TV Barn's TV Picks for Feb. 7
KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM
Which series does not have a character who'd beat a nine in "Celebrity Poker Showdown"?
A) "The Brady Bunch"
B) "Pee-wee's Playhouse"
C) "Smallville"
D) "24"
E) "Will & Grace"
[All in for the correct answer at the bottom of the column.]
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TV Barn's TV Picks for Wednesday, February 7, 2007
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
7 p.m.
"Wings Over the World" (Military)
7:30 p.m.
"Access Granted" (BET): Young Jeezy featuring R. Kelly
8 p.m.
Racism and powder-puff football cause the raising of eyebrows (and other body parts) on "Friday Night Lights" (NBC).
UNNECESSARY GUEST BLACK ADDITION PATROL
"Bones" (Fox): Stephen Fry, French Stewart. Plot: A new partner helps Bonesy Drew solve "The Mystery of the Corpse inside the Crocodile."
"George Lopez" (ABC) gains a media room and a pair of high-definition freeloaders.
"Beauty and the Geek" (CW) tackle mutton at a ranch. Is this some kind of a bust? Yes, ma'am, it's very impressive.
The dancers of "America's Ballroom Challenge" (PBS) try not to stop short while executing the American Rhythm method.
"Futurecar" (Discovery)
"Sex, Myths and the Real Deal about HIV/AIDS" (BET)
"New Face, New Hope" (TLC)
"Francesco's Italy Top to Toe" (Travel)
8:30 p.m.
"The Knights of Prosperity" (ABC) engage in a premature victory dance and must recover from their fumble in the end zone before being called offsides.
"Paula's Home Cooking" (Food)
9 p.m.
Cheaters, suicide kings, nekked people and drug abuse make for a slap-happy secret-filled "One Tree Hill" (CW).
Earl Warren and William Rehnquist sing the best of "The Supremes" (PBS; also 10). Such dreamy courting music.
UNNECESSARY GUEST CREEK DREDGING PATROL
"Criminal Minds" (CBS; Sunday's part 1 repeats at 8): James Van Der Beek. Plot: One of the team members is kidnapped. D'oh!
The numbers are bad on "Deal or No Deal" (NBC). They're bad.
ANCIENT HISTORY
The original (and it says here, unaired) pilot of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." (American Life Network) introduces "Mr. Solo."
CLIPS-PLOITATION!
Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse host an exclusive 60-minute video podcast that you can download to your television in the "Lost Survivor Guide" (ABC; new show at 10).
"American Idol" (Fox) finally airs a clip show of all the decent contestants they didn't get a chance to show before, since the brute squad needed so much attention/humiliation.
"All Star Chocolate" (Food)
"Timeless" (BETJ): Gladys Knight
"Forensic Files" (Court)
"UFC's Ultimate Fight Night" (Spike)
10 p.m.
"Medium" (NBC) walks with a Texas ranger.
UNNECESSARY ALBUM PLUG GUEST STAR PATROL
"CSI: NY" (CBS): Nelly Furtado. Cases: A personal shoplifter and a college newspaper reporter who knew (or blogged) too much.
Jack continues to hijack the life of Ben on "Lost" (ABC; new time). Elsewhere, Kate and Sawyer make friends with an Other, and Juliet makes a decision that could change the tribe's pizza delivery order forever.
It's child's play on "Top Design" (Bravo) as the contestants have to face the demands of their clients for a dream bedroom. Can I have the racecar bed from "Silver Spoons"?
"Myths & Legends" (TV Land) digs the graves of Mama Cass, Charlie Chaplin and George Reeves.
"The Wow Factor" (BBC America)
"Modern Marvels" (History): "Pumps"
"The Real World: Denver" (MTV)
"Dominick Dunne: Power, Privilege & Justice" (Court)
"Inside the NFL" (HBO)
10:30 p.m.
"The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show" (Comedy) helps out at a retirement dinner and meets (gasp) an agnostic! Heavens!
"Maui Fever" (MTV)
"Dinner: Impossible" (Food): "Back in Time: Ye Ol' Dinner: Impossible"
11 p.m.
Who made monsters in their basements? "The Sci-Fi Boys" (Sci Fi).
"Reflections" (BET)
YOU CAN DANCE IF YOU WANT TO
* Rose: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tom Stoppard
* Ralph Nader decides if "The Daily Show's" amount of speed in the writers' room is dangerous.
* Sen. Norm Coleman and Frank Luntz frame Tavis Smiley for murder.
* Steven Pinker is rare to medium well on "The Colbert Report."
* Chris "Lemming" Elliott, Kelly "Cougar" Ripa and John Mellencamp are badgered by Dave.
* Hugh Grant, Julie Scardina and Norah Jones plan Jay's next four weddings and/or funerals.
* Dane Cook, Katharine McPhee and Albert Reyes sing Jimmy's praises.
* Cuba Gooding Jr., Joy Behar and Jonathan Katz ask Conan to show them union scale.
* Bob Saget, Kaylee DeFer and Jonny Lang go blue with Craig.
* Timothy Busfield and Colbie Caillat drop by for "Last Call."
KNOW WHEN TO WALK AWAY
"Pee-wee's Playhouse" had the King of Cartoons; "Smallville" has been visited by the Green Arrow a.k.a. Oliver Queen; and "24" and "Will & Grace" have a pair of Jacks. The same can't readily be said of A) the Brady Bunch.
-- posted by Jon Delfin
