News & Notes
Over on cable, Cartoon Network has the second season finale of The Secret Saturdays, FOX Reality has the series premiere of Seducing Cindy and the fourth season premiere of Solitary, Lifetime has the TV movie premiere of Lying to Be Perfect, Syfy has the TV movie premiere of Meteor Storm, and TLC has the Miss America 2010 pageant and the series premiere of Four Weddings.
Enter our White Collar and Burn Notice giveaways. The first prize pack includes a cashmere scarf, flask and t-shirt and the second prize pack includes DVDs, a logo flashlight and t-shirt.
Prime Picks
Unwrapped (Food Network): Repeat. Get a look at how some of your favorite foods at arena and stadiums are made. Plays again later.
Unwrapped (Food Network): Repeat. Get a look at how some of your favorite foods for tailgating are made. Plays again later.
Demons (BBC America): New. Mina has a premonition of Luke dying and they suspect his new love interest. Plays again later.
Castle (ABC): Repeat. In “Ghosts” from last season season, Beckett and Castle are investigating the death of a woman that was drowned in motor oil.
Solid Selections
World’s Best Places to Pig Out (Travel Channel): Repeat. Profiles of restaurants around the country that offer some sizable fare, like Beth’s Cafe here in Seattle and their 12 egg omelets. Plays again later.
Law & Order (NBC): Repeat. In “Doped” from earlier this season, detectives investigate after a substance is found in an inhaler at the scene of a car crash that could have rendered a driver unable to operate the vehicle.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): Repeat. In “Quickie” from earlier this season, detectives are after a man that is knowingly spreading HIV.
Sports Notes
- CBS has college basketball action early with Duke at Georgetown.
- ESPN has four college basketball games and Winter X Games coverage.
- ESPN2 has four college basketball games and Winter X Games and Australian Open tennis coverage.
- NBA TV has the Atlanta Hawks at the Orlando Magic.
Late Night
- Burn Notice (USA): Repeat. This past Thursday’s episode, “Friendly Fire,” replays.
- Saturday Night Live (NBC): New. Jon Hamm (Mad Men) hosts with musical guest Michael Bublé.
- White Collar (USA): Repeat. The winter premiere episode, “Hard Sell,” replays.
TV Marathons
BET has 12 episodes One on One early.
Bravo has six episodes of House tonight.
Discovery Channel has seven episodes of MythBusters.
MTV has 10 episodes of Is She Really Going Out With Him?.
Oxygen has 12 episodes of America’s Next Top Model.
Syfy has made for TV disaster movies all day.
TLC has 10 episodes of What Not to Wear.
Travel Channel has six episodes of Food Paradise.
truTV has six episodes of Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege & Justice.
WE has nine episodes of Bridezillas.
Excellent–another slow weekend for new TV.
Last night’s Dollhouse finale was great–glad to see a proper ending to a show. Also, Spartacus wasn’t as bad with the second ep (a lot less cgi blood and slow motion)–however, not as bad still doesn’t equal good. Haven’t watched Caprica yet–but wasn’t a huge fan of the pilot.
Saw your tweet about the Buffy S4 finale–forgot how bad that episode was. I remembered ahead of time that I didn’t like “Where the Wild Things Are” when it originally aired, but forgot about this episode. “Restless” was unnecessary–the previous episode made a better finale–this episode just seemed like they made it because they needed to fill one more episode–had that “clip show” kind of feel to it.
Through 3 eps each of Buffy S5 and Angel S2.
Kyle, Glad that FOX gave Dollhouse the chance to give a proper ending to the show. I think Caprica gets better after the “Pilot.”
It’s nice to hear someone else didn’t like the Buffy S.4 finale. A bunch of people on Twitter couldn’t believe I didn’t really like it, some of which thought it was one of the best episodes of the series. The episode wasn’t terrible, it just seemed out of place as the season finale. I went back and watched it again with the Commentary by Whedon and while I understand it more, I still don’t think it made for a good season finale. Will be finishing off Angel S.1 today. Won’t have anymore new episodes to watch until Monday when first four episodes of Buffy S.5 arrive.