STRIKE WHILE JEREMY IRONS IS HOT
In what year did the National Broadcasting System begin running Friday night sketch comedy series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"?
A) 1978
B) 1980
C) 1986
D) 1994
E) 2002
[Cancel your plans until you find the correct answer at the bottom of the column.]
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TV Barn's TV Picks for Thursday, May 31, 2007
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
7:30 p.m.
"The Black Carpet" (BET)
8 p.m.
TELE-GEBRA
Jack Sparrow x Jeff Probst = "Pirate Master"
THESE KIDS TODAY
* "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" (Fox)
* The 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee (ABC), or, "Are Non-SAG 5th Graders Smarter Than Other 5th Graders?"
"Man-Made" (National Geographic): "The Flashlight"
"Innocent" (BBC America; see also 9): "Rape!"
"The Academy" (Fox Reality)
"Get Fresh With Sara Snow" (Discovery Health)
9 p.m.
"Shame" (Showtime) is an understatement when it comes to the brutal gang-rape of Mukhtaran Mai, who fought back and became a global human rights icon.
TELE-GEBRA
* "Desperate Housewives" x "Alice" = Debra Messing as "The Starter Wife" (USA; two episodes)
* "TV Nation" x "The Old Time Gospel Hour" = "John Safran vs God" (Sundance). Does Australia treat its indigenous people better than America? How do you get punished when learning Zen Buddhism? What's the link between Satanism and Freemasonry? And what about Wynonna?
UN-AUSSIE-SARY GUEST STAR
"American Chopper" (TLC) : Russell Crowe
"So You Think You Must Dance: Atlanta" (Fox)
"Innocent" (BBC America; season finale): "Suicide!"
"TNA iMPACT!" (Spike)
"The First 48" (A&E)
10 p.m.
When an emergency with her pregnancy is laborious, nobody wants to be crossing Jordan on "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (NBC).
"History Rocks" (History): "The '70s" featuring Pong. No, it was a different documentary you didn't watch last night.
"Throwdown With Bobby Flay" (Food/BBQ Ribs Network): "BBQ Ribs"
"1,000 Places to See Before You Die" (Travel): Mexico
"Healthy Decadence With Devin Alexander" (Discovery Health)
"Wrecks to Riches" (TLC)
"The Ultimate Fighter 5" (Spike)
10:30 p.m.
YOU'RE STILL HERE?
"The Showbiz Show With David Spade" (Comedy Central)
"North Mission Road" (Court)
TAV SOUP
* Rose: Zalmay Khalilzad, Andrew Natsios, Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
* Tavis Smiley presents "Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward" part 4: Mel Jones and James Gibson, but not Mel Gibson.
More talk show information is available at www.interbridge.com/lineupsdate.html.
JUST WHERE ARE MATT AND DANNY, ANYWAY?
"SSotSS" was launched in C) 1986.
-- posted by Jon Delfin
I thought the Show within the show on "Studio 60" was called "Party Night in America" (As per the announcer in the pilot.)
Posted by: Anonymous | May 31, 2007 at 04:50 AM