Program Planner: Jan. 11-17
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 Jan. 11:
SUNDAY, JAN. 11
◊The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (7 p.m. on NBC): The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s awards gala honors achievements in both television and motion pictures. Steven Spielberg is the 2009 Cecil B. DeMille Award winner and Rumer Willis (daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis) is this year’s Miss Golden Globe.
◊“24″ (7 p.m. today and Monday on Fox): The CTU is dismantled and Jack Bauer is on trial in the seventh season premiere. The series celebrates its milestone 150th episode during the fourth hour of the two-night premiere.
◊“Feeding Frenzy” (7 p.m. on Animal Planet): Host Chris Douglas heads to all corners of the globe to locate and study dangerous animals and learn about their predatory ways. Three back-to-back episodes focus on crocodiles in the everglades, lions in Africa and bears in Alaska.
◊“Nature” (7 p.m. on OETA-13): In the new installment titled “The Dragon Chroniles,” reptile expert Romulus Whitaker sets off to find out if dragon stories are based on real animals and if any are still to be found.
◊“Tool Academy” (9 p.m. on VH1): This new series sends nine unsuspecting bad boys to relationship boot camp, where they will be schooled in subjects like honesty, fidelity, maturity and communication.
MONDAY, JAN. 12
◊“Antiques Roadshow” (7 p.m. on OETA-13): One of the items brought to the Palm Springs Convention Center for appraisal is a costume dress that was literally sewn onto Marilyn Monroe for her role in 1959’s “Some Like It Hot.” It is estimated to be worth $150,000 to $250,000.
◊“Inside the Actors Studio” (6 p.m. on Bravo): Laura Linney, who has three Emmys on her shelf and three Oscar nominations to her name, discusses her life and her work with host James Lipton.
◊“Kyle XY” (8 p.m. on ABC Family): In the show’s third season, Kyle is pushed by greater forces to rise to new levels. But to do so, he may have to sacrifice relationships with those he holds most dear.
◊“One Tree Hill” (8 p.m. on CW): Cast member Chad Michael Murray (Lucas) directs this episode titled “ A Hand to Take Holld of the Scene.” Mouth and Millicent struggle to remain a couple while Brooke tries to figure out Julian’s intentions.
◊“Rita Rocks” (7:30 p.m. on Lifetime): Deborah Gibson (“Celeste in the City”) guest stars as Cindy, Rita’s former Bangles-cover band mate who returns years later to apologize for leaving the band the night of their most important gig.
◊“The Secret Life of an American Teenager” (7 p.m. on ABC Family): Anson Williams (“Happy Days”) directs the new episode titled “Baked Nevada,” in which Amy and Ben realize that their marriage is not legal.
◊The University of Oklahoma takes on Texas in men’s college basketball action airing live at 8 p.m. on ESPN.
TUESDAY, JAN. 13
◊“American Idol” (7 p.m. today and Wednesday on Fox): Ryan Seacrest is back as host of the show, now in its eighth season. There is a new judge, as Kara DioGuardi joins Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. Other changes this season include expanding the number of semifinalists to 36 and bringing back the wild-card round.
◊“The Ascent of Money” (8 p.m. on OETA-13): This new special puts the current global financial crisis in the full context of financial hyistory. Niall Ferguson, author of the book on which the program is based, speaks with leading experts, including financier George Soros and Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker.
◊“Chopped” (9 p.m. on Food Network): Ted Allen (”Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”) hosts this new series that challenges up-and-coming chefs to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. Each week, a rotating panel of judges will decide whose dishes shine and award the winner $10,000.
◊“Lost Tapes” (9 p.m. on Animal Planet): Legend has it that freshwater octopus lurks in Oklahoma’s lakes and rivers. A group of high school graduates claim to have had an encounter with the creature, and their story is told in the episode titled “Oklahoma Octopus.”
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14
◊“Gordon Ramsay’s F Word” (2 p.m. on BBC America): World renowned chef Gordon Ramsay serves up a third season of his show in which he gets people eating, cooking, thinking and talking about food.
◊“Lost” (7 p.m. on ABC): The network rebroadcasts last season’s three-part finale to refresh fans’ memories in anticipation of next week’s season premiere.
◊“Make ’em Laugh: The Funny Business of America” (7 p.m. on PBS): Billy Crystal (”Soap”) hosts and Amy Sedaris (“Strangers With Candy”) narrates this new six-part miniseries that chronicles over 100 years of American comedy. Each episode focuses on a distinct genre, including slapstick, satire and fast-talking wise guys.
◊“Robert Schimmel: Life Since Then” (9 p.m. on Showtime): Comedian Robert Schimmel, who has had a heart attack and cancer, mines both of them for laughs in his typical outrageous style.
◊“Wonderland” (9 p.m. on DirecTV’s 101 Network): This doctor drama premiered on ABC in 2000 but was cancelled after two episodes. Those two episodes, in addition to six that never aired, will air for the next eight weeks.
◊The University of Oklahoma takes on Kansas State in women’s college basketball action airing live at 7 p.m. on KAUT-43.
THURSDAY, JAN. 15
◊“The Beast” (9 p.m. on A&E)(A&E Photo above): Patrick Swayze (”Ghost”) and Travis Fimmel (”Tarzan”) star in this new drama series that centers on an FBI veteran who takes on a rookie partner to train in his hard-edged and psychologically clever style of agenting.
◊“Bones” (7 p.m. on Fox): Brennan and Booth go undercover as a Canadian knife-throwing act to investigate the death of female conjoined twins who worked in the circus.
◊“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (8 p.m. on CBS): After working with Dr. Raymond Langston (Laurence Fishburne) on the “Dick & JAne” murders, Grissom announced that his time as a CSI has come to an end and offers Langston a permanent position on the team.
◊“Soundstage” (10 p.m. on PBS): Tony winner Idina Menzel (”Wicked”) performs songs from her third album, “I Stand.” Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane joins her on a couple of numbers, and singer Josh Groban stops by for a duet.
◊“Treasure Quest” (9 p.m. on Discovery): Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME), the world’s only publicly-traded company dedicated to deep ocean shipwreck exploration, plunges viewers to the ocean floor as they track the unsolved mysteries of the deep sea in this new series.
◊“Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew” (9 p.m. on MTV): Mario Lopez returns as host as nine new crews perform their hottest moves for dance supremacy and a $100,000 cash prize. Each week, viewers will choose their favorite crews via text messaging, phone and online voting at www.dancecrew.mtv.com/. The two crews with the least number of votes will be up for elimination with judges JC Chasez, Lil Mama and Shane Sparks making the final call on which crew goes home.
◊TCM Birthday Tribute: Margaret O’Brien was born on this day in 1937, and TCM celebrates by airing four of her films, including 1954’s “Sabrina” (7:45 a.m.) and 1949’s “Little Women” (4:45 p.m.).
FRIDAY, JAN. 16
◊“Battlestar Galactica” (9 p.m. on SCI FI): Picking up from last June’s jarring cliffhanger, the Colonial fleet and their new Cylon allies led by Admiral Adama and the Galactica crew discover Earth to find it a barren nuclear wasteland. The 10-week run will culminate with the series finale on March 20.
◊“Friday Night Lights” (8 p.m. on NBC): Direct TV got first-run rights to Season 3 of this critically-acclaimed drama. Now everyone else can catch up with Coach Eric Taylor and the Dillon Panthers.
◊“NUMB3RS” (9 p.m. on CBS): The team has only four hours to stop a group of hijackers who take a bus full of Hollywood tourists hostage. Fisher Stevens (”Early Edition”) guest stars.
◊“Options Action” (10:30 p.m. on CNBC): CNBC’s Melissa Lee hosts this new weekly roundtable discussion featuring four prominent options traders who will demonstrate how to profit from the news of the week using options.
◊Norman takes on Midwest City in high school basketball action airing live at 6:15 p.m. (girls game) and 8 p.m. (boys game) on Cox.
SATURDAY, JAN. 17
◊“Talkshow With Spike Feresten” (10 p.m. on Fox): The late-night series expands to hour-long episodes for a limited six-week run. That means double the laughter with more original fan-favorite sketches such as “Idiot Paparazzi,” “Comedy for Stoners” and the online sensation “Lil’ O’Reilly.”
◊“Starting Out in the Evening” (9 p.m. on Sundance): Frank Langella (”Frost/Nixon”) stars as a fading literary lion who is approached by a graduate student (Lauren Ambrose, “Six Feet Under”) writing her master’s thesis about his work. Lili Taylor (”Six Feet Under”) co-stars as Langella’s daughter.
◊Seagal vs. Van Damme marathon (noon to 10 p.m. on SPIKE): This action-packed movie marathon features three Steven Seagal films (”Urban Justice” at noon, “Out for a Kill” at 4 p.m. and “Belly of the Beast” at 8 p.m.) and two starring Jean Claude Van Damme (”Wake of Death” at 2 p.m. and “In Hell” at 6 p.m.).
◊The University of Oklahoma takes on Texas A&M in men’s college basketball action airing live at 1 p.m. on ESPN.
Oklahoma State University takes on Baylor in men’s college basketball action airing live at 12:30 p.m. on KOCB-34.
–Penny TV
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