This week is the one week that I was looking least forward to writing about. Why? Because there is almost nothing new on (that’s truly worth watching in my opinion).
Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty to look forward to this summer. Those with Showtime will be looking forward to the Monday double header of Weeds and Secret Diary of a Call Girl on June 16. Those that are fond of the USA Network shows are going to be given plenty to watch in July with the returns of Burn Notice, Monk, and Psych. There’s three nights of television you don’t even need to think about.
All of this has no place in my brain right now because I’m too caught up trying to still take in last week’s season finale of LOST. The writers and producers gave us so plenty of tons of answers, tons of new questions, and nine months to toil over everything we were given. In true LOST fashion they threw us a twist with starting this episode off immediately AFTER where last season’s finale ended. They told us just why Jack would be hopping on planes hoping to crash on the Island again instead of just going back there. They let us see just why Ben was in the desert in a parka with no footsteps around him. We got to see how the Oceanic 6 got off the Island and why they didn’t bring anyone else with them. We even saw just who was in the coffin from last season. This writer was even tickled at how last season we were shocked at the news of “Not Penny’s Boat” and in this finale we received the exact opposite.
There is so much more I could go into but we’ve got three quarters of a year until next season so instead I’ll just say, “Wow.â€
Because we are now in week 1 of our post-regular season of television here now is my best attempt to dress up skirt steak like it is filet mignon.
MONDAY
SCIFI – 7:00 PM: Tonight the you can now find Star Trek: The Next Generation on the Sci-Fi channel. When they got the rights to this they also got the rights to Ghost Whisperer and Mork & Mindy. Really looking forward to the seeing the latter again.
ABC – 8:00 PM: Do we really need two hours of a bunch of guys pursuing one woman? ABC thinks so with two hours of The Bachelorette.
BRAVO – 9:00 PM: It’s a three hour marathon of D-List Diva Kathy Griffin‘s celebrity bridge burning stand up.
ABC – 10:00 PM: It has been a few years since we haven’t seen a regular (meaning non-Celebrity) season of The Mole. The show is fun to watch and dissect as you try to figure out which of the 12 contestants is working in cahoots with the show itself to try to sabotage the other contestants.
TUESDAY
VH1 – 11:00 AM: It’s the chronicles of how Trista met Ryan as VH1 brings us a 12 hour marathon of The Bachelorette and Trista and Ryan’s Wedding. The fact that I just wrote about this is proof positive of how desperate I am to have something to actually type about.
MTV – 7:00 PM: If you missed the premier last night you can catch the reality show that searches for the new Elle Woods for the musical Legally Blonde.
SHO – 8:00 PM: I seem to be in the minority but I really liked Mission:Impossible 3.
FX – 10:00 PM: After three years the third season of 30 Days is finally here with Morgan Spurlock trading his McDiet for thirty days as a West Virginia coal miner.
WEDNESDAY
AMC – 8:00 PM: Watch Escape from New York. If you do you’ll be the Duke, a number one.
FOOD – 9:00 PM: I love the cake editions of the Food Network Challenge. Tonight the supreme cake makers must make Pixar character inspired cakes. The tension that they create for a bunch of bakers making cakes is simply amazing to watch.
THURSDAY
AMC – 8:00 PM: Critically acclaimed and very adored are the terms that come to mind when I think of The Princess Bride (as well as the desire for a nice M.L.T.)
NGC – 9:00 PM: If you have the National Geographic Chanel than you might enjoy Stonehenge Decoded.
NBC – 10:00 PM: The new anthology series Fear Itself is picking up where syndicated shows like Tales from the Dark Side left off in the late eighties. Unlike the latter this new show has experience writers and directors doing each stand alone show. Can they give you enough to not sleep in 46 minutes? Tune in and see.
FRIDAY
CBS – 8:00 PM: Two hours of Ghost Whisperer are on CBS tonight. Guess the network is taking that TV Guide Sexiest Woman on TV thing pretty seriously.
HBO – 9:00 PM: The guys that brought us Spaced and Shaun of the Dead turn their attention to the cop action film with Hot Fuzz.
SATURDAY
ABC – 8:00 PM: I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday night than to enjoy Finding Nemo. One of Pixar’s finest achievements.
CBS – 8:00 PM: I can’t think of a worse way to spend a Saturday night than to try to watch a remake of Sybil.
SUNDAY
FX – 8:00 PM: Before the release of Iron Man I thought that X2: X-Men United was the best super hero movie to date.
HIST – 8:00 PM: The new season of Ice Road Truckers premieres tonight. These guys make any road trip you’ve ever thought pushed you to the limit look more like a Sunday drive.
DHC – 8:00 PM: Watch with shock and disbelief for 60 minutes of I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.
ABC – 9:30 PM*: Jimmy Kimmel is doing a special 30 minute Jimmy Kimmel Live after game 2 of the NBA finals. I’ve always been fond of Kimmel, and anything that happens near prime time is a special treat. *Check Local Listings
– Will Wilkins models his life after Nicholas Angel.
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