Do you want to be a superhero? Well tonight eleven people get their shot at just that. Actually they get to create a superhero and have a comic book and movie made of it. That would be pretty cool. From what I have seen and read about it the couple that sound interesting are Fat Momma and Cell Phone Girl. Any of them sound like superheroes to you?

Prime Picks

My Name Is Earl (NBC): Repeat. Earl tries to help his friend Hank have one last great day before he goes to jail.
The Office (NBC): Repeat. Jan is holding a meeting for the ladies in the office so Michael decides to do the same thing for the guys. Today is Webisode 4.

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC): Repeat. Alex works hard to get on the good side of a patient only to look like a jackass later in front of her.

Windfall (NBC): New. Peter is about to unveil his company’s new motorcycle and wants to celebrate. Beth comes in contact with Kimberly and Cameron and Nina don’t know what they are doing.

Solid Selections

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC): Repeat. Meredith thinks she may have screwed up in surgery. Izzie has trouble throwing a party for her new boyfriend.

America’s Got Talent (NBC): New. The results are given.

Without a Trace (CBS): Repeat. Rookie Agent Delgado joins the search for a missing prostitute and finds she has a steep leaning curve.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Repeat. Find out the benefits of slow cooking.

Who Wants to Be a Superhero? (Sci Fi): Series Premiere. Stan Lee helps decide from a group of people competing to create the next comic book superhero. The winner gets a comic book of their superhero and a Sci Fi Channel movie. Will you be watching?

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX): New. The Virgin Mary appears in a water stain from a leaky pipe.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX): Repeat. Charlie finds out he might have cancer.

Other Options

• American Eats (Travel Channel): New. Ever wanted to know the history of Ice Cream? Well tonight is your chance.
• Fallen (ABC Family): Released 2006. ABC Family plays this original movie starring Paul Wesley as a young man whom starts experiencing weird stuff after he turns 18 again. Also stars Tom Skerritt.
• Last Comic Standing (Bravo): Repeat. Did you miss Tuesday’s episode?
• Monk (USA): Repeats. Two episodes replay tonight. The first has Monk keeping tabs on the Captain’s wife and the second has Monk visiting a dentist.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has Thursday Night Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals at the Chicago Cubs.

The blue collar guys take on sinning on The WB while on NBC they are still trying to see if America’s Got Talent. Killer Whirlpools are investigated by the MythBusters on Discovery Channel while the gang in Britain cons a bad newspaperman in Hustle over on AMC. Still don’t understand why a British TV show is on the American Movie Classics channel. It is neither American nor a movie and since it is new that makes it hard to be one of the classics. It fails on all three fronts. It ranks right up there with ECW professional wrestling on the Sci Fi Channel. At least it meets half the criteria, as it is fiction just not of the science variety. What other shows don’t make since on the channel they are being shown?

Prime Picks

Blue Collar TV (WB): New. The topic of the day is “Sinning.”
Blue Collar TV (WB): Repeat. The topic of “Aging” is covered.

Criminal Minds (CBS): Repeat. The team investigates a possible serial killer after a police officer is taken captive.

CSI: NY (CBS): Repeat. A little back-story regarding Danny and who he grew up with when a tip leads to a buried body in the end zone at the football stadium in New Jersey.

Solid Selections

America’s Got Talent (NBC): New. Two hours of performers trying to get to the finals.

Law & Order (NBC): Repeat. A shooting at a diner puts the detectives on the trail of a gunman out for revenge after his baby sitter dies of AIDS.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Repeat. Emeril helps you get stuffed with food that is stuffed.

MythBusters (Discovery Channel): New. The gang takes on myths regarding whirlpools and snowplows.

Hustle (AMC): New. The amoral editor of a newspaper is the mark after he prints an article to Stacie’s dislike about a friend of hers. Runs 75 minutes.

Other Options

• Blade: The Series (Spike): New. Boone is still on his killing spree. Plays twice.
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes (TNT): New. Two more episodes based on the stories of Stephen King.
• Professional Poker Tour (Travel Channel): New. The 4th Quarter from Foxwoods is played. Runs two hours.
• Stan Lee’s Lightspeed (Sci Fi): Released 2006. The creator of Spider-Man brings you this story about a government agent who after an accident has the ability to run at light speed. Runs two hours.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has Wednesday Night Baseball with the New York Yankees at the Texas Rangers.
• ESPN2 has Wednesday Night Fights.

Quite a good mixture of TV on DVD titles released today, a bit of animation, some comedy and some action drama. The first season of JAG, the first two seasons of Miami Vice and the fourth season of La Femme Nikita should keep any action drama show lover glued to their tube. Will you be one of them?

Prime TV on DVD Pick

JAG (Judge Advocate General) - The Complete First Season
This was always one of my favorite shows. When NBC cancelled it I was a bit disappointed but then CBS picked it up and it seem to run forever. The show had a little bit of everything adding up to an enjoyable watching experience. There was plenty of action, courtroom drama, comic relief, romance and patriotism. This TV on DVD is the complete first season, which includes an unaired episode. That episode had Catherine Bell in a cameo as and old girlfriend of Harm’s. When the show changed networks some episodes had already been filmed but not aired. When Bell was cast as the new female lead on the show CBS decided that it would be confusing to air the “Skeleton Crew” episode. The DVD Set includes all 21 episodes on six discs. Special features include three featurettes with behind the scenes looks at the show and commentary on the two part pilot episode by show creator Donald P. Bellisario.

Other TV on DVD Options

All Creatures Great & Small - The Complete Series 6 Collection
‘Allo ‘Allo! - The Complete Series Five, Parts 1 and 2
American Muscle Car: Season 3
Animal Rescues, Vol. 2: Best Cat Rescues
Animaniacs, Vol. 1
The Boondocks - The Complete First Season
Chappelle’s Show - The Lost Episodes (Uncensored)
Dark Shadows DVD Collection 25
Galaxy High School, Vol. 2
Invisible Man: Season 2
The Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour 3 (Jimmy Neutron / Fairly OddParents)
La Femme Nikita - The Complete Fourth Season
Miami Vice: Seasons One and Two
Pinky and the Brain, Vol. 1
Punky Brewster: Season Three
Rawhide - The Complete First Season
Tales from the Crypt - The Complete Fourth Season
Three’s Company: Season 7

What new TV on DVD Sets released this week will make it into your TV shows on DVD collection?

If you missed The Closer last night on TNT they will be replaying it tonight. Next you will find a truly enjoyable and quirky show in Eureka on Sci Fi. The night is topped off by Rescue Me on FX. On the networks it is much reality on the big three while the other three that are soon to be two have a 2xTuesday night of three of the best shows on TV. Choose between two repeat episodes of House on FOX, Gilmore Girls on The WB or Veronica Mars on UPN. What will you be watching tonight on the tube?

Prime Picks

House (FOX): Repeat. The team treats a heroine addict who is a young supermodel and House’s leg is bothering him more than usual. Could that actually be a good thing? Wilson thinks it might.

Last Comic Standing (NBC): New. One gets the hook and the final four perform.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): Repeat. An abducted girl is found to have leukemia when blood found in the vehicle that was used.

Solid Selections

Veronica Mars (UPN): Repeat. Fun episode finds Veronica trying to ferret out who stole the money for the senior class trip.

House (FOX): Repeat. Guest star Howard Hesseman as a man who comes to the hospital after a seizure, which House thinks was caused by an infection.

48 Hours Mystery (CBS): Repeat. The story of a teen that dreamt he murdered someone.

Cable Choices

The Closer (TNT): Repeat. Last night’s episode replays where the team investigates after body parts are found in a dumpster. It was another very good episode with many great lines.

Eureka (Sci Fi): New. Last week was the debut of this new quirky sci-fi show. It is like a sci-fi Northern Exposure given all the wacky characters and weirdness that goes on in the town. Tonight a funeral is attended and a strange figure keeps appearing around town.

Rescue Me (FX): New. Tommy continues to see Angie while Lou tries to turn over a new leaf. Runs 63 minutes and plays twice tonight.

Other Options

• Dead Like Me (Sci Fi): Repeat. This Showtime original show was very interesting to watch but as with everything else that Showtime puts out only lasted two seasons before being cancelled. Watch and see why they made a mistake and should have kept going. If they had though Mandy Patinkin would not be leading a group of profilers over on CBS.
• Dirty Jobs (Discovery Channel): New. The host cleans some fuel tanks at an Air Force base.
• Overhaulin’ (TLC): New. A Cadillac that has been used for storage is redone.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has darts, poker and The Contender.
• ESPN2 has a WNBA doubleheader with the Washington Mystics at the Connecticut Sun followed by my hometown Seattle Storm at the Phoenix Mercury.