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BEST BETS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 09, 2008
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ABC, 8 p.m. ET I doubt it, but I’ll watch anyway. The older I get, the more I confront the fact that the memories of most TV shows and magazines assembling “all-time” lists begin, for the most part, with the advent of ABC’s “T.G.I.F.” Yes, Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason will be represented here from the old days of black and white – but expect results to be weighted heavily towards the modern era. Peg Bundy? Sure! Gracie Allen? Who’s she? The wife on Home Improvement? |
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Fox Movie Channel, 8 p.m. ET This Oscar-winning film, made in 1947 (two years after the end of WWII), stars Gregory Peck as a writer who sets out to experience and expose anti-Semitism by posing as a Jew. It’s a powerful film, released at the time when Peck was a very powerful force in cinema. |
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Lifetime Movie Network, 8 p.m. ET Evan Rachel Wood, whom I’ll always think of first as the sweetly precocious daughter from Once and Again, began distancing herself from that role big time in this gritty 2003 drama, in which she plays a young teen introduced by a rebellious classmate (Nikki Reed) to the evils of… well, you name it. |
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CBS, 9 p.m. ET After all the emails I got regarding my blog about the CBS ad campaign for this series, I’m not about to let it go without mention. This is the penultimate show of the season – and we’ll know, by the time the following episode airs a week from tonight, whether it’s the season finale, or the finale, period. I’m betting, based on the series’ performance in its time slot and the passion of the fans, that it’ll return. |
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Sci Fi Channel, 10 p.m. ET This series and Lost are doing the same thing right now, and for pretty much the same reason. This is the final season for this series, so the writers – just like those for Lost, which know the end of their show is a finite number of episodes away – can begin thinking about, and clearing a path to, the endgame. In tonight’s show, Kara comes face to face with one of the regenerating Cylons, and learns a bit more about her own destiny. |
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CBS, 10 p.m. ET Tonight’s guests are Three 6 Mafia, the rap artists whose surprise win energized the Oscars a few years ago. The plot has something to do with the murder of a rapper, but I’m not sure where the mathematical formulas come in. Maybe you start with “99 Problems,” and go from there… |
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