Monday, 8/18
Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein; Discovery. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Bernstein investigates historical mysteries. In the premiere, he digs into Noah's Ark.
Wednesday, 8/20
Architecture School; Sundance. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
A group of Tulane students design low-income homes in New Orleans.
Dinner: Impossible; Food. 8 pm. Season premiere.
Family Foreman (TV Land; 9 pm). Season premiere.
Thursday, 8/21
Bad Girls; Logo. 8 pm. 5th season premiere.
The Principal's Office; TruTV. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
TruTV and schools.
Jacked: Auto Theft Task Force; A&E. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
I know I've said this before, but it doesn't get old in this instance: A&E used to stand for "arts & entertainment". Not so much anymore.
Tabitha's Salon Makeover; Bravo. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Yet another freakin' reality show spin-off... Tabitha Coffey (from Shear Genius) gets her own show.
MVP (SOAPnet; 10 pm). Season finale.
Friday, 8/22
Discovery's Planet Project; Discovery. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
Eight scientists use Al Gore's environment proposal to try to effect climate change.
Who Are You Wearing? TLC. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Designers compete to make an outfit for a guest judge.
Saturday, 8/23
Making It Home: Greensburg; TLC. 6 pm. Series Premiere.
Two Trading Spaces guys go to Greensburg to help them rebuild after a tornado.
I wonder if this is the same Greensburg featured on a show on Planet Green, where it followed their efforts to rebuild itself as a "green" city...
Live Through This: Duff McKagen; Fuse. 10 pm. Series Premiere.
The former G'n'R bassist opens up about his struggles with booze and heroin.
And I have waited all summer for this. This is the shiznit, and needs to be on your radar:
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is running a 24-hour marathon of Laurel & Hardy shorts and movies. It had been easily 15 years since I've seen those two geniuses, but I've tried catching up since this Spring. I'll give the complete rundown, and I'll point out the ones I know to be must-sees. (I haven't seen most of them lately, and I do know the movies are usually a little weaker than the shorts-- those darn plots that get in the way of the mayhem when they run an hour or more).
Seriously: watch some of these, put a tape in, or set the DVR. There is great stuff here, and it's a complete shame that this could never play in today's entertainment environment-- even though the best ones hold up extremely well (aside from the less-sophisticated movie-making).
Night Owls; 5:00 am
Blotto; 5:25 am (Stan steals his wife's liquor and goes out on the town).
Brats; 5:55 am
Hog Wild; 6:20 am
Be Big; 6:45 am
Laughing Gravy; 7:15 am
Our Wife; 7:50 am
Pardon Us; 8:15 am
One Good Turn; 9:30 am
Beau Hunks; 9:55 am (Ollie gets dumped and talks Stan into joining the French Foreign Legion-- and then they try to get out of it.)
Helpmates; 10:35 am
Bonnie Scotland; 11:00 am
The Fixer Uppers; 12:25 pm
Them Thar Hills; 12:50 pm (I haven't seen it lately, but it is considered a classic.)
Tit For Tat; 1:15 pm
The Live Ghost; 1:40 pm (pretty good; the guys help a sea captain shanghai a crew for a haunted ship.
The Devil's Brother; 2:05 pm
Me and My Pal; 3:40 pm
Their First Mistake; 4:10 pm
Pack Up Your Troubles; 4:35 pm
Scram!; 5:45 pm
County Hospital; 6:10 pm. (A classic. Stan visits Ollie in the hospital, and they pack in a feature-length movie's amount of mayhem and destruction in just 19 minutes. Check out where Stan keeps his condiments. And it features my sons' favorite line, "Hard boiled eggs and nuts.")
The Chimp; 6:30 pm
****The Music Box; 7:00 pm. (A masterpiece. Absolutely brilliant in so many ways. The guys try to deliver a piano to a house located at the top of a hill. It's a half-hour long, and gets my highest recommendation. C'mon, people-- you can afford a half hour. It's worth it.)
Sons of the Desert; 7:35 pm. (One of their hour-long movies that are entertaining the entire time-- usually there is a non-Laurel&Hardy plot wedged into their full-length movies, but this is all Stan & Ollie. The two lie to their wives about taking a vacation, so they can go to a Lodge convention. It, of course, goes completely awry. Good stuff.)
Way Out West; 8:45 pm. (Another good one that's over an hour long. The two try to get a deed for a gold mine to the right person. Not as much slapstick, but they still get into their share of mishaps.)
Swiss Miss; 10:00 pm
Block-Heads; 11:15 pm (Ollie tries to help his old war buddy Stan-- who guarded a trench for 20 years before he realized the war was over. He brings Stan home, and, of course, things go very badly. There's a great scene where Ollie visits Stan at the VA Hospital and thinks he lost a leg in the war, so he carries the completely healthy Stan around.)
The Flying Deuces; 12:15 am (I haven't seen it lately, but I know it's a fan favorite.)
A Chump at Oxford; 1:25 am (Pretty good. There's a good scene where the two get lost in a maze, and some frat boys(?) mess with them.)
Saps at Sea; 2:30 am (The two get stuck on a boat with a killer. But they have a secret weapon: a trombone. Stan's hysterics as he tries to play the trombone under pressure is good stuff.)
Air Raid Wardens; 3:30 am
Sunday, 8/24
Z Rock; IFC. 10:30 pm. Series Premiere.
A sitcom about three Brooklyn rockers who can be themselves as the band Z02 at night-- and then have to be kid rockers Z Brothers during the day to pay the bills.
The N's Student Body (The N; 7 pm). Season Finale.
Generation Kill (HBO; 8 pm). Series Finale.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA; 8 pm). Season Finale.
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