It’s Steve Martin’s fifteenth time hosting Saturday Night Live. I still remember the good old days with him doing his cat nip routine and singing King Tut. Good times. Jason Mraz is the musical guest. Maybe the two can combine for a song together? You’ll need something happy like Mraz’ music after watching Disturbia. It’s scary!
1. Goodfellas. The ultimate in mob films, showing what it really takes to be a wiseguy. The cast in this is superb, with Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci, just to name a few. Read more . 10:00 AM CT A&E
2. Mulan. I just made a list of my favorite Disney movies that I could watch again and again, and this one made it at #8. Eddie Murphy’s comedy helps the film along quite a bit. 12:00 PM CT CBS
3. Figure Skating: U.S. Championships. Last week we had the actual competition, and this afternoon we have the exhibition gala that was filmed on January 25 in Cleveland. Men’s, women’s, pairs, and dance winners are included in the performances. 1:30 PM CT NBC Continue Reading »
Nothing gets this guy down. Even after his health scare a few weeks ago, he’s still holding down two shows, Howie Do It and Deal or No Deal. It makes it an interesting selection on tonight, with choices of game shows, reality TV, comedies, dramas, news magazine shows, etc.. And being that it’s currently 3 degrees here, although I just talked to my friend vacationing in Miami where it’s 87 degrees, it’s not a bad night to stay in. Other than her. She should get out there and enjoy that weather.
1. Jurassic Park. Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton came together for this movie that capitalized on the dinosaur craze at the time. Or maybe it’s that the craze was created from the movie. It stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. 11:30 AM AM CT 5STMax
2. The Bonnie Hunt Show. After weeks of making fun of the show, today Bonnie has on the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County. Chris Matthews is on the show as well. Syndicated, check local listings.
3. The Elizabeth Smart Story. Just a reminder to lock up your kids and keep them safe tonight. 5:00 PM CT Hallmark Movies Continue Reading »
Don’t let my daughter know I just called this Hell’s Kitchen. She insists it should be called “Heck’s Kitchen.” Fox apparently can’t stand to not have Gordon Ramsay on their schedule, as just as we had the season finale of Kitchen Nightmares, now we have the competitive kitchen show starting. It’ll have a good lead-in, too, from the last audition episode of American Idol
1. Forrest Gump. I wonder if what makes this movie so entertaining and endearing is the chance that maybe we all wish for a simple life like Forrest’s. Despite his difficult beginnings, it seemed like stuff was always simple for him … like a box of chocolates. 12:00 PM CT HBO West
2. The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Ellen’s guest today is Drew Barrymore, promoting her new movie He’s Just Not That Into You, starring … practically everybody. It opens Friday. Syndicated, check local listings.
3. Evan Almighty. It’s the sequel to Bruce Almighty with Steve Carell and Morgan Freeman reprising their roles. Carell’s character is now a congressman and is asked by God (Freeman) to build an ark. It has some great messages if you look for them. 4:00 PM CT 5StarMax
This is really odd, but three shows tonight feature bank robberies, and two the Russian mob. One of them comes in the form of the return of Life On Mars. That has both a bank robbery and the Russian mob. There are also a lot of repeats on tonight. Maybe the Russian mob stole some of the new programming when they robbed the banks.
1. Gone Baby Gone. Ben Affleck directed, with little brother Casey starring with Michele Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, and Ed Harris. The younger Affleck and Monaghan star as private eyes who investigate the disappearance of a little girl, and all leads point to it being connected somehow to the girl’s mother. 10:20 AM CT Starz 1
2. Rachael Ray. Rachael’s guests include Scott Baio of Confessions of a Teen Idol, as well as tattoo artist Kat Von D. Syndicated, check local listings.
3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. I waited a good fifteen to twenty years after this movie came out, for no particular reason, before I saw it for the first time. I had to admit, though, once I finally caved, that it was quite endearing. 1:45 PM CT HBO Family East Continue Reading »
I can’t quite figure out how they pulled this one off. We all know that The Biggest Loser is filmed months before it airs. This allows the finalists three months to try and lose more weight on their own. And at only thirty days into their season, they have at least another month in the house still, plus those three months at home. Yet, they’re having a Super Bowl special tonight, and it includes quarterback Kurt Warner who will be playing in the big game this weekend. It had to have been filmed at least a few months ago, so how did they know then he’d be in the Super Bowl?
1. Definitely, Maybe. Abigail Breslin and Ryan Reynolds star in this movie of a young girl who tries to figure out the mystery of which of the big loves of her dad’s life her mom was, on the eve of her parents’ divorce. This movie defines romantic comedy, although they prefer to call it a romantic mystery. 10:30 AM CT MoMax East
2. The Secret of My Success. If this movie doesn’t say 80s with its hair styles and fashion and business, I don’t know what does. Michael J. Fox and Helen Slater star in this movie about an innocent college grad who goes to New York determined to make it in the business world. 12:05 PM CT Encore East3. The Bonnie Hunt Show. Reportedly on today’s show, Donny and Marie Osmond appear, and he lets the cat out of the bag. He alludes to the fact he will follow his little sister onto Dancing With the Stars nest season. Syndicated, check local listings. Continue Reading »
We’re a few weeks into this season of The Bachelor, and still no Deanna Pappas. We were promised that at the closing of the first episode in the things to look forward to segment. We haven’t seen her yet, and from the description of tonight’s show, we still won’t. And honestly, the longer they wait to pop her out on Jason and the Bachelorettes, the more cruel it gets. By the way, the gossip is that she’s now dating Ace Amerson from Real World: Paris.
1. The View. Only in Illinois do you have your Governor requesting to go on The View because he’s wanting to help fix his public image. Perhaps he should have checked with Rosie first to see how the career move worked out for her. 10:00 AM CT ABC
2. Ellen DeGeneres Show. It’s Ellen’s birthday show which is always guaranteed to be a doozy. Last season, her 50th seemed to be short-changed somewhat because of the writers strike. New mom Amy Poehler guests and James Morrison performs. Syndicated, check local listings.
3. On Golden Pond. I honestly don’t think I’ve seen this movie since it came out, and I’m not sure why. Regardless, I loved this movie and found it so real. I’m guessing I could view it differently now than I did at 17 years old. Stars Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, and Dabney Coleman. 5:00 PM CT Turner Classic Movies
Somehow, even in a weekend without pro football, we still have a sports-themed afternoon, with pro basketball, high school football, and Little League baseball. Of course, the baseball comes courtesy of The Bad News Bears, the original and far superior version, in my opinion. We were just talking about this version the other night, saying there’s no way you could get away with being that politically inccorrect in a kids movie anymore.
1. NBA Basketball: Mavericks at Celtics. Boston won both of the meetings between these two teams last year. 12:00 PM CT ABC
2. Varsity Blues This is the closest we’ll get to pro football today, a movie about a backup QB for a high school team that gets pressed to play, not getting along with the coach very well. James Van Der Beek and Jon Voight star. 1:00 PM CT TBS
3. The Bad News Bears. It’s the original with Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal. Just watching the clip below had me smiling. It’s the movie that set the barometer for underdog sports movies. 1:00 PM CT Turner Classic Movies
This afternoon we have some dance and pairs finals for skating, and tonight we have the women’s finals. I enjoy watching skating during key times in between football seasons and during the Olympics. So we’re not quite done with football yet, but without it on this weekend at all, I’m making an exception. One bummer of the evening is that Saturday Night Live is a repeat. I hate when that happens.
1. Figure Skating U.S. Championships. From Cleveland, the pairs and dance finalists compete.
2. Back to School. Classic Rodney Dangerfield. He stars in this film as a millionaire store owner who goes back to college alongside his son. Sally Kellerman and Robert Downey, Jr. costar. 2:00 PM CT Comedy Central
3. The Last Mimzy. A kids sci-fi fantasy film with a brother and sister that find a toy and a stuffed animal from the future, and the toy begins to make this normally gifted boy much more so, while the stuffed animal gives directions to the little girl. Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, and Rainn Wilson star. 6:00 PM CT HBO Family
There’s no need to go out tonight. There’s too much on. Best of all, Rick Springfield is on, and he’s not onConfessions of a Teen Idol. True, Rick Springfield was next to Scott Baio on my bedroom wall, but tonight, he’s onDon’t Forget the Lyrics. Of course, if you get the call from friends and go out tonight, no one would begrudge you that either. Maybe you can go out after you see Rick Springfield.
1. Bonnie Hunt Show. Brendan Fraser is Bonnie’s guest, as he’s on promoting his new film Inkheart opening today. Yesterday he told Ellen that the book it was based on was written with him in mind. What stories will he have for Bonnie? Emily VanCamp guests as well. Syndicated, check local listings.
3. U2: Rattle and Hum. Here’s some concert footage of U2, along with recording sessions and interviews. Just something to get you in the mood for their newest release in five years. Heard the first single? Different. 3:00 PM CT VH1 Classic
We’ve had two full weeks of our newest judge on American Idol, Kara DioGuardi, known in some circles as simply “the new girl” or “the fourth judge.” Seeing her make a newbie faux pas last night, it made me start to consider how she is doing so far in the two key areas.
Congeniality (aka, putting up with Simon) First we have to realize that we aren’t seeing the auditions in the order they occurred. So far we’ve seen Phoenix, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Louisville, but the actual order of the auditions the way they occurred were San Francisco, Louisville, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Juan, Kansas City, Jacksonville, East Rutherford, and New Jersey. Things seemed a little disjointed in San Francisco, and that would make sense, as that was their first audition city, and Louisville was directly after.
We can’t judge by that then, and maybe a truer case of how everyone is getting along would be last week’s auditions of Kansas City and Phoenix that occurred third and sixth. While many expected to have cat fights between Kara and Paula Abdul, there really doesn’t seem to be animosity, and they seem quite comfortable with each other, even siding the same way on most occasions. Randy Jackson always seems to get along with everyone, so it would be odd if she didn’t get along with him. As for Simon Cowell, he seems to have the same playfulness with her that he has with Paula. I think he was the guy that liked to put tacks on girls’ chairs. Continue Reading »
Somehow, even in a weekend without pro football, we still have a sports-themed afternoon, with pro basketball, high school football, and Little League baseball. Of course, the baseball comes courtesy of The Bad News Bears, the original and far superior version, in my opinion. We were just talking about this version the other night, saying there’s no way you could get away with being that politically inccorrect in a kids movie anymore.
This afternoon we have some dance and pairs finals for skating, and tonight we have the women’s finals. I enjoy watching skating during key times in between football seasons and during the Olympics. So we’re not quite done with football yet, but without it on this weekend at all, I’m making an exception. One bummer of the evening is that Saturday Night Live is a repeat. I hate when that happens.
We’ve had two full weeks of our newest judge on American Idol, Kara DioGuardi, known in some circles as simply “the new girl” or “the fourth judge.” Seeing her make a newbie faux pas last night, it made me start to consider how she is doing so far in the two key areas.
