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Marquez’s life a good read itself Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin; Knopf, $37.50; 642 pages
track down even before Marquez comes into the world, with one Reviewed by Brian Robinson event that will be immediGabriel Garcia Marquez’s literary ately familiar reputation is immense and well deserved. to Marquez’s Often credited with being the most impor- readers. tant writer of the Latin American Boom of After he’s the 1960’s and ’70’s and author of several born, his classics studied in colleges everywhere, mom and his literary reputation is matched only dad place by his political connections— the most him with his famous (infamous?) being his close relamaternal tionship with Fidel Castro. grandparents in It’s a fascinating life to read about that Aracataca and move on to try and start a touches many important parts of Colom- business, leaving him with his two greatbian history that are unfamiliar to us, est influences in his grandfather and but play a major part in Marquez’s writgrandmother. ings. While telling Marquez’s life story, Gerald Martin had his work cut out Martin delves deep into Colombian hisfor him in researching Gabriel Garcia tory, showing how events before and Marquez: A Life. There’s a rich and often after Gabriel’s birth are reflected in his tangled family history that’s tough to writings. For one, the grandfather refuses
to stay silent over the “banana massacres” that happened the year of Marquez’s birth, where workers were shot en masse by cronies of the banana companies — another event that will be recognized. For another, the time of la violencia — rebellion and fighting in the streets that Marquez witnessed when he was in college. In addition, his respected work as a journalist also frequently brought him in contact with politics, often leading to censorship and death threats. These may have (who can say for sure?) shaped his liberal political outlook, allying him with Socialists for much of his life. It’s not just a historical overlook of Marquez’s life. There’s often discussion of his literary themes and how they can be seen in his life, with excerpts from many of his books. Anyone who enjoys Marquez’s books will enjoy seeing where they started. Brian Robinson is a member of the Organized Anarchists.
Robinson maps the future’s gray areas By Reed Johnson
less development and flattened by nuclear disaster, yet resilient, like a hardy mutant Los Angeles Times plant. DAVIS, Calif. — In science fiction, His latest novel, Galileo’s Dream (Specthere’s dystopia and there’s utopia. tra: 544 pages, $26), deftly lashes together There are the dark wizards of apocathree narratives: an homage to Galileo, lypse, terrifying us with visions of a trek to Jupiter’s moons in the year 3020 humanity’s grim comeuppance. And the and a philosophical inquiry into the perstarry-eyed fantasists, insisting how much petual tussle between comforting falsebetter the future will be than the messy, hoods and inconvenient truths. middling present. “Elegant, charming, funny and proAnd then there’s Kim Stanley Robfound,” summarized a reviewer for the inson: family man, High Sierras pilgrim Guardian of London, marking Robinson and prolific author of several of the most as the rare sci-fi writer whose polished influential science fiction works of the last prose and intellectual heft equals his 25 years. inventive plotting. It’s up to the reader, his Robinson, 57, doesn’t put much stock speculative fiction implies, to determine in the extremes of Bad New World vs. which future will prevail. Bright New Tomorrow. His work restlessly “You can never properly predict the seeks out the third (or fourth, or fifth) pos- future as it really turns out,” Robinson told sibility, an alternative evolutionary path. a high school class recently. “So you are With total worldwide sales of around doing something a little different when 2.5 million copies, in numerous lanyou write science fiction. You are trying to guages, his perspective plainly has a foltake a different perspective on now.” lowing. Like Dante, Robinson specializes This endeavor raises several questions in triptychs. His Mars trilogy of the 1990s central to Robinson’s outlook. What if describes 200 years of human colonizathe world isn’t fated to end with a bang tion and ecological transformation on the or whimper, but simply to go on and on? Red Planet. His Three Californias series What if utopia and dystopia aren’t static of a decade earlier imagines the southern but dynamic terms, “roads of history” edge of the Golden State overrun by ruth- leading us through crisscrossing, switch-
backed destinies? What if history can be read backward and forward, like a reverse nuclear chain reaction, in which altering a single atom could sway the course of religions, cultures, empires? Most crucially, perhaps: How might the world be different if our literature, to say nothing of our politics, behaved more like a rational, intrepid adult than a handwringing adolescent? “Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that’s a terrible approach to take,” Robinson says over lunch at one of his favorite downtown haunts. “Because it isn’t true. We cannot kill off life on Earth even if we wanted to. Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can’t say, ‘Is it too late?’ That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it’s too late, you don’t need to act; if it’s not too late, you don’t need to act.” Over the years, Robinson has tilted away from the absolutism of the 1960s and tried to “reimagine what revolution” can be. In his novels, he posits a scientific, gradualist, nonviolent view of how progress can occur.
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Chamber quartet to perform in Jacksonville Sunday Ready for a soothing Sunday afternoon? The music by a chamber quartet, mixed with a few very stimulating pieces by famous European composers — at Jacksonville’s First Presbyterian Church at 3 p.m. — will be just that. The recital will offer music by friends who like performing together. Hervey And because this Folsom is an easy-to-listen-to Artists in Action program, perhaps the art form of classical music will win new friends and supporters, too. “Some people don’t know how much they will like classical music until they hear it,” Susan Di Biase, the group’s cellist, said. “When they do, they find it enjoyable and often, familiar.” Chamber music was written to be played in people’s chambers or living rooms in recent history. Before that, it was heard in palaces when royalty employed musicians for festivities. But whether the venue is a princely court or church sanctuary, music lovers find it satisfying. “It’s a way to share music among friends and family,” Di Biase said. “That’s the tradition, and it’s worth keeping alive.” The music selected gives each instrument a chance to showcase its voice. “The Musical Offering” by Johann Sebastian Bach includes several movements, from slow to fast, and it is a conversation between flute and violin. It was presented to Frederick the Great of Prussia (a flutist and sometimes composer himself ) as a gift. Di Biase said Bach’s Gamba Sonata for cello and piano is lovely and mystical. And Canon, a flowing and expressive piece by Jean Sibelius, Finland’s most renowned composer, is for violin and cello. Then, time for a little Spanish flavor. “Piece in the Form of Habanera” was written by French composer Maurice Ravel, with interesting rhythms and in Cuban dance form. “Both well seasoned and novice listeners will appreciate the superbly crafted ‘Musical Offering’ by Bach and enjoy the manner in which the ensemble of flute, cello, violin and piano is featured,” said Wendy Faughn, associate professor of music at JSU. “All can appreciate the fine craftsmanship in both compositions of Bach and Ravel. The serious music listener can
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Patrick Clines, Diane Chong, Susan Di Biase and Anna Abrams stand in front of First Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville to rehearse for Sunday’s recital. indulge in great degree the musical logic and connections made in these compositions.” Pieces by Philippe Gaubert and Jean Sibelius round out the program to give the listener a sampling of different pairings of the four instruments. The flute, cello and piano will perform “Trois Aquarelles (Three Watercolors)” by the French composer Gaubert, with the feel and musical picture of an autumn evening. And different moods are created in the free-spirited “Kokopeli” for flute by Katherine Hoover, which tells the story of a legendary musician and deity of the Hopi Indians. Di Biase is a graduate student in the JSU music department. She studies cello
privately with Craig Hultgren of the Alabama Symphony in Birmingham. One of the founding members of the JSU College/ Community Orchestra in fall of 1993, she teaches cello students in the Etowah Youth Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras. Also in the quartet, Anna Abrams graduated from Jacksonville State University in 2009. She studied under Dr. Faughn at JSU, where she received a music scholarship. She teaches private piano lessons and accompanies other musicians. She enjoys playing in groups within the community. Abrams is the pianist at First United Methodist Church in Alexandria. She plans on beginning graduate school to study Piano Pedagogy within the year and to one day teach piano at a collegiate level while still
performing. Diane Chong graduated from Sookmyung University in Korea with a major in violin and a minor in piano. She also played in the Seous Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, Korea. She teaches viola and violin at Gadsden Community School for the Arts and a is member of the Parker Memorial Baptist Church’s orchestra. A senior at JSU, Patrick Clines is majoring in music with a minor in history. He is second flutist with the Gadsden Symphony Orchestra, principal flute for the JSU Chamber Winds and the JSU Contemporary Ensemble. He plans to pursue a masters of arts in musicology degree after graduation from JSU, and is currently to graduate schools throughout the United States and Canada.
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Last chapter in Cash’s ‘American’ series By Randy Lewis Los Angeles Times
MALIBU, Calif. — Producer Rick Rubin took up a seat on a sofa on the patio of his expansive Malibu home overlooking the Pacific, emanating both gravity and joy while discussing his extraordinary decade-long relationship with Johnny Cash. It was the first full day of sun after yet another round of thunderstorms had pounded Southern California, a fitting parting of the clouds on the day Rubin spoke about one of the titans of 20th century music in the final years of his life. The final entry in their series of studio albums arrived Tuesday, American VI: Ain’t No Grave, yet despite the nod to mortality in the title, an acknowledgment of the closeness of death that runs through most of the album’s 10 songs, Rubin insists that it wasn’t created as Cash’s swan song. “He had made plans to come to Los Angeles to start recording,” said the 46-year-old producer of Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, Metallica, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tom Petty. “It was the first trip he had planned in a long time ... He had been on the upswing physically, and was looking forward to getting started on Volumes 7 and 8. That’s what made it such a shock when I got the call that he had passed.” It’s also one reason it’s taken so long for Rubin to put the finishing touches on what he and Cash had been working on nearly seven years ago. “I wasn’t in any hurry to let this go,” he said with a little chuckle. In the months leading up to his death on Sept. 12, 2003, Cash, Rubin and John Carter Cash — Johnny and June Carter’s son — had mapped out both the fifth and sixth volumes of the American albums they’d started with 1994’s American Recordings. That one earned Cash a Grammy for best contemporary folk album; he collected another Grammy for its 1996 successor, Unchained, which was named best country album. While working on American V and VI, which were recorded essentially simultaneously over several months at the end of 2002 and in 2003 near Cash’s home in Hendersonville, Tenn., each man came armed with lists of potential songs, lists they continuously updated and expanded.
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The late country music legend Johnny Cash is shown with his wife, the late June Carter Cash, in this 1999 photo. American V: A Hundred Highways, which surfaced in 2006, is the album Rubin considers to be Cash’s statement about death — raising the question, what’s left for an encore? “I feel like this is him talking about what’s next,” Rubin said. “There’s a very otherworldly quality to it. And that’s nothing we could have planned. ... While we were finishing it, once we heard his voice again, we really felt a
presence in the studio, and it helped with making a lot of the decisions.” Even a song as familiar and frequently recorded as Kris Kristofferson’s “For the Good Times” takes on a different weight knowing the man who sang it is now gone: “Don’t look so sad / I know it’s over / But life goes on / And this old world will keep on turning / Let’s just be glad we had some time to spend together ...”
Ferlin Husky usually gets a lot calls in the spring from friends telling him this has to be the year he’ll be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. “Every year I’ve heard that — for the last 15 or 20 years,” Husky said with a laugh. This time it’s true. The Country Music Association on Tuesday announced that Husky and three other genreexpanding country music stars will be new inductees to the Hall of Fame. Husky joins fellow crossover pioneer Jimmy Dean, producer Billy Sherrill and top-selling singer Don Williams. The men will be inducted into the Hall in Nashville, Tenn., later this year. It’s been a long wait for Husky, who is 84. One of the best-selling popular artists regardless of genre in the 1950s and ’60s, Husky figured he just wasn’t country enough for the Country Music Hall of Fame. “The main thing I’m proud of this is for my family and for the many people who want to see me go in there before I die,” Husky said. “It’s a great honor.” Husky and Dean — both selected as Veterans Era Artists in a tie under a new selection process this year — took country music to wider audiences by using the relatively new medium of television to earn new fans. Dean, best known for the spoken narrative hit “Big Bad John,” hosted The Morning Show, an early morning variety show on CBS, was the first guest host for The Tonight Show and had his own variety show on CBS that featured country artists as guests. He became a headliner at venues like Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl and became the first country star to play on the Las Vegas strip. He also was an actor with parts in television and the movies, including the role of James Bond’s ally Willard Whyte in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever. Husky also achieved pop success before turning to TV and film. He was a variety show regular and among the first country artists to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He had several hits, including “Wings of a Dove” and “Gone,” and sold millions of records. “I didn’t say it was country, but it was a country boy doing it,” Husky said. Williams started his recording career with a folk-pop outfit and moved to Nashville in the early 1970s. He went on to record 17 No. 1 hits in the U.S. and earned a large following in Europe.
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Man in Black leaves proof that that he never faded Johnny Cash American VI: Ain’t No Grave The Man in Black did not fade. Now, more than six years after his death, American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American Recordings/ Lost Highway) arrives as spectacular proof. True to the mythology that has risen around him, Johnny Cash never backed down — not even to death. In his final days, Cash, along with collaborator-producer Rick Rubin and a small group of trusted musicians, sang about his life and his future. He transformed Sheryl Crow’s “Redemption Day” into a thunderous warning with the power of his voice and delivery. He made Tom Paxton’s “Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound” feel like a thankyou note. And Red Hayes and Jack Rhodes’ “Satisfied
Mind” takes on an air of defiance, a straightforward declaration that is nearly the opposite of Jeff Buckley’s fluttery, otherworldly jazzy take. When Cash sings, “I’ll leave this old world with a satisfied mind,” he means it. Even more telling, though, is the Cash original “I Corinthians 15:55,” where he makes the Bible verse — “O death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?” — feel like a taunt. It’s stunning stuff made all the more impressive by the fact that it was recorded so shortly after his beloved wife June Carter Cash’s death and so shortly before his own. Ain’t No Grave chronicles the end of Cash’s legendary career, but it’s so lovingly delivered that it sounds like the start of something new. — Newsday
New Alkaline Trio sugary Alkaline Trio This Addiction
For an album that takes most of its imagery from foil-darkened heroin dens, Alkaline Trio’s This Addiction feels more like a sugar high than an opiate. The goth-tinted punk band, credited for better or worse as one of emo’s progenitors, long paired sly, cartoonishly bleak lyrics with downright chipper melodies. Addiction is its clearest distillation of that formula in years, and will remind a lot of prodigal fans about singer Matt Skiba’s song-
writing strengths. Alkaline Trio has never been as evil as they imagined, and their obsidian sheen has sometimes bogged down their tunes. Not so here: “Dead on the Floor” imagines Buddy Holly’s sock-hop rock as a delicious romance-is-murder ballad, and “Eating Me Alive” drags up ’80s-era Cure synths that could run your mascara from 100 yards away. “Dine, Dine My Darling” is a witty Misfits homage, appropriate for a band built on twominute pop tunes about suicide and vampires. — Los Angeles Times
TRS established as force The Rocket Summer Of Men and Angels The Rocket Summer’s Bryce Avary establishes himself as a formidable rock force with Of Men and Angels (Island). He packs esteem-building anthems (like the single “You Gotta Believe”) with memorable, indie-leaning pop melodies and rockoriented guitar, tempering Dashboard-like
drama with youthful determination. There’s inventiveness, too — lyrically, in the crafty piano pop of “Japanese Exchange Student,” and musically, in the welding of ’80s U2-ish guitar to ’00s post-emo in “Pull Myself Together.” “I Need a Break — But I’d Rather Have a Breakthrough,” he declares in one song. Now, he’s got both. — Newsday
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Newsom’s new album ambitious, palpable Joanna Newsom Have One on Me Joanna Newsom is a hard act to follow. Turn that phrase around in your head for a minute, as you would a tarnished knickknack, or one of Newsom’s own lyrics, assembled from fable and casual conversation and just those kinds of cliches. It has two meanings, and both apply. In her young career, Newsom has burst free of the traditions that inspire her — visionary California folk-rock, post-Kate Bush femme pop, fairy tales and modernist literature — to assert a voice that seems totally singular, an end in itself. Her distinctiveness begins with her unusual primary instrument, the pedal harp, and extends to her long and winding song structures, her allusive but hard-to-track lyrics, and a voice that inspires a thousand metaphors (wood sprite, elf, child, chickadee), none quite right. Newsom’s music can’t be duplicated. It’s also very hard to grasp, despite being pretty and often inviting. Her last album, “Ys,” was a song cycle orchestrated by Van Dyke Parks that laid story upon story like a Maltese falcon, touching on life’s biggest subjects: desire, death, the natural world’s pull on human consciousness.Her new three-disc set goes even further into that subject matter, and is even harder to track. Yet it’s an easier listen. Apart from its two-hour length, Have One on Me aims to be ... accessible is the wrong word, so let’s say palpable. Sensual, with the breadth and variety that music offers when you’re dancing to it, or listening in bed, not sitting in a concert hall. Some songs feature just Newsom and her harp; on others, she’s at the piano. Newsom’s touring bandmate Ryan Francesconi has crafted arrangements that highlight the many changing elements in these collaborations, from horns to banjo to street corner/campfire backing
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vocals. Grooves bubble up now and then. The variety here suits the set’s overarching theme of coupling and uncoupling. (At least that’s the one that asserts itself first in a work overflowing with ideas.) Starting with “Easy,” a song about “my man and me,” and concluding with “Does Not Suffice,” in which Newsom packs up her feminine finery and walks away, Have One on Me explores what intimate partnership offers, and what it costs. Most tracks seem like love songs at first listen. Newsom uses the songwriter’s default mode to explore how traditional love, for women, can be both the beginning and the end of possibility: a way to escape home and be exiled from it; to welcome children or be burdened by fertility; to be entrusted with secrets, or betrayed. Newsom’s current beau is comic Andy Samberg and her last was the musician Bill Callahan — that gossip is relevant, since several songs here hint at the problems that can afflict a two-career couple. But as seemingly personal as Newsom’s accounts of hunger, heartache and risk can be, she’s never just writing about some guy. She goes deep, as deep as any artist working today, into the loud forest of stories where our ideas about love and the self are born. Her trail of crumbs isn’t always obvious, but you can follow her there. — Ann Powers, Los Angeles Times
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‘Crazies’ taps into our fear of infection the ugly Truth HHH Rating: R for sexual content and language Running time: 101 minutes STARRING: Mike Hickman, Timothy Olyphant
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‘Cop Out’ falls shy of its inspirations Cop out H1/2 Rating: R for sexual references, violence and brief sexuality Running time: 110 minutes STARRING: Tracy Morgan, Bruce Willis
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Cop Out is a clumsy postmodern buddy cop flick that stuffs as many genre references as it can into the ceaseless patter between Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis. They play our paired police — detectives Paul Hodges and Jimmy Monroe, respectively — and they might as well be in different movies. Willis, a veteran of cop films like the Die Hard films and most recently Surrogates, is our unmistakable straight man. Almost charmingly, he’s actually trying to solve crimes. Hodges, however, is a parody. Realism is far in the rearview whenever Morgan is on screen and one can’t help wondering how his partner — let alone his wife (Rashida Jones) — can treat a cartoon so much like a human. Director Kevin Smith gives Morgan,
the former Saturday Night Live cast member and current 30 Rock co-star, copious room to let loose. He’s the kind of comedian who’s naturally funny; bottling him would be foolish. For better and worse, Cop Out is his film. Morgan rattles off movie quotes (everything from Training Day to The Color Purple), disguises himself in a cell phone costume, wildly vacillates emotionally, uses cute words like “nincompoop” and occasionally spouts comically lucid definitions like a human Wikipedia. Though handled awkwardly, the plot is simple. Hodges and Monroe, partners for nine years, are Brooklyn detectives who encounter a Mexican drug gang. Following an incident, their badges are revoked for a month by their captain (the good, sometimes typecast Sean Cullen). A valuable baseball card of Monroe’s is stolen and traced back to the gang. This plot line unbelievably mixes with one involving Monroe’s daughter’s impending wedding. Divorced, his ex-wife (Francine Swift) has found a wealthy, arrogant second husband (Jason Lee) who is offering to pay for
the daughter’s wedding. Played by Michelle Trachtenberg, the daughter is asking Monroe for a $48,000 wedding — making her more a villain than the lethal drug gang. The detectives’ pursuit ropes in an amateurish burglar (Seann William Scott), who proves a surprisingly good fit with Morgan’s madcap energy. His schtick here is a mimicking game that, with Morgan, turns into a Bugs Bunny routine — the movie’s best laugh. A question of action-to-comedy balance hovers over Cop Out. Written by Robb and Mark Cullen, it originally had Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg attached. Smith has made dialogue between two guys a staple since his indie breakthrough, Clerks. He’s since made some terrible films (Dogma taking the cake) and Cop Out finds him for the first time directing from a script not his own. Like Hodges exclaims during a blitz of movie impressions, Cop Out is an homage. Harold Faltermeyer’s synthesizer-heavy score recalls his soundtrack from Beverly Hills Cop, the buddy cop classic that Cop Out falls well short of.
Breck Eisner’s insane-in-the-membrane update of the George A. Romero cult horror movie The Crazies opens with a brief shot of fire, devastation and small-town apocalypse, followed by a title card that takes us back to the same Iowa farm community two days earlier. We see white-picket fences, clapboard houses and good neighbors, and hear birds warbling and Johnny Cash singing “We’ll Meet Again,” a song whose title hints at the nature of the alarming events about to transpire. When these Middle American folks do meet again, those pitchforks they’re carrying won’t be intended for bales of hay. Romero sandwiched his 1973 Crazies in between his more celebrated zombie movies, Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, both of which have been remade, too, with varying results. While The Crazies isn’t a zombie movie per se, it derives much of its horror from the same fear — the enemy lurks both within and without you. There’s a very real chance you might turn into a monster. Eisner’s remake maintains the dynamic of that unease, while Scott Kosar and Ray Wright’s screenplay gives the audience a rooting interest by whittling down the political subtext and making the movie more of a survival story. It helps, too, that Eisner’s budget probably exceeds that of all of Romero’s movies combined. Eisner puts the money to good use, delivering a beautifully shot film that contains equal measures of style and gore. We first sense something might not be right in Ogden Marsh when Rory (Mike Hickman) wanders into the middle of the high school baseball field during a game. He’s carrying a shotgun and wearing a faraway look in his eyes. The town sheriff (Timothy Olyphant) assumes he’s drunk and tries to talk Rory down. He doesn’t succeed. After that, locals begin trickling into the office of the beautiful doctor (Radha Mitchell), complaining of fevers and being tired and not feeling “right.” Germs seem to be spreading — and so is the news. Soon, we see Ogden Marsh from satellite, with the words: “Initiate containment protocol.” Uh-oh.
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Tim Burton’s new fantasy lands him in ‘Wonderland’ By DAVID GERMAIN
a chance to catch fire. Burton’s first tour at Disney was an Associated Press assistant animator for 1981’s “The Fox LOS ANGELES — Tim Burton, girland the Hound” and a designer for 1985’s friend Helena Bonham Carter and pal fantasy flop “The Black Cauldron.” Johnny Depp are starting to look like Disney didn’t use Burton’s ideas, but wayfarers you might find somewhere while there, he made the animated short along the Yellow Brick Road. Vincent and the fantasy short FrankenTheir latest journey into fantasy land weenie., about a boy who resurrects his takes them through the looking glass with dog after it’s killed by a car. a new rendition of Alice in Wonderland, The land of Mickey Mouse and Snow featuring Depp as the addle-brained Mad White did not know what to make of a Hatter and Bonham Carter as the bratty filmmaker who brings domestic pets Red Queen. back to life. So Burton moved on to WarAlice marks Burton’s latest reunion ner Bros. for his 1985 feature debut. with Walt Disney Studios, where he startPee-wee’s Big Adventure became a ed his career as an animator 30 years ago. surprise hit, audiences warming to the “It’s the weirdest thing, but it’s true. I offbeat tone Burton brought to Paul Reudidn’t really realize it, but I go, I do, I get bens’ effete man-child. Burton scored kicked out, and I go, and I do, I get kicked again with Beetle Juice and Batman out. I think this is the third or fourth or before beginning his long partnership fifth time that’s happened,” Burton said. with Depp on Edward Scissorhands. Burton’s comings and goings at DisOn Alice, Burton combines live action ney sum up his professional life in Holwith trippy computer animation to caplywood, where weird sensibilities such as ture the absurdist realm created by Lewis his usually are snuffed out before they get Carroll in his books.
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‘Modern Family’ has right formula By Rick Bentley McClatchy Newspapers
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The 12 female finalists for the ninth season of ‘American Idol’ are shown.
Idol’s females work quirkiness, smarts By Ann Powers Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Song selection. It’s what the judges love to mention, the first true or false step any American Idol striver makes, before she even opens her well-glossed lips. Sometimes, in truth, it doesn’t matter that much: The singer’s presence, tone, or sheer power shines through, no matter its vehicle. But on this virgin night of serious Idol competition Tuesday, song selection really did determine the night’s best performances — in ways that were sometimes unexpected, and which further suggest that this season will be a tricky, transitional one for the show and its future stars. In two hours of song padded with the usual feel-good bio segments and (mercifully few) dull gags from the judges table, the top 12 women ranged from the melismatically obvious to the yodel-ishly surprising, generally aiming to fulfill Simon Cowell’s mantra: Be contemporary. The ones who managed did so with songs that felt personal and daring, even if they’d been borrowed from the most commercially successful band of all time.
That would be the Beatles. Three songbirds opened the Fab Four songbook in the middle of the show, and it worked for all of them, to varying degrees. Lilly Scott went a little wild on “Fixing a Hole” but made a good impression. Whimsical teen Haeley Vaughn yodeled (!) in the middle of “I Want to Hold Your Hand” — startling for sure, but a nice twist on the Moptops’ original Little Richard whoops. And though the judges didn’t praise her enough, Katelyn Epperly drew out the soul in Paul’s doo-wop flavored “Oh! Darling,” delivering the kind of pleasurably dramatic performance that once would have been an Idol home run. But maybe not this year. Instead, the artist’s magic touch in this time of Simon’s departure and Ellen’s ascent may have little do do with conventional chops and more to do with ... what? Personality? Style? Musical taste? Some quality akin to all of those but perhaps better captured by that currently overused marketing term, “relatability.” Ellen presented her own Idol hiring as a matter of putting a fan in a judge’s chair. In fact, Idol in general seems a lit-
tle shrunken this year, and not in a bad way: The stage somehow seems smaller, and the kids occupying it — Big Mike aside — hardly emanate grandiosity. No Glambert here! I’m not sure there’s even a Carly Smithson. At this point, the big voices still around are strangely overshadowed by those who have more accessible — let’s call it YouTube-sized — charisma. There was Crystal Bowersox, the dreadlocked hippie, singing one of Alanis Morissette’s least rocking songs and playing harmonica. There was Didi Benami with a nice, sweet-andsour version of Ingrid Michaelson’s “The Way I Am.” Best of all, there was the heretofore barely present Siobhan Magnus, taking a big risk by highlighting her lower register on Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” and offering a moment that, as Ellen wisely said, felt more like entertainment than Idol-style sport. These ingenues stood out because they dared to be something other than gorgeous. They didn’t necessarily fulfill the Idol bromide of “being themselves,” but they did seem human as they turned inward, showed little vocal tics or let a meaningful lyric take them.
LOS ANGELES — ABC took a major gamble in September when it opted to launch four new half-hour comedies as a two-hour package on Wednesday nights. Networks have had trouble launching even one new comedy over the past decade, and those that survived often got their starts behind an established comedy. ABC’s bold plan — introducing Hank, The Middle, Modern Family and Cougar Town — has generally worked. Other than Hank, a stinker that died quickly, the other shows have found audiences. Modern Family is the biggest new comedy of the year and found success without having that lead-in support from an established hit show. It has averaged about 10 million viewers each week, making it consistently a Top 25 show. Even some of the cast members are befuddled by the show’s popularity. Ed O’Neill, who plays family patriarch Jay Pritchett, had success on another quirky family show — Married With Children. Yet he doesn’t know why Modern Family has become so popular so fast. “I’m really amazed by the show. It’s confusing to me. I’m not used to this sort of comedy. I’m not sure how it’s working. I just know it is,” O’Neill says during an interview on the set. The show uses similar storytelling techniques to The Office, where a fake film crew documents the antics of the various twisted limbs on the family tree. The story centers on O’Neill’s character, who married a hot, younger woman (Sofia Vergara) with an offbeat son (Rico Rodriguez) at a time when he should be enjoying life as a grandfather. His children have their own foibles. Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and his partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) are firsttime parents of an adopted baby from Vietnam. Daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) must deal with a host of wife and mom problems, including a husband (Ty Burrell) who thinks he is the hippest dad on the planet. Sarah Hyland, who plays hormone-charged teen Haley, suggests the show has attracted such a large following because viewers see similarities between characters on the show and their own relatives. “There’s either that flamboyant uncle or that weird dad or the hot family member who everyone wants to be with but no one can. It’s just a somewhat exaggerated version of everyone’s lives,” Hyland says.
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NEW YORK — Claude cross.221 Ruibal believes NBC wants to and will continue as the Olympics network beyond London in 2012, after which U.S. television rights are up for grabs. He essentially bet his company on it. Ruibal is chairman and CEO of the Universal Sports network, which is televising five hours per day of Olympics material from Vancouver to the 33 million homes where it is being seen in the U.S. The network provides up-to-the-minute updates of Olympics events and background programs on events like figure skating. Olympic champions Shaun White, Hannah Teter and Evan Lysacek have all stopped by for interviews. Universal Sports is the former World Championship Sports network, which Ruibal started in 2003. He was a fan of ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” and its variety of competitions from around the globe while growing up, and he noted that many of the sports popular every four years at the Olympics have little television exposure otherwise. He set about acquiring the rights to many of them — ski tours, swimming championships, volleyball, track and field — to give them a TV home. “I didn’t think there was a champion for it,” Ruibal said. “But I do think there is a champion set of consumers who want to see it.” In 2008, he entered into a partnership with NBC Universal and investors Inter Media Partners. There was talk the U.S. Olympic Committee was interested in setting up its own network, and Ruibal wanted to block the way competitively.
NBC’s cable properties — USA, MSNBC, CNBC — have all been used as spillover networks for Olympics events in Vancouver. Universal has another purpose and, unlike the other networks, will provide updates on events that NBC otherwise wants to keep quiet until they are shown in prime-time. NBC won’t scoop its own prime-time show but will provide more extensive video of events to Universal than it gives to other news organizations.
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DJ Rockin’ Roger When: 9 p.m. Where: AJ’s Sunset Bar and Grill, 1500 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston How much: Free Contact: 256-832-5000 DJ JD and Karaoke When: 9 p.m. Where: Bama Cowboy Saloon, 1503 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston How much: Free Contact: 256-835-7735
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Beauty and the Beast What: A musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Wollverton When: 7 p.m. Where: Ernest Stone Performing Arts Center, Mainstage, Jacksonville State University, Corner of Church St. and 11th St. How much: Adults $15, senior citizen or JSU personnel $12, students or military $10. MasterCard, Visa, and Discover accepted, as well as personal checks and cash. Contact: 256-782-5648 Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues What: JSU WISE (Women’s Issues, Support, and Empowerment) presents V-Day 2010: Until the Violence Stops. Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monoluges is a play inspired by real women, real events, real drama, and real tragedy. It is for every
woman who has been neglected, every little girl who has been abused, every teenage lady who has been raped. It’s for your mother, your sister, your aunt, your grandmother, your niece, your daughter; it’s for you. When: 7 p.m. Where: JSU/McClellan Theater, 100 Gamecock Dr., Anniston How much: $10, with all proceeds going to help women and children, locally and globally, who are looking for an end to the violence. Contact: www.wisejsu.com
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How much: Free from 7-9 p.m.; Gallery hours are 8:30-4 Contact: 256-435-8115 or 256-225-1047 p.m., Monday through Friday Where: Hammond Hall Art Gallery Jacksonville State University 2010 on the campus of Jacksonville State Student Juried Exhibit University What: This is exhibit is for JSU stuHow much: Free to the public dents and it is juried by the art proContact: 256-782-5626 fessors. First place and honorable mention is awarded to artwork entries Closing Reception for in ceramics, painting, drawing, print- Smalls Exhibition making, design, graphic design and What: Gallery 9, located on the square photography. in Jacksonville, will host a closing When: Opening reception is Tuesday reception for the current exhibition,
Smalls, on Thursday from 5-8 p.m. The exhibition includes printmaking, mixed media, drawing, painting and photography by local artists, including students from JSU. All work is 8 inches by 10 inches or smaller and is priced to allow most everyone to add original art to their collection. When: Thursday, 5-8 p.m. Where: Gallery 9, located on the square in Jacksonville How much: Free to attend Contact: 256-435-0808, 256-239-3012
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Center, Mainstage, Jacksonville State University, Corner of Church St. and 11th St. How much: Adults $15, senior citizen or JSU personnel $12, students or military $10. MasterCard, Visa, and Discover accepted, as well as personal checks and cash. Contact: 256-782-5648 Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues What: JSU WISE (Women’s Issues, Support, and Empowerment) presents V-Day 2010: Until the Violence Stops. Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monoluges is a play inspired by real women, real events, real drama, and real tragedy. It is for every woman who has been neglected, every little girl who has been abused, every teenage lady who has been raped. It’s for your mother, your sister, your aunt, your grandmother, your niece, your daughter; it’s for you. When: 7 p.m. Where: JSU/McClellan Theater, 100 Gamecock Dr., Anniston How much: $10, with all proceeds going to help women and children, locally and globally, who are looking for an end to the violence. Contact: www.wisejsu.com
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DJ JD and Karaoke When: 9 p.m. Where: Bama Cowboy Saloon and Steakhouse, 1503 Hillyer Robinson Pkwy., Anniston How much: Free Contact: 256-835-7735 Dance Party with Scuba Steve When: 9 p.m. Where: Brother’s Bar, 206 S. Pelham Rd., Jacksonville How much: $3, $5 under 21 Contact: 256-435-6090 Jeremy Coomes When: 9 p.m. Where: Heroes American Grill, 8896 McClellan Blvd., Anniston (Old Sports Nut) How much: Free Contact: 256-405-4366
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Beauty and the Beast What: A musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Wollverton When: 2 p.m. Where: Ernest Stone Performing Arts Center, Mainstage, Jacksonville State University, Corner of Church St. and 11th St. How much: Adults $15, senior citizen or JSU personnel $12, students or military $10. MasterCard, Visa, and Discover accepted, as well as personal checks and cash. Contact: 256-782-5648
Tyler rejoins Aerosmith, announce tour
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NEW YORK — After turmoil that included public squabbling, threats of a lineup change and a rehab stint, Aerosmith is back and ready to rock. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have announced their “Cocked, Locked and Ready to Rock” European summer tour — with Steven Tyler. The band made tyler the announcement Thursday. It also posted a video on its Web site in which Tyler, sitting with the rest of the band, jokes: “I just auditioned and I got the gig.” “We’re coming your way and rocking your world! Look out because here we come,” he says as he looks at guitarist Joe Perry and the group breaks out in laughter. Aerosmith, which has been one of rock’s enduring bands over the past three decades, has been in limbo since Tyler fell off a stage during an August concert in South Dakota, injuring himself and forcing the band to cancel the rest of their summer tour. After that, Perry expressed anger that the group had been sidelined and said Tyler needed to get his act together. For his part, Tyler was quoted as saying he was interested in going solo, and soon the band was talking about replacing Tyler with another singer. In December, Tyler checked in to rehab for a painkiller addiction, a problem he blamed on years of injuries suffered while performing with the band. In an interview this week, bandmate Joey Kramer said: “Everything right now in Aero-land is very copacetic. ... We will carry on and do what we do best.” As far as their latest drama, he said: “The one common denominator that we still all have is that we all love to get up on stage and rock out, play music and bring joy to people.”
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Local poets perform spoken-word shows By Anthony Cook
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Garland “Gee” Edmondson, right, speaks to the crowd at the spoken-word poetry night at the American Legion Post 312 in Anniston.
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hink Lorenz Tate in the movie Love Jones or Michael Myers in So I Married an Ax Murderer. Think amateur poets on a nightclub stage reciting their own original poetry for an audience of patrons who snap their fingers or raise lit cigarette lighters in a show of approval. It’s called spoken word, a style of performance poetry that began in New York City in the early ’80s and became popular especially among African-Americans in the early ’90s. There was a time when finding that type of entertainment would mean a trip to Atlanta or Birmingham. But now it’s available at least twice a month right here in Calhoun County. Poets have been performing a little over a year now at the American Legion Post 312 on West 10th Street in Anniston and for several months at All Stars Sports Bar and Grill on Snow Street in Oxford. The crowds have grown as the word gets out. Poet Telesa “Sickwitit” Stanford said she has performed in Birmingham, Atlanta, Huntsville, Montgomery and Columbus, Ga. “This (the Anniston-Oxford area) is, like, the last place to get it,” she said. “People are afraid of new stuff, but it’s catching on once people get a taste of it.” Please see poetry ❙ Page 16
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From top to bottom, K-Lane, Freknardo and Mr. Redz speak during a recent spoken-word poetry night at American Legion Post 312.
Stanford said 10 people showed up the first time she performed about seven months ago. “And four of them were poets,” she said. But the next show grew to about 30 people, and then that number doubled to 60, and the most recent show at All Stars was a full house (about 110). In addition, “Tad of Jazz,” a jazz band made up of local musicians, occasionally accompanies the poets. Band members include Anniston Middle School band director Tyson Hall, trumpet; Anniston High School band director Ruben Desmond Mitchell, saxophone; Kerwin Allen, bass guitar; Duane Dye, keyboard; Courtney Jones, drums; Jacob Gray, lead guitar; and sitting in occasionally is Seyram Selase, trumpet.
For show dates and locations, check out All Stars Sports Bar and Grill on Facebook or the online gathering spot for the poets, Gee’s Soul Kitchen, also on Facebook.
ing their poetry. Unlike previous styles of poetry, spoken word is usually written with the intention of being performed. Spoken-word poems usually take three or four minutes, and, for local shows, the poets take turns for four or five rotations, which lasts around two hours. Usually one of the more popular poets is highlighted as the featured poet of the night. The shows are usually done open mic style, so anyone interested in sharing their poems is welcome to participate. The poets who perform regularly at All Stars and American Legion are gaining a fan base. Once poets develop a following, they become Why not here? featured poets. Those poets generally get paid All Stars owner Felicia Sillmon said her goal since they guarantee a certain amount of patrons with bringing in spoken word and the jazz band for the establishments where they perform. was to do something no one else is doing. Stanford, for instance, has performed multi“We used to go to Birmingham to the comedy shows, the poetry shows, karaoke,” she said. “We ple times as the featured poet. She said she started out performing for free, but, since becoming said why do we have to go to Birmingham and a featured poet, she’s made as little as $50 a show Atlanta? Why not here?” Sillmon said the spoken-word shows, the jazz to as much as $250 for a show. Another poet, Shane Anthony “White Chocomusic and soon comedy shows and eventually late” Davidson, also has been a featured artist. talent shows are her way of providing something Among the other regulars are Venus “Jus Venus” for the mature crowd without them having to go Smith and Garland “Gee” Edmonson. to the traditional smoke-filled nightclub. All the poets agree that spoken word is not While All Stars, which opened in June 2009, is about the money, but about being able to express a sports bar with pool tables and big screens, Sillthemselves in ways that others can relate to. mon said she didn’t want it to just be a bar. Spo“It’s a release,” said Smith. “A lot of the things ken-word night and the jazz band are intended I write are personal. Writing it down gets it out, to add flavor while catering to those 25 and up. and performing it allows me to express it.” “But we’re getting the younger crowd, too,” Davidson said tapping into those feelings we she said. “They come in the first time in street clothes; then they come back in slacks and a nice all share is the purpose of spoken word. “To let others know that the emotions people shirt and a date.” are afraid to show, that other people have them Sillmon warned that, while every other night too,” he said. “I used to think it was weak, but it has a family-oriented atmosphere, poetry night makes you more of a man to show your real emois definitely adult entertainment. tions and real self than try and hide it.” “We don’t want to stifle their creativity,” she Spoken word’s highest visibility to this point said of the poets. “That’s how they express themmight have been on the HBO seriesRussell Simselves. That’s part of being an artist.” mons’ Def Poetry Jam, which premiered in 2002 She said she doesn’t have a long-range plan, and ran through 2007. It showcased mostly but is hopeful the club will continue to grow as amateur talent, but included appearances by spoken word becomes more popular. celebrities ranging from Mike Epps to Malcolm “If something pops in my head, I pray about Jamal Warner, from Tracy Morgan to Smokey it,” she said. “If it stays with me, I try it.” Robinson, from Erykah Badu to Phylicia Rashad Currently, the shows are as affordable as and many others. affordable gets — free. Several of the local poets credit Flenardo “I’m not saying it’ll always be free,” Sillmon said. “But right now, I’m trying to introduce peo- Taylor of Anniston with getting them involved ple to different things. Once people see the qual- with spoken word, and Edmondson is viewed as the main catalyst for getting the open mic shows ity of entertainment, then they might be willing started just over a year ago. to pay a small cover charge.” “I don’t want to be in the forefront,” EdmondWhere it started son said. “I want to push other people out there. According to Wikipedia, spoken word evolved If they’re successful, then I’m successful. It’s just from the oral tradition of freestyle hip hop artthe satisfaction of knowing that person made it.” ists and poets who would perform at local open Contact Managing Editor Anthony Cook at mics, where anyone can take a crack at perform- 235-3558.
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Telesa “Sickwitit” Stanford “I have stopped blaming me for your faults, I once was lost but now I’m found. And I will never ever again allow the hand that I hold to hold me down.” Stanford, a recently divorced mother of five, said she’s shy and that writing has always been the way she expresses herself. She tried spoken word after seeing a friend perform on stage. “I tried it the first time and got hooked,” she said. Stanford, 37, was born in Chicago, but grew up in Hobson City. “My mom was from Munford and wanted to move back to the South after my dad retired.” She graduated from Oxford High School in 1990 and earned a degree in nursing at Ayers State in 1993. She works for Hospice Complete as a volunteer service coordinator. Her style of spoken-word poetry? Erotic. “I deal with death and dying all day long,” she said. “When I come home, I don’t want to write about that. That’s why I write erotic poetry.” Erotic might be too mild a word. Her spicier recitals, for mature ears only, will fog the windows and peel the paint off the wall. Her presentation contradicts her claims of being shy. She said it’s her stage personality that allows her to perform. “When I am on stage, I become a different person, it’s not me,” she said. “Telesa and SickWitIt are two different people. When I look into the crowd, I don’t see one particular person. The crowd becomes a blur, and it’s just me and the microphone.” Asked what one thing she’d want others to know, Stanford thought for a moment. “It’s never too late to follow your dreams,” she said. “If you’re 70 and you want to be a poet, come and get on the mic.”
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Shane Anthony “White Chocolate” Davidson “I’ll stay me and be the best I can be.” Davidson, 29, said he wrote a lot as a kid but began to really focus on the craft at age 18 after watching the movie Boyz In the Hood. “I had lost a friend, and it kinda hit me. I felt all the emotions in the movie,” he said. “I write about things I’ve been through or seen. I can’t make it up.” Davidson, who works at On Time Fashions in Oxford and volunteers at Anniston Family Fitness, was born in Kansas, but has lived in Calhoun County since he was 5 when his parents divorced and he moved here with his dad. At age 10, he was unofficially taken in by a black family in the White Plains/Choccolocco area. He quit school in the 10th grade and got arrested at age 22 on a drug charge. “I lost everything,” he said. “That’s what let me know (that lifestyle) wasn’t worth it.” Since that time, he said he works for what he has and hopes to publish a book of his poems. He uses his story to encourage area youth to stay out of trouble, even accepting invitations to perform his poetry at Anniston High School. He said his spoken word style is a reflection of his life. “Genuine,” he said. “I didn’t get it from a movie, and I’m not trying to be something I’m not.” Davidson’s stage name is as straightforward as his delivery. “It comes from a white guy being around blacks,” he said. It originated while he was playing basketball at Jacksonville city courts and people were asking who he was. “A Jax State football player said ‘That’s my boy White Chocolate,’” he said, “and that pretty much got it to stick.”
“I’m Venus. Ms. V, if you please. Nothing superficial or artificial from my head down to my feet.” Smith, 30, said she started performing spoken word about three months ago after listening to other poets at American Legion. “Everyone was so welcoming and receptive,” she said. “I finally got up and performed.” A New Jersey native, Smith said she was an Army brat who moved to Anniston in 1994 when her dad got stationed at Fort McClellan. She graduated from Anniston High in 1997. The mother of two, Smith said she writes more about love than
anything else. Her inspirations are “my children, past relationships, ongoing relationships, the type of relationship I’d like to have …” She said she’s not looking to win fans when she performs. “That’s not my goal,” she said. “But to know that someone accepts it and can take something from it, that means a lot.” Smith said she started “scratching stuff down” in high school and even had two poems published in “Who’s Who Among American High School Students.” Her stage name was accidental. She was about to take the stage for a performance, and the emcee asked how she wanted to be introduced. “I said ‘just Venus,’” she said. “I was telling him to just say Venus, but he introduced me as ‘Jus Venus.’” She said the name fits her performance because “that’s exactly who I’m being is just Venus.”
Garland “Gee” Edmondson Stephen Gross/The Anniston Star
“I speak the undesired truth, destroying the needless lies.”
Edmondson, 36, said he got into spoken word while watching “Love Jones” with his wife, who sort of challenged him to give it a try. “I’ve always been a writer, but never of poetry,” he said. “Editorials, meditations, essays … I’ve always written.” He said his current stage name, Gee, comes from his first name but that he’s still in search of a true stage name — one that fits his style of poetry. “I like Spoken Truth,” he said, “or something with Truth in the name.” He said his style has been described as revolutionary, uplifting, promoting Africa. “It has a harder edge,” he said, “a political edge.” Edmondson, 36, grew up in Talladega, graduated from Anniston High in 1991, and lives in Jacksonville where he’s a full-time history major at Jacksonville State University. He said he’s always been a writer, but started performing spoken word a little over a year. “Spoken word is a soulful expression,” he said. “It’s about whatever you’re feeling and whatever you’re expressing.” Edmondson said he’s often asked about poets being compensated for their performances. “Most people think we should get paid,” he said, “and plenty do. But most of us would do it for free.”
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Auto Ranger Atkinson Rick Rick Auto Show Auto In Touch Gaither Gaither The Cross Power Power To Be Announced ›› “Around the World in 80 Days” (2004, Adven- Paid Pro- World News at Rangers Rangers ture) Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan. ’ Å gram News 6PM ●College Basketball Kentucky at Tennessee. (Live) ●College Basketball North Carolina at Wake For- ●College Basketball Kansas at Oklahoma State. CBS 42 CBS Evening The Insider Å est. (Live) Å (Live) Å News at 5 News (N) ’ Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Name Earl Name Earl ››› “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003) ’ L WPXH Naked Market Market Market Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Wimzies Animal Deadliest Catch Å Legend of the Seeker ›› “Walking Tall” (2004, Action) The Rock. Lopez Lopez Half & Half ¥ WABM Market CABLE ENTERTAINMENT News High Q (EI) Local Programming News Local Prog Ent ^ TV-2 Local Programming ››› “Shanghai Noon” (2000, Comedy) Jackie Chan. Å ›› “Eraser” (1996, Action) Arnold Schwarzenegger. Å ››› “The Green Mile” (1999, Drama) Tom Hanks. Å A&E Sell House Sell House Flip This House Å ›› “Stagecoach” (1966, Western) Ann-Margret, ››› “The War Wagon” (1967) John Wayne. Two gunmen join ››› “Silverado” (1985, Western) Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner. ›› “Dante’s Peak” (1997, Action) Pierce Brosnan, AMC Alex Cord, Bing Crosby. Å forces to rob a gold-filled armored wagon. Å Old West drifters shoot it out with sheriff, clan. Å Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan. Å Dogs 101 ’ Å Cats 101 ’ Å Animal Cops Miami ’ Animal Cops Miami ’ Weird Weird Monsters Inside Me ’ Pit Boss ’ Å Pit Boss ’ Å Pit Boss ANPL It’s Me or the Dog ’ You Eat You Eat Gordon-F Word Kitchen Nightmares ’ Ramsay’s Kitchen Top Gear Å Top Gear Å Dr. Who BBC The Hotel Inspector ’ ●Rugby Six Nations 2010: Ireland vs. England. In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color In Color “Paper Soldiers” (2002) Kevin Hart. BET In Color Biography Å Biography Å Biography Å Biography Å American Gangs Å The Unexplained Å The Unexplained Å Unexplained Mysteries Mysteries BIO Shear Genius ’ Å Kell on Earth Å Kell on Earth Å Millionaire Matchmaker Millionaire Matchmaker Real Housewives Real Housewives House ’ Å House ’ BRAVO Shear Genius ’ Å Top 20 Countdown ’ Insider Cribs ’ ››› “Field of Dreams” (1989, Fantasy) Kevin Costner. ’ ››› “Backdraft” (1991) Kurt Russell, William Baldwin. ’ CMTV CMT Music ’ Married... Married... Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ Scrubs ’ “Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd” ››› “Napoleon Dynamite” (2004) Jon Heder. Office COMEDY › “Superstar” (1999) Molly Shannon. Å Extreme Loggers: Ice Extreme Loggers: Ice Extreme Loggers: Ice Swamp Loggers Å Swamp Loggers Å Swamp Loggers Å Swamp Loggers Å Swamp Loggers Å Planet DISC Dirty Jobs ’ Å Imag. Handy Phineas Phineas “Read It and Weep” (2006, Comedy) Hannah Hannah Hannah Hannah Hannah WizardsWizardsWizardsWizardsWizardsWizardsWizardsDISN Movers Manny ’ and Ferb and Ferb Kay Panabaker. ’ Å Montana Montana Montana Montana Montana Place Place Place Place Place Place Place The Soup Daily 10 20 Most Shocking Unsolved Crimes Too Young to Kill: 15 Shocking Crimes E! Investigates: Crime Kendra Kendra Kardas Kardas Kardashian Kardas E! ●College GameDay ●College Basketball Michigan at Ohio State. ●College Basketball Texas at Texas A&M. (Live) Golf Wendy’s Champions Skins Game, Day One. College Basketball ESPN ●SportsCenter Å ●SportsCenter Å ●College Basketball Mississippi at Alabama. College Basketball Countdn NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: Sam’s Town 300. (Live) ESPN2 Drag Racing ›› “My Girl 2” (1993) Anna Chlumsky. Å ›› “Nancy Drew” (2007) Emma Roberts. Å ›› “Legally Blonde” (2001) Luke Wilson Å My Fake FAM ’70s Show ››› “My Girl” (1991, Drama) Anna Chlumsky. Å Home Paula Cooking Ingred. Fix Giada Contessa Challenge Chopped Dinner: Impossible Iron Chef America Iron Chef America Flay FOOD 30-Minutes Chef ●College Basketball Arizona State at California. ●Women’s College Basketball UCLA at Oregon. Basketball Basketball College Basketball Best Damn 50 FOXSS ShipShape Outdoors Fame ›› “Mr. 3000” (2004, Comedy) Bernie Mac. › “Wild Hogs” (2007) Tim Allen, John Travolta. Human Target “Pilot” Human Target ’ Å Human Target ’ Å Human Target ’ Å Human Target “Run” Target FX ›› “Slattery’s Hurricane” (1949) ›› “Hilda Crane” (1956, Drama) ›› “Downpayment on Murder” (1987, Drama) ›› “Guilty Conscience” (1985) Blythe Danner “Sisters and Other Strangers” FXM “Somwhere-Nite” Fam. Feud Newlywed Catch 21 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal or No Deal Å Deal or No Deal Å Fam Feud Fam Feud Hidden Catch 21 Fam. Feud Newlywed 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal No GSN Chain “Love Comes Softly” “Love’s Enduring Promise” (2004, Drama) Kather- “Love’s Long Journey” (2005, Drama) Erin Cot- ›› “Love’s Abiding Joy” (2006) Erin Cottrell. A pi- “Love’s Unending Legacy” (2007, Drama) Erin “Love’s UnHALL (2003) Katherine Heigl. ine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, January Jones. Å trell, Logan Bartholomew, Dale Midkiff. Å oneer family faces numerous challenges. Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne. Å folding” The Pacific “Temple Grandin” (2010) Claire Danes. ’ Å ›› “Baby Mama” (2008) Tina Fey. ’ ‘PG-13’ ›› “17 Again” (2009) Zac Efron. ››› “The Fifth Element” (1997) Bruce Willis. HBO ››› “Reporter” (2009) ‘NR’ Å Over, Head Sweat To Sell Curb Block Outdoor Outside Design Design Dime Colour Colour D. Design Color Designed To Sell For Rent H&G Holmes on Homes Tora, Tora, Tora: The Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler German officers WWII in HD “Darkness WWII in HD “Hard Way WWII in HD “Bloody Re- WWII in HD “Battle Sta- WWII in HD “Day of WWII in HD “Point of No WWII in HD HIST Real Story plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Å Falls” Å Back” Å solve” Å tions” Å Days” Å Return” Å Å ›› “Gracie” (2007) Dermot Mulroney. Å ›› “Uptown Girls” (2003) Brittany Murphy. “The Positively True Adventures” Sorority LIFE Paid Prog. Paid Prog. ›› “Footloose” (1984) Kevin Bacon. Å › “The Unborn” (2009) ’ ‘PG-13’ ›› “Virtuosity” (1995) Denzel Washington. ‘R’ ›› “Body of Lies” (2008) Leonardo DiCaprio. › “Bride Wars” (2009) ‘PG’ Å ››› “I Am Legend” (2007) Å MAX “Alvin-Chipmnk” World at War ’ Å Commanders at War Battleplan “Deception” Mountain Marines ’ Weaponology ’ Å Navy SEALs Chopper MILIT Myths of Pearl Harbor Hitler’s Bodyguard ’ World at War ’ 16 and Pregnant Å “Turn the Beat Around” (2010) Romina D’Ugo. America’s Best Dance 16 and Pregnant Å 16 and Pregnant Å True Life ’ “Turn the Beat Around” (2010) ’ MTV 16 and Pregnant Å Lockdown “Inmate U” Lockup Down Under San Quentin Unlocked Prison Nation American prison system. Lockdown ’ Toughest Prisons Explorer NGEO A Decade Behind Bars Explorer Sponge Sponge iCarly ’ iCarly ’ Drake Drake The Fairly OddParents Penguins Penguins Fanboy Fanboy Sponge Sponge Sponge Sponge iCarly ’ NICK Penguins Fanboy Factory Factory Factory Factory Factory Factory Factory Build It Bigger Å Build It Bigger Å Build It Bigger “NASA” Build Big SCIENCE Big, Bigger, Biggest ’ How-Made How-Made Factory ›› “Valentino: The Last Emperor” (2008) iTV. › “Deal” (2008) Burt Reynolds. Trac. Ull La La Filmmaker ›› “The Mist” (2007) Thomas Jane. ‘R’ ›› “The Forbidden Kingdom” (2008) ‘PG-13’ SHOW Coffee Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ Gilmore Girls ’ Å Gilmore Girls ’ Å Being Erica ’ Being Erica ’ The Young SOAP One Tree Hill ’ Å Garage On Edge Drag Boat NASCAR Racing NASCAR Racing NASCAR Racing Australian V8 Supercars Abu Dhabi. (Taped) Test Drive Late Model Dirt Series SPEED Hot Rod Horse. Trucks! (N) MuscleCar “Road House 2” (2006) Johnathon Schaech. ’ ›› “Road House” (1989) Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch. ’ ››› “First Blood” (1982) Sylvester Stallone. SPIKE “Urban Justice” (2007) Xtreme ACC Tech Phenoms 3 Wide Raceline My Words My Words ●Spotlight My Words College Basketball Women’s College Basketball Golf Am. SPSO Golf “Supergator” (2007, Suspense) Brad Johnson. “War Wolves” (2009) John Saxon. Å “Vipers” (2008, Horror) Jonathan Scarfe. Å “Black Swarm” (2007) Robert Englund. Å Yeti (2008) SYFY › “Reptilian” (1999) Bugtime Auto B. Hopkins God Rocks Friends Ishine Goliath Kids Club McGee Stories Aqua Kids Storykeepr News Lindell Cooley Special Memories TBN Wonder › “The Cookout” (2004, Comedy) Ja Rule. ›› “I Think I Love My Wife” (2007) Å Jim Raymond King King The Office Seinfeld TBS ›› “Corrina, Corrina” (1994) Whoopi Goldberg. Å “Dick Tra- ››› “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962, Sus››› “From Here to Eternity” (1953, Drama) Burt ›››› “Elmer Gantry” (1960) Burt Lancaster. A smooth-talking ››› “The Nun’s Story” (1959, Drama) Audrey Hepburn. A nun TCM cy” pense) Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey. Å Lancaster, Montgomery Clift. Å charlatan works with a crooked preacher. Å finds her work cut out for her in the Belgian Congo. Å Property Ladder Å Home Made Simple (N) What Not to Wear ’ What Not to Wear ’ Dress Dress Four Weddings Å Dateline Myst. Dateline Myst. Dateline TLC Property Ladder Å Leverage “The Second The Closer “Tijuana ››› “Mission: Impossible III” (2006) Tom Cruise. Agent Ethan ››› “Independence Day” (1996, Science Fiction) Will Smith, Bill Pullman, ›› “The Replacements” (2000, Comedy) Keanu TNT David Job” Å Brass” Å Hunt faces the toughest villain of his career. Å Jeff Goldblum. Earthlings vs. evil aliens in 15-mile-wide ships. Å Reeves, Gene Hackman. Å Grim Chowder Chowder Garfield Garfield “Billy & Mandy’s Big Boogey Adventure” (2007) Courage Dog Flapjack Flapjack Ed, Edd Ed, Edd Johnny T Johnny T Bakugan TOON Grim High School Reunion High School Reunion High School Reunion High School Reunion High School Reunion High School Reunion High School Reunion Griffith Griffith Griffith TVLND Extreme-Home Psych Å XXI Winter Olympics Curling. ’ (Live) Å Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law USA Psych “Think Tank” Frank the Entertainer Celebrity Fit Club Å Peak Peak Temptatns VH1 Top 20 Countdown ’ Celebrity Rehab, Drew Celebrity Rehab, Drew Fantasia Let’s Talk RuPaul’s Drag Race ’ Tool Academy ’ CABLE NEWS CNBC Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. XXI Winter Olympics Curling. 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Wheel of Fortune “Going ››› “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (2007, Fantasy) Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson. Premiere. Harry prepares a small group of students ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Grey’s Anatomy “Tell Me H WJSU Green” Å to fight Voldemort. ’ Å (N) Sweet Little Lies” Å ●High School Basketball Final 48 Championships. Jeopardy! Å 48 Hours Mystery Actor Johnny Depp fights to free Inside Sports ’ CSI: Miami “Ambush” ’ J WIAT teens. (N) ’ Å Å ›› “The Matrix Revolutions” (2003) Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne. Neo, Morpheus and Trinity battle vicious machines. ’ Time Life Music Å Aerosmith, Bowie, Live! L WPXH ››› “The Matrix Reloaded” (2003) ’ ››› “The Mask of Zorro” (1998, Adventure) Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins. Zorro’s protege crosses swords with a returning tyrant. Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris ¥ WABM Half & Half ’ Å CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Hot Topics ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight › “Gone in Sixty Seconds” (2000, Action) Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie. A retired thief must steal 50 cars to save his brother. Å Steven Seagal Lawman Steven Seagal Lawman Steven Seagal Lawman A&E ››› The Green Mile ›› “Dante’s Peak” (1997) ››› “Forrest Gump” (1994, Drama) Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise. A slow-witted Southerner experiences 30 years of history. ››› “Forrest Gump” (1994) Tom Hanks. A slow-witAMC Pierce Brosnan. ted Southerner experiences 30 years of history. Pit Boss “Home Sweet Home” A home for Steeler. Pit Boss “Ashley’s Big Adventure” ’ Å Pit Boss “Biggest Little Car Wash” ’ Pit Boss “Ashley’s Big Adventure” ’ Å ANPL Pit Boss ’ Å Survivors Selfishness and violence. Å Survivors A mysterious community is discovered. The Graham Norton Show Å Survivors Selfishness and violence. Å BBC Doctor Who “42” Å ››› “New Jack City” (1991) Wesley Snipes. Undercover officers and their boss target a crack king. “Doing Hard Time” (2004) Boris Kodjoe. A man seeks revenge against his son’s jailed killers. Å BET Paper Soldiers (2002) Unexplained Mysteries Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Å Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Å Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Å Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Å BIO House “Whac-A-Mole” ’ Å House “Finding Judas” ’ Å House “Merry Little Christmas” ’ Å BRAVO House “Que Sera Sera” House “Son of Coma Guy” ’ Å ››› “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000) George Clooney. Three escaped convicts embark on an unusual odyssey. ›› “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989) Chevy Chase. ’ CMTV ››› Backdraft (1991) ›› “Hot Rod” (2007) Andy Samberg. An accident-prone daredevil plans an outrageous stunt. Å Chappelle’s Show Å Chappelle’s Show Å COMEDY ›› “Office Space” (1999, Comedy) Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston. Å Raging Planet The biggest light show on Earth. ’ Raging Planet “Hurricane” ’ Å Raging Planet The forces of Earth’s oceans. Å DISC Raging Planet A tornado. Raging Planet The forces of Earth’s oceans. Å Wizards of Waverly Place Hannah Montana Å Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck Phineas and Ferb Can- Phineas and Ferb “Out of Hannah Montana Dealing Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck DISN Å “Positive Alex” “London’s Apprentice” dace baby-sits for Suzy. Toon; Hail Doofania!” with a bully. ’ Å R-rated movie. Cruise ship. The SPINdustry ›› “Evan Almighty” (2007) Steve Carell. God commands a newly elected congressman to build an ark. Keeping Up With the Kardashians The Soup Chelsea Lately E! ●College GameDay (Live) Å ●College Basketball Villanova at Syracuse. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN College Basketball ●College Basketball Illinois State at Northern Iowa. (Live) 2009 World Series of Poker - Europe Main Event. 2009 World Series of Poker - Europe Main Event. ESPN2 NASCAR Racing ›› “The Wedding Date” (2005) Debra Messing. A woman brings a male escort to her sister’s wedding. ›››› “When Harry Met Sally...” (1989) Å FAM “My Fake Fiancé” (2009) Melissa Joan Hart, Joey Lawrence. Å Iron Chef America Mario Batali vs. Todd English. Iron Chef America “Flay vs. Rios” Iron Chef America FOOD Throwdown, Bobby Flay Iron Chef America ●Boxing Henry Bruseles vs. Mike Jones. From Atlantic City, N.J. Best Damn 50 Pac vs. Cl FOXSS ●College Basketball LSU at Auburn. (Live) Human Target ’ Å › “Armageddon” (1998, Science Fiction) Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler. A hero tries to save Earth from an asteroid. ›› “The Fast and the Furious” (2001) Vin Diesel. FX ›› “Terror Train” (1980) Ben Johnson. Partying college students die aboard a chartered train. Å ›› “Terror Train” (1980) Ben Johnson. Partying college students die aboard a chartered train. Å FXM Avatar Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å The Newlywed Game The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å Catch 21 Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å “Love’s Unfolding Dream” (2007, Drama) Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Scout Taylor- “Love Takes Wing” (2009, Drama) Cloris Leachman, Sarah Jones, Patrick Duffy. A doctor helps townspeople “Love Finds a Home” (2009, Drama) Patty Duke. A HALL Compton. A woman touches the lives of a matron and an attorney. Å who fear a mysterious illness. Å frontier doctor clashes with a nursemaid. Å ››› “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Jason Segel, Kristen Bell. ’ ‘R’ Å HBO The Fifth Element (1997) ›› “Fast & Furious” (2009, Action) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker. Premiere. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Divine Design (N) Å Sarah’s House ’ Å Outdoor Room Curb Appeal: The Block House Hunters Å House Hunters Å House Hunters House Hunters H&G House Hunters Å WWII in HD “Striking Dis- WWII in HD “Glory and Guts” U.S. Marines launch an WWII in HD “Edge of the Abyss” Battle of the Bulge; WWII in HD “End Game” America delivers the final Sex in World War II “The Pacific Front” Honolulu’s redHIST tance” Å assault on Iwo Jima. Å Okinawa. Å blow to Japan. Å light district. Å ›› “Sydney White” (2007) Amanda Bynes. A college coed finds a home with seven outcasts. Å ›› “Sydney White” (2007) Amanda Bynes. Å LIFE “Sorority Wars” (2009) Lucy Hale, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Faith Ford. Å ›› “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008) Keanu Reeves. ‘PG-13’ Å Life on Top 04 MAX ››› “Basic Instinct” (1992) Michael Douglas. An erotic writer lures a detective who hunts an ice-pick killer. ’ ‘R’ Å Science of the Elite Soldier Land Warrior system. Weaponology Israeli commando units. ’ Å Navy Seals: Untold Stories “Canal Zone” ’ Å Science of the Elite Soldier Land Warrior system. MILIT American Chopper Å ›› “Land of the Dead” (2005, Horror) Simon Baker. Flesh-eating zombies threaten a fortified city. MTV Turn the Beat Around ’ MTV Special ’ Whale Hunters Inupiaq Eskimo whalers of Alaska. Five Years on Mars: The Rovers Secrets of the Star Disc Whale Hunters Inupiaq Eskimo whalers of Alaska. NGEO Explorer iCarly ’ Å True Jackson, VP Å The Troop ’ Å Big Time Rush ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny “The Will” ’ The Nanny ’ Å NICK iCarly ’ Å Build It Bigger “Abu Dhabi” ’ Å Build It Bigger “Hong Kong Bridge” ’ Å Build It Bigger “Peru Dam & Tunnel” ’ Å Build It Bigger “Abu Dhabi” ’ Å SCIENCE Build It Bigger ’ Tracey Ullman’s State ›› “Rambo” (2008, Action) Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz. iTV. ’ ‘R’ › “Bangkok Dangerous” (2008, Action) Nicolas Cage. iTV. ’ ‘R’ Å SHOW Fight Camp 360: Inside Diary-Call Girl The Young and the Restless Tuesday ’ Å The Young and the Restless Wednesday ’ Å The Young and the Restless Thursday ’ Å The Young and the Restless Friday ’ Å SOAP Young & the Restless AMA Supercross Special “Atlanta” From the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. SPEED AMA Supercross Special “Atlanta” From the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. (Live) 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ SPIKE ›› “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (1985) Sylvester Stallone. Ex-Green Beret goes on Vietnam mission. ●College Basketball UT-Chattanooga at Western Carolina. ●Women’s College Basketball Oklahoma at Texas. 3 Wide Life Unique Whips SPSO ●At Home “Beauty and the Beasts: A Dark Tale” (2010, Fantasy) Estella Warren, Rhett Giles. Premiere. “Beyond Sherwood Forest” (2009) Robin Dunne. SYFY “Yeti” (2008, Horror) Peter DeLuise, Carly Pope, Ona Grauer. Å In Touch With Dr. Charles Stanley Å Hour of Power Å Billy Graham Classic Crusades Drive Thru History Å Travel the Road Å TBN Precious Mem. Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns House of Payne House of Payne TBS Seinfeld “The Barber” ››› “The Nun’s Story” ›››› “Tom Jones” (1963, Comedy) Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith. Henry Fielding’s 1700s ›››› “Titanic” (1997, Drama) Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane. Oscar-winning account of the TCM (1959) Å foundling romps through England’s bedrooms. Å doomed 1912 ocean liner. Dateline: Real Life Mysteries “The Grifters” Å Dateline: Real Life Mysteries ’ Å Dateline: Real Life Mysteries “Dead Reckoning” Dateline: Real Life Mysteries “The Grifters” Å TLC Dateline Myst. ›› “The Replacements” ›› “The Longest Yard” (2005, Comedy) Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds. Prisoners train for a football game against the guards. ››› “Independence Day” (1996, Science Fiction) Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff TNT (2000) Å Å Goldblum. Earthlings vs. evil aliens in 15-mile-wide ships. Å Hot Wheels King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Stroker and Hoop The Boondocks TOON Super Hero Squad Show Teen Titans “The Quest” Batman: Brave and Bold The Secret Saturdays Roseanne ’ Å Roseanne ’ Å Roseanne ’ Å TVLND The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Roseanne Å Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Recall” Å Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Birthright” ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Intoxicated” ’ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Users” Å USA Law & Order: SVU Let’s Talk About Pep ’ Fantasia for Real ’ VH1 ››› “The Temptations” (1998, Drama) Leon, Terron Brooks, DB Woodside. Fame brings rewards and pressures to the quintet. ’ Å CABLE NEWS The Suze Orman Show “Men & Money” (N) Å Til Debt Do Us Part ’ Til Debt Do Us Part ’ Open House Real Estate. Open House Real Estate. CNBC XXI Winter Olympics Curling. ’ (Live) Å Campbell Brown Larry King Live Newsroom Campbell Brown CNN Newsroom American Perspectives American Perspectives CSPAN America & the Courts Book TV Book TV Book TV: After Words Book TV CSPAN2 Book TV Huckabee Glenn Beck Geraldo at Large ’ Å Journal Editorial Report Fox News Watch FNC FOX Report ●XXI Winter Olympics Hockey. From Vancouver, B.C. Hockey: men’s Bronze Medal game. ’ (Live) Å Lockup “NC Women’s Prison” Lockup Tennessee Prison for Women. MSNBC Lockup: New Mexico
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Mitchell Calipari Women’s College Basketball FOXSS Fisherman ●Kid Pitch Bid Wars Best of ’70s Show ››› “Assault on Precinct 13” (2005) Ethan Hawke. ››› “Jarhead” (2005) Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard. ›› “The Fast and the Furious” (2001, Action) Vin Diesel. › “Armageddon” (1998) Liv Tyler FX ››› “Rio Conchos” (1964) Stuart Whitman. ››› “The Flight of the Phoenix” (1965) James Stewart. ››› “The Undefeated” (1969) John Wayne. ››› “Conrack” (1974) Jon Voight. Å FXM “North to Alaska” Å Fam. Feud Newlywed Catch 21 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Fam. Feud Unstapled Unstapled Unstapled Unstapled Unstapled Unstapled Unstapled Newlywed Catch 21 High Stakes Poker Poker GSN Chain “Expecting a Miracle” “What I Did for Love” (2006, Romance-Comedy) “The Wishing Well” (2010, Drama) Jordan Ladd, “Ice Dreams” (2010) Jessica Cauffiel. A former “Expecting a Miracle” (2009) Jason Priestley. A “The Good HALL (2009) Jason Priestley. Jeremy London, Dorie Barton. Å Jason London, Ernest Borgnine. Å Olympic figure skater coaches a young student. stranded couple find solace in a Mexican town. Witch” Real Time/Bill Maher ››› “Coraline” (2009) ‘PG’ Å Coraline ›› “A Knight’s Tale” (2001) Heath Ledger. ’ ›› “Fast & Furious” (2009) Vin Diesel. Å HBO Plnet Ape ›› “Fred Claus” (2007) Vince Vaughn. ‘PG’ Unsellable Designed Get It Sold House House First Place Property Buck Buck Income Income House House Get It Sold Unsellable To Sell To Sell Income H&G Holmes UFO Files “Alien Engineering” Reverse-engineering UFO Files “UFO Hunters” UFO Files “Texas’ UFO Files “Hangar 18: UFO Hunters “First Con- UFO Hunters “Heartland UFO Files “Deep Sea UFO Files Unidentified Ax Men Å HIST technology. Å Å Roswell” Å The UFO Warehouse” tact” Å Explosion” Å UFOs” Å submerged objects. ›› “Terror in the Family” (1996, Drama) Å › “Glass House: The Good Mother” (2006) “Hush” (2005) Tori Spelling, Victoria Pratt. Å Dead at 17 LIFE Will-Grace Will-Grace ›› “Footloose” (1984) Kevin Bacon. Å ›› “Someone Like You” (2001) ››› “The Incredible Hulk” (2008) ’ ‘PG-13’ “Substitute 4: Failure” ›› “The Strangers” (2008) ’ ‘R’ ›› “Eagle Eye” (2008) ‘PG-13’ MAX › “Miss March” (2009) ‘R’ Å Modern Sniper “Army” Modern Sniper Å Decisions Shook World Decisions Shook World Decisions Shook World Overhaulin’ ’ Å Overhaulin’ ’ Å Overhaulin’ ’ Å World-War MILIT Top Sniper ’ Å 16 and Pregnant Å 16 and Pregnant Å 16 and Pregnant Å 16 and Pregnant Å America’s Best Dance “Turn the Beat Around” (2010) Romina D’Ugo. South Park MTV “Turn the Beat Around” (2010) Romina D’Ugo. Crop Circles Is It Real? ’ Å 2012: Armageddon Headshrinkers Nasca Lines Locked Up Abroad Shadow Soldiers Lockdown Border NGEO Naked Science Barnyard Mighty B Sponge Sponge iCarly ’ iCarly ’ Big Time Big Time Penguins Fanboy Sponge Sponge Sponge Sponge iCarly ’ iCarly ’ Penguins NICK Penguins Fanboy Moon Machines Å Our Universe On Jupiter ’ Å Passport to Pluto Planets “Destiny” ’ Planets ’ Å Planets “Giants” Å How-Made How-Made Survival SCIENCE Moon Machines Å ››› “Bottle Rocket” (1996) Owen C. Wilson. › “Disaster Movie” (2008) ‘PG-13’ ›› “The Color of Freedom” (2007) ‘R’ Å Shorts Shorts “Family That Preys” SHOW › “Witless Protection” (2008) One Tree Hill ’ Å Gilmore Girls ’ Å Gilmore Girls ’ Å General Hospital Mon. General Hospital Tues. General Hospital Wed. General Hospital Hosp. SOAP Beverly Hills, 90210 ’ One Tree Hill ’ Å Dangerous Drives Motorcycle Racing Motorcycle Racing AMA Supercross Lites AMA Supercross SPEED Rpt SPEED Chop Cut Perform. NASCAR NASCAR NASCAR RaceDay (Live) Horse. Trucks! ’ MuscleCar Real Vice Real Vice Real Vice Real Vice Real Vice Real Vice DEA ’ DEA ’ DEA ’ DEA ’ SPIKE Unsolved Mysteries ’ Xtreme Staley Horn Pearl P Summitt Women’s College Basketball Mark Fox Brawl Call Brawl Call ●FIGHTZONE Presents NBA Basketball: Bucks at Hawks SPSO Predator Golf ›› “Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers” (1993, Horror) Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger. Stephen King’s The Stand ’ (Part 1 of 4) Å The Stand SYFY ›› “Stephen King’s The Langoliers” (1995, Horror) Patricia Wettig. Ed Young Miracle Redempt Love In Touch PowerPnt Is Written Conley From His King Is Franklin John Hagee Today Rod P. Dickow Jakes J. Meyer Leading TBN Hagin ›› “Deliver Us From Eva” (2003) LL Cool J. › “Underclassman” (2005) Nick Cannon. Å ›› “The Honeymooners” (2005) Mike Epps › “Code Name: The Cleaner” TBS ›› “Head of State” (2003) Chris Rock. Å ›››› “You Can’t Take It With You” (1938) Jean Arthur. Oscar- ››› “Pennies From Heaven” (1936, ››› “Road to Morocco” (1942) Bing ››› “Road to Utopia” (1945) Bing ›››› “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952) Betty Hutton. TCM winning classic about a blissfully eccentric family. Musical) Bing Crosby. Å Crosby, Bob Hope. Å Crosby, Bob Hope. Å Three rings of life, love and pageantry under the big top. Moving Up ’ Å Moving Up ’ Å Police Women Lottery Changed, Life Lottery Changed Lottery Changed Lottery Changed Lottery Changed Lottery TLC Moving Up ’ Å Law & Order “Narcosis” Law & Order “High & Law & Order “Stiff” ’ Å ›› “Poseidon” (2006) Josh Lucas. A luxury liner ›› “Enough” (2002, Suspense) Jennifer Lopez. A woman takes ››› “G.I. Jane” (1997, Drama) Demi Moore, Viggo TNT ’ Å (DVS) Low” ’ Å (DVS) (DVS) capsizes in the North Atlantic. Å her daughter and flees her abusive husband. Å Mortensen, Anne Bancroft. Å Garfield Flapjack Flapjack Courage Courage Chowder Chowder Grim Grim Grim Flapjack Flapjack Flapjack Johnny T Johnny T Johnny T Kangaroo TOON Bugs Bnny Garfield Bewitched Bewitched Bewitched Bewitched Bewitched Bewitched ›› “You’ve Got Mail” (1998) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey. Griffith Griffith Griffith Griffith Griffith TVLND Extreme-Home Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law USA Burn Notice Å Celebrity Fit Club Å Let’s Talk Fantasia Crime Crime Crime ››› “Saturday Night Fever” (1977) John Travolta. ’ Drew VH1 Frank the Entertainer Frank the Entertainer Tool Academy (N) ’ CABLE NEWS CNBC Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Hair Loss Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Diabetes Reliable Sources Å State of the Union Fareed Zakaria GPS Amanpour. 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Å BBC Top Gear Å The Family Crews (N) The Family Crews (N) The Michael Vick Project The Michael Vick Project BET Inspiration Peter Popoff Prayer Line BET ›› “Crooklyn” (1994, Drama) Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo. Å I Survived Å I Survived A couple fight for their lives. Å I Survived “Teri; Angela; Ed” Å Ghostly Encounters Ghostly Encounters Celebrity Ghost Stories Å BIO Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Ill-Bred” ’ Å Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Fico Di Capo” Å Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Shrink-Wrapped” ’ Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Conscience” Å BRAVO Law Order: CI ›› “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989, Comedy) Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo. ’ ›› “Grumpier Old Men” (1995, Comedy) Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret. ’ CMTV CMT Music ’ ›› “Hot Rod” (2007) Andy Samberg. An accident-prone daredevil plans an outrageous stunt. Å Important Things Martin Tosh.0 Å COMEDY ›› “Accepted” (2006, Comedy) Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Blake Lively. Å Prehistoric “Dallas” (N) ’ Å Prehistoric “Washington D.C.” (N) ’ Å Prehistoric “Los Angeles” (N) ’ Å Prehistoric “Dallas” ’ Å DISC Prehistoric “New York” Hannah Montana “What I Sonny With a Chance Jonas The president of a ›› “Beethoven’s 3rd” (2000, Comedy) Judge Reinhold, Julia Sweeney, Jamie Wizards of Waverly Place Wizards of Waverly Place Hannah Montana Miley DISN Don’t Like About You” JONAS fan club. Å Marsh. The Newtons accidentally mix with DVD thieves. ’ ‘G’ Å ’Å Å goes out with Willis. ’ ›› Evan Almighty Doomed by Lust Kardashian Keeping Up With the Kardashians Giuliana & Bill “I Do, Take Two” Chelsea Lately E! ●NBA Basketball New Orleans Hornets at Dallas Mavericks. From American Airlines Center in Dallas. (Live) ESPN ●NBA Basketball Miami Heat at Orlando Magic. From Amway Arena in Orlando, Fla. (Live) ●SportsCenter Å ●College Basketball Final 2009 World Series of Poker - Europe Main Event. 2009 World Series of Poker - Europe Main Event. ESPN2 ●Track and Field U.S. Indoor Championships. From Albuquerque, N.M. Å ››› “The Parent Trap” (1998, Comedy) Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson. Reunited twin girls try to get their parents back together. Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å FAM The Next Karate Kid Challenge “Cereal Bridges 2” Famous bridges. Iron Chef America Chef Sam Mason. Chopped “Pride on the Plate” Duck appetizers. Throwdown, Bobby Flay Throwdown-Bobby Flay FOOD Challenge ●The Final Score (Live) ●The Final Score (Live) ●The Final Score (Live) Best Damn 50 FOXSS ●College Basketball Duke at Virginia. (Live) › “Armageddon” (1998, Science Fiction) Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton. ›› “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004) Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal. Global warming leads to worldwide natural disasters. Nip/Tuck FX Fox Legacy ›››› “How Green Was My Valley” (1941) Walter Pidgeon. A Welsh boy sees his mining family fall. ››› “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969, Drama) Maggie Smith. Å FXM Life After Film School ●High Stakes Poker Å High Stakes Poker Å High Stakes Poker Å GSN ●High Stakes Poker Å High Stakes Poker Å “The Good Witch” (2008, Drama) Catherine Bell, Chris Potter. A woman moves to “The Good Witch’s Garden” (2009, Drama) Catherine Bell, Chris Potter. A stranger claims to have legal own- “The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay” (2003, DraHALL a small town and changes people’s lives. Å ership of a woman’s house. Å ma) Tim Matheson, Sean Young. Å Big Love Sarah surprises the family. (N) ’ Å How to Make How to Make Big Love Sarah surprises the family. ’ Å HBO Band of Brothers ’ Å Outdoor Room Curb Appeal: The Block House Hunters (N) Å House Hunters Intern’l Holmes on Homes Water penetrating in the kitchen. House Hunters Å House Hunters H&G House Hunters Å Ax Men A careless mis- Ax Men “Surviving the Swarm” Greenhorns battle; a Ax Men “Showdown” Tempers flare. Å Ax Men “Chopping Block” A Rygaard greenhorn goes Madhouse “Breaking Point” Frustration grows in the HIST take imperils loggers. gator stalks Jimmy. Å AWOL. (N) Å Myers garage. (N) Å ›› “Mr. Brooks” (2007) Kevin Costner, Demi Moore. A man has a murderous alter ego. Å ›› “Mr. Brooks” (2007) Kevin Costner. Å LIFE “Dead at 17” (2008, Drama) Barbara Niven. Å ›› “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008) Keanu Reeves. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å MAX on Set “Cop Out” › “Miss March” (2009, Comedy) Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore. ’ ‘R’ Å Lingerie 04 Lingerie line. MAX ›› Eagle Eye (2008) Unsolved History “RFK Assassination” ’ Conspiracy Test “The MLK Jr. Assassination” ’ Unsolved History “JFK Conspiracy” ’ Å MILIT World at War “Alone” ’ Unsolved History “JFK Conspiracy” ’ Å America’s Best Dance Crew 16 and Pregnant “Jenelle” ’ Å 16 and Pregnant “Nikkole” ’ Å “Turn the Beat Around” (2010) Romina D’Ugo. ’ MTV South Park ’ Å Border Wars A house run by smugglers is raided. Border Wars A drug cartel’s smuggling strategy. Border Wars “Dead of Night” Cartel foot soldiers. Border Wars A house run by smugglers is raided. NGEO Border Wars George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK SpongeBob SquarePants ›› “Uncle Buck” (1989) John Candy. Premiere. An easygoing relative takes care of three children. ’ I Shouldn’t Be Alive: Science of Survival ’ Å Dark Secret of Hendrik Schon ’ Å Jack the Ripper: New Evidence ’ Å I Shouldn’t Be Alive: Science of Survival ’ Å SCIENCE I Shouldn’t Be Alive The Tudors (iTV) ’ Å The Tudors (iTV) ’ Å Diary-Call Girl Tracey Ullman’s State Diary-Call Girl La La Land (iTV) Å SHOW Family That Preys ››› “Little Women” (1994, Drama) Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne. SOAP General Hospital Friday ››› “Little Women” (1994, Drama) Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne. Four New England sisters embrace life during the Civil War. ●Pinks -- All Out ●Bullrun Wind Tunnel With Dave Despain (Live) SPEED The SPEED Report (N) NASCAR Victory Lane (Live) DEA “Big Rig Meth Bust” Capturing a dope dealer. Entourage “Neighbors” Entourage “Chinatown” Entourage “Neighbors” Entourage “Chinatown” SPIKE DEA “Drug Dealing Deli” DEA “Two Million Dollar Dead Drop” ’ ●Pat Summitt Show The Mark Fox Show Rick Stansbury Women’s College Basketball SPSO NBA Basketball Milwaukee Bucks at Atlanta Hawks. ●Hawks Live! Postgame Bruce Pearl Stephen King’s The Stand Abigail takes her flock to Colorado. ’ (Part 3 of 4) Å Stephen King’s The Stand ’ (Part 4 of 4) Å SYFY Stephen King’s The Stand Survivors of the virus find one another. Å Joel Osteen Å Taking Authority Å Kenneth Copeland Å Changing Your World Spring Praise-A-Thon Kickoff Å TBN Jack Hayford Å ›› “Madea’s Family Reunion” (2006, Comedy) Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield. Å ›› “Daddy’s Little Girls” (2007, Romance) Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Louis Gossett Jr. Å TBS Code-Cleaner ›››› “The Greatest ›››› “Ben-Hur” (1959, Historical Drama) Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd. An enslaved prince meets a Roman in a chariot race. TCM Show on Earth” (1952) Your Kid Ate What? “Parents’ Worst Nightmare” World’s Tallest Children ’ Å Lottery Changed My Life “Doorman Millionaire” ’ TLC Lottery Changed My Life Lottery Changed My Life “Doorman Millionaire” ’ ››› “G.I. Jane” (1997) ››› “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes. Storm chasers race to test a new tornado- ››› “Twister” (1996, Action) Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes. Storm chasers race to test a new tornadoTNT Demi Moore. Å monitoring device. Å monitoring device. Å Chowder Misadv. of Flapjack King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å The Venture Brothers TOON › “Kangaroo Jack” (2003, Comedy) Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Anderson. 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The Bold As the World Turns Wendy Williams Show Dr. Phil Jeopardy! Jeopardy! News CBS News CBS News J WIAT Let’s Make a Deal M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Whisperer L WPXH Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Varied Programs Steve Wilkos Show Hatchett Hatchett The People’s Court Judge Jeanine Pirro Judge Mathis Maury Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Name Earl ¥ WABM Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Jerry Springer CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News at Noon Local Programming Oprah Winfrey Chan. 2 Action News Chan. 2 Action News Local Prog ^ TV-2 The Doctors The First 48 The First 48 Criminal Minds The Sopranos CSI: Miami Cold Case Files The First 48 The First 48 Criminal A&E Cold Case Files M ›› “Cutthroat Island” (1995, Adventure) Geena Davis. Å ›› “Eddie and the Cruisers” (1983) Tom Berenger. Å ›› “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” (2003) ›› “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” T ›› “Who’s Harry Crumb?” (1989) John Candy. ››› “Private Benjamin” (1980, Comedy) Goldie Hawn. Å ››› “Antwone Fisher” (2002) Derek Luke, Joy Bryant. ››› “Philadelphia” (1993, Drama) Tom Hanks. Å ›› “K-9: P.I.” (2002) James Belushi, Gary Basaraba. Å ›› “Starsky & Hutch” (2004) Ben Stiller. Å ››› “The Terminator” (1984) Å AMC W ›› “Mr. Mom” (1983) ›› “K-911” (1999, Comedy) James Belushi. Å TH ›› “They Live” (1988) Roddy Piper, Keith David. ›› “Star Trek: Nemesis” (2002) Patrick Stewart. Å ››› “Fight Club” (1999, Suspense) Brad Pitt, Edward Norton. Å ››› “Enter the Dragon” (1973) Bruce Lee. Å F Our-Girl ››› “The Verdict” (1982) Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling. Å ›››› “Rain Man” (1988) Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise. Å ›››› “Dances With Wolves” (1990, Western) Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell. Å Cash in the Attic Cash in the Attic Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Ramsay’s Kitchen Ramsay’s Kitchen News BBC How Clean How Clean Cash in the Attic Chris Movie Jamie F. Jamie F. The Game The Game Chris Chris 106 & Park: BET’s Top 10 Live BET Jamie F. Jamie F. The Game The Game Chris Varied Programs Notorious City Confidential Bio Classics Biography Varied Programs Notorious City BIO BRAVO Varied Programs Varied Programs Extreme-Home Extreme-Home Varied Programs Extreme-Home Varied CMTV CMT Music MADtv Daily Show Colbert Movie Presents RENO 911! Married... Married... Scrubs Scrubs Daily Show COMEDY Movie Cash Cab Cash Cab Cash Cab Cash Cab Varied DISC Cash Cab Cash Cab Varied Programs Chugging Tigger Einsteins Movie Varied Programs Phineas Suite/Deck Wizards DISN Jungle Varied Programs E! News Daily 10 Varied Programs E! News E! ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●SportsCenter ●NFL Live Burning ●SportsCenter Lines Baseball Around Interrupt Basketball ESPN ●SportsCenter ●ESPN First Take ●1st and 10 Scott Van Pelt ●SportsNation Best of NASCAR Baseball Around Interrupt Basketball ESPN2 ●ESPN First Take Gilmore Girls Full House Full House My Wife My Wife Sabrina Sabrina Full House Full House What Like What Like Gilmore Girls 8 Rules 8, Rules Varied FAM The 700 Club Entertain Quick Fix Cooking Italian 30-Minutes Contessa Lee Boy Grill Guy’s, Bite Tyler’s Ult. Cooking Italian Contessa Home Cooking 30-Minutes Challenge FOOD Emeril Live Varied FOXSS Paid Prog. Paid Prog. Varied Programs Movie Varied Programs Spin City Spin City Spin City Bernie Bernie Malcolm Malcolm Bernie Bernie ’70s Show Movie Varied Programs FX M ›› “Somewhere in the Night” (1946) Å ››› “Nightmare Alley” (1947) Tyrone Power. ››› “Compulsion” (1959) Orson Welles. Å ››› “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” (1974) Å ››› “The Detective” (1968) Å T Blood ››› “The Black Swan” (1942) Å ›› “The Lost World” (1960) Michael Rennie. Avatar ›› “Space Master X-7” (1958) ›› “Cocoon: The Return” (1988) Don Ameche. ›› “The Stone Boy” (1984) Å ›› “Vicki” (1953) Jeanne Crain. ›› “Beloved Infidel” (1959, Biography) Gregory Peck. Å ›› “Justine” (1969, Adventure) Anouk Aimée. ›› “Hitler’s SS: Portrait in Evil” (1985, Drama) FXM W ›› “King of Burlesque” (1935) TH ›› “Fixed Bayonets” (1951) Richard Basehart. ››› “Untamed” (1955) Tyrone Power. ›› “The True Story of Jesse James” (1957) ››› “The Undefeated” (1969) John Wayne. ››› “The Man From Snowy River” F Greenwich ››› “Don’t Bother to Knock” Å ››› “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” ›› “Do Not Disturb” (1965) Doris Day. Å ›› “How to Steal a Million” (1966) Audrey Hepburn. Å ››› “Bus Stop” (1956) Å Catch 21 Chain Lingo Lingo Fam Feud Fam Feud Deal or No Deal Newlywed Catch 21 Deal No GSN Fam Feud Pyramid Hollywood Jeopardy! MatchGam Fam Feud Deal or No Deal Golden Golden Golden 7th Heaven 7th Heaven Little House Little House Little House 7th Heaven 7th Heaven Heaven HALL Golden To Sell To Sell House House Income Design Design Star Colour Color Varied Programs Divine Get It Sold Holmes on Homes House H&G Varied Programs M Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries To Be Announced American Pickers Å Time Machine Å Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries To Be Announced Pickers T Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries How the Earth Modern Marvels Å Time Machine Å Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries How the Earth Modern The States Å The States Å MonsterQuest Å Time Machine Å Time Machine Å Time Machine Å The States Å The States Å Monster HIST W Time Machine Å TH Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries To Be Announced Modern Marvels Å Time Machine Å Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries To Be Announced Marvels F Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries To Be Announced Modern Marvels Å Time Machine Å Time Machine Å History’s Mysteries To Be Announced Marvels Frasier Will-Grace Will-Grace Wife Swap Wife Swap Wife Swap Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Grey’s Anatomy Anatomy LIFE Frasier Combat Zone Battleplan Varied Programs MILIT Varied Programs Varied Programs True Life True Life Varied Programs Teen Cribs Teen Cribs Sil. Library Sil. Library Going Out Going Going Made Varied MTV MTV Special Varied Programs Dog Whisperer Dog Whisperer Varied Programs Lockdown NGEO Naked Science Dora Ni Hao Sponge Sponge OddParent Penguins Drake BrainSurge Sponge Sponge iCarly Jackson iCarly NICK Go Diego Go Diego Max, Ruby Umizoomi Fresh Beat Dora Junkyard Wars MythBusters How Do How Do Varied Programs SCIENCE Varied Programs Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 The O.C. The O.C. One Tree Hill One Tree Hill Beverly Hills, 90210 Days of our Lives Young SOAP Days of our Lives ●Monster Jam Paid Prog. Comfort Varied Programs Chop Cut On Edge Varied Programs NASCAR SPEED Varied Programs CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: NY CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn CSI: Crime Scn Unleashed SPIKE CSI: Crime Scn Varied Programs SPSO World Poker Enterprise Varied Atlantis Varied Stargate Varied Programs SYFY Varied Programs Spring Praise-A-Thon TBN Spring Praise-A-Thon Just Shoot Home Imp. Home Imp. Accrd/Jim Yes, Dear Yes, Dear Raymond Raymond Payne Accrd/Jim Raymond King King Friends Friends The Office Seinfeld TBS Fresh Pr. Payne M ››› “Possessed” (1947) Å ››› “Quo Vadis?” (1951) Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr. Å ›››› “Richard III” (1955) Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom. ››› “The Brothers Karamazov” (1958) Å T ›››› “The Maltese Falcon” ››› “The Spanish Main” (1945) Paul Henreid. ››› “Three Musketeers” (1948) Lana Turner. Å (DVS) ››› “Royal Wedding” (1951) Fred Astaire. “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” ››› “The Asphalt Jungle” (1950) Å (DVS) ››› “Oklahoma!” (1955, Musical) Gordon MacRae. Å ››› “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” (1955) TCM W ››› “The Last Angry Man” (1959) ›››› “Adam’s Rib” (1949) Spencer Tracy. TH Flow Gold ›› “Saturday’s Children” (1940) John Garfield. ››› “Out of the Fog” (1941) ››› “The Sea Wolf” (1941, Drama) ›› “Between Two Worlds” (1944) John Garfield. ››› “The Postman Always Rings Twice” F “Song of the Thin Man” ››› “The Boy With Green Hair” ››› “The Secret Garden” (1949) ››› “The Happy Years” (1950, Comedy) Å ››› “Kim” (1950) Errol Flynn. Å (DVS) ››› “Stars in My Crown” (1950) Dress Wedded What Not to Wear Baby Story Baby Story Baby Story Birth Day 18 Kids 18 Kids Little Little What Not to Wear Dress Dress Varied TLC Clean Sweep ER Las Vegas Las Vegas Cold Case Cold Case Law & Order Law & Order Law & Order Bones TNT Supernatural Garfield Casper George Scooby Krypto Tom & Jerry Hero Pokemon Garfield Garfield Codename Codename Flapjack Flapjack Chowder Chowder Johnny T TOON Movie Gunsmoke Bonanza Bonanza Bonanza Bewitched Bewitched All-Family All-Family Sanford TVLND Varied Programs NCIS Varied NCIS USA Varied Programs Varied Programs VH1 Jump Start CABLE NEWS Power Lunch Street Signs Closing Bell Closing Bell-Bartiromo Fast Money Mad Money Report CNBC Squawk on the Street The Call Newsroom Newsroom Rick’s List The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer CNN Newsroom America Live Studio/Shepard Smith Your World Glenn Beck Special Report FOX Rep’t FNC America’s Newsroom Happening Now MSNBC News Live MSNBC News Live Andrea Mitchell MSNBC News Live MSNBC News Live Dylan Ratigan Hardball The Ed Show Hardball MSNBC MSNBC News Live
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(N) ’ Å (N) Å Jay Leno (N) ’ Å Life Unexpected “Truth Unrevealed” ’ Å Life Unexpected “Crisis Unaverted” (N) ’ Å The King of Queens ’ My Name Is Earl Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show 5 WTTO Two and a Half Men ’ The Roy Rogers Show Cheers ’ Å TV24 News at Nine Rick & Bubba Å 8 WJXS What a Deal Deals on restaurant and golf certificates. Wheel of Fortune “Ameri- The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love (Season Finale) (N) ’ Å The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love “After the Final ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU ca’s Game” (N) Å Rose” (N) ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) How I Met Your Mother Rules of Engagement Two and a Half Men “Tin- The Big Bang Theory (N) CSI: Miami “L.A.” Evidence-tampering accusations. (N) CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å “Hooked” (N) ’ Å “Flirting” ’ Å kle Like a Princess” ’Å ’Å Letterman (N) ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Ghost in the Machine” ’ Å Criminal Minds Border-crossing serial killer. Å Criminal Minds “... And Back” ’ Å Shark “Pilot” ’ Å L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å Law & Order: Criminal Intent “Shrink-Wrapped” ’ Law & Order: Criminal Intent “The Saint” ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Are You Smarter? CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Intervention “Anthony” A rough childhood. Å Intervention A talented cellist abuses drugs. (N) Hoarders “Claudie” A woman’s home is unlivable. Paranormal State “Suicide Possession” Å A&E Criminal Minds ’ Å “The League of Extraor- ››› “Philadelphia” (1993, Drama) Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards. Fired by his firm, lawyer with AIDS fights back. Å ››› “Antwone Fisher” (2002, Drama) Derek Luke, AMC dinary Gentlemen” Å Joy Bryant, Denzel Washington. Dog Show From Long Beach, Calif. ’ Å ANPL Polar Bears Uncovered Dog Show “AKC/Eukanuba National Championship 09/10” From Long Beach, Calif. ’ Å ●Top Gear (N) Å ●Top Gear Å Top Gear A French ice race. Å BBC World News America Å BBC World News America Keyshia Cole Keyshia Cole The Mo’Nique Show Å BET ›› “Lean on Me” (1989) Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume. A principal takes a hard line on school violence and drugs. Å City Confidential Å Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Å Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Å My Ghost Story: Hauntings Revealed Å Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Å BIO The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives Top 25: The Early Years (N) The Real Housewives Top 25: The Early Years BRAVO Inside the Actors Studio The Real Housewives of Orange County Å Are You Smarter? Are You Smarter? The Singing Bee ’ The Singing Bee ’ Cribs ’ Cribs ’ CMTV Extreme-Home Tosh.0 Å Futurama ’ Å Futurama ’ Å South Park Å Daily Show/ Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY ›› “Hot Rod” (2007, Comedy) Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone. Å MythBusters “NASA Moon Landing” ’ Å When We Left Earth: Moon Landing Special (N) ’ Mission Critical: Hubble (N) ’ Å MythBusters “NASA Moon Landing” ’ Å DISC MythBusters ’ Å Hannah Montana Miley “Hatching Pete” (2009, Comedy) Jason Dolley, Mitchel Musso, Tiffany Thornton. A Phineas and Ferb ’ Å Phineas and Ferb Indoor Hannah Montana Miley Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck ’ DISN works with a voice actor. teen dons a chicken suit to become a high-school mascot. ‘NR’ hide-and-seek. ’ Å works with a voice actor. Å The Daily 10 (N) Kardashian Kardashian Jenna Jameson: The E! True Hollywood Story Adult film star attains mainstream success. ’ Å Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●College Basketball Oklahoma at Texas. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN ●College Basketball Georgetown at West Virginia. (Live) ●SportsNation Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle. Tennis BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup. (Live) ESPN2 ●Women’s College Basketball Connecticut at Notre Dame. (Live) The Secret Life of the American Teenager (N) Make It or Break It (N) Å Greek The KT house gets new neighbors. (N) Å The 700 Club Å FAM Secret-Teen Good Eats Good Eats Unwrapped (N) Unwrapped Diner, Drive-In Diner, Drive-In Good Eats Unwrapped Jobs. FOOD Challenge ●The Final Score (Live) ●Baseball’s Golden Age ●The Final Score (Live) Best Damn 50 FOXSS World Poker Tour: Sea ●College Basketball Duke at Virginia. The Day After Tomorrow ›› “X-Men: The Last Stand” (2006, Action) Hugh Jackman. A cure for mutations divides the X-Men. Damages Patty is under pressure about the case. Damages Patty is under pressure about the case. FX ›› “Alien Nation” (1988, Science Fiction) James Caan, Mandy Patinkin. Å Avatar ›› “Alien Nation: Dark Horizon” (1994, Science Fiction) Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint. Å FXM ››› The Detective Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å 1 vs. 100 ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å 7th Heaven “Help” ’ Å “Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder” (2005, Mystery) Kellie Martin, Clarence Williams III, Nina Siemaszko. Touched by an Angel “The Hero” Monica becomes a The Golden Girls The The Golden Girls ’ (Part HALL An amateur sleuth investigates members of a folk band. Å reporter to help a father understand his son. Å women share memories. 2 of 2) Å Real Time With Bill Maher ’ Å Bill Maher... But I’m Not Wrong The comic performs in Raleigh, N.C. ’ Å ›› “Semi-Pro” (2008, Comedy) Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson. ’ ‘R’ Å HBO ›› Get Smart (2008) Property Virgins Å Property Virgins Å House Hunters Å My First Place Å House Hunters Å For Rent Living in a tent. The Unsellables Å My First Place Å H&G House Hunters Å American Pickers “Invisi- Pawn Stars “Spooning Pawn Stars Rare 1942 American Pickers “Mole Man” The guys bet on who’s Pawn Stars Flamethrower; Pawn Stars Pocket-sized American Pickers “Mole Man” The guys bet on who’s HIST ble Pump” Å Paul Revere” Å Sarolea motorcycle. Å the best picker. (N) Å rare revolver. (N) sundial. (N) Å the best picker. Å Grey’s Anatomy A bartender collapses. ’ Å “Solstice” (2007) Elisabeth Harnois. A teen believes that her dead twin is trying to contact her. Å Will & Grace ’ Å Will & Grace ’ Å LIFE Grey’s Anatomy Å ›› “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008) Keanu Reeves. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Alien Sex Files MAX ›› The Express (2008) › “Stephen King’s Thinner” (1996, Horror) Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna. ’ ‘R’ Å Futureweapons “Guns” ’ Å Ultimate Weapons The power of sniper rifles. ’ Modern Sniper Snipers face new challenges. Å MILIT Special Ops Mission ’ Modern Sniper Snipers face new challenges. Å America’s Best Dance Crew True Life “I’m Obese” ’ The Buried Life (N) Å My Life as Liz (N) The Buried Life ’ Å My Life as Liz MTV 16 and Pregnant Å Mystery Bear of the Arctic Paranatural “Mystery Lights” (N) The Whale That Exploded Mystery Bear of the Arctic NGEO Lockdown Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK SpongeBob SquarePants Glenn Martin, DDS Å Into the Unknown With Josh Bernstein Noah’s Ark. How Do They Do It? ’ How Do They Do It? ’ Killer Waves Monster waves can sink ships. Å SCIENCE Killer Lakes: Lake Nyos Killer Waves Monster waves can sink ships. Å Fight Camp 360: Inside Nurse Jackie (iTV) Å United States of Tara ’ Diary-Call Girl Tracey Ullman’s State La La Land ’ Å Diary-Call Girl SHOW ›› “The Eye” (2008) Jessica Alba. ‘PG-13’ All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å General Hospital Today ’ Å Days of our Lives Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●NASCAR Race Hub What’s the Deal? (N) Fast Track to Fame “Las Vegas” (N) The Racing Chef (N) Sounds of NASCAR (N) Car Crazy SPEED ●NASCAR Race Hub (N) NASCAR › “Gone in Sixty Seconds” (2000, Action) Nicolas Cage. Premiere. A retired thief must steal 50 cars to save his brother. ’ Blue Mountain State ’ Blue Mountain State ’ Blue Mountain State ’ SPIKE UFC Unleashed ’ Å ●NBA Basketball Atlanta Hawks at Chicago Bulls. From the United Center in Chicago. (Subject to Blackout) (Live) ●Hawks Live! Postgame Darrin Horn Show ●At Home SPSO ●Spotlight Ghost Whisperer “Ghost, Interrupted” ’ Å Ghost Whisperer Melinda helps an organ donor. ’ Ghost Whisperer “Lost Boys” ’ Å Monster (N) Monster “Grimmer” (N) SYFY Ghost Whisperer Å TBN Spring Praise-A-Thon Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy “Airport ‘07” Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Lopez Tonight (N) TBS Seinfeld “The Jimmy” ››› “The Brothers Kara- ›› “Morituri” (1965, War) Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin. Premiere. A German opposed to Nazis ››› “Days of Heaven” (1978, Drama) Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard. Teenage farm workers TCM mazov” (1958) Å falls victim to blackmailers. cross paths with a wheat farmer. Best of Cake Boss Å Cake Boss ’ Å Little Parents, First Baby Little Parents, First Baby TLC Little Parents, First Baby Little Parents, First Baby Little Parents, First Baby Ultimate Cake Off Monster truck competition. Å Bones “Pilot” ’ Å Bones A man is killed while driving a car registered to Bones “A Night at the Bones Museum” Charred human The Closer “Products of Discovery” A quadruple mur- Law & Order “City Hall” A gunman storms City Hall, TNT a prominent Middle Eastern man. ’ Å remains. ’ Å der. Å killing a councilman and a water inspector. ’ Ed, Edd ’n Eddy Ed, Edd ’n Eddy Teen Titans Teen Titans King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON Johnny Test ’ Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Boston Legal “Hired Guns” ’ Å TVLND Sanford and Son Å ●WWE Monday Night RAW With Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler. ’ (Live) Å NCIS “Identity Crisis” ’ Å White Collar An old rival challenges Neal. Å USA NCIS “Ex-File” ’ Å Celebrity Fit Club ’ Å Celebrity Fit Club A teamwork challenge. ’ Å Fantasia for Real ’ Let’s Talk About Pep ’ Celebrity Fit Club A teamwork challenge. ’ Å VH1 Tool Academy ’ CABLE NEWS Marijuana Inc.: Inside America’s Pot Industry Inside the Mind of Google Biography on CNBC Ben & Jerry. Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN Situation Room Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. The Communicators Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Countdown With Keith Olbermann The Rachel Maddow Show (N) MSNBC Hardball Å
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A lawyer defends an innocent black man for rape in 1930s Alabama. ›››› “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962, Drama) GregoAMC (1993) Tom Hanks. Å ry Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford. Untamed and Uncut “Angels & Demons” ’ Å Wild Recon “Moving Target” (N) ’ Å Madman of the Sea “Faking My Own Death” ’ Wild Recon “Moving Target” ’ Å ANPL River Monsters ’ Å Gordon Ramsay’s F Word Å Last Restaurant Standing Second season winners. BBC World News America Å Gordon Ramsay’s F Word Å BBC World News America The Michael Vick Project Tiny & Toya Å The Mo’Nique Show Å BET 106 & Park: Top 10 Live ›› “National Security” (2003, Comedy) Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore. Premiere. City Confidential Å Biography Entertainers Donny and Marie Osmond. Biography “Davy Jones” Å Biography “The Monkees” Musicians. Å Shatner’s Raw Nerve Shatner’s Raw Nerve BIO The Millionaire Matchmaker “Jason & David” Å The Millionaire Matchmaker “Jimmy D & Mateo” The Millionaire Matchmaker “Jimmy D & Mateo” BRAVO Millionaire Matchmaker The Millionaire Matchmaker Age requirements. ’ Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ’ Å ››› “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000) George Clooney. Three escaped convicts embark on an unusual odyssey. ’ O Brother, Where Art CMTV Are You Smarter? Scrubs ’ Å Scrubs “My Way Home” South Park Å South Park “Canceled” South Park “TSST!” South Park Å Daily Show/ Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY The Colbert Report Å Dirty Jobs “Camel Rancher” ’ Å Dirty Jobs (N) ’ Å Dirty Jobs ’ Å Dirty Jobs “Camel Rancher” ’ Å DISC Dirty Jobs ’ Å Hannah Montana Han››› “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey” (1993, Adventure) Voices of Phineas and Ferb ’ Phineas and Ferb ’ Å Hannah Montana HanWizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck DISN nah’s dislike of carrots. Don Ameche. Two dogs and a cat try to find their way home. ’ ‘G’ Å nah’s dislike of carrots. “Smarty Pants” “Can You Dig It?” The Daily 10 (N) E! Investigates: Crime on Campus Too Young to Kill: 15 Shocking Crimes Children who have committed murder. Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●College Basketball Illinois at Ohio State. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN ●College Basketball Vanderbilt at Florida. (Live) ●SportsNation Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle. NBA Coast-to-Coast (Live) Å ESPN2 ●College Basketball Villanova at Cincinnati. (Live) America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å The 700 Club Å FAM Funniest Home Videos America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å Ace of Cakes Ace of Cakes Unwrapped The Best Thing-Ate Chopped “Against the Tide” (N) Good Eats Food myths. Unwrapped “Hi-Tech” FOOD Challenge ●Baseball’s Golden Age ●The Final Score (Live) ●The Game 365 ●The Final Score (Live) FOXSS World Poker Tour: Sea ●Boxing Henry Bruseles vs. Mike Jones. From Atlantic City, N.J. X-Men: The Last Stand ›› “Underworld: Evolution” (2006) Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman. Vampire warrior Selene seeks revenge for her betrayal. ›› “Underworld: Evolution” (2006) Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman. FX ›› “Paradise Road” (1997) Glenn Close. Women band together in a Japanese POW camp. Å ›› “The Stone Boy” (1984) Robert Duvall. Tragedy brings about an emotional crisis for a farm family. FXM ›› The Stone Boy Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å Family Feud ’ Å Family Feud ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å 7th Heaven “Blind” ’ Å “Jane Doe: The Wrong Face” (2005, Mystery) Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, Billy Moses. Agent Cathy Davis Touched by an Angel Monica attempts to make an The Golden Girls ’ Å The Golden Girls “FeelHALL must find a missing woman. Å editor believe in angels. ’ Å ings” ’ Å ›› “Fast & Furious” (2009, Action) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Big Love Sarah surprises the family. ’ Å HBO ››› “Reporter” (2009) Nicholas Kristof investigates the crisis in the Congo. My First Place (N) Å My First Place Å House Hunters Å Bang for Your Buck House Hunters Å House Hunters Å Property Virgins Å My First Place Å H&G House Hunters Å Modern Marvels “Horse- Modern Marvels “Chrome” Chrome hot rod. (N) Å How the Earth Was Made “America’s Gold” Extracting Life After People “Sky’s the Limit” Apocalyptic devas- Life After People “Waves of Devastation” Waves of deHIST power” Engines. Å gold from sedimentary rocks. (N) Å tation in the skies. (N) Å struction. Å Grey’s Anatomy Cristina continues to recover. Å “Obsessed” (2002) Jenna Elfman. A medical writer is accused of harassing a prominent doctor. Will & Grace ’ Å Will & Grace ’ Å LIFE Grey’s Anatomy Å › “Showgirls” (1995) Elizabeth Berkley. An ambitious dancer makes a bid for Las Vegas success. Å MAX The Dark Knight (2008) ›› “The Bucket List” (2007) Jack Nicholson. Dying men make a list of things to do before they expire. World’s Deadliest Aircraft Flying fortress. ’ Å Clash of Wings “The Bluff Is Called” ’ Å Great Planes “SR-71 Blackbird” Lockheed SR-71. World’s Deadliest Aircraft Flying fortress. ’ Å MILIT Weaponology ’ Å 16 and Pregnant “Nikkole” ’ Å 16 and Pregnant An adoptee wants to be a family. 16 and Pregnant An adoptee wants to be a family. MTV “Turn the Beat Around” (2010) Romina D’Ugo, Adam Taylor Brooks. ’ Journey to the Edge of the Universe A tour of the cosmos. Explorer Terrorists with a nuclear bomb. (N) Journey to the Edge of the Universe NGEO Lockdown Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK SpongeBob SquarePants Malcolm in the Middle Master of the Universe ’ Å Master of the Universe ’ Å Sci Fi Science ’ Å Sci Fi Science ’ Å Master of the Universe ’ Å SCIENCE Planets “Life” ’ Å Tracey Ullman’s State La La Land (iTV) Å Diary-Call Girl ››› The Bank Job ‘R’ SHOW Hand That Rocks Cradle “Baby on Board” (2008) Jerry O’Connell. iTV Premiere. A power couple has a surprise pregnancy. ‘R’ All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å General Hospital Today ’ Å Days of our Lives Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●Pass Time ●NASCAR Race Hub Race in 60 “Las Vegas” (N) Monster Jam (N) Dangerous Drives SPEED ●NASCAR Race Hub UFC Unleashed ’ Å UFC Unleashed ’ Å Blue Mountain State (N) Players ’ UFC Unleashed ’ Å SPIKE UFC Unleashed ’ Å ●Thrashers Live! (Live) ●Under the Lights ●In My Own Words NHL Hockey Florida Panthers at Atlanta Thrashers. SPSO ●NHL Hockey Florida Panthers at Atlanta Thrashers. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (Subject to Blackout) Star Trek: The Next Generation “Sub Rosa” Å Star Trek: The Next Generation “Emergence” Å WWE NXT ’ (Live) Å “100 Feet” (2008, Suspense) Famke Janssen. Å SYFY Star Trek: Next Gener. TBN Spring Praise-A-Thon Å The Office ’ Å The Office “Crime Aid” The Office ’ Å The Office ’ Å The Office ’ Å The Office “Frame Toby” Lopez Tonight (N) TBS Seinfeld “The Doodle” ››› “Seven Brides for ›››› “West Side Story” (1961, Musical) Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Tragedy clouds the romance of two young lovers. Å ››› “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955, Drama) James TCM Seven Brothers” Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo. Å The Tiniest Girl in the World Tiny 2-year-old girl. ’ 19 Kids and Counting (N) 19 Kids and Counting ’ Little Parents, First Baby Little Parents, First Baby The Tiniest Girl in the World Tiny 2-year-old girl. ’ TLC Ultimate Cake Off Å Southland “Two Gangs” ’ Southland Clarke and Adams investigate when jewelry Southland “Derailed” Officers find a dead gang mem- Southland “Phase Three” (Season Premiere) The ab- CSI: NY “Zoo York” A tiger kills a man at an animal TNT Å thieves start robbing homes in Bel Air. ’ Å ber in the trunk of a car. ’ Å duction of an elderly man. (N) ’ Å refuge. ’ Å Ed, Edd ’n Eddy Ed, Edd ’n Eddy Teen Titans Teen Titans King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON Johnny Test ’ Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Boston Legal “From Whence We Came” ’ Å TVLND Sanford and Son Å Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Poison” Å Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Cold” ’ Å White Collar The daughter of a friend is kidnapped. Psych Shawn and Gus join a think tank. Å USA Law & Order: SVU Let’s Talk About Pep ’ Fantasia for Real ’ Tool Academy Criticism from a focus group. ’ Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew ’ Famous Crime Scene ’ ›› Be Cool (2005) ’ VH1 Celebrity Fit Club Å CABLE NEWS Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire Coca-Cola: The Real Story Behind the Real Thing Biography on CNBC The growth of Starbucks Corp. Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN Situation Room Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Countdown With Keith Olbermann The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC Hardball Å
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The King of Queens My Name Is Earl Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show 5 WTTO Two and a Half Men ’ ●’Bama’s Greatest Games Buster Miles Auto Cheers ’ Å TV24 News at Nine Rick & Bubba Å 8 WJXS Lone Ranger Wheel of Fortune “Ameri- Modern Family Phil is The Middle Brick trains for Modern Family “Fears” (N) Cougar Town Laurie’s The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special Celebrity interABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU ca’s Game” (N) Å rushed to the hospital. a spelling bee. (N) ’ ’Å mother stirs things up. views. (N) ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) The New Adventures of Gary Unmarried “Gary’s Criminal Minds “Mosley Lane” The team profiles a CSI: NY “Uncertainty Rules” A man is found covered in CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å Old Christine (N) Å Big Mouth” (N) ’ Å child abductor. (N) ’ Å blood. (N) ’ Å Letterman (N) ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Heart & Soul” ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Pieces of You” ’ Å Criminal Minds Gideon must identify an arsonist. ’ Shark “Dr. Feelbad” ’ Å L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å ●College Basketball Mississippi State at Auburn. (Live) The Unit “Binary Explosion” ’ Å The Unit “Gone Missing” ’ Å ¥ WABM Are You Smarter? CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight Dog the Bounty Hunter “Friends and Neighbors” Dog the Bounty Hunter “The Set-Up” Å Dog the Bounty Hunter “The Searchers” Å Steven Seagal Lawman Steven Seagal Lawman A&E Criminal Minds ’ Å ››› “The Terminator” ››› “Enter the Dragon” (1973, Adventure) Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly. Agent of kung fu enters opium lord’s island fortress. Å ››› “Fight Club” (1999, Suspense) Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham AMC (1984) Å Carter. Men vent their rage by beating each other in a secret arena. Å Monsters Inside Me Deceptive parasites. ’ Å I Shouldn’t Be Alive “Lost at Sea” ’ Å I Was Bitten The devastating effects of venom. ’ Monsters Inside Me Deceptive parasites. ’ Å ANPL Tarantula-King Top Gear Å The Inbetweeners The Inbetweeners (N) BBC World News America Å Top Gear Å BBC World News America The Family Crews Å The Mo’Nique Show Å BET 106 & Park: Top 10 Live ›› “Devil in a Blue Dress” (1995) Denzel Washington. Premiere. A detective scours 1948 Los Angeles for a mysterious woman. City Confidential Å Biography “Dustin Hoffman” Å Biography “Matt Damon” Actor Matt Damon. Å Biography “George Clooney” Actor and activist. Biography “Al Pacino” Å BIO Shear Genius Incorporating flowers into hairstyles. Shear Genius Pinup girls. (N) ’ Å Shear Genius Pinup girls. ’ Å BRAVO Millionaire Matchmaker The Millionaire Matchmaker “Jimmy D & Mateo” Are You Smarter? Are You Smarter? › “Son-in-Law” (1993, Comedy) Pauly Shore. A coed brings her surf-minded pal home to the farm. ’ › “Son-in-Law” (1993, Comedy) Pauly Shore. ’ CMTV Extreme-Home Chappelle’s Show Å Chappelle’s Show Å Futurama ’ Å Futurama “I, Roommate” South Park “The Coon” Tosh.0 (N) Å Daily Show/ Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY The Colbert Report Å Alaska’s Most Extreme Alaska’s environment. Å Mayday! Bering Sea (N) ’ Å Solving History With Olly Steeds “Devil’s Island” Alaska: Most Extreme ’ Å DISC Arctic Roughnecks Å Hannah Montana “Prom- “Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior” (2006, Adventure) Brenda Song, Shin Koya- Phineas and Ferb ’ Å Phineas and Ferb Å Hannah Montana “Prom- Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck DISN ma Mia” ’ mada. A teen learns she is the reincarnation of a Chinese warrior. ’ Å ma Mia” ’ “Racing” “London’s Apprentice” The Daily 10 (N) The SPINdustry Kardashian Kardashian Keeping Up With the Kardashians Kardashian Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●College Basketball Duke at Maryland. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN ●College Basketball Connecticut at Notre Dame. (Live) ●College Basketball Oklahoma State at Texas A&M. (Live) ●SportsNation Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle. ESPN2 ●College Basketball Wake Forest at Florida State. (Live) America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å The 700 Club Å FAM Funniest Home Videos America’s Funniest Home Videos Cannonball. Å Unwrapped Foods to be eaten on the go. Throwdown-Bobby Flay Throwdown, Bobby Flay Dinner: Impossible “Boxed In: Terminal Trouble” Good Eats Mussels. Unwrapped FOOD Challenge ●World Poker Tour: Season 8 (Part 2 of 2) ●The Final Score (Live) ●Baseball’s Golden Age ●The Final Score (Live) March Madness: Greatest Moments of the NCAA Best Damn 50 FOXSS Best Damn 50 ››› “The Italian Job” (2003, Crime Drama) Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron. A thief and his crew plan to steal back their gold. Nip/Tuck Sean and Christian reflect on relationship. Nip/Tuck Sean and Christian reflect on relationship. FX ›› “Broken Arrow” (1996) John Travolta. A renegade Air Force pilot commandeers two nuclear bombs. ›› “Vanishing Point” (1997, Action) Viggo Mortensen, Christine Elise, Jason Priestley. Å FXM Hitler’s SS Family Feud Å Family Feud ’ Å The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å Carnie Wilson Family Feud ’ Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å 7th Heaven “Gossip” ’ Å “Where There’s a Will” (2006, Comedy-Drama) Frank Whaley, Marion Ross, Christine Elise. A con man on the Touched by an Angel “Trust” Monica attempts to help The Golden Girls Sophia The Golden Girls “Stand HALL run seeks refuge with his grandmother. Å a police officer who has turned to drugs. Å tries to get her man. ’ by Your Man” ’ Å How to Make How to Make How to Make Making: The Pacific ’ Big Love Sarah surprises the family. ’ Å Real Time With Bill Maher ’ Å HBO ››› Marley & Me ’ Property Virgins Å Property Virgins Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Intern’l Holmes on Homes “Unfinished Business” Å Income Property Å My First Place Å H&G House Hunters Å MonsterQuest Hunt for MonsterQuest “Giant Killer Bees” Killer bees invade MonsterQuest “Piranha Invasion” South American pi- Ax Men “Chopping Block” A Rygaard greenhorn goes Modern Marvels “Axes” The history and technology HIST the Texas Chupacabra. the United States. Å ranhas in U.S. waters. (N) Å AWOL. Å behind the ax as a weapon and tool. Å Grey’s Anatomy “Something to Talk About” Å ›› “Management” (2008, Romance-Comedy) Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson. Å Will & Grace Å Will & Grace Å LIFE Grey’s Anatomy Å ››› “Shrek” (2001, Comedy) Voices of Mike Myers. ’ ‘PG’ Å ›› “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008) Keanu Reeves. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å Sex Games Cancun 3 ’ MAX › “Max Payne” (2008) Mark Wahlberg. ’ ‘PG-13’ Commanders at War “Midway” ’ Å Battle Rats: Iwo Jima ’ Å War Dogs of the Pacific ’ Å MILIT World at War “Alone” ’ War Dogs of the Pacific ’ Å South Park ’ Å South Park ’ Å The Real World Josh is forced to face his infidelity. The Real World Roommates consider their safety. The Real World Roommates consider their safety. MTV 16 and Pregnant Å Locked Up Abroad “Caracas” Outlaw Bikers “Masters of Mayhem” Billy Queen. Taboo “Body Modification” Body reshaping. Locked Up Abroad “Caracas” NGEO Lockdown “Newbies” Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK SpongeBob SquarePants Malcolm in the Middle The Amazing Octopus Octopus’s life. ’ Å Meteorite Men The Buzzard Coulee meteorite. Å Mantracker Newfoundlanders face the Mantracker. The Amazing Octopus Octopus’s life. ’ Å SCIENCE Survivorman ’ Å ●Inside NASCAR (iTV) (N) Tracey Ullman’s State Penn & Teller: Bulls...! Penn & Teller: Bulls...! La La Land (iTV) Å Tracey Ullman’s State SHOW ››› Bart Got a Room Diary-Call Girl All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å Being Erica “The Unkindest Cut” ’ Å (DVS) General Hospital Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●Pass Time (N) ●Pass Time (N) ●NASCAR Race Hub Sounds of NASCAR Dangerous Drives (N) Pass Time SPEED ●NASCAR Race Hub (N) The Racing Chef 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Die ’ 1,000 Ways to Lie ’ MANswers ’ Å Blue Mountain State ’ Players ’ SPIKE 1,000 Ways to Die ’ ●Hawks Live! Postgame ●College Basketball UT-Chattanooga at Western Carolina. SPSO ●NBA Basketball Philadelphia 76ers at Atlanta Hawks. From Philips Arena in Atlanta. (Subject to Blackout) Ghost Hunters A spirit spooks Al Capone. ’ Å Ghost Hunters “Alcatraz Live Event” (Season Premiere) ’ (Live) Å Ghost Hunters The Essex County Jail. ’ Å SYFY Ghost Hunters ’ Å TBN Spring Praise-A-Thon Å Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Meet the Browns House of Payne House of Payne Lopez Tonight (N) TBS Seinfeld ’ Å ››› “I’ll Cry Tomorrow” ››› “Cool Hand Luke” (1967, Drama) Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon. A gutsy prison inmate ›››› “Alien” (1979, Science Fiction) Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt. Premiere. A horrific spaceTCM (1955) Å refuses to yield to authority. Å ship stowaway attacks interstellar miners. Your Kid Ate What? “Parents’ Worst Nightmare” Child Frozen in Time ’ Å World’s Strongest Toddler ’ Å Your Kid Ate What? “Parents’ Worst Nightmare” TLC Tiny-Kenadie Bones “A Boy in a Tree” ’ Bones “The Man Inside the Bear” Ritualistic cannibal- ››› “300” (2007, Action) Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham. Badly outnumbered Spartan warriors Leverage “The Bottle Job” A high-tech version of a TNT Å ism. ’ Å battle the Persian army. Å classic con. Å What Would Happen? Destroy Build Destroy Star Wars Clo. Super Hero Squad Show King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON Johnny Test ’ Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ High School Reunion “PROMises of Love” (N) First Love, Second Chance (Series Premiere) (N) TVLND Sanford and Son Å NCIS “Bikini Wax” ’ Å NCIS “Agent Afloat” ’ Å Psych A shark attack. (N) Å Burn Notice A paranoid kidnapper. Å USA NCIS “Leap of Faith” ’ 100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s “Hour 4” ’ 100 Greatest Songs of the ’90s “Hour 5” ’ Celebrity Fit Club A teamwork challenge. ’ Å Fantasia for Real ’ Fantasia for Real ’ VH1 Songs of ’90s CABLE NEWS American Greed “The Black Widows” American Greed A short seller reaps millions. (N) American Greed A short seller reaps millions. Mad Money CNBC Kudlow Report (Live) Campbell Brown (N) Larry King Live (N) Å Anderson Cooper 360 Å CNN Situation Room Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN House of Rep. Tonight From Washington Capital News Today CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Coverage The O’Reilly Factor (N) Å Hannity (N) On the Record With Greta Van Susteren (N) Å The O’Reilly Factor FNC FOX Report Countdown With Keith Olbermann (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) Countdown With Keith Olbermann The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC Hardball Å
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Access Hollywood (N) Å Community Abed tries to Parks and Recreation The Office “The Delivery Part 1 and 2” Pam’s contrac- The Marriage Ref (Series Premiere) Tina Fey; Eva NBC 13 News at 10:00pm The Tonight Show With woo a potential mate. ’ Ron wins an award. (N) tions begin. (N) ’ Å Longoria-Parker. (N) ’ Å (N) Å Jay Leno (N) ’ Å The Vampire Diaries “Unpleasantville” ’ Å Supernatural A teenager swaps bodies with Sam. The King of Queens ’ My Name Is Earl Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show 5 WTTO Two and a Half Men ’ The Rub Cardinal Corner Word Alive Cheers ’ Å TV24 News at Nine Rick & Bubba Å 8 WJXS Kelli Johnson Live! Wheel of Fortune “Ameri- Grey’s Anatomy “Invest in Love” A generous donation Grey’s Anatomy “Perfect Little Accident” A surgeon is Private Practice “Fear of Flying” A father-to-be with tu- ABC 33/40 News at 10PM Nightline (N) Å H WJSU ca’s Game” (N) Å to the hospital. ’ Å rushed to the hospital. (N) ’ Å berculosis. (N) ’ Å (N) Entertainment Tonight (N) Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains (N) ’ Å CSI: Crime Scene Investigation “Unshockable” Mem- The Mentalist “Red Herring” The team investigates a CBS 42 News at 10 (N) Late Show With David J WIAT ’ Å ber of Rascal Flatts is electrocuted. (N) ’ chef’s murder. (N) ’ Å Letterman (N) ’ Å Ghost Whisperer “Body of Water” Mass haunting. NCIS The body of a missing lance corporal is found. NCIS “Witch Hunt” ’ Å Shark “Russo” ’ Å L WPXH Ghost Whisperer Å ›› “The Object of My Affection” (1998, Romance-Comedy) Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Alan Alda. The Simpsons ’ Å The Simpsons ’ Å House of Payne House of Payne ¥ WABM Are You Smarter? CABLE ENTERTAINMENT Local Programming Action News Nightbeat Local Programming ^ TV-2 Entertainment Tonight The First 48 Dismembered body parts are found. The First 48 “Smoke Screen; The Last Goodbye” Manhunters: Fugitive Manhunters: Fugitive Manhunters: Fugitive Manhunters: Fugitive A&E The First 48 Å ››› “Enter the Dragon” › “Red Planet” (2000, Science Fiction) Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore. Premiere. Marooned astronauts struggle to survive ›› “Escape From L.A.” (1996, Action) Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach. Snake Plissken AMC (1973) Å on Mars. faces foes in the ruins of 2013 Los Angeles. Å Planet Earth Tibetan fox; lions hunt elephants. Å Planet Earth “Deserts” Rarely seen desert life. ’ Planet Earth “Shallow Seas” ’ Å ANPL Planet Earth Oceans. ’ Planet Earth “Shallow Seas” ’ Å Kitchen Nightmares “Black Pearl” ’ Å Kitchen Nightmares “Trobiano’s” ’ Å BBC World News America Å Kitchen Nightmares “Black Pearl” ’ Å BBC World News America The Mo’Nique Show Å BET 106 & Park: Top 10 Live The Michael Vick Project The Michael Vick Project ›› “Lockdown” (2000) Richard T. Jones. Three friends land in prison after a wrongful conviction. Å City Confidential Å Biography “Sean Penn” Actor Sean Penn. Å Biography “Johnny Depp” Actor Johnny Depp. Å Biography “Joaquin Phoenix” Joaquin Phoenix. BIO The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County Å The Real Housewives of Orange County (N) Å The Real Housewives of New York City Å BRAVO Real Housewives Are You Smarter? Are You Smarter? ››› “Bull Durham” (1988) Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon. A baseball groupie gives pointers to a brash young pitcher. ’ ››› Bull Durham ’ CMTV Extreme-Home ›› “Office Space” (1999) Ron Livingston. A white-collar worker rebels against corporate drudgery. Important Things Martin Sarah Silverman Prog. Daily Show/ Jon Stewart The Colbert Report (N) COMEDY The Colbert Report Å Extreme Peril Survivors of Thailand’s tsunami. (N) I Was Dead A man falls into a icy lake. (N) ’ Å 2012 Apocalypse ’ Å Extreme Peril Survivors of Thailand’s tsunami. Å DISC Extreme Peril (N) Å Hannah Montana Hannah “Minutemen” (2008, Comedy) Jason Dolley, Luke Benward, Nicholas Braun. High- Phineas and Ferb “Swiss Phineas and Ferb Å Hannah Montana Hannah Wizards of Waverly Place The Suite Life on Deck DISN lands a movie role. ’ school outcasts use a time machine to change the past. ’ ‘NR’ Å Family Phineas” lands a movie role. ’ “Taxi Dance” “Crossing Jordin” The Daily 10 (N) Sandra Bullock Revealed Actress. Fatal Beauty: 15 Most Notorious Women Women’s crimes make them pseudo-celebrities. Chelsea Lately (N) E! News E! ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) ●SportsCenter (Live) Å ESPN ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) ●SportsNation Colin Cowherd and Michelle Beadle. ESPN2 ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) America’s Funniest Home Videos ’ Å The 700 Club Å FAM ››› “Happy Feet” (2006) Voices of Elijah Wood. Animated. An emperor penguin expresses himself through tap-dancing. Å Iron Chef America Chef Sam Mason. Iron Chef America “Flay vs. Iacovone” Ace of Cakes (N) Ace of Cakes Good Eats Unwrapped FOOD Challenge ●Spotlight ●Women’s College Basketball SEC Tournament, First Round: Teams TBA. From Duluth, Ga. (Live) ●The Game 365 World Poker Tour: Sea FOXSS Women’s College Basketball ››› The Italian Job › “Grandma’s Boy” (2006) Doris Roberts. A man must live with his grandmother and her two friends. Archer “The Rock” (N) Archer “Skytanic” Archer “The Rock” › Grandma’s Boy FX ››› “Oscar and Lucinda” (1997, Romance) Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds. Å ››› “The Man From Snowy River” (1982, Western) Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson. Å FXM Man-Snowy Carnie Wilson Instant Recall The Newlywed Game Catch 21 Å Deal or No Deal ’ Å Carnie Wilson Instant Recall GSN Deal or No Deal ’ Å 7th Heaven “Home” ’ Å ›› “Disney’s The Kid” (2000, Comedy) Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer. An image consultant Touched by an Angel An angel gone bad disrupts The Golden Girls Miles The Golden Girls “There HALL magically encounters his younger self. Å Monica’s reunion of a father and son. ’ Å admits some dishonesty. Goes the Bride” Å ››› “Frost/Nixon” (2008) Frank Langella. David Frost holds a historic interview with Richard Nixon. Katie Morgan’s Porn 101 Cathouse Season Two HBO ›› “The Women” (2008, Comedy-Drama) Meg Ryan. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å My First Place Å My First Place Å House Hunters (N) Å House Hunters Å House Hunters Income Property Å Property Virgins Å My First Place Å H&G House Hunters Å Modern Marvels The his- Modern Marvels “Start to Finish” Vehicle assembly. (N) Food Tech “Breakfast” Pancake breakfast. (N) Å Pawn Stars Flamethrower; Pawn Stars Pocket-sized Food Tech “Breakfast” Pancake breakfast. Å HIST tory of ice cream. Å Å rare revolver. sundial. Å Grey’s Anatomy “Much Too Much” ’ Å Project Runway “Hard Wear” Å Project Runway “The Elements of Fashion” (N) Models of the Runway Project Runway Å LIFE Grey’s Anatomy Å ›› “The Last House on the Left” (2009, Horror) Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter. ’ ‘R’ Å ››› “A Beautiful Mind” (2001, Biography) Russell Crowe, Ed Harris. ’ ‘PG-13’ Å MAX Hellboy-Army Making Marines “Parris Island: Phase One” Å Making Marines “Parris Island: Phase Two” Å Making Marines “Parris Island: Phase Three” Å Making Marines “Parris Island: Phase One” Å MILIT C.I.A. Secrets ’ Å 16 and Pregnant An adoptee wants to be a family. America’s Best Dance Crew America’s Best Dance Crew Taking the Stage (N) ’ America’s Best Dance MTV The Real World ’ Å Monster Moves “Luxury Yachts” (N) Fight Science “Special Ops” Elite combat troops. Naked Science “Earth’s Invisible Shield” Monster Moves “Luxury Yachts” NGEO Lockdown “Inmate U” Malcolm in the Middle Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Hates Chris George Lopez ’ Å George Lopez ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å The Nanny ’ Å NICK SpongeBob SquarePants Malcolm in the Middle Factory Made ’ Factory Made ’ Å Build It Bigger “Peru Dam & Tunnel” ’ Å Heavy Metal Task Force ’ Å Factory Made ’ Factory Made ’ Å SCIENCE Assembly Req. Bobby Slayton: Born to Be Bobby (iTV) (N) Penn & Teller: Bulls...! La La Land (iTV) Å ›› “Pathology” (2008) Milo Ventimiglia. ‘R’ SHOW “The Amateurs” (2005, Comedy) Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson. iTV. ’ ‘R’ All My Children Today ’ Å One Life to Live Today ’ Å General Hospital Today ’ Å Days of our Lives Today ’ Å SOAP Young-Restless ●Bullrun ●Bullrun (N) ●NASCAR Race Hub Fast Track to Fame “Las Vegas” Pass Time SPEED ●NASCAR Race Hub ●UFC Unleashed ’ Å ●TNA Wrestling (N) ’ Å Players ’ 1,000 Ways to Lie ’ SPIKE UFC Unleashed ’ Å ●In My Own Words ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) ●College Basketball Teams TBA. (Live) SPSO Auto Racing ›› “Saw” (2004, Horror) Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter. A doctor must kill his cellmate or his family will die. Caprica “There Is Another Sky” SYFY ›› “Reign of Fire” (2002) Christian Bale. TBN Spring Praise-A-Thon Å ››› “Sleepy Hollow” (1999) Johnny Depp. Colonial villagers lose their heads to a phantom horseman. Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Lopez Tonight (N) TBS Seinfeld ’ Å Now Playing “March 2010” Private Screenings: Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall dis- ››› “To Have and Have Not” (1944, Adventure) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan. A skipper ›››› “All the President’s Men” (1976, Docudrama) TCM cusses her life. fools Nazis and flirts with a singer on Martinique. Å (DVS) Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman. Å Police Women of Maricopa County ’ Å Police Women of Maricopa County (N) ’ Å LA Ink Kat has shocking news about her cat. (N) ’ Police Women of Maricopa County ’ Å TLC LA Ink “Training Day” ●NBA Basketball Utah Jazz at Phoenix Suns. From US Airways Center in Bones “A Boy in a Bush” ●NBA Basketball Los Angeles Lakers at Miami Heat. From the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami. (Live) Å TNT Suspects. Å Phoenix. (Live) Å Johnny Test ’ Å Chowder Misadv. of Flapjack Super Hero Squad Show King of the Hill ’ Å King of the Hill ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å Family Guy ’ Å TOON Johnny Test ’ Å The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Home Improvement ’ Boston Legal “It Girls and Beyond” ’ Å TVLND Sanford and Son Å Burn Notice A terrorist plans to detonate a bomb. White Collar The daughter of a friend is kidnapped. USA ››› “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007) Matt Damon. Jason Bourne continues to look for clues to unravel his true identity. Å Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew ’ Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew (N) ’ Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew ’ VH1 Celebrity Rehab, Drew Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew A lake house. ’ CABLE NEWS Biography on CNBC Tom Brokaw Reports: Boomer$! Impact of the baby boomer generation. 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