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TV Junkie: Rickles on Letterman - See Him While He's Still Alive; Kimmel Does His Show From A Bus

A Word or 76:
CBS lineup tonight is wiped out by the CMAs and unless you are up for a Sir Laurence Olivier marathon on TCM then there's no movies on. I'm getting kind of sick of the parade of authors on late night TV, particularly Comedy Central - who the eff has time to read when there's so much bad TV? Speaking of bad TV, we're down to the final 3 on both Idol and DWTS - bring it!
Tonight - Tuesday - May 15, 2007
Angels @ Mariners (Fox Sports, 7:00 p.m.)
Cardinals @ Dodgers (PRIME, 7:00 p.m.)
CMA Awards (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) Get out your: cowboy/trucker/NASCAR hat and pop open a Coors/Bud and get ready for both kinds of music: country and western
Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Is nurse compassionate caretaker or vicious killer?
Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars (the CW, 8-10:00 p.m.) Rory gets huge graduation party/Veronica takes her PI exam
American Idol (Fox, 9:00 p.m.) 3 contestants left.
Frontline (PBC, 9:00 p.m.) The NSA is spying on you and me, probably illegally.
Dancing With The Stars (ABC, 9:00 p.m.) Another couple gets the boot - Enrique Iglesias performs
House (Fox, 9:00 p.m.) 16 year-old jerk kid is just like House, but the difference is that he can be cured.
Boston Legal (ABC, 10:00 p.m.) Brad & Denise's wedding disaster
Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 10:00 p.m.) Kid YouTube's a murder
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 11:00 p.m.) Author/host Tim Russert
Charlie Rose (PBS, 11:30 p.m.) Author Jeremy Paxman
The Colber(t) Repor(t) (Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m.) Author Walter Isaacson
Late Show With David Letterman (CBS, 11:35p.m.) Don Rickles(!); Michael Imperioli; Masi Oka does the Top-10; Wilco performs!!
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC, 11:35p.m.) Orlando Bloom; Maria Lark; Gym Class Heroes perform!!
Jimmy Kimmel LIVE (ABC, 12:05 a.m.) This is the show on the bus; Paula Abdul; Flavor Flav; Feist performs
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (CBS, 12:35 a.m.) Garry Shandling and his strange bloated face; comedian Ruben Paul performs
Late Night With Conan O'Brien (NBC, 12:35 a.m.) Tom "Moustache/No Moustache" Selleck; Jenna Fischer of the Office
Tom Selleck via AP
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