What happened to my favorite channel, FX? Bringing you such fine shows as The Shield, Rescue Me, Andre Braugher's award-winning Thief, Nip/Tuck, and tonight's debut of Dirt which promises to be far more entertaining than reruns of NCIS, The Unit, or anything else.
Bart is crazy about The Shield and Rescue Me, and rightfully so. This channel has some of the best programming on TV, far better than FAUX or the networks.
Sarah
Thanks, Sarah!
FX is willing to take chances on programs offering lots of
sex and violence that lend well to titilating (emphasis on 'tit') TV and/or pokes at societal taboos.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Thought I'd add FX to the listings, but, like all Fox subsidiaries, their website sucks.
It's got all kinds of flashy bells & whistles, but doesn't allow copying, and the horizontal layout is a scrolling nightmare.
So, will add only their primetime lineup - for now.
Stephen Moss: Was Saddam's death dignified? (guardian.co.uk)
Saddam's killers have achieved the impossible: they have made us feel sympathy for him, for his grace under pressure. There may not have been dignity in the dying, but there was courage.
Beth Quinn: You are You and I am You and We are - Yikes! (recordonline.com)
But increasingly, ordinary folks are being handed the power to make decisions they have no talent for. Some such decisions are harmless. Choosing the next American idol isn't going to head us down the road to perdition if we choose unwisely. But the whole trend of turning this into the You Generation suggests that, not only does the rabble have an inflated opinion of its own opinion, but the experts whose opinions should actually count are either being ignored or abdicating their responsibility.
Michele Hanson: Those who don't care will never cough up for charity - so what's the point of sending free Biros and slippers? (guardian.co.uk)
... our elderly actress friend is in a raging temper. A large charity she supports sent her some slippers. She sent them straight back. Then she got a letter saying, "Have you received our slippers?" She sent the letter back. But then they sent her a pair of gloves. Imagine her fury. What a ghastly waste of money, on the presents, the postage and packing, plus consultancy and publicity and extra hordes of staff, and anyway, Actress didn't need slippers. She already has some. She had been hoping that her donations might be spent on unfortunate people who have no slippers at all.
Emily Yoffe: I'm a Lousy Mom (slate.com)
Our family, boxes of Nix cream rinse hidden in our suitcases, arrived at our next destination-a lovely inn. It turns out when your head's been colonized for more than a month, your scalp resembles a lice version of New Year's Eve in Times Square. After my daughter and I treated ourselves with insecticide, and combed out cascades of lice for two hours, we all went to dinner in the dining room. At one point, I tossed my hair and a permethrin-drugged louse fell out and staggered on the white tablecloth. "You're one classy lady," my husband said.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Education (athensnews.com)
WNBA player Rebecca Lobo and her mother, cancer survivor RuthAnn Lobo, wrote a book titled "The Home Team: Of Mothers, Daughters, and American Champions" together about their lives. Rebecca joked that it was the longest thing she had written since the time in elementary school she had been forced to write pages and pages of this sentence: "I won't talk in class."
CBS starts the night with a RERUN'The King Of Queens', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a RERUN'Criminal Minds', followed by a RERUN'CSI: The 3rd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Matt Lauer, Artie Lange, and Augustana.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kate Walsh, Clark Gregg, and Skyler Stone.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Friday Night Lights', followed by a FRESH'Deal Or No Deal', then a FRESH'Medium'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Justin Timberlake, Masi Oka, and Matisyahu.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan is TBA.
On a RERUNCarson Daly (from 11/9/06) are Jason Segel and Wolfmother.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'Jim', followed by another FRESH'Jim', then the SERIES PREMIERE'The Knights Of Prosperity', followed by the SERIES PREMIERE'In Case Of Emergency', then 'Primetime' (starts 3 minutes after the top of the hour).
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Courteney Cox Arquette, Andy Dick, and Twilight Singers.
The CW offers the SEASON PREMIERE'Beauty And The Geek'.
Faux has the LIVE'Sugar Bowl', then pads the left coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Simpsons'.
MY has a FRESH'Watch Over Me', followed by another FRESH'Watch Over Me'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Last Samurai', followed by the movie 'Platoon', then the movie 'Casualties Of War'.
BBC -
[1:00 pm] As Time Goes By - Episode 4;
[1:40 pm] Are You Being Served - Forward Mr. Grainger;
[2:20 pm] Keeping Up Appearances - Episode 10;
[3:00 pm] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 15;
[4:00 pm] The Quiet American;
[6:00 pm] BBC World News;
[6:30 pm] Cash in the Attic - Episode 2;
[7:00 pm] Ethan Frome;
[9:00 pm] Dealing With Dickinson - Episode 5;
[10:00 pm] Bargain Hunt - Ardingly 49;
[10:30 pm] Bargain Hunt - Harrogate 43;
[11:00 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 9;
[11:30 pm] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 14;
[12:00 am] The Benny Hill Show - Episode 16;
[1:00 am] Dealing With Dickinson - Episode 5;
[2:00 am] Bargain Hunt - Ardingly 49;
[2:30 am] Bargain Hunt - Harrogate 43;
[3:00 am] Increase Your House Price By Ten Grand - Episode 1;
[4:00 am] Increase Your House Price By Ten Grand - Episode 2;
[5:00 am] Increase Your House Price By Ten Grand - Episode 3;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Top Chef', another 'Top Chef', still another 'Top Chef', and a FRESH'Top Chef'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', an old 'Jon Stewart', an old 'Colbert Report', 'Mind Of Mencia', 'South Park', another 'South Park', and another 'Mind Of Mencia'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 12/20/06) is Ben Stiller.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 12/20/06) are Robert Schneider and Chris Funk.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 2', followed by the movie 'XXX'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'The Boneyard', and another 'Modern Marvels'.
IFC -
[06:45 AM] Lulu On The Bridge;
[08:30 AM] Love and Death on Long Island;
[10:05 AM] The Winter Guest;
[11:55 AM] Lulu On The Bridge;
[01:45 PM] Love and Death on Long Island;
[03:25 PM] Me Myself I;
[05:15 PM] The Winter Guest;
[07:10 PM] Broken Lizard's Club Dread;
[09:00 PM] Grand Theft Parsons;
[10:30 PM] Gerry;
[12:20 AM] January Media Lab Results;
[12:30 AM] Grand Theft Parsons;
[02:00 AM] Gerry;
[03:50 AM] Broken Lizard's Club Dread;
[05:40 AM] IFC News Presents: Spirit Awards Nominations Special 2007. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Dagon', followed by the movie 'Route 666'.
Sundance -
[06:30 AM] Charley Varrick;
[08:30 AM] The Firefly Man;
[08:45 AM] The Grass Harp;
[10:45 AM] Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt;
[12:30 PM] Secret Ceremony;
[02:30 PM] Hail, Hail Rock 'N' Roll;
[04:30 PM] The Galindez File;
[06:30 PM] The Day of the Jackal;
[09:00 PM] One Punk Under God: Episode 4;
[09:30 PM] Short Hymn, Silent War;
[10:00 PM] Mitchellville;
[11:20 PM] IN SHORT: Adam Elliot;
[12:00 AM] One Punk Under God: Episode 4;
[12:30 AM] IN SHORT: Festival 5;
[01:00 AM] Iconoclasts Season 2: Episode 4: Isabella Rossellini + Dean Kamen;
[01:50 AM] The Firefly Man;
[02:00 AM] City of Men - Season 3: Episode 3: Take it Like a Man;
[02:30 AM] Tarnation;
[04:05 AM] IN SHORT: JAN SVANKMAJER;
[05:30 AM] Hail, Hail Rock 'N' Roll. (ALL TIMES EST)
Former Presidents Bill Clinton, left, and Jimmy Carter talk before a State Funeral service for former President Gerald Ford at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007.
Photo by Ron Edmonds
Edward James Olmos criticized the United States and Puerto Rico on Tuesday for not moving faster to clean up the site of a former bombing range on Vieques Island.
Olmos, an Oscar nominee for 1988's "Stand and Deliver," said officials "have done nothing" to restore an area that environmentalists say is tainted by dangerous pollutants nearly four years after the departure of the U.S. Navy.
"We are not going to stop until we make them see that a (cleanup) is necessary," Olmos said at a news conference in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan.
Iraq war protesters gather during a peace vigil outside Philadelphia City Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007. Observing the Iraq war milestone of 3,000 U.S. dead, the Brandywine Peace Community and others sponsored the candlelight vigil and bell-tolling for peace and all those who have died in the conflict, both American and Iraqi.
Photo by George Widman
Nobody does it better than Carly Simon. That's what QVC officials are hoping when the singer promotes her new CD, "Into White," on Friday.
Simon, 61, will perform with her children, Ben and Sally Taylor - from her marriage to James Taylor - during a 30-minute broadcast on the cable home shopping channel, a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. The broadcast begins at 7 p.m. (EST).
"Into White," on the Sony BMG label, a joint venture of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG, includes remakes of pop favorites and some new material.
In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.
"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."
Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."
Author Joseph Wambaugh poses Thursday, Dec. 7, 2007, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. In his new book 'Hollywood Station,' Wambaugh recalls the golden days of his beloved LAPD, when Jack Webb would intone on TV's Dragnet: 'This is the city, Los Angeles, California.'
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
Vera de Vries, better known as Xaviera Hollander, the "Happy Hooker," married boyfriend Philip de Haan in Amsterdam on Tuesday, she said.
Hollander wrote 1972's "The Happy Hooker," describing her career as a sex worker and brothel owner in New York. The book was considered a landmark in demystifying sex.
Hollander, 63, married de Haan, 53, in "a quiet ceremony attended by family and friends," she wrote in an e-mail response to a query by The Associated Press.
Hollander runs a bed-and-breakfast in Amsterdam, where she is an active patron of theatrical and artistic circles.
The son of music legend Lou Rawls is suing the son of Motown legend Marvin Gaye, claiming he was attacked by "four large dogs" during a visit to Gaye's Hollywood home in 2005.
The complaint by Lou Rawls Jr. against Marvin Gaye III was filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court. Rawls claims the dogs "bit, clawed and physically and mentally injured" him, causing him to suffer "loss of blood, tearing of flesh, multiple dog bite wounds, fear of disease" and other injuries, according to court documents. He is seeking unspecified damages.
Left behind in a hotel room recently by Rudy Giuliani or one of his aides were 140 pages of printed text, handwriting and spreadsheets, now leaked to New York's Daily News by the campaign of a GOP rival. The tabloid in a front-page special today describes it as the "top-secret plan for Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House."
Patrick Healy, writing in The New York Times this afternoon, comments, "The public disclosure of the document, which was leaked by a Giuliani adversary to The Daily News, is potentially damaging for Mr. Giuliani, given that he has portrayed himself as a leader on security issues and strategic planning.
The Daily News report reveals that this "detailed dossier sets out the budgets, schedules and fund-raising plans that will underpin the former New York mayor's presidential campaign - as well as his aides' worries that personal and political baggage could scuttle his run.
In this photo, released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Sushi, as portrayed by female impersonator Gary Marion, is lowered in an eight-foot-long reproduction of a woman's shoe to mark the beginning of 2007 early Monday, Jan.1, 2007.
CNN apologized Tuesday for mistakenly promoting a story on the search for Osama bin Laden with the headline "Where's Obama?"
The blunder came Monday evening on Wolf Blitzer's news show "The Situation Room." Both Soledad O'Brien and Blitzer offered separate apologies during CNN's morning show Tuesday.
CNN called it a "bad typographical error" by its graphics department.
Melba and Secil Boyd pose at their Holualoa, Hawaii, art gallery Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006, with the production prototype of TriPong, a three-way ping-pong game Boyd invented. Also on the table are ping pong balls Boyd uses to explain his spatial relativity theory.
Photo by Karin Stanton
Perhaps the most telling sign of Somalia's remarkable power shift is the rapid return to Mogadishu's streets of the leafy twigs known as 'khat'.
Traditionally chewed by most Somali men, but outlawed since June by hardline Islamists, the mild stimulant reappeared within hours of Mogadishu's recapture by government forces last week.
"I am happy that miraa (khat) is back on the street. Now we can work because it gives us some energy," said Abdi Awale, a Mogadishu resident. "But my expenses will go up again."
Normally chewed in the afternoons and evenings, the leaf releases a mild stimulant, although users later feel down. It has a central place in Somali social gatherings, and gives a livelihood to traders and importers.
Bathers dressed in diapers and bibs emerge from the ocean after swimming with the Coney Island Polar Bear Club at Coney Island in New York, Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club, which is the oldest winter bathing organization in the United States, holds a New Years Day swim annually.
Photo by Seth Wenig
Let the games continue: "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" will be airing through at least 2011-12. The game show renewals were announced Tuesday by Roger King, chief executive officer of CBS Television Distribution.
"Wheel of Fortune," in its 24th season, draws more than 46 million viewers weekly and consistently has ranked as the top-rated syndicated show, CBS said. "Jeopardy!" is in its 23rd season, is seen by more than 37 million viewers a week and is among syndication's top three shows.
The series have been renewed through 2012 in about a third of the country, with ABC, CBS, Post-Newsweek, Hearst-Argyle and Sinclair's station groups signing on for extensions.
Melissa Mong takes her huskies and Newfoundland, right, for a walk in the snow in downtown Denver early Friday morning Dec. 29, 2006.
Photo by Bill Ross
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