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TV Junkie: Weekend Edition
It's a Jon Hamm/"Mad Men" weekend: on Saturday, the man who plays Don Draper will be hosting "Saturday Night Live" and Sunday brings us the season finale of the mult-Emmy-winning show from AMC. Both are a must watch.
TV icons Ron Howard, Andy Griffith, and Henry Winkler recreated their roles in a pro-Obama piece on Funny or Die, that's right, Opie opines.
Also, Comedy Central bailed on their German channel after it's high profile debut just two years ago. Evidently German-translated versions of shows like "The Sarah Silverman Program", etc. killed the jokes.
The TV Junkie Plan: Tonight - "Newsnight", "Crash", Kimmel (Smashing Punkins!); Saturday - "Peeping Tom", "SNL"; Sunday - "True Blood", "Mad Men"
Tonight
7:00pm Newsnight BBC America - On climate change and oil, the economy and diplomacy - what would a U.S. led by John McCain or Barack Obama look like?
9:00pm The Ex List CBS - Bella dates a surfer she dumped years ago for his immaturity.