE-GEBRA
"'Til Death" + "Just Shoot Me" x "King of Queens" + Jenny Craig = "Rules of Engagement" (CBS)
UNNECESSARY STAR DANCING PATROL (PART TRES)
"The Game" (CW): Jerry Rice, Jim Hill. Plot: Are players ready to be traded (to their own spin-offs)?
10 p.m.
SWEEPS-PLOITATION
"In Style Celebrity Weddings" (ABC) hails Xenu at the faking of the vows for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Uh, did we say "faking"? Our lawyers suggest that was a typo. We meant "taking."
A truck full of confiscated weapons is hijacked on "CSI: Iraq" (CBS).
Sure Harriet's a great Christian, but she never had a dinner before tonight on "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (NBC).
"At Close Range With National Geographic" (PBS): photographer Joel Sartore
"Surviving Alcatraz" (National Geographic)
"Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" (Travel): Los Angeles
"Stunt Junkies: Go Big or Go Home" (Discovery; also 10:30)
"The White Rapper Show" (VH1)
"My Unique Family" (TLC): "That Woman Is My Husband"
"Suburban Secrets" (Court)
"Weaponology" (Military)
"High Maintenance 90210" (E!)
"Extreme Celebrity Love Splits" (WE)
TALK SOAP
* Rose: Martin Amis, Norman Mailer
* Walter Scheib serves up anecdotes for "The Daily Show."
* P.J. O'Rourke and Audra McDonald ask Tavis to give war a chance.
* Wendy Kopp teaches "The Colbert Report" for America.
* Dr. Phil and Fall Out Boy kiss and make up with Dave.
* Clint Eastwood, Jennifer Hudson and John Waite & Alison Krauss make my Jay.
* Danny Bonaduce, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Phi Beta Sigma step team bring it on for Craig.
* Kristin Chenoweth, Mindy Kaling and the Slip are showing for Conan.
TOCK TALK
The first worst day of Jack's life began and ended at A) midnight.
-- posted by Jon Delfin
