Program Planner: July 20-26
Sunday’s Oklahoman, which includes TV Week, hits the newsstands 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 July 20:
SUNDAY JULY 20, 2008
◊The 2008 ESPY Awards (8 p.m. on ESPN): Singer, actor and self-described sports fan Justin Timberlake (’N Sync) hosts the 16th-annual event that honors athletic achievement. Categories include best male and female athlete, best coach, and best team on both professional and college levels.
◊“High School Musical: Get in the Picture” (7 p.m. on ABC): Nick Lachey (”Charmed”) hosts this new reality series in which young competitors, ages 16 to 22, undergo assorted challenges in a ‘‘summer music program.” The winner will appear in a music video that will be shown during the end credits of ‘‘High School Musical 3.”
◊“Mad Men” marathon (11 a.m. on AMC): Leading up to next week’s season two premiere of the critically-acclaimed drama, AMC will air all 13 episodes from season one
◊“The Next Food Network Star” (9 p.m. on Food Network): The remaining three finalists meet season two winner Guy Fieri and create a buffet for Las Vegas entertainers.
◊“The Simpsons” (7 p.m. on Fox): Glenn Close (”Damages”) guest stars as the voice of Homer’s mom, Mona, in the episde “Mona Leaves-a.” She leaves Homer riddled with guilt for not telling her how he felt about her.
◊“The Stagers” (9 p.m. on HGTV): This new series follows a team from Canada’s leading home staging company, Dekora, as they prep homes to sell as quickly and as profitably as possible.
MONDAY JULY 21, 2008
◊“American Gladiators” (7 p.m. on NBC): It’s the first round of the semifinals, as well as the premiere of the biggest and baddest Gladiator yet — The Beast.
◊“Catch 21” (6:30 p.m. on GSN): Alfonso Ribeiro (“Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) hosts this new game show that blends pop trivia with the classic card game 21.
◊“Chasing Churchill: In Search of My Grandfather” (9 p.m. on OETA-13): Celia Sandys, Winston Churchill’s granddaughter and former traveling companion, retraces her grandfather’s footsteps in this three-part miniseries. Part one opens with Churchill’s private life at Sandhurst Military Academy, which he left in 1894 to begin a journey in search of adventure and danger.
◊“The Closer” (8 p.m. on TNT): Paul Michael Glaser (”Starsky & Hutch”) guest stars in the new episode about a recently paroled murderer who is found dead in an alley near a halfway house. Brenda must tread carefully, because the crime for which the victim was convicted was a major press event in Los Angeles.
◊“Date My Ex: Jo & Slade” (9 p.m. on Bravo): In this new dating competition series, Jo De La Rosa, who appeared in the first two seasons of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” gets a second chance at love with a little help from her ex-fiancé Slade Smiley.
◊“Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal” (8 p.m. on HBO): This new documentary follows the former ‘‘Hollywood Madam” as she attempts to start a legal brothel in Crystal, Nev., that caters to female clients.
◊“History Detectives” (8 p.m. on OETA-13): Objects examined include a WWII Marine’s jacket with stitched inscriptions and sheet music bearing President Lincoln’s signature.
◊“Legally Blonde: The Musical: Search for the Next Elle Woods” (9 p.m. on MTV): The search for the next Elle Woods on Broadway comes to an end.
◊“Saving Grace” (9 p.m. on TNT): David Gallagher (”7th Heaven”) and Dee Wallace (”Cujo”) guest star in the new episode “A Survivor Lives Here.” Grace is called to a crime scene with blood everywhere, but there is no body.
◊“Take Home Nanny” (7 p.m. on TLC): Emma Jenner is the nanny with no naughty corner in this new series. She helps families in turmoil get ready for special events.
◊“Wanna Bet” (8 p.m. on ABC): British comedians Ant and Dec host this new game show in which celebrities attempt to win money for charity by betting on the outcomes of stunts and mental feats performed by ordinary folks. In the premiere episode, the judges include Sherri Shepherd (“The View”) and George Takei (“Star Trek”) and one of the stunts is identifying music CDs by licking them.
TUESDAY JULY 22, 2008
◊“Deadliest Catch” (8 a.m. on Discovery): Catch up with the captains and crews crab fishing in the Bering Sea with a 12-hour marathon. It concludes with the season four finale at 8 p.m.
◊“The Cleaner” (9 p.m. on A&E): Oklahoma actor Robert Blesse guest stars as a surfer in the episode titled “Chaos Theory.”
◊“Highway 18″ (9 p.m. on Golf Channel): This new series follows five teams competing in a golf road rally down Florida’s highways, fairways and byways. Teams will compete in challenges both on and off the course that will demand cooperation and ingenuity in order to survive elimination.
◊“Jail” (8 p.m. on My Network TV): This episode in the series, which follows individuals from their initial booking through their first moments in the slammer, features jails in Tulsa, Las Vegas and Hillsboro, Ore.
◊“P.O.V.” (9 p.m. on OETA-13): The new documentary ‘‘9 Star Hotel” spotlights young Palestinians working construction in Israel by day and hiding from the authorities by night in a crude camp in the hills.
◊“Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” (9 p.m. on HBO): Highlights include a one-on-one conversation with former Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells and an in-depth look at women’s gymnastics.
◊“Road Tasted With the Neelys” (8:30 p.m. on Food Network): In this new series, Pat and Gina Neely from “Down Home With the Neelys” hit the road on a cross-country search for the best local, hand-crafted foods.
WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 2008
◊“Buzzin’” (9:30 p.m. on MTV): This new reality series follows the misadventures of music artist Shwayze, his best pal and producer Cisco Adler, their tour manager Warren Gumpel and Suretune Records manager Jordan Schur.
◊“Criminal Minds” (8 p.m. on CBS): Kate Jackson (”Charlie’s Angels”) guest stars as Agent Prentiss’ mom, a foreign ambassador who enlists the help of the Behavioral Analysis Unit when a Russian immigrant is kidnapped.
◊“Criss Angel Mindfreak” (9 p.m. on A&E): In the fourth-season premiere, illusionist Criss Angel attempts to walk on Nevada’s Lake Mead, the world’s largest man-made lake.
◊“Nova scienceNOW” (8 p.m. on OETA-13): This new installment features a segment on leeches, that today are used when reattached fingers and toes become engorged with excess blood that must be drained off.
THURSDAY JULY 24, 2008
◊“Dragons’ Den” (8 p.m. on BBC America): Five multi-millionaires are ready to back the best new ideas and innovations in this reality series. Items being pitched this episode include a hanging sofa and a recyclable lawn chair.
◊“Fear Itself” (9 p.m. on NBC): The installment titled “Community” stars Brandon Routh (“Superman”) and Shiri Appleby (“Charlie Wilson’s War”) as a young couple who find the perfect house in the perfect neighborhood … or so they think.
◊“Last Comic Standing” (7 p.m. on NBC): Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends Holly, Bridget and Kendra take part in this week’s challenge when the remaining eight comics are surprised with a trip to the Playboy Mansion.
◊“Live From Abbey Road” (9 p.m. on Sundance): The music series taped at London’s Abbey Road Studios features performances by Matchbox Twenty and Def Leppard.
◊“Ugly Betty” (7 p.m. on ABC): Betty White (”The Golden Girls”) guest stars as herself in a rebroacast of the episode “Bananas for Betty,” in which the other Betty (America Ferrera) agrees to an unusual double date.
◊TCM Tribute — 100th Anniversary of the FBI: The network salutes the investigative organization of the federal government by airing six classic FBI movies, including 1935’s “G-Men” (7 p.m.) and 1939’s “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (8:30 p.m.).
FRIDAY JULY 25
◊“Duel” (8 p.m. on ABC): The head-to-head trivia competition concludes with the second-season finale).
◊“Extraordinary Animals” (8:30 p.m. on Animal Planet): Ayumu, a chimpanzee that has made headlines for its speed and accuracy in memory tests, is featured.
◊“Today” (7 a.m. on NBC): Miley Cyrus (”Hannah Montana”) performs live from Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.
◊TCM Birthday Tribute — Walter Brennan: The late actor was born on this day in 1894, and the network celebrates by airing eight of his films — 1936’s “Three Godfathers” (5 a.m.), 1938’s “Mother Carey’s Chickens” (6:30 a.m.), 1939’s “The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle” (8 a.m.), 1943’s “Slightly Dangerous” (9:45 a.m.), 1944’s “To Have and Have Not” (11:30 a.m.), 1946’s “Nobody Lives Forever” (1:15 p.m.), 1951’s “Best of the Badmen” (3 p.m.) and 1966’s “Glory” (4:30 p.m.).
SATURDAY JULY 26
◊“EliteXC Saturday Night Fights” (8 p.m. on CBS): The four-fight broadcast live from the Stockton Arena in California will be highlighted by a rematch between “Ruthless” Robbie Lawler and Scott “Hands of Steel” Smith for the EliteXC middleweight title. In the mixed martial arts event, which evolved from a number of ancient combat disciplines including judo, jiu-jitsu, karate, wrestling and kickboxing, the competitors engage in hand-to-hand combat and must adapt their fighting style to fit their opponent.
◊“Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour in Disney Digital 3D” (7 p.m. on Disney): Miley Cyrus sings as herself and as her “Hannah Montana” character in this 3-D event. Complimentary 3-D glasses are available at Wal-Mart Stores nationwide.
◊“Rolex Superstars of Show Jumping” (2 p.m. on Animal Planet): Defending U.S. champion Beezie Madden travels to Germany to compete against the top horses and rider in the world.
◊“Solstice” (8 p.m. on Lifetime): This 2008 thriller follows a group of high school friends on their summer vacation at a lake house. Things take a turn for the worse when one of the girls uncovers a secret about her twin sister.
◊The Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz take on the Amarillo Dusters in arena2 football action airing live at 7:05 p.m. on KSBI-52.
–Penny TV
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