Program Planner: April 20-26
Sunday’s Oklahoman, which includes the 44-page full-color and full-of-information TV Week, hits the newstands in the Oklahoma City area on Saturday afternoon. And it arrives at the doorstep (or hopefully nearby) early Sunday morning.
But for those who can’t wait to begin planning the upcoming week around the best TV has to offer, here is a sneak peek at programs worth watching the week of April 20:
SUNDAY
→“Brothers & Sisters” (9 p.m. on ABC): Returns with first of four new episodes.
→“John Adams” (8 p.m. on HBO): Final installment of 7-part miniseries.
→“Masterpiece: My Boy Jack” (8 p.m. on OETA-13): Daniel Ratliffe (”Harry Potter” films) stars as Jack Kipling, the only son of British author Rudyard Kipling. Kim Cattrall (”Sex and the City”) plays his mother, who does not want to see her son go to war.
→“Oprah’s Big Give” (7 p.m. on ABC): First-season finale. Jennifer Aniston (”Friends”) makes an appearance.
→“Princess” (7 p.m. on ABC Family): A new fantasy film starring Kip Pardue as a young man who falls for a mysterious woman (Nora Zehetner) he meets at a charity event.
→“Sweet Nothing in My Ear” (8 p.m. on CBS): The 233rd presentation of the Hallmark Hall of Fame stars Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin (”Children of a Lesser God”) as a deaf mother who does not believe her non-hearing son needs cochlear-implant surgery. Her husband, played by Jeff Daniels (–), wants the surgery for his son. It is adapted from a stage play by Stephen Sachs.
MONDAY
→“American Experience: Roberto Clemente” (8 p.m. on OETA-13): Remembers the Puerto Rican baseball player who died in a plane crash at age 37 when he was delivering supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
→“America’s Prom Queen” (8 p.m. on ABC Family): First-season finale.
→“Finish Line” (8 p.m. on SPIKE): New crime drama starring Samuel Page (‘‘Shark”) as a stock car driver with NASCAR dreams who gets involved with an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement investigation.
→“Gossip Girl” (7 p.m. on CW): Returns with first of five new episodes.
TUESDAY
→“Alaska Experiment” (9 p.m. on Discovery): Series premiere.
→“Handy Manny” (8 a.m. on Disney): Presents an environment-themed episode in celebration of Earth Day. Manny and his Tools learn about using solar enegry and how to re-use resources.
→“Independent Lens” (10 p.m. on OETA-13): Rebroadcast of “The Creek Runs Red,” which documents the Oklahoma town of Picher. The EPA calls Picher the most toxic place in America.
→“Nova: Car of the Future” (7 p.m. on OETA-13): Features Tom and Ray Magliozzi of radio’s ‘‘Car Talk” putting a humorous spin on their report on efforts to bring cars with alternative fuel sources — biodiesel, hydrogen fuel cells, electricity — into the mainstream.
→“Reaper” (8 p.m. on CW): Returns with first of five new episodes. (Cast is pictured in CW Photo at top).
WEDNESDAY
→“Criminal Minds” (8 p.m. on CBS): Guest stars Gina Mantegna (”In the Land of Women”). She is the daughter of series star Joe Mantegna.
→“Law & Order” (9 p.m. on NBC): Returns with first of five new episodes. Anthony Anderson (”K-Ville”) joins the cast as Internal Affairs detective Kevin Bernard.
→“Secrets of the Dead” (9 p.m. on OETA-13): Seventh-season premiere.`
THURSDAY
→“Creature Comforts” (6 p.m. on Animal Planet): Series premiere of British animated hit.
→“Great Performances: Primo” (9 p.m. on OETA-13): A one-man play written by and starring Antony Sher (‘‘Mrs. Brown”) as Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi as he remembers his internment at Auschwitz in painful detail.
→“Grey’s Anatomy” (8 p.m. on ABC): Returns with first of five new episodes. Amy Madigan (”Carnivale”) joins the cast in the recurring role of a staff psychiatrist.
→“Lost” (9 p.m. on ABC): Returns with first of five new episodes.
→“Supernatural” (8 p.m. on CW): Returns with first of four new episodes.
→“Ugly Betty” (7 p.m. on ABC): Returns with first of five new episodes.
FRIDAY
→“Moonlight” (8 p.m. on CBS): Returns with first of four new episodes.
→“That Mitchell and Webb Look” (8:20 p.m. on BBC America): First-season finale.
→“Today” (7 a.m. on NBC): Paula Abdul (”American Idol”) performs live during the Toyota concert series.
SATURDAY
→“Cold Case” (7 p.m. on CBS): Features original songs by multiple Grammy Award winner Bob Legend throughout the episode.
→“The Graham Norton Show” (9 p.m. on BBC America): Third-season premiere.
→“The Mighty B!” (9:30 a.m. on Nickelodeon): Series premiere.
→“Robin Hood” (8 p.m. on BBC America): Second-season premiere.
→“Storm Cell” (8 p.m. on Lifetime): Movie starring Mimi Rogers (”Penny Dreadful”) as a storm chaser who discovers that Seattle is about to become the new Tornado Alley.
–Penny TV
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Hi I could not buy a sunday oklahoman in madill to day two machines were full of papers but would not open ,one still had saturday paper in it pretty sad .