Program Planner: Oct. 26-Nov. 1
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 Oct. 26:
SUNDAY OCT. 26
◊“Brothers & Sisters” (9:01 p.m. on ABC): Chad Lowe (“Life Goes On”) directs today’s episode titled “You Get What You Need,” in which Nora and Holly discuss William’s long lost son.
◊“Cities of the Underworld” (8 p.m. on History): Host Don Wildman is once again tearing through the streets of the world’s most famous cities to uncover secrets hundres of feet beneath the pavement. The Season 3 premiere stops in London.
◊“Entourage” (9 p.m. on HBO): Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”) guest stars as herself in the new episode “First Class Jerk.” She finds herself next to Turtle on a plane, and he makes a mile-high claim his friends don’t buy.
◊“The Ghost of Mae Nek” (11 p.m. on Sundance): In this new take on a scary Thai legend, a pair of young newlyweds acquires an abandoned house in Bangkok that is the domain of a vengeful spirit.
◊“Mad Men” (9 p.m. on AMC): The Emmy-winning drama series starring Jon Hamm and John Slattery concludes its second season with the episode titled “Meditations on an Emergency.”
◊“Nature” (7 p.m. on OETA-13): “White Falcon, White Wolf” follows the perilous parenthood of two species — white gyrfalcons and Arctic wolves — that raise their families on Canada’s remote Ellesmere Island, where June is spring, July is summer and August is autumn.
MONDAY OCT. 27
◊“Boston Legal” (9:02 p.m. on ABC): Alan Shore and Denny Crane saddle up at a dude rance, but they find themselves at odds with their fellow horse enthusiasts and in court. Betty White (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) guest stars.
◊“Car Toons” (5:56 p.m. today through Wednesday on Toon Disney, channel 151 on Cox Digital Cable, 174 on Dish Network, 292 on Direct TV): This new animated short series features Mater, the rusty firetruck from the film “Cars.” All three short films will air throughout the day Saturday on the Disney Channel.
◊“Chuck” (7 p.m. on NBC): Life in espionage takes its toll on Chuck, who tries to explain his unusual behavior to the Buy More efficiency expert (Tony Hale, “Arrested Development”).
◊“How to Make a Hole-in-One” (10 p.m. on Golf Channel): Nick Faldo, who has made 11 aces, provides instruction in this humorous look at how to make golf’s toughest shot.
◊“Lisa Williams: Voices From the Other Side” (10 a.m. today through Friday on Lifetime): English clairvoyant Lisa Williams returns with a new five-episode special programming event airing this week. Each episode will feature Williams doing one-on-one readings in a studio and impromptu meetings with people on the street.
◊“Primal Fear” 8 p.m. on History): This two-hour special explores human fears, such as being buried alive, getting bit by a snake and drowning. The special will replay at 9 p.m. Friday.
◊“Two and a Half Men” (8 p.m. on CBS): This rebroadcast from May was directed by series star Jon Cryer (Alan) and features guest star Susan Blakely (“Rich Man, Poor Man”).
TUESDAY OCT. 28
◊“Billy Wilder Speaks” (5:45 p.m. on TCM): This documentary uses footage from interviews director Billy Wilder gave over the years to tell the story of the man behind “Sunset Boulevard,” “Some Like It Hot,” “The Apartment” and other classics.
◊“Coolio’s Rules” (9 p.m. on Oxygen): Hip-hop star Coolio returns from life on the road and tries to get his family life in order in this new six-episode reality series.
◊“Dirty Jobs” (8 p.m. on Discovery): Host Mike Rowe teams up with the boys from Bartos Bait & Fish in Waubun, Minn., to catch leeches that will later be sold for fish bait.
◊“Greek” (8 p.m. on ABC Family)(ABC Family Photo above features Spencer Grammer, Lauren Conrad and Amber Stevens): Lauren Conrad (“The Hills”) guest stars as a spiritual adviser to Casey (Spencer Grammer) in the show’s second-season finale.
◊“Independent Lens” (10 p.m. on OETA-13): Directors Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam sit down with Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to address his ideas of a democratized society in their country.
◊“Nova” (7 p.m. on OETA-13): The revolutionary new branch of math called fractals is the subject of the new episode “Hunting the Hidden Dimension.” It looks at how this “new math” could change our understanding of life.
WEDNESDAY OCT. 29
◊“Biography” (8 p.m. on Biography): Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama will be featured in back-to-back profiles.
◊“Criminal Minds” (8 p.m. on CBS): A serial killer who jumps trains and targets people living near the railway is the subject of a Behavioral Analysis Unit manhunt. Meta Golding (“Eli Stone”) guest stars.
◊“Ghost Hunters” (8 p.m. on SCI FI): Colin Ferguson (“Eureka”) joins the TAPS team to investigate the historic USS Hornet aircraft carrier in San Francisco.
◊“Pushing Daisies” (7 p.m. on ABC): Ned is startled when a mysterious man (Stephen Root, “The West Wing”) appears at the diner claiming to be an old friend of his dad’s and asks for his help in finding him.
◊“A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway” (7 p.m. on OETA-13): Rick Sebak, inventor of the public television nostalgia documentary, takes viewers on an armchair trip on the United States’ first transcontinental highway, built in 1913.
◊“Shaken Not Stirred” (8 p.m. on My Network TV): This new series of specials morphs the old-school roast with edgy nighttime talk. The first installment welcomes Rev. Al Sharpton and “toasters” Anthony Anderson, D.L. Hughley, Paul Rodriguez and John Salley.
◊“Top Design” (9 p.m. on Bravo): Jeff Lewis (“Flipping Out”) is back to judge part one of the Season 2 finale, in which each designer is given one room in a house to create the best possible space.
THURSDAY OCT. 30
◊“30 Rock” (8:31 p.m. on NBC): In the third-season premiere of the two-time Emmy winner for best comedy series, Liz tries to keep the TGS (“The Girlie Show”) staff from ruining her chances at adoption when an evaluator (Megan Mullaly, “Will & Grace”) drops by the job.
◊“Austin City Limits” (10 p.m. on OETA-13): Wallflowers leader Jakob Dylan showcases tunes from his debut solo album “Seeing Things.”
◊“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (8 p.m. on CBS): The CSI team investigates the suspicious death of a young woman who turns out to be the daughter of a wanted criminal. Nicholas Turturro (“I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry”) and Jason Lewis (“Sex and the City”) guest star.
◊“Eleventh Hour” (9:01 p.m. on CBS): When a deadly virus infects a demolition site in Pittsburgh, Dr. Hood is called in to contain a potentially lethal outbreak. Oded Fehr (“Sleeper Cell”) guest stars.
High School Football: Norman North plays Edmond Santa Fe at 7:30 p.m. on Cox.
◊“Iconoclasts” (9 p.m. on Sundance): This installment of the series that pairs together two leading innovators from different fields to discuss their passions features skateboarder Tony Hawk and actor Jon Favreau.
◊“Jacked: Auto Theft Task Force” (9 p.m. on A&E): In the season finale, the force gets a computerized license plate reader and takes it out for a spin/
◊“Life on Mars” (9:01 p.m. on ABC): Sam is pulled back into his childhood when he becomes entangled in a local gangster’s assault on a young woman, who turns out to be his mother. Robert Klein (“The Stones”) guest stars as a mob boss.
◊“Ugly Betty” (7 p.m. on ABC): Betty finds herself competing with Kimmie (Lindsay Lohan, “Georgia Rule”), who finally shows her true colors. Ralph Macchio (“The Karate Kid”) guest stars as a new customer at Hilda’s shop.
FRIDAY OCT. 31
◊“100 Scariest Moments” and “Even Scarier Movie Moments” (3 to 10 p.m. on Bravo): These back-to-back specials count down the most bone-chilling scenes in cinematic history. What will the scariest movie moment of all time be?
◊“Die, Monster, Die!” (8:30 p.m. on TCM): In this 1965 adaptation of a story by H.P. Lovecraft, Boris Karloff plays an Englishman whose household is being destroyed by a mysterious meteor that crash-landed nearby.
◊“Doomed to Die? 13 Most Shocking Hollywood Curses” (7 p.m. on E!): This hourlong countdown examines the mysteries, misfortunes and uncanny coincidences surrounding some of Hollywood’s most famous curses.
◊“Ghost Hunters Live” (6 p.m. on SCI FI): The TAPS team led by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson returns to the Fort Delaware for this live Halloween special. During their last visit in June, they experienced a variety of paranormal encounters.
◊High School Football: Choctaw plays Stillwater at 7:30 p.m. on KSBI-52; Sapulpa plays Sand Springs at 7:30 p.m. on Cox.
◊“True Hollywood Story” (8 p.m. on E!): Star Jones, whose publicized feuds with her former co-hosts on “The View” made her a household name, is profiled.
SATURDAY NOV.1
◊“Archangel” (7 p.m. on ION): Daniel Craig (“Casino Royale”) stars in this three-hour thriller that was adapted from author Robert Harris’ novel of the same name. The movie revists the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of former Oxford historian Fluke Kelson (Craig).
◊“Center Stage: Turn It Up” (7 p.m. on Oxygen): This sequel to the 2000 feature film reunites Peter Gallagher (“The O.C.”) and ballet star Ethan Stiefel. They reprise their roles as Academy Artistic Director Jonathan Reeves (Gallagher) and teacher Cooper Nielsen (Stiefel) at the
fictitious New York City American Ballet Academy.
◊“Legend of the Seeker” (5 p.m. on KOKH-25): This new syndicated fantasy series follows the extraordinary travels of woodsman Richard Cypher (Craig Horner), who must stop a ruthless tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world. The series kicks off with a two-hour premiere.
◊“Gladiators” (3 p.m. on BBC America): This British version of the popular competition series features 12 new Gladiators who rule the arena and control the fate of the contenders.
–Penny TV
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