TV Barn's TV Picks for June 1-3
A LITTLE LOWER NOW
Harvey Fierstein costarred on which sitcom?
A) "All About Steve"
B) "Daddy's Girls"
C) "It's a Living"
D) "Man of the House"
E) "One of the Boys"
[Lower your eyes to the bottom of the column where the answer, like Harvey's voice, is clear as mud.]
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TV Barn's TV Picks for Friday through Sunday, June 1-3, 2007
by Tom Heald with Jon Delfin
All times Eastern
For PBS programs, check local listings
7 p.m.
"Invaded" (Cartoon)
7:30 p.m.
"Take Home Chef" (TLC)
8 p.m.
How exactly are we supposed to take a show like "TV's Funniest Moments" (Fox) seriously when it neglects to have wacky unnecessary punctuation in its title?
"Edge of Existence" (Discovery) heads to the Arabian desert to live among the Bedouin nomads in Oman. We wonder what his Wi-Fi access is like there. It's probably an unsecured connection.
TELE-GEBRA
"Forever Knight" x "Passions" - "Dynasty"/"Dante's Cove" + "Eyes Wide Shut" = "The Lair" (here!): A journalist is lured into an underground sex circuit where the patrons want to suck ... your blood.
Teal'c goes rogue to stop Starbucks from corporatizing the Jaffa nation on "Stargate SG-1" (Sci Fi).
"Born Country" (CMT): "Karaoke Moms." Wait, is that "Born" or "Boring"?
"It's All Geek to Me" (Discovery Science): Laptops
"WWE Friday Night SmackDown!" (CW)
"Most Haunted Fakery Live USA" (Travel)
8:30 p.m.
"NOW" (PBS) says nasty things about the President. You liberals.
9 p.m.
WELL I-NEVER
Have you got the balls to watch "National Bingo Night" (ABC)?
"Stargate Atlantis" (Sci Fi) takes the weekend off. Unfortunately, this memo lands in the hands of the enemy. Bring me the head of Lieutenant Xero'x!
"40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs" (VH1), interrupted every ten seconds so Michael Ian Black, Mo Rocca and people who'd like to be writing at the Onion can insult them.
"Paula's Party" (Food/BBQ Network): "Fried vs. BBQ"
"Bill Moyers Journal" (PBS)
"Prankville" (CMT)
"What Not to Wear" (TLC)
"Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter" (WE)
9:30 p.m.
"Bandits vs. Smokies" (CMT)
10 p.m.
Are there Communists in your summer camp? "20/20" (ABC) is on the trail.
"The Soup" (E!) du jour is Pirates of the curried beans.
"Painkiller Jane" (Sci Fi) catches a Neuro. And we all know what that means.
"Intervention" (A&E)
10:30 p.m.
"Wildest Party Parents" (E!)
11 p.m.
Boxing (Showtime): Duran vs. Kirkland, Bradley vs. Camarena
11:30 p.m.
"Basilisk" (IFC)
11:45 p.m.
TOM'S TRYING TO MAKE SOME KIND OF A POINT HERE DEPT.
"Sin City Diaries" (Skinemax)
midnight
"Live at Gotham" (Comedy Central): Gerry Dee, John Ramsey, Pete Dominick, Freddy Lockhart, Lisa DeLarios, Bryan Callen
A LITTLE CHAT
* William Shatner and Peeping Tom guest on "The Henry Rollins Show."
* Rose: Shaul Bakhash, Ian McEwan, Anne-Marie Slaughter
* Tavis Smiley concludes a week of "Right to Return: New Home Movies From the Lower 9th Ward" with Malik Rahim and Robert Green Sr. (unless you live in the New York City area and didn't watch part 5 last night immediately following part 4; check channel 50, WNJN, Monday at 1 p.m.).
More talk show information is available at www.interbridge.com/lineupsdate.html.
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SATURDAY
2:30 p.m.
"Mr. Heald's Birthday" (EGO)
5 p.m.
"25 Most Memorable Swimsuit Moments" (E!)
6 p.m.
"Heroes Among Us, Miracles Around Us" (ION)
7 p.m.
"Hex" (BBC America; another episode at 9) returns, vexed up to its nex in just what you expex.
"Air Bud V: Air Bud Spikes Back" (Animal Planet), a charming beach volleyball documentary.
"The Ultimate Fighter" (Spike; also 8 & 9)
7:30 p.m.
"Pokémon" (Cartoon)
8 p.m.
Ian Somerhalder is "Marco Polo" (Hallmark) while Brian Dennehy is Kublai Kahn. Hallmark: when you care enough to cast the very worst.
"Anna's Storm" (Lifetime Movie Network)
NHL Stanley Cup finals, game 3 (NBC)
"Man-Made Mammals" (Discovery)
"The Roots Present" (Starz in Black): Young Gunz, Mobb Deep, Jean Grae, Martin Luther, Skillz
"Cops" (Fox)
"Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" (Nickelodeon)
"Band in the Bubble" (MTV)
"Emeril Live" (Food): "Caribbean Cookout"
"The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time" (GSN): 24-21
9 p.m.
"America's Cutest Puppies" (WE)
"America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back" (Fox)
"Flip This House" (A&E)
"The Real Deal" (TLC): "The Keeper"
"Elite Xtreme Combat" (Showtime)
"Dangerous Encounters" (National Geographic): "Bite Force 2"
9:30 p.m.
"Herbie Hancock: Possibilities" (Starz in Black)
"The Andy Milonakis Show" (MTV2)
10 p.m.
"The Graham Norton Show" (BBC America) returns in its 69th incarnation, with guests Kim Cattrall and Elijah Wood.
"Backyard Nation" (TLC): "Xtreme Backyard" ... I think the word "Xtreme" applies better to 9 p.m.'s "Combat"
"5 Takes Latin America" (Travel): Buenos Aires, Argentina
"The States" (History): Illinois, Connecticut, Nevada, Mississippi, Wyoming
"Girls of ... Wal-Mart" (Playboy)
"Gotta Get It" (Food/BBQ Network; also 10:30): "Grilling" & "Entertaining Gadgets"
VIVA VARIETY
"Saturday Night Live" will not be broadcast so that NBC can present professional wrestling off cue cards instead.
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SUNDAY
6:30 p.m.
In anticipation of Monday's U.S. premiere of the soap opera "Hollyoaks," the cast recaps "The Story So Far" (BBC America).
7 p.m.
A VERY SPECIAL CLIP SHOW
"Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite 60 Minutes Stories" (CBS): Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Vanessa Redgrave
"Dateline" (NBC) investigates why anyone would watch televised bingo.
"dLife: For Your Diabetes Life" (CNBC)
7:30 p.m.
"Just Jordan" (Nickelodeon)
8 p.m.
SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE
Sarah Silverman takes two hours out of her busy schedule of not having sex with Jimmy Kimmel to host the "2007 MTV Movie Awards" (MTV; preshow at 7:30).
Larry "the Cable Guy" hopes you'll buy his "Morning Constitutions" (Comedy Central) at Wal-Mart anyway, iffn it's just fer the extras like the sheet of paper withn his pictchore on it.
Now that she's thinner, Kirstie Alley gets to complain that nobody will hire her because she's "old" in "Write & Wrong" (Lifetime). Gee, maybe it's because you're Kirstie Alley.
NBA Western Conference finals, game 7 if necessary (ABC)
"Life After Film School" (FMC) with Stan Lee
9 p.m.
Tony tests the loyalty of his friends and family on "The Sopranos" (HBO). Where are we supposed to insert the bloody chicken?
"Inside the Green Berets" (National Geographic)
"The Next Food Network Star" (Food; also 10)
"Gene Simmons Family Jewels" (A&E): "Growing Pains"
"Samantha Brown: Passport to Green Getaways" (Travel)
10 p.m.
Wolsey falls from grace (against his will) on "The Tudors" (Showtime).
EVERY TIME YOU GO AWAY BUT ONLY FOR A WEEK BECAUSE THE NEXT SEASON STARTS ON 6/17
Drama buys condo on "Entourage" (HBO). Fire bad.
TELE-GEBRA
"The Unit" - "Delta Force" x "Desperate Housewives" = Kim Delaney and Catherine Bell as "Army Wives" (Lifetime)
Metrosexuals and assorted sharply dressed poofters are weighed by the pound (and shilling) on "The Real Queens of England" (BBC America). Menswear, Mr. Humphries is unavailable ....
New York returns for a celebrity interview while Mo'Nique celebrates her birthday on "Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School" (VH1).
"Meet the Faith" (BET): "Unbreakable: The State of Marriage in Black America"
"Geologic Journey" (Discovery Science)
"The Simple Life Goes to Camp" (E!): "Big Primpin'"
"An Astronaut Scorned: The Lisa Nowak Story" (TLC)
"Snapped" (Oxygen)
"The 1/2 Hour News Hour" (Fox News)
10:30 p.m.
Adrien Grenier of "Entourage" sets the stage for Father's Day with his 2002 documentary "Shot in the Dark" (HBO).
"Sunset Tan" (E!)
11 p.m.
"Icons" (G4): Eli Roth
BLASPHEMY BLASPHEMU ON CARTOON NETWORK
"Saul of the Mole Men" (midnight), "Moral Orel" (12:15 a.m.)
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MONDAY NEWS IN BRIEF
ABC: "Ex-Wives Club"
CBS: "Creature Comforts"
Fox: "On the Lot," "Hell's Kitchen"
NBC: Stanley Cup finals
PBS: "Six Days in June"
ABC Family: "Falcon Beach"
FX: "The Riches" (season finale)
BBC America: "Hollyoaks" (U.S. premiere)
TCM: "Algie the Miner," a short from 1912
Sundance: "Gay Sex in the '70s"
Bravo: "Inside the Actors Studio: Julia Louis-Dreyfus"
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AND GRACE
Harv was part of B) the disastrous 1994 "My Three Daughters" meets "America's Next Top Model" sitcom for Dudley Moore, Alan Ruck and future "Felicity" Keri Russell.
-- posted by Jon Delfin
