TV Junkie: Skydiving Accident Survivor on Leno; Shark Attack Survivor on Letterman

A Word or 36:
My son has pink eye and I've had to watch daytime TV, a truly terrible terrible thing to have to subject yourself to. I dunno if I'll be able to turn any of the following on.

Tonight - Tuesday - February 20th, 2007

Canucks @ Ducks (PRIME, 7:00 p.m.)

American Idol (Fox, 8:00 p.m.) We're down to 12 wannabes

NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) New episodes.

Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Perverted Justice (hunger) force expose Internet predators in Texas.

Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars (the CW, 8-10:00 p.m.) Party pooper Emily institutes no-alcohol policy/My hot jail sluts fantasy is doomed as Sheriff Lamb releases Veronica from jail due to lack of evidence.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent/Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 9-11:00 p.m.) Tom Arnold as a televangelist/Mother suicide

Frontline (PBS, 9:00 p.m.) Part Deux of News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin series

Larry King Live (CNN, 9:00 p.m.) All about Anna Nicole

Primetime (ABC, 9:00 p.m.) Genetic sexual attraction; School in MA electrocutes autistic children.

Dirt (FX, 10:00 p.m.) Lucy has trouble sleeping - hmm, all worked up over the open-mouth Jennifer Aniston kissing.

The Agency (VH1, 10:00 p.m.) Series premiere

Independent Lens (PBS, 10:00 p.m.) HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats - machismo in rap music

Boston Legal (ABC, 10:00 p.m.) Never enough Shatner on this thing.

Late Show With David Letterman (CBS, 11:30 p.m.) Barbara Walters, shark attack survivor Eric Nerhus, K-os performs

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC, 11:35 p.m.) Obvious liberal Bill Maher, skydiving accident survivor Michael Holmes, Rodney Atkins performs

Jimmy Kimmel LIVE (ABC, 12:05 a.m.) Uberlesbian Ellen DeGeneres, Skeet Ulrich, Pretty Ricky performs

Late Night With Conan O'Brien (NBC, 12:35 a.m.) Heather (haminahamina) Graham, spittle-flecked Lewis Black, Explosions in the Sky perform

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (CBS, 12:35 a.m.) Queen of bountiful bosoms Patricia Heaton, requisite Indian ER doctor Parminder Nagra

Ellen via AP