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.

ONIONy Goodness

God Help Him, But Area Man Loves That Crazy Bitch


'Cosmopolitan' Institute Completes Decades-Long Study On How To Please Your Man


Twister Party Fails To Get Dirty

Vince McMahon's X-SPAN Promises Bone-Crunching Legislative Coverage

Metal Council Convenes To Discuss 'Metal Hand Sign' Abuse

50 Reasons to Have Sex

If you watched last night's "The Naked Man" episode of How I Met Your Mother (and why wouldn't you have-- I only mention the show damn near every week), you experienced one possible reason to have sex: because the naked man in your house was there, and you were impressed by his confidence/humor or just thought "Why not?"

As you also saw, Lily and her friends tried to come up with 50 other reasons to have sex. Barney offered "Because your condoms are close to expiring," while Ted came up with "Wingman diving on the friend grenade."

But we only saw about a dozen of the reasons on the show.

If you want to Lily's complete list, check it out at this link:
http://www.tvguide.com/Includes/newsletter-images/blog-images/50_Reasons_1.gif

And for crying out loud, check out this show if you haven't yet. It gets better by the week.

Almost a Heartbeat Away From the Presidency

There are so many things to dislike about Sarah Palin's politics, but you gotta give her some applause for the comedy she brings to situations.

Suffer through the blah blah blah of the first half-- but at the 2 minute 30 second mark, this gets pretty funny.