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The Sundance Film Festival starts today which not only means cool movies being screened and attended by celebrities in their hippest Dumb & Dumber apres-skiwear but it means a lot more content for the Sundance Channel for the year. There will be live blogging of the festival's events at the Sundance Channel's (really cool!) website and head on over to iTunes to pick up a free short film from Sundance every day from now to January 25th.
We were invited to go to Sundance but couldn't figure out how to get airfare and lodging underwritten as one night in Park City is more than our monthly rent. Any ideas for next year?
Your favorite guy/gal combo, RuPaul, returns to TV next week with "RuPaul's Drag Race" on MTV's LOGO channel. LAist will have photos and a report from the premiere gala reception which tonight will undoubtedly be glamorous and will involve a lot of "workin' it" and sashaying.
Patrick Swayze's TV series, "Beast", starts tonight on A&E (10pm) and we weren't given screeners for it but the network seems a little late to the current find-a-film-star-for-your-series party. So far no one else has come close to FX's "Damages".
The TV Junkie Plan: "Smothered" on PBS, "The Office" on NBC, "30 Rock" on NBC, "Double Indemnity" on TCM, Kimmel, Conan
8:00pm Dragon's Den BBC America - Energy-saving kettle; new twist on car leasing.
8:30pm Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour PBS/KCET - When CBS cancels ``The Smothers Brothers'' popular variety show, Tom and Dick sue and win.
9:00pm The Office NBC - Andy remains unaware of Angela's affair with Dwight
9:00pm Kitchen Nightmares FOX - Chef Ramsay tries to help a husband and wife with their restaurant that is losing money due to a lack of clientele
9:30pm 30 Rock NBC - Flu spreads quickly among the cast
10:00pm The Beast A&E - Series Premiere
10:00pm Treasure Quest Discovery - A company named Odyssey Marine Exploration searches the English Channel for lost treasure
10:00pm Double Indemnity TCM - (1944) An insurance man (Fred MacMurray) helps a platinum blonde (Barbara Stanwyck) kill her husband, but a claim adjuster (Edward G. Robinson) catches on.
10:00pm America's Best Dance Crew MTV - Season Premiere.
12:05am Jimmy Kimmel Live ABC - Actor Dustin Hoffman; jet-pack pilot Eric Scott; Crooked X performs.
12:35am Late Night With Conan O'Brien NBC - Actor Fred Armisen; comic Robert Schimmel.
