Monday, June 29, 2009
Fan-freaking-tastic, we start the blog back up right in the middle of crappy summer television, and no American Gladiators in sight. Missin u, Wolf.
Top Gear
8:00 (BBC America)
Back to back episodes as the boys go American – first, a visit from Marky Mark, and then cruising through the western states.
Make ‘em Laugh
10:00 (PBS)
An installment of PBS’ excellent documentary on 20th century American comedy, focusing on domestic sitcoms. No word on if the hilarious Michael Rapaport vehicle The War at Home is included.
Superbad
8:00 (Encore)
Michael Cera, despite having only played a few roles, seems to alternate from loved-to-hated faster than anyone. At least in the hipster community. Don’t worry, Scott Pilgrim will undo all the Year One harm.
Late Night
It’s hiatus week across the board on the networks: witness the origin of Co-Co Christopher’s nickname with Tom Hanks and Green Day, Letterman has the sexy-funny pairing of Jessica Biel and Zach Galifinakis (guess which is which!), Fallon has Ice-T, Elmo, and ♥ Morgan Webb ♥, and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert buck the trend and feature new and exciting guests, such as neurologist Oliver Sacks and astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Top Gear
8:00 (BBC America)
The trio of British gearheads travel to the Land of the Rising Sun, in what I’m sure will be the best car-related programming to come out of Japan since 3 Fast 3 Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Fiesta Bowl
8:15 EST (FOX)
Yes, it’s the bowl game that is also probably something on the dollar menu at Taco Bell! Watch Ohio State battle Texas, and watch as the victorious coach gets dunked in nacho cheese.
How I Met Your Mother
8:30 (CBS)
It’s a repeat of this season’s opener, which means you can relive that glorious month that was September 2008. Hey, remember when McCain suspended his campaign? Is there anyone cooler than Michael Phelps?
Late Night
Kate Hudson is nearly famous on Letterman, Terry Bradshaw keeps hoping Failure to Launch 2 will sustain his acting career on Leno, Benicio del Toro is on Conan for 5 hours, Richard Lewis is the guest from hell on Ferguson, David Gregory meets the fake press on the Daily Show, and John King continues to stalk the Comedy Central crowd on Colbert.
Monday, November 10, 2008
8:00 – Inside the Actor’s Studio (Bravo)
Dave Chappelle and James Lipton go all Freaky Friday on us and trade places for the series’ 200th episode – Chappelle interviews Lipton to find out what’s really on all those crazy cards.
8:00 – Top Gear (BBC America)
Back to back Top Gears, starting off with the Best Of 06-07 special, followed by Jeremy racing a runner around the London Marathon course during rush hour. I would’ve rather seen it during the marathon itself, but beggars can’t be choosers. OR CAN THEY???
8:30 EST – Monday Night Football: 49ers at Cardinals (ESPN)
That’s right, it’s everyone’s least favorite Monday Night game of the year: San Francisco at Arizona. At least it seems that way to me, a poor west coast Niners fan. Sorry they’re no “Jets,” you eastern seaboard pricks, but they’re the best we’ve got. (Jeff’s fantasy implication: Frank [the tank] Gore.)
Late Night
Ted Turner makes an offer for CBS on Letterman, Martha Stewart offers stock tips on Leno, Andy Richter reapplies for his old job on Conan, and the Daily Show and Colbert are taking a long needed and deserved vacation.
Monday, July 21, 2008
8:00 – American Gladiators (NBC)
The semifinals are on, and there’s a new Gladiator debuting tonight. Let’s take guess as to his name. Spear! Hyper! Rhino! Pull-tab! Oh, wait, it’s on NBC’s site, I guess it’s ‘Beast‘ …and he’s seven feet tall! That’s a full 14 inches over dumbass Rocket, last season’s winner! Damn.
9:00 – Top Gear (BBC America)
Smart of BBC America to be ramping up their quality programming during the summer – between Top Gear and Spaced, they’re kicking the crap out of our domestic networks. Tonight on Top Gear: funny accents and steering wheels on the wrong side. Also: Hammond’s a homo! HAHAHAHAHA.
10:00 – Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel)
Tony heads to Saudi Arabia to apply his rude ‘tude to OPEC negotiations. Or, more likely, to eat broiled scorpion or something.
Late Night
Will Ferrell takes his shirt off on Dave, Kyra Sedgwick makes me delete TNT from my channel listing on Leno, Richard “Something about Subprime Mortgages” Bitner is on The Daily Show and Senator Jim Webb swears he doesn’t want the VP spot … 
… on Colbert.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Keeping it light, I’m at a nerd conference so I should really be paying attention to what’s going on.
8:00 – American Gladiators (NBC)
Husbands vs. Wives. Sigh. Is there no dumb reality convention Gladiators won’t touch? Next week: Wolf and Titan swap wives and Hellga votes herself off.
8:00 – Top Gear (BBC America)
I’m starting to become a total BBC America addict. Top Gear is the funniest magazine show on television (soon to be butchered by Adam Carolla), Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares is way more tolerable than Hell’s Kitchen, and by God that’s John Oliver’s sexy voice serenading me during station commercials. What a delight.
9:00 – I Love the New Millennium (VH1)
VH1 was faced with doing either I Love the Nifty 50′s or this, and I guess they made the correct decision. Of course, I predicted this several years ago…
Late Night
Will Smith freshens up Letterman, Jonah Hill is increasingly disturbing looking on Conan, David Hasselhoff eats a sandwich on Ferguson, James McAvoy is hoisted by his nipples on The Daily Show, Barbara Ehrenreich is somebody I don’t know on Colbert, and Leno’s on vacation.
