Tonight on the Tube: Smallville Marathon, Bowl Games and Paula’s Party

This is the last Friday of the year and there isn’t much on tonight. During the day you can catch nine pretty good episodes of Smallville, which includes the “Pilot” episode. This week has given me a chance to catch up on shows that I TiVo’d but hadn’t watched yet. I have now seen the all the episodes of The Unit for this season with two and three episode mini marathons each night this week. It makes it like watching one really long exciting action movie. Have you been catching up on any shows this week?

Prime Picks

America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC): Repeat. Driving through store windows and doing cannonballs are just some of the fun that is shown in this replay.

Las Vegas (NBC): Repeat. The season premiere replays tonight where Ed is shot and Delinda finally admits her feelings for Danny.

Numb3rs (CBS): Repeat. Charlie finds a photo on a hard drive during an investigation and continues to look into it even after he is asked not to by his brother.

Solid Selections

The Rundown (FOX): Released 2003. The Rock plays a bounty hunter sent to find the son of his boss. Runs two hours.

Law & Order (NBC): Repeat. When a young girl is found dead in a Brownstone after a fire it is determined that faulty wiring may be to blame.

Cable Choices

Emeril’s Year End Blast (Food Network): Repeat. Emeril whips up some of his favorite dishes for New Year’s.

What Not to Wear (TLC): Repeat. A mother who has given up on fashion gets a little help from Stacy and Clinton.

Paula’s Party (Food Network): New. Paula talks romance and food tonight with breakfast in bed and other ideas.

Other Options

• Quigley Down Under (Hallmark Channel): Released 1990. Tom Selleck as a sharpshooter hired by an Australian to help him with a problem but he refuses and this doesn’t sit to well with the man that brought him over. This is a very good western. Runs two hours.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has a college bowl game doubleheader with Houston vs. South Carolina in the Autozone Liberty Bowl followed by Maryland vs. Purdue in the Champs Sports Bowl.
• ESPN2 has a college basketball doubleheader with Wake Forest at South Florida followed by Illinois at Xavier.
• NBA TV has the New Jersey Nets at the Miami Heat in NBA action tonight.

TV Marathon

ABC Family has nine episodes of Smallville followed by Superman: The Movie.