If there's a show to watch tonight, it's NBC's "School Pride" at 8pm - with a focus on renovating an LA school, recruiting the community to get the building and the students back on track makes the show 100% genuine feel-good programming. With 4 of it's first 7 shows focused on schools in Southern California, it's becomes obvious that local involvement can make a difference regardless of what happens in Sacramento.
TV Junkie: Get Your 'School Pride' on Tonight; '30 Rock' Live Wrap-Up
TV Junkie: 'Samantha Who?' Series Finale; Fall Out Boy on PBS(?)
OK, so we've had the re-launch of "90210" and now the CW is about to pepper us with sultry, "Gossip Girl" style ads hyping the September 8th premiere of the new "Melrose Place". How do you, the residents of LA, feel about the "return" of this show? This Sunday, the Discovery Channel will air the series by the best TV newsman of the 20th century, Walter Cronkite's "Cronkite Remembers". The marathon will start at 8am Pacific and run until midnight.
TV Junkie: 'Extreme Ice' on PBS - Beautiful but Frightening
Last week NPR did a segment on tonight's "Nova" which even sounded cool - check out the photos, the video footage will be even more amazing, if not terrifying, as we have more proof of climate change (PBS @ 8pm).
Weekend Movie Guide: Drillbit Taylor gets Hammered
I've been a devoted fan of Adam Carolla since his early days on but funny). All it's missing is a Carolla beat-down of the dreadful, show-wrecking Danny Bonaduce. Bring back Dave Dameshek!
TV Junkie: Monday Night Picks
8:00pm Prison Break FOX - This is a show for teenage boys: enjoy the season premiere kids. 9:00pm Most Honorable Son PBS/KCET - Bio of the first Japanese-American war hero. 9:00pm K-Ville FOX - Series premiere. I much prefer Anthony Anderson as a villain (Antwon Mitchell from "The Shield") rather than a cop. It's a cop series, but set it New Orleans, post-Katrina, but the question is whether or not it will truly leverage...
Weekly Movie Picks: Italian Exploitation, Waitress, Larry Gottheim, LA Harbor Film Festival + More
The week begins with a John Hayes double feature. In Grave of the Vampire, legendary vampire Kroft awakens and rapes a woman in a graveyard. The resulting child doesn't need milk. He needs… blood! This is paired with Jailbait Babysitter, which stars Therese Pare as a teenager who's turned out by an older prostitute (Lydia Wagner).
Actor love at the SAG Awards
Years ago there was graffiti downtown LA -- on a building that was razed for the Japanese American Museum -- that read WHEN WILL SHE STOP ACTING? We're assuming, when it comes to the Screen Actors' Guild Awards, which are televised to millions, that nobody stops acting. We expect everyone to be glamorous, exhilarated, appropriately humble, and fabulously ON.
LAist Watches: Campus Ladies
A mid-season series on Oxygen didn't sound promising to us until we read the NY Times review that compared it — favorably! — to AbFab. Two 40-ish women leave their suburban lives and enroll as college freshmen. Cringeworthy at first, it gets increasingly debauched and insane, then mellows out to loopy — and cringeworthy again.
LAist Contest: Curb Your Enthusiasm
With HBO's summer fare off the air, we've had a hole in our Sunday TV viewing. That all changes this Sunday when Larry David, Cheryl Hines and the rest of the wacky LA characters in their lives return for the 5th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

