Tag: TV

Faux says they have Phillies/Giants, but that ain’t true.  No more Baseball ’til Wednesday.  There is Throwball, a grudge match if you like, the Favres @ Green Bay.  New Amazing Race.

• ABC Family– The Spiderwick Chronicles x 2
• AMC– 28 Days Later
• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon
• Comedy– Futurama, Into the Wild Green Yonder
• Disney– Sonny With a Chance, Good Luck Charlie (premiers), Halloweentown
• Food– Challenge, Next, Iron Chef America
• FX– Shutter (re-make of a 2004 film), Cloverfield
• History– Ice Road Truckers, Swamp People (premiers)
• Lifetime– Saved! (reads good), One True Thing x 2
• Sci Fi– Identity, The Reaping
• TBS– Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Meet the Browns
• Turner Classic– The Pleasure Seekers, Viva Las Vegas (Ann-Margret night)
• TNT– Gladiator x 2 (Joey!)
• Toon– Sym-Bionic Titan, Clone Wars, Delocated (this week’s repeats)
• USA– 50 First Dates, Pretty Woman x 2

Later-

• AMC– Jeepers Creepers 2, Ghost Ship
• FX– Premonition
• Sci Fi– The Rapture, Dread
• TBS– Guess Who
• USA– Over Her Dead Body
• Turner Classic– Nosferatu (shhhhh)

Adult Swim– new Childrens Hospital and Metalocalypse.  New Venture Brothers, The Silent Partners (last week’s episode, Assisted Suicide summary).

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Well, there’s some kind of College Throwball tonight, TTBA.  Phillies back in Philadelphia which may improve their fortunes, or not.  It’s not a place that you want to be, one game away from elimination.

I’m kind of amazed.  There’s very little coverage of the Senior Circuit, maybe the Yankees loss sucked up all the Oxygen.  What there is focuses on the Phillies lack of offense which has been puzzling though I think it unfair to focus on 1 or 2 individuals.  They haven’t been able to put together innings.  It’s not a team that plays long ball anyway.

I fully expect all my brackets to be blown and be exposed for a sentimental fool in any event.

Yeongam Qualifying.  Yeongam @ 1:30 am on Speed.  Sorry for stepping on you last night Doc, but Dad was headed for bed and I wanted him to have a chance to read it.  Repeat @ 4:30 pm.

• ABC Family– The Goonies
• A&E– Remember the Titans x 2
• Animal Planet– Pit Boss marathon (with premier)
• Disney– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Discovery– Storm Chasers marathon (with premier)
• E!– Heartbreakers
• ESPN– College Throwball, Alabama @ Tennessee, Washington @ Arizona
• ESPN2– College Throwball, North Carolina at Miami
• Food– Kid in a Candy Store (premier)
• FX– V for Vendetta
• History– Apocalypse!
• Lifetime– Her Sister’s Keeper, Accused at 17
• Nick– The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (World Premier?)
• Oxygen– Monster-in-Law x 2
• Sci Fi– Saw III, Saw IV
• Speed– World of Outlaws
• TBS– Why Did I Get Married?, I Think I Love My Wife
• Turner Classic– Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Captain’s Paradise (Alec Guinness night)
• Toon– Monster House
• USA– NCIS marathon
• Vs.– PBR Bullriding World Finals

Later-

• ABC Family– Bridge to Terabithia
• AMC– House on Haunted Hill, Return to House on Haunted Hill
• Bravo– House marathon
• Disney– Fish Hooks (this week’s), Phineas and Ferb
• FX– It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (I certainly hop so)
• Lifetime– Project Runway (repeat of this week’s Part 1 Season Finale)
• Oxygen– While You Were Sleeping
• Sci Fi– Kill Theory, Autopsy
• Spike– GoodFellas
• TBS– Deliver Us From Eva
• Turner Classic– Last Holiday, The Horse’s Mouth (more Alec)
• TNT– American Gangster
• TV Guide– Wolf (useless)
• USA– Burn Notice, 50 First Dates

SNL- Emma Stone, Kings of Leon.  GitS: SAC– Scandal, Equinox (Episodes 22 and 23).

I want to talk to you for a minute. If you make a noise, I shall blow your head off at once. By the time anyone has heard the shot I shall be running back toward the castle shouting for help. I shall say that you stepped on the trap and your gun went off as you fell. So be quiet.

When I’ve finished I shall kill you. You will the the sixth D’Ascoyne that I’ve killed. You want to know why? In return for what the D’Acoyne’s did to my mother. Because she married for love instead of for rank or money or land. They condemed her to a life of poverty and slavery, in a world for which they had not equipped her to deal. You yourself refused to grant her dying wish, which was to be buried here, at Chalfont. When I saw her poor little coffin underground, saw her exiled in death as she had been in life, I swore to have revenge on your intolerable pride. That revenge I am just about to complete.

I made an oath that I would revenge the wrongs her family had done her. It was no more than a piece of youthful bravado, but it was one of those acorns from which great oaks are destined to grow. Even then I went so far as to examine the family tree and prune it to just the living members. But what could I do to hurt them? What could I take from them, except, perhaps, their lives.

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The Phillies hang on by the skin of their teeth which is good for Atrios (and my brackets) I suppose, me I’m all in favor of extended Baseball no matter how boring it is because compared to regular TV it’s a thrill a minute.

Maybe a minute and a half.

Junior Leaguers back at it tonight.  Phil Hughes has something to prove, but that’s usually not a predictor.  The key as always is going to be the Yankee offense which, when they hit, hit big for many runs.  That’s why they get the bling after all.  Still, even Mom (who’s a fan) was saying how old the Yankees looked this series.

1 am Qualifying @ Yeongam.

• ABC Family– Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• AMC– Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, House of Wax (not the good Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Stewardesses 1953 version)
• Disney– The Suite Life on Deck, Pair of Kings, Fish Hooks (premiers), Phineas and Ferb
• Discovery– Swamp Loggers (last week’s and new), Beyond Survival With Les Stroud (premier)
• E!– Coyote Ugly, The Soup (premier)
• ESPN– Heat @ Magic (more LeBron)
• ESPN2– College Throwball, South Florida @ Cincinnati x 2
• Food– New Meat and Potatoes
• FX– Joy Ride, Prom Night (the not as good remake of the horrible 1980 film)
• National Geographic– New Dog Whisperer
• Nick– Big Time Halloween (premier)
• Oxygen– The Wedding Planner
• Sci Fi– Sanctuary (premier)
• Style– Jerry Maguire
• Turner Classic– X the Unknown, Five Million Years to Earth (Hammer time)
• TLC– Say Yes to the Dress marathon (with premier)
• TNT– Tombstone
• Toon– Sym-Bionic Titan, Generator Rex, Clone Wars (premiers)
• Vs.– PBR Bullriding World Finals x 2

Later-

• AMC– Dead Silence
• ESPN– Warriors @ Lakers (Thursday game)
• Oxygen– License to Wed, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
• Sci Fi– Caprica (this week’s), Sanctuary (insta repeat), Stargate Atlantis
• Speed– Formula 1 Debrief
• TBS– The Chronicles of Riddick
• Turner Classic– These Are the Damned, The Stranglers of Bombay
• TNT– Pale Rider (come back Shane!)
• Toon– Family Guy, American Dad, Childrens Hospital, British The Office
• TV Guide– Weeds marathon (useless)
• USA– The Hitcher (not the good 1986 version)

Dave?  9/22.

Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid.

Take what you can, give nothing back.

It’s Junior League travel day and at least the Yankees have spared themselves the indignity of losing in the Stadium.

Tonight we get to see the Phillies blow my brackets, a rematch of Halladay v. Lincecum that was such a boring entertaining  matchup in an inside your eyelids kind of way in Game 1.  I do hope the Phillies win so I can watch the end of the series instead of napping.

But the big news is that they’re apparently going to run Korea after all.  Hamilton is promising not to give up, but frankly he needs a couple of big DNFs from Webber.  Practice starts tonight at 1 am on Speed.  Qualifying tomorrow, also @ 1.

Broadcast premiers mostly.  Mostly.

• ABC Family–Van Helsing
• AMC– Friday the 13th Part VII — The New Blood, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan x 2
• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon (2 premiers)
• Comedy– Night of Too Many Stars 5 x 2 (where Jon and Stephen have been)
• Disney– Twitches Too
• E!– Evan Almighty (the Steve Carell one.  There’s a new The Office without him tonight you could check out instead)
• ESPN– College Throwball, UCLA @ Oregon
• Food– Dueling Alton (Cajun v. Creole and Paella), New Food Feud
• FX– It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League x 3 (premiers)
• History– Aliens
• Lifetime– Project Runway (last week’s, Season Finale Part 1 Premier x 2)
• TBS– Family Guy, American Dad night
• Turner Classic– Algiers, Tortilla Flat (Hedy Lamarr night)
• Toon– This week’s repeats, Total Drama World Tour, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Regular Show, MAD
• TNT– Heat @ Hawks (is LeBron all that and a bag of chips?)
• Travel– Man v. Food marathon (thank goodness)
• TV Guide– Doc Hollywood, Weeds marathon (useless)
• Vs.– PBR Bullriding World Finals

Later-

• Sci Fi– The Final
• Turner Classic– White Cargo, H.M. Pulham, Esq. (more Hedy)
• TNT– 3:10 to Yuma (not the good 1957 version)
• Toon– Family Guy, American Dad night continues, new Delocated
• TV Guide– More Weeds marathon
• VH1– Beavis and Butt-head Do America (heh.  heh, heh, heh.)

No Dave, 10/4.  No Jon or Stephen at all.  No Alton.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

Take this down. I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

Could you repeat that, sir?

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Well tonight you have a chance to see my other surviving bracket get 1 game away from elimination.  About all I can say is that Atrios will be disappointed.  Both teams will be pitching their 3rd best so it will be a test of offense and bullpens.

All premiers on broadcast.

• ABC Family– The Goonies, Hocus Pocus
• AMC– Friday the 13th — A New Beginning, Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives x 2
• Bravo– New Top Chef
• Comedy– South Park, Ugly Americans (premiers)
• Disney– Twitches
• Discovery– Mythbusters (2 premiers, though I don’t think Buster’s Cut should count), Storm Chasers (premier if you care)
• Food– Next (this week’s), Tailgate Warriors With Guy Fieri (Series Premier)
• FX– Deception, Terriers x 3 (premier and instant repeats)
• History– Cannibalism
• Lifetime– The Break-Up x 2
• Oxygen– A Cinderella Story x 2
• Turner Classic– Ride Lonesome (Randolph Scott!), Park Row
• Travel– Man v. Food marathon (thank goodness)
• USA– NCIS marathon
• Vs.– PBR (World Finals)

Later-

• Turner Classic– The Last Flight, All Through the Night
• TV Guide– Weeds marathon
• USA– Blood Diamond

No Dave, Jon, or Stephen; 9/9, 10/11, 10/11.  No Alton.

Boondocks– Wingmen.

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Pinstripe fans seem disappointed today, but it was Cliff Lee, the Rangers’ Ace, and he went 120 pitches so you don’t have to worry about him for the rest of the series.  What you should be worried about is the bullpen implosion.  Six runs in the 9th?

I’d bring back CC on short rest tonight so that if he’s good and you need it he can pitch the 7th game too.  If he struggles then you have AJ to pick up the pieces.  Evidently Joe disagrees.

I understand a Senior League sporting team is also engaging in athletic competition today.  I think they should strive to succeed so they get their away split in the bag, but so far thei offense has been lacking.

And there are other things you can watch, mostly premiers on broadcast.

• AMC– Friday the 13th Part 3, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter x 2
• Disney– Under Wraps
• Discovery– Dirty Jobs (Season Premier)
• E!– Knocked Up
• Food– Private Chefs of Beverly Hills (premier)
• FX– Cloverfield
• SciFi– Stargate Universe, Caprica (premiers)
• Turner Classic– Design for Living, Middle of the Night (Fredric March night)
• Toon– Tower Prep, Sym-Bionic Titan, Clone Wars (this week’s)
• Vs.– Bruins @ Capitals

Later-

• SciFi– Stargate Universe, Caprica (instant repeats), Friday the 13th: The Series
• Speed– Monster Jam
• Turner Classic– The Barretts of Wimpole Street (more March)
• TV Guide– Weeds marathon (just means it will be useless)

No Dave, Jon, or Stephen, 10/7, 10/13, 10/13.  No Alton.

Boondocks– The Return of the King (an excellent and surprising episode)

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I understand a Senior League team was victorious in a sporting competition.  Hopefully the listings give you some idea where to switch so yu don’t have to listen to God Bless America all the time.  I’m not yet despairing of my brackets,  The Phillies showed almost Yankee like offensive powers last night.  This Series is pitching matched up, so you get the best pitcher against the best and so on.  Tuesday will be the third game in the series and it will be interesting to see how each offense performs against the ‘not so good’ pitcher.

Of course it’s the third game in the Junior League tonight and as you’ll recall the Yankees started their Ace first game, but the Rangers had to wait until tonight for theirs which means he’ll probably only pitch the once.  Once being of course in the first game in Yankee Stadium.  Lee has impressive statistics.  Opposed by Pettite who really is only the third best.  Again I think it comes down to offense in which I think the Rangers are less good.  If they can solve Pettite and put it away they’re likely to win.  If it’s close- everyone on the Yankees can hit.

But while it would ruin my 5 game prediction it doesn’t alter my opinion of the ultimate outcome.  Means the Yankees need to win on the road again and they’ve already shown they can do it.

Postseason ace vs. October pro in Game 3 of ALCS

By MIKE FITZPATRICK, AP Sports Writer

50 mins ago

NEW YORK – Cliff Lee’s left arm has been the most dominant force in baseball during the past two postseasons. Now, all that October success has earned him another matchup with the New York Yankees.

“They’re basically an All-Star team. From top to bottom, they have threats everywhere,” Lee said. “I’m not going to get intimidated.”

With the best-of-seven AL championship series tied at one apiece, the scene shifts to Yankee Stadium for Game 3 on Monday night, when a pair of pressure-proven pitchers will be back in the spotlight.

Broadcast premiers.  

• ABC Family– Mean Girls, Good Burger
• AMC– Friday the 13th & 2 x 2
• Bravo– New Real Housewives
• Discovery– Sr. v Jr. repeats (this year’s)
• ESPN– Throwball, Titans at Jaguars
• ESPN2– World Series of Poker (this week’s)
• Food– Unwrapped, Best Thing I Ever Ate (premiers)
• FX– Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
• History– Pawn Stars (2 premiers)
• Lifetime– The Two Mr. Kissels x 2
• Oxygen– Definitely, Maybe x 2
• Spike– Blade: Trinity x 2
• Turner Classic– Oliver!
• TLC– New Cake Boss
• Toon– Regular Show, MAD, Total Drama World Tour (premiers)
• Vs.– Avalanche @ Rangers (the hockey kind)

Later-

• FX– 30 Days of Night
• Sci Fi– Friday the 13th: The Series
• Turner Classic– The Black Stallion, Almost Famous
• USA– The Bourne Ultimatum x 2

No Dave.  No Jon or Stephen.  Or rather repeats from 9/21, 10/12, and 10/12.  Fortunately there is double Alton, Oats 2 and 1.

Boondocks– Series Premier A Huey Freeman Christmas.

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Well, your host for Prime Time ek hornbeck is off this evening so Prime Time is being hosted by yours truly, TheMomCat, tonight. Don’t be too hard on me since I don’t watch TV all that much. So this will be an abbreviated edition tonight with some Live Blogging of Game 2 of the MLB Playoffs with San Francisco at Philadelphia in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series which starts at 8 PM.

Since it is in Fox here in NYC those of you unfortunate enough to have Cable Vision as your cable provider you are out of luck unless you have a converter and rabbit ears. Cable Vision and Fox are still duking it out over how much Fox wants from Cable Vision for the privilege of airing their channels.

I am also not much of a sports fan, so feel free to comment along with me as I call the balls and strikes. Just keep in mind I have no clue as to who the top players are and absolutely no favorite in this ball game.

Now my attempt at the Unusual Suspects for your viewing pleasure.

Spike: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation marathon

A&E: Paranormal State and Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal

AMC: Rubicon Season Finale, Mad Men Season 4 Finale

BRAVO: Real Housewives of Atlanta x 2, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Food: Food Network Challenge, Next Iron Chef, Iron Chef America

Comedy Central: Employee of the Month

History Channel: Irt Deadliest Roads x 2, Swamp People

WE: Bridezillas x2, Amazing Wedding Cakes

IFC: Sling Blade

FX: The Waterboy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

ABC Family: Ever After, Mean Girls

TBS: Hulk

Discovery Channel: Life x 3

TLC: Sister Wives marathon

USA: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit marathon.

For those who have HBO and Showtime:

On HBO: Boardwalk Empire: “Nights in Ballygran”, Bored to Death : “I’ve Been Living Like a Demented God” and Eastbound & Down : “Chapter 10”

On Showtime: Dexter : “Practically Perfect”, Dexter  Beauty and the Beast, Weeds and The Big C

So today Rangers fans and Yankee haters are getting their revenge (though 5 runs is not enough) but the point is that you only have to split away and that’s already done.  Tonight on Faux we have a pitchers’ duel which means a boring game barring a breakdown.  I’ve already picked the Phillies, I say they do it in 6.  Does this hurt the eventual Yankees matchup?  Did you see CC last night?  Vincible.

There is also Turn Left Racing.

• AMC– Predator & 2 (if you like that sort of thing, were it not a double feature I wouldn’t bother listing it)
• Animal Planet– Pit Boss (premier)
• Bravo– House marathon
• Comedy– Wedding Crashers
• Disney– A relatively large amount of Phineas and Ferb
• E!– Bounce
• ESPN– College Throwball, Ohio State @ Wisconsin and Oregon State @ Washington
• ESPN2– College Throwball, South Carolina @ Kentucky and Mississippi @ Alabama
• Food– A new Throwdown (ugh, the most unjustifiably arrogant chef on Food TV)
• FX– Baby Mama (again?), Two and a Half Men marathon
• History– The Universe marathon
• Lifetime– The Pregnancy Pact, Reviving Ophelia
• Nick– New True Jackson
• Oxygen– Juno, Legally Blonde
• Sci Fi– The Final, Kill Theory
• TBS– The Longest Yard x 2 (not the good one)
• Turner Classic– A Foreign Affair, Knight Without Armour
• TNT– Fool’s Gold, Failure to Launch
• Toon– Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (World Premier), Tower Prep (Series Premier)
• TV Guide– Useless.  Home Fries x 2 (again and again and again)
• USA– NCIS marathon
• Vs.– College Throwball, Arizona @ Washington State

Later-

• ABC Family– Stepmom
• Comedy– Waiting…
• Sci Fi– The Graves (again), House of the Dead 2
• TBS– Terminator 2 (No Fate.  Best of the series.)
• Turner Classic– Morocco (a very young Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich)
• TNT– Spanglish
• USA– Burn Notice
• Vs.– Wildcats (again)
• VH1– 8 Mile (again)

SNL Repeat from 9/25.  GitS: SAC Re-View, Eraser (episodes 20 and 21).

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Yankees @ Rangers.  Their aces aren’t going to pitch against each other unless the series goes deep and then the Rangers will be on short rest.  The Yankees will look to get an easy away victory tonight so they can close out at home.  I predict Yankees in 5 because their offense is clearly superior.  My offensive observation is I don’t think their pitchers are any better than the Phillies (with the exception of Rivera) and like all Junior League clubs they’re longball prima donnas who were never taught how to put to put together an inning with base hits and running nor stop one with their glove work.

Designated hitter my ass.

There are other things on TV but why would you want to watch them?

• AMC– Deep Blue Sea, Ghost Ship
• Disney– Suite Life, Wizards, Fish Hooks (premiers), Phineas and Ferb (Wizard of Oz)
• Discovery– Swamp Loggers (last week’s and new), Beyond Survival With Les Stroud (premier)
• ESPN– College Throwball, Cincinnati at Louisville
• ESPN2– Turn Left Racing, Dollar General 300
• Food– New Meat and Potatoes (get a wiki accout you lazy bastards)
• FX– Big Momma’s House, Big Momma’s House 2 (oh joy)
• Lifetime– Reba marathon
• National Geographic– Dog Whisperer (premier)
• Nick– Big Time Rush (premier)
• Oxygen– Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous x 2
• Sci Fi– Season Premier of Sanctuary (actually fabulous!)
• Turner Classic– The Mummy, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb
• TLC– Say Yes to the Dress marathon (with premier)
• TNT– The Holiday, Two Weeks Notice
• TrueTV– Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura marathon (with premier)
• USA– House marathon
• Toon– Sym-Bionic Titan, Generator Rex, Clone Wars (premiers)

Later-

• AMC– Virus
• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon
• Disney– Mostly Wizards, with a repeat of Phineas and Ferb
• FX– It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia ], [The League (yesterday’s premiers)
• Oxygen– Rumour Has It
• Sci Fi– The Event marathon (incuding Series Premier)
• Turner Classic– The Mummy’s Shroud The Mummy’s Shroud], [Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb
• TNT– Runaway Bride
• Toon– Childrens Hospital (this week’s), The Office (the good British one)

Dave has David Duchovny and Amy Sedaris.

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