Saturday, November 29, 2008

Premieres and Notables; December 1-7, 2008

Tuesday, 12/2

According to Jim; ABC. 8 & 8:30 pm CST. 8th Season Premiere.
Yep, you heard me...

Bad Girls Club; Oxygen. 9 pm. 3rd Season Premiere.

Party Monsters: Cabo; E! 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Party Planners compete to put on events for people like P Diddy (or is it just Diddy now?) and Carmen Electra.

Shatner's Raw Nerve; Bio. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Wild Bill Shatner gets his own chatfest. In the premiere, he grills Valerie Bertinelli. I'm not too excited, but I like Val-- and you never know if Shatner will "lose it" at some point.


Wednesday, 12/3

Secret Millionaire; ABC. 7 pm. Series Premiere.
A British import/"reimagining" that finds one wealthy American every week sent to a struggling town to give money to deserving locals.

Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Sundance. 8 pm. Series Premiere.
Tonight he talks to Elton John. In the future, he talks to The Police, Bill Clinton, and Tony Bennett.


Wednesday, 12/3

Man v. Food; Travel. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Host Adam Richman pounds down 2-lb hamburgers and Reubens-- and describes the eateries he pounds them down in.

Tyler Perry's House of Payne; TBS. 9 pm. Season Premiere.


Thursday, 12/4

On My Name is Earl (NBC; 7 pm), Earl and Randy host a children's story time at the library. The stories they choose come from the police blotter.

Barbara Walters Special; ABC. 9:01. Special
Once again, Ba-Ba reinvents the word "interesting". Someone get that woman a dictionary!
The list: Will Smith, Miley Cyrus, Tina Fey, Tom Cruise, Rush Limbaugh, Frank Langella, Michael Phelps, and Sarah Palin.


Friday, 12/5

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh; Nickelodeon. 7 pm. Movie.


Sunday, 12/7

The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice; TNT. 7 pm. Movie.
That title actually sounds cool. I doubt the product holds a candle to it, though. Noah Wylie returns as the titular librarian; this time he goes on an adventure that combines Dracula and a chalice made from Judas' 30 pieces of silver.

House of Saddam; HBO. 8 pm. 2-part mini-series.
Two hours tonight and two hours next Sunday of this drama dives into the private and public life of the scumbag who doesn't even need a last name for us to know who he is.

Leverage; TNT. 9 pm. Series Premiere.
Timothy Hutton stars in this show about some less-than-legal-method people who mess with high-falutin' rich people, Robin Hood style.

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