Logo, 6:00 a.m. ET
(Logo, 6 a.m. Sunday - 6 a.m. Monday ET) What better way to begin a new month – especially this month – than to revel in a 24-hour marathon of this 1995 character study, starring Elizabeth Berkley as a small-town dancer who comes to Las Vegas to ride a dream, and a pole? Gina Gershon plays a Vegas headliner who takes Berkley’s Nomi under her wing (among other places), in a story that mixes the backstage rivalry of All About Eve with the sexual subtlety of The Opening of Misty Beethoven. There's a good reason to take full advantage of this all-day bacchanal of beads, bangles and bosoms: Written by Joe Eszterhas, Showgirls is the sort of movie that has to be seen a dozen times or so to be believed. And even then…
MTV, 7:00 a.m. ET
And Showgirls isn’t the only marathon being served up by television today. There’s also this marathon from MTV, which presents 13 episodes -- an entire season -- of last year’s Jersey Shore. For those who can’t get enough of Pauly D and Snooki and the rest of these nattering nabobs of narcissism, here’s a full baker’s dozen – which, in any case, Shore is a lot.
Style, 8:00 p.m. ET
And if, at the end of 13 hours of Jersey Shore, you still need more Garden State TV, here comes a new hour of Jerseylicious. This reality show about a beauty salon staff devotes its focus, tonight, to Olivia’s attempt to solve a newly gestating workplace mystery: “the case of the pregnant staffer.” Spoiler Alert: I’m betting the culprit is a woman. That’s Tracy on the left, and those are Olivia on the right.
Bravo, 9:00 p.m. ET
What could possibly bring Kim Zolciak to tears in tonight’s new episode of this Georgia-based Housewives reality show? Did someone say something hurtful? Did someone play Ray Charles singing "Georgia on My Mind"? Did someone make Kim watch an episode of her own series? Hard to predict, because this is a reality show that transcends its genre – and has very little in common with reality itself.
TLC, 9:00 p.m. ET
In tonight’s new Season 2 episode of Long Island Medium, Teresa Caputo goes to the gym – and encounters a spirit that hampers her efforts to complete her workout. Amazing. At my gym, I’m haunted by a similar spirit. It’s the one that whispers in my ear, very convincingly, “Forget working out with the weights. Just go straight to the handball court again.” Ooooooh. That’s scary, boys and girls.