What’s Hot On TV Tonight - Lifelong Friendship Ends In DUI
It looks like a good, heart-wrenching 20/20 tonight. Best friends since Kindergarten, two college freshmen, who are also coworkers, go out drinking at a club. One drives home, and the other ends up dead. The driver is then charged with killing her best friend. She now confesses her crime in speeches to other young kids. This might be one I force my teen and tween to watch.
1. Regis and Kelly. Anderson Cooper guest hosts today, while Catherine Bell and Bradley Cooper guest. Syndicated, check local listings.
2. French Open: Men’s Semifinal. Men’s semifinal round play from Paris, France. 10:00 AM CT NBC
3. The View. Guests include Neil Patrick Harris and Lionel Richie. 10:00 AM CT ABC
4. The Bucket List. Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are always good separately. Together, they’re amazing. 10:30 AM HEBO 2 East
What’s Hot On TV Tonight - G’night Jay
It’s the changing of the guard tonight. Through my lifetime, I have known two Tonight Show hosts, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Tonight we say good night to Jay as he is ceremoniously pushed out in favor of the young’n, Conan O’Brien. It’s been a good week with lots of special guests and memories, including Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Billy Crystal, and tonight, Jay’s guest is his successor. I like both Jay and Conan, and liked the setup we had and don’t see why we had to change, but I’ll give it the old college try. But, why does NBC have to do this just a few months after we had to say goodbye to ER?
1. Regis and Kelly. The guests today include Marcia Gay Harden, the Love Chef, and Cat Deeley, host of So You Think You Can Dance. Syndicated, check local listings.
2. The View. Guests include Mellody Hobson, Alison Deyette, and Kara DioGuardi, the newest American Idol judge. 10:00 AM CT ABC
3. Meet the Robinsons. Interesting animated Disney movie originally seen in 3D about an orphan who invents a time machine and is taken back to meet this very odd family. 10:00 AM CT Starz
4. Monkeybone. Brendan Fraser at his absolute silliest, outside of George of the Jungle. 2:45 PM CT IFC
What’s Hot On TV Tonight - Meat Loaf!
I don’t know why but I find Meat Loaf, meaning the singer, not the entree, entirely fascinating. He’s just hard not to watch when he guests on a show. Tonight he’s on the season finale of Don’t Forget the Lyrics. And if you like that show, catch it tonight, as while it’s being called a season finale, it’s not on the Fox schedule for this summer, next fall, or next winter.
1. Alvin and the Chipmunks. The cartoon is made over into a movie combining live action with animation and starsthe voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jesse McCartney. It’s cute, and that’s about all. 11:10 AM HBO Comedy East
2. Erin Brockovich Based on a true story, Julia Roberts stars as a woman who gets a job as a legal assistant and is the only one with the cajones to take down a utility company that’s contaminating the water. 11:45 AM Starz
3. The Bonnie Hunt Show. Bonnie always honors those comedians and talk show hosts that came before her, so I’m betting today’s show with Dick Van Dyke will be a good one. Common guests as well. 2:00 PM CT NBC
4. The Quiet American. Screen adaptation of Graham Green’s novel starring Brendan Fraser and Michael Caine about a British journalist and American agent in Vietnam. It’s a great commentary of Vietnam from a different perspective. 2:45 PM CT IFC
5. Don’t Forget the Lyrics! It’s the season finale, event hough we haven’t see the show for several weeks, months perhaps. Meat Loaf and his daughter try to win money for a camp for seriously ill children, The Painted Turtle. 7:00 PM CT Fox
6. The Seven Year Itch. Marilyn Monroe classic playing the sexy neighbor of a man whose family is away from the summer, giving him nothing but sexual daydreams of how he’d really like to spend the summer. 7:00 PM CT Retro
7. NBA Playoff: Game 2: Magic at Cavaliers. It’s game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. 7:30 PM CT TNT
8. Alzheimer’s Project! This episode of the series highlights families that provide caregiving for their loved ones with the disease. For more information, check out my review of the series. 7:30 PM CT HBO SIgnature East
9. Dateline NBC. A report on the death of a fisherman, and a stripper and steelworker who are somehow involved in the mystery of passion, manipulation, and murder. 8:00 PM CT NBC
10. Larry King Live. Kris Allen and Adam Lambert of American Idol will both be on tonight. 8:00 PM CT CNN
11. 20/20. Video diaries from a summer camp show kids suffering with Tourette’s Syndrome. I think everyone should watch that as people assume it’s just the swearing thing, but once you see people affected with it, you see it affects their whole life, not just that little part. 9:00 PM CT ABC
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What’s Hot On TV Tonight - 5th Grader and Lyrics Still MIA
This is the second week in a row with Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader and Don’t Forget the Lyrics not being on. I know they’re not cancelled, but where are they? They must be done for the season, as the Fox schedule shows Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse in their places for the winter season.
1. Regis and Kelly. Does the American Idol final 36 have you reminiscing about seasons gone by? Catch up with David Cook as he appears on Regis and Kelly. Other guests include Anne Hathaway, Don Rickles, and Kevin James. Syndicated, check local listings.
2. Runaway Bride. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere team up again after their success with Pretty Woman. This time he’s a writer trying to get the story of why this bride always runs out on her wedding day. 9:00 AM CT TMC West
3. The Bonnie Hunt Show. All you Amazing Race fans, Phil Keoghan is Bonnie’s guest again, I believe making his third appearance on her show. They have a great chemistry together. Joan Rivers appears as well. 2:00 PM CT NBC
4. August Rush. A young orphaned boy begins to get the feeling that his parents are somewhere out there looking for him, and believes that his music is the key to bringing them back together. 1:10 PM CT WMax