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May 16, 2008
TV Junkie: Weekend Edition
Great story on NPR this morning about the failure of BET to provide decent programming for the community it originally targeted (and secured funds from, hat in hand).
Tonight
8:00pm America's Funniest Home Videos ABC - Season Finale. The three finalists compete for the grand prize.
9:00pm Man vs. Wild: Indian Ocean DICSOVERY - Bear Grylls has to survive a week on a deserted island in the Indian Ocean
9:00pm Man Bites Dog IFC - (1992) Great great movie: A documentary film crew's cameras capture a brutal hit man who likes chamber music and poetry
10:00pm Friday Night Stand Up COMEDYCENTRAL - Jim Gaffigan (interviewed by LAist) hosts and premieres sketches never broadcast in the US. TV Junkie Pick O' The Night
10:00pm NUMB3RS CBS - Don and Charlie are at odds on a case!
11:30pm The Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Actress Teri Hatcher; and environmentalist/target of Rush Limbaugh: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Saturday
9:00pm Robin Hood BBCA - Will faces a short-lived reconciliation with his father
Sunday
8:00pm The 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards CBS - YEEeeeehaw! It's like a West Virginia convention!
9:00pm The Tudors SHOWTIME - Anne's resurgence of popularity at court is short-lived, Jane replaces Anne in Henry's affection - the beginning of the end for Anne
10:00pm This American Life SHOWTIME - Another great episode!
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Is is against TV picks to mention local sports? Are the picks just TV things and the sports get a separate mention. Or does the fact that the Lakers are in the middle of a playoff run just go without saying? Sweet win by the MVP and his crew today btw. I bet JB passed out from the close calls by
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I was gonna say...
I bet JB passed out from the close calls by Utah at the end.
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Manny, thanks very much for asking your question. The TV Junkie column is always in a process of evolution and while we don't mention sporting events unless they are a major TV event like the Super Bowl, etc. we used to cover them quite extensively (check out our posts from a year ago). The problem was that the column, in order to give all sports fans a fair shake, ended up having a 1/2 dozen or more line items in each post comprising at least 50% of the column, meanwhile we do have great sports reporting so the redundancy became unnecessary. There's a great post about last night's game up this morning as you can see.
So the TV Junkie focuses primarily on Prime Time TV as highlights programming that does have an LA focus. Thanks again for your feedback. We will be doing quite a bit of Olympics reporting later this Summer but again, that's a remarkable event that comes by every 4 years - whereas the Lakers should really be in the finals every year.