The best thing on tonight is Hustle the BBC import playing each Saturday night on American Movie Classics. I caught up with the show last weekend and it is quiet fun to watch. The last major day of competition before the closing ceremonies tomorrow night for the Winter Olympics, never really got into them much this time around. How about you, have you been watching?

Prime Picks

XX Olympic Winter Games (NBC): Men’s slalom final, men’s 500m speed skating final, women’s 1000m speed skating final, men’s 5000m speed skating relay and four man bobsled final. Coverage runs three and a half hours.

Solid Selections

Forrest Gump (ABC): Watch Tom Hanks in one of his best roles. The lovable but not so smart man who ends up apart of many historical events. Runs three hours.

Other Options

NUMB3RS (CBS): Repeat of Bones of Contention.

Cold Case (CBS): Repeat where a rare ring is found on the finger of a dead junkie, which prompts the team to reopen a 1984 case.

48 Hour Mystery (CBS): The story of a baby who was kidnapped in Los Angeles and taken to Italy.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Emeril shows you some of his favorite gadgets in this repeat.

Trading Spaces (TLC): Repeat where some living rooms are made over.

Hustle (AMC): Last Saturday they played the first six episodes leading up to the seventh episode. I recorded them and was able to catch up with this show. It is pretty fun. A group of con artists with a sort of conscience, they only take people that want something for nothing and have lots of money. No small time jobs here only the long con. If you haven’t been watching you should check it out. It is very good. Run 75 minutes.

Sports Notes

ABC has semifinal matches of the Accenture Match Play Championship. Not sure who is left in this one as Vijay, Tiger and Phil all lost yesterday. NBC has some Winter Games action during the day. ESPN has Duke at Temple in college hoops action followed by the 2006 Bassmaster fishing tournament that is followed by more college hoops with Iowa at Illinois and later Kansas at Texas.

Can’t wait for next week when the Winter Games will be over and the TV schedule can get back to normal. Anybody else out there that is looking forward to that also? Once again it is Sci-Fi Friday on the Sci-Fi Channel with a tripleheader of shows that repeat again right after if you miss them the first time. What will you be watching?

Prime Picks

What I Like About You (WB): Things aren’t going well for Holly and Vince.
Living With Fran (WB): Fran gets a job in a new development that Riley is working on and they decide to keep their relationship a secret from his boss.

Reba (WB): James Denton guests as a Doctor who wants to pick up where he left off with Reba.
Twins (WB): Nick Lachey (former Mr. Jessica Simpson) guests as a model that Farrah tries to help out but things don’t go well.

NUMB3RS (CBS): Repeat with the counter terrorist exercise that gets infiltrated and the team has to figure out what is going on before the exercises can go on as planned.

Solid Selections

XX Olympic Winter Games (NBC): The champions figuring skating gala, women’s giant slalom, four man bobsled and the 10000m speed skating final. Four hours of coverage.

Other Options

America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC): A little filler in place of the normal Dancing With the Stars results show that will be on Sunday night. Runs two hours.

20/20 (ABC): ABC investigative reports.

Cable Choices

Stargate SG-1 (Sci-Fi Channel): A powerful ancient device is used against the team.

Stargate Atlantis (Sci-Fi Channel): An attempt at turning a Wraith into a human is tried.

Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi Channel): A human-Cylon baby is born on the ship.

Sports Notes

ESPN has third round play from the Accenture Match Play event. Later they have an NBA doubleheader with the New Jersey Nets at the New York Knicks with Steve Francis taking the floor for the Knicks for the first time. The second game is the Los Angeles Lakers at the Los Angeles Clippers. ESPN2 has Friday Night Fights.

On American Idol last night there were only four guys that had really good performances but only a couple even hold a candle to some of the outstanding performances by the gals the night before. Who do you think isn’t going to make it until next week? It will once again be interesting to see which show gets the tops in viewers. American Idol first vote results? What do you think?

Prime Picks

American Idol (FOX): Find out who the first two females and males to not receive enough votes to stay in the competition are. Who do you think it will be?

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS): Repeat where lack of evidence of a kidnapping leads Grissom to think that it all may be fabricated.

Without a Trace (CBS): Repeat where Jack and Danny go to Mexico to help with a kidnapping case down there.

Solid Selections

XX Olympic Winter Games (NBC): Four hours of coverage that includes the ladies free skate final. Can Sasha Cohen turn in another brilliant performance and win the Gold Medal?

Other Options

Skating With the Stars (ABC): The final three pairs perform. Runs two hours. They sure have learned well from American Idol how to stretch a show.

Primetime (ABC): The lead suspect in the Natalee Holloway disappearance, Joran van der Sloot, is interviewed.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Emeril gives tips on cooking for college students in this repeat.

Chocolate Fantasy (Food Network): It is amazing what can be made out of chocolate. Repeat airing of a competition between five pastry chefs and the works of art they create out of one of my favorite things to eat.

Extreme Engineering (Discovery Channel): Repeat about canals and ports needing to be redone because of bigger and bigger container ships being built.

Sports Notes

TNT has an NBA hoops doubleheader. First the Indiana Pacers take on the Detroit Pistons followed by the Sacramento Kings at the Los Angeles Lakers in the late game. ESPN has college hoops action with South Carolina at Georgia followed by Villanova at Cincinnati.

Last night on American Idol Simon was right there were four really great performances. I had Midnight Train to Georgia floating around in my head the rest of the night. That little Paris has great stage presence at such a young age. She came right out and grabbed the audience and kept them right through to the end. Tonight the guys show what they can do. Can’t wait to see what the ratings were for Idol with the ladies figure skating going on over on NBC. Should be interesting. I think that Idol probably out drew even the most watched and favorite event of the Winter Games. What do you think?

Prime Picks

American Idol (FOX): Tonight is the guys take center stage as the 12 perform and give the audience their first chance at voting. Runs two hours.

CSI: NY (CBX): Repeat where the owner of a doll hospital is killed and the team investigates. Pretty good yet kind of creepy episode with all those doll heads looking at you.

Solid Selections

XX Olympic Winter Games (NBC): The women’s slalom, freestyle aerials and 1500m speed skating finals also the men’s parallel giant slalom.

Other Options

George Lopez (ABC): George tries to teach his niece about hard work by getting her a job at the factory.
Still Standing (CBS): Judy attempt to get to a taping of Oprah but she reluctantly has to take her mother-in-law and things don’t go well.

Lost (ABC): Repeat of the two-hour pilot episode. If you haven’t seen how it all began here is your chance.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Emeril gives a salute to dairy farmers.

Happy Gilmore (USA): This is one of my favorite Adam Sandler movies, probably because it revolves around golf. Runs two and a half hours.

Sports Notes

ESPN has some college hoops with Duke at Georgia Tech follow by some NBA hoops action with the Milwaukee Bucks at the Chicago Bulls. ESPN2 has Texas at Kansas State in college hoops.