Tag: TV

Keith and Rachel.  Get them while there are repeats.  Last night for the Boys this week.  Jon at least is in repeats Monday.

• AMC– Pulp Fiction
• Comedy– Futurama, That Darn Katz! (premier)
• ABC Family– 16 Candles, Freaky Friday
• Food– Good Eats, Alton does Oranges and Ice Cream (not together)
• FX– Superbad x 2
• History– The Universe, Sex and Mars (needs Women)
• Lifetime– Project Runway (last week’s Premier and new)
• TBS– Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
• Turner Classic– Sergeant Rutledge, Once Upon a Time in the West
• Toon– Repeats of Monday’s premiers
• USA– Burn Notice (premier)

Once Upon a Time in the West is perhaps the darkest of the ‘classic’ Westerns and by ‘classic’ I mean Henry Fonda who didn’t always play a hero and has exactly one degree of separation from Marion Morrison.

The freaky thing about Freaky Friday is that it isn’t Jodie Foster’s original, or even Shelly Long’s pathetic remake, but Lindsay Lohan’s trainwreck of a threepeat.  Sometimes I wonder about Jamie Lee Curtis’ choice of material.

Superbad looks like it lives up to its title.  Some people are Will Ferrell fans, I don’t understand why.

Later-

Dave has Mark Wahlberg, Cory Kahaney, and VV Brown.  Jon has Akbar Ahmed, Stephen Savion Glover.  Alton is doing slaw (actually a pretty funny episode).  Showdown at Cremation Creek II (I told you to DVR it).

I’m happy to find Comedy Central again.  The cable company moved it and didn’t notify me except on the TV Guide Channel crawl THAT NEVER WORKS!  I almost called them all cranky like I did ABOUT THE STUPID TV GUIDE CHANNEL!, but I’ve been remiss in providing a permanent prominent link to Yahoo TV Listings.

They moved Spike too.  I hardly noticed it.

Keith, Rachel, and the Boys, but you don’t have to watch news on my account though maybe you’ll want to.  Is Shark Week over yet?

I’m of mixed mind about The Assassins.  On the one hand it has Sylvester Stallone.  On the other hand it has Antonio Banderas.  Given the subtext about aging action hero studs you could find it interesting.

Or not.

• ESPN– White Sox @ Tigers
• FX– Next x 2
• Turner Classic– None But the Lonely Heart, Pinky.  Ethel Barrymore (Drew’s Great Aunt) night.

What?  You think I’m slighting Ghost Hunters?

Later-

Dave has Julia Roberts and The Dead Weather.  Jon has Bruce Henderson, Stephen Michael Posner.  Alton does espresso (too much caffine?  Why do you think that?)

• AMC– Rubicon repeats.
• Turner Classic– Rasputin and the Empress (John AND Ethel)
• FX– Motherfucking Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane (can I have some Ice Tea with that?)

Showdown at Cremation Creek.  This is HUGE.  If you ever hope to understand why David Bowie is The Sovereign of The Guild of Calamitous Intent you’ll examine every frame individually using your DVR and then watch it again at 5 am (hey, you’ll be up in time for Home Movies, Mets Fast Forward, and Monster Trucks).

Not that I would know anything about it.

Keith.  Rachel may not be back from her taping with Dave.  The Boys.

Shark Week mostly reminds me of Gary Condit and Hair on Fire Presidential Daily Briefings after which I started to get all radicalized and unfit for polite company.

• Turner Classic– The Magnificent Seven.

Back in Junior High School my English teacher was obsessed by this film, thought it was the best movie ever made and we spent about 3 weeks analyzing the script in independent study groups where I had the good fortune to be in the same one as my bespectacled and brilliant object of desire.

Needless to say I don’t remember much about it but as I recall we hardly talked about Kurosawa at all.

• ESPN– World Series of Poker x 2!
• SciFi– Warehouse 13 (last week’s and premier).  This week’s premier is a Eureka crossover episode.
• Toon– Unnatural History (last week’s and premier)
• Disney– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Johnny Depp)
• Turner Classic– Bullitt, perhaps the greatest car chase ever filmed.

Later-

Dave has Michael Cera, Rachel Maddow, and Herbie Hancock.  Jon has Will Ferrell, Stephen Laura Ingraham.  Alton does punch.  Viva Los Muertos!

Keith is back!  Also Rachel (probably).  The Boys are in town.  You’d almost think things were normal and this wasn’t the Shark Week of August.

Not that my life is governed by TV or anything.

• AMC– The Ladykillers (much better than Forrest Gump and Philidelphia in my opinion), Repeat of last night’s Rubicon premier.
• ESPN– Mets @ Braves
• FX– Ghost Rider (for Nicholas Cage fans)
• History– Pawn Stars and American Pickers
• Oxygen– Barbershop
• TBS– Family Guy night
• TLC– Cake Boss
• TNT– The Closer (last week and new)
• Toon– Premier night, Adventure Time With Finn & Jake, Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Total Drama World Tour, Stoked
• Turner Classic– Billy Liar, Darling (Julie Christie night)
• TV Land– Big

Later-

Dave has Will Ferrell, Damian Marley, and Nas.  Jon has Mary Roach, Stephen Jimmy Cliff.  Alton is doing edible oils again.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills (introduction of Dr. Henry Killinger).

• AMC– Mad Men premier repeat
• FX– Swimfan
• Turner Classic– Petulia (more Julie Christie)

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Happy Shark Week!

Sigh.  I’ll not be hyping the aqueous skin toothed cartilaginous charms of this media event.  Not while I have Summer X Games!

Oops.

• AMC– 2 Rubicon premiers followed by a Mad Men premier.
• ESPN– Dodgers @ Giants
• ABC Family– Love & Basketball
• Food– All Premiers
• FX– I, Robot
• TBS– Failure to Launch x 2
• Turner Classic– Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Confession
• History– Ice Road Truckers (last week and premier), Top Shot (premier)
• Oxygen– America’s Next Top Model

Later-

• Comedy– Futurama
• Adult Swim– Boondocks The Fried Chicken Flu (premier), Frankenhole (premier)
• Disney– Phineas & Ferb

A good night to sleep.

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• AMC– Pearl Harbor (in Technicolor)
• ESPN– X Games, Rally Car Racing Elims, Quarters, Semis and Final, BMX Big Air Final, SuperRally Final
• E!– Dazed and Confused x 2
• Food– Best Thing I Ever Ate
• FX– Enemy of the State
• History– Top Shot
• Lifetime– Within
• Oxygen– Along Came Polly
• TBS– My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Runaway Bride
• Turner Classic– Bad Day at Black Rock, Convicts Four
• Discovery– Mythbusters
• TLC– Best Food Ever
• TNT– The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions
• USA– Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Later-

• AMC– Michael Clayton
• Lifetime– Project Runway (Season Premier repeat)
• SciFi– Riddles of the Sphinx
• TBS– Bewitched
• Turner Classics– Never So Few

• Toon– Boondocks (Shinin’, Bitches to Rags; GitS SAC: 2nd Gig (Endless Gig, Section 9)

If you can stay up for it, tonight is a pivotal episode of Ghost in the Shell.  TV Listings calls it ‘Endless Gig’, Wikipedia ‘Return to Patriotism’.  I call it ‘Sacrifice of the Tachikomas’.

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Last chance to see Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Hayes, and at that only the one because we want to watch prison documentaries, especially those with Joe Arpaio.

• AMC– JFK
• CNBC– Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• ESPN– X Games, BMX Vert Final, Moto X Step Up Final, Skate Vert Final, Moto X Best Whip, Moto X Best Trick Final, Skateboard Vert Best Trick
• FX– 27 Dresses
• Oxygen– 50 First Dates
• SciFi– Eureka (premier), Haven (premier)
• TBS– Forrest Gump
• Turner Classic– Let the Good Times Roll
• Discovery– Odd Couple Survival Night
• TNT– Walking Tall x 2
• Nick– iCarly @ 8 (premier)

From 9 to 10 Toon has the 2 part Clone Wars where Anakin rescues R2, but it’s going head to head with a Phineas & Ferb premier on Disney with the added short feature- Monster Truck Mater.

Later-

Dave has Madonna and Harry Connick Jr..  Alton talks about knives.

AMC has The Ninth Gate, actually a pretty fair horror flick with Johnny Depp.  Turner Classic is showing Let’s Spend the Night Together, the 1983 Rolling Stones tour documentary.

Adult Swim has moved Children’s Hospital (premier) to a new time, midnight.  Tonight’s Venture Brothers episode is Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean.  Look Around You has episode 1 of season 2, Music 2000.

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No Keith, Rachel.  The Boys are back in town for their final appearance this week.

You know, it’s not just his ignorance, arrogance, and hypocrisy that puts me off Schwarzenegger, or even his Republicanism; it’s the misogyny of his movies, epitomized by True Lies but equally evident in vehicles like Eraser.

I’ll never watch another one again except under duress.

• Comedy– Futurama (premier)
• ESPN– X Games!  First night, Moto X Freestyle Round 1, Women’s Super X Final, Men’s Super X Final, Moto X Freestyle Final, Skateboard Big Air Final.
• E!– ID4
• Food– Good Eats, Honey and Pound Cake
• Lifetime– Project Runway (Season Premier)
• History– The Universe (Season Premier)
• Turner Classic– Rock Rock Rock!, Rock Around the Clock
• USA– Burn Notice (premier)
• Disney– Underdog

Later-

• AMC– The Negotiator
• Turner Classic– Bye Bye Birdie

Dave has Paul Rudd, Bill Burr and Interpol.  Jon has Liev Schreiber, Stephen Andy Cohen.  Alton cooks with alcohol.  Mid-life Chrysalis.

Apparently this is the reward I get for years of screwing with super-science. In short, I pissed in God’s eye, and he blinked.

No Keith, Rachel.  The Boys are back in town.

8 – 2 last night, much more entertaining than a no-hitter.  Jon, I’m going to give you some personal advice, once that beard starts itching in a week or two you won’t be able to get rid of it fast enough.

Men of Honor is good, but not so good I’d watch it twice in a row.  Charlie is the Johnny Depp version.  New Mythbusters @ 9- Bottle Bash.

• AMC– The Mummy
• ESPN– Cards @ Mets
• ABC Family– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• FX– Men of Honor x 2
• History– American Pickers, Pawn Stars (I’m tired of hyping Chasing Mummies, it’s just not that good)
• Turner Classic– Yesterday’s Enemy, Fail Safe
• Discovery– Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs
• TLC– Toddlers & Tiaras

Later-

• AMC– Troy (Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?)
• SciFi– Haven
• Turner Classics– Network
• USA– Burn Notice (this week’s)

Dave has Michael Keaton and The Flaming Lips.  Jon has Robert L. O’Connell, Stephen Elon Musk.  Alton does Molasses.

Ice Station Impossible is the introduction of Professor (voice of Stephen Colbert) and Sally Impossible, and Pete White and Billy Quizboy.  It includes the death of Race Bannon (Yeah, they never show that part on TV.)

Does Random House have some kind of deal where it’s authors can’t be listed in Wikipedia?

If you took my advice and watched ESPN last night you saw the 5th No-Hitter of the year and the first ever for the Devil Rays.

Yawn.

Comedy starts off with Futurama but rapidly declines.  ESPN has World Series of Poker!

I’m tempted to live blog.

No Keith, Rachel.  The Boys are back.

• FX– Enemy of the State
• History– Repeat of the most recent Top Shot @ 10
• SciFi– Last week’s and new Warehouse 13
• Turner Classic– The West Point Story (What a wacky concept!)
• Discovery– Finale of Deadliest Catch @ 9
• Toon– I’ve perhaps been unappreciative of Unnatural History, last week’s and new

• VH1– Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch.  I kid you not.

Later-

Dave has Luke Wilson and Dierks Bentley.  Jon interviews Fareed Zakaria, Stephen Kevin Kline.  The late Futurama is Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV, one on my favorite episodes.

Alton cooks Brussels Spouts.  I love them!  Ghosts of the Sargasso introduces the X-2 and the Pirate Captain who both eventually end up with Jonas Venture Jr.

• Turner Classic– The Winning Team

Ronald Wilson Reagan playing Grover Cleveland Alexander, what could be better than that?