THIS WEEK: It's the worldwide sports fave (not the World Cup, the other onethe Super Bowl along with the debuts of new series including Smash, Good Vibes, The River, Key and Peele and the return of The Voice and LOL.
SATURDAY
LOL: New Season : Comedy (Canada) 6 pm. it's season two of this wacky and edgy sketch show that you can watch with the mute on there's no dialogue. Mr. Bean fans'll love it.
16.9: THE BIGGER PICTURE: Global (Canada) 7 pm. This newsmagazine is now an hour long and covers a wider berth of topics than W5 and The Fifth Estate. It's also livelier. Check it out.
ROBIN HOOD: PBS Buffalo, 7 pm. No Moors in this new version of the Sherwood Forest-set classic, but I kind of miss Richard Greene and that great theme: "Feared by the bad, loved by the good Robin Hood, Tobin Hood, Robin Hood!"
MOVIES
TRANSFORMERS: ABC, 8 pm. You know the song "more than meets the eye". It's really heavy metal as two warring robotic races duke it out here on Earth. Who'd have thought a relic of an '80's toy line and cartoon would be on its third movie installment? Anyway, robots are dangerous even the "good guy" ones.
SUNDAY
SUPER BOWL: NBC, 6 pm Okay, what'll be the highlight this year the game, the halftime show or the new Honda ad with Ferris Bueller? Enjoy the mayhem and don't bet too much. If you're still sober, stick around after the game for:
THE VOICE: SEASON PREMIERE, NBC (after the game) Pick me! Pick me! Young warbling hopefuls audition for a panel with their backs to them, and are later mentored by them in the hopes of stardom and groupies. Damn you, Simon Cowell!
MOVIES
BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (M Excess Canada, 9 pm) Send in the Marines, the Men In Black didn't get all the bad aliens as they fight to save Earth in this poor man's Independence Day. Aliens apparently are easier to whip on film than real-life religious people in Afghanistan.
THE FUGITIVE (AMC, 8 pm) Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones star in this '93 adaptation of the hit 60's series about a wrongly-convicted doctor in search of his wife's real killer. Followed by a sequel, US Marshals.
MONDAY
RHODA: Comedy Gold (Canada) weekdays at 1:30 pm. Mary' Tyler Moore's pal (Valerie Harper) returns to New York, marries and divorces a jerk and still manages to be sort of happy. Funny take on '70's libbers and neurotic New York Jews.
SMASH: SERIES PREMIERE, NBC, CTV 10 pm. Stephen Spielberg's answer to Glee sort of, as actresses vie for a part in a musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. No, it is not a reality series (whew!) and NBC's got high hopes for it.
ALF (CTS Canada, 7:30 pm) The series finale was actually a cliff-hanger (NBC resolved it with a movie a few years after the series ended) as ALF must outwit the Alien Task Force when his pals from Melmac swing by Earth to return him back to outer space.
MOVIES
SING YOUR WAY HOME (TCM, 7:15 am) If you're up early, enjoy this 1945 musical starring The Wizard of Oz's Jack Haley as one of two entertainers who battle and sing together on a cruise ship.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (TCM, 10:15 pm) Grab the Kleenex for this 1959 propaganda weeper about the "doomed family" in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. This story has been one of the biggest weapons the "Jews media's" used for years.
TUESDAY
THE RIVER: SERIES PREMIERE: ABC, CTV, 9 pm. Not exactly a family outing, as a clan goes to the Amazon in search of their missing dad. Did they pack the first aid kit? The scenery should be stunning.
KEY & PEELE: Canadian debut, Comedy, 10:30 pm (also Tuesday nights, Comedy Central.) Two black alumni of MAD TV front this sketch comedy. I still miss Wayne and Shuster; you still can't hold as candle to their Roman cop show sketch. Try K&P anyway, just once, find out what blacks think is funny.
CORNER GAS: Comedy (Canada), 9 pm. Brent reluctantly takes Davis and Oscar on a camping trip and things take an unexpected and hilarious turn.
MOVIES
WHAT WOMEN WANT (CHCH Hamilton (Canada) 8 pm) Mel Gibson is a guy who suddenly discovers he can hear women's thoughts in this comedy from 2000. Yeah, I'd love to have the power to hear that libber gal in the lawyer suit ; it beats waiting for her snide remarks.
COURAGE (Showcase Canada 8 pm) Or, try Jason Priestly in this tale of survival of a family whose boating accident leaves them struggling to stay alive. Next time, take the train.
TIN CUP (Golf Channel 8 pm) Kevin Costner is an older Happy Gilmore type in this comedy about a guy trying to BS his way to the US Open. Just stay away from Bob Barker, Kev he creamed Adam Sandler.
WEDNESDAY
PERSON TO PERSON (Series debut) CBS 8 pm. CBS is updating this hit interview show from the 50's, with Jew Charlie Rose probing the famous and infamous, and adding a retro tough with interviews from the original with another Jew, Edward R. Murrow.
THE SIMPSONS: Comedy (Canada) 8 pm. Here's an odd couple: Moe ends up babysitting Maggie after he unknowingly saves her life and they become pals much to Homer's chagrin.
IRT: DEADLIEST ROADS: History TV (Canada) 9 pm. This week, it's not just icy roads, and danger out there, as the truckers haul around live animals. You'll appreciate your kids fighting in the car after you see what the road jockeys go through.
MOVIES
THE DILEMMA (M-Fun Canada, 8 pm) There's not much fun about infidelity, but it's played for laughs in this one as two buds' friendship is tested when one of them catches the other's wife cheating. Kevin James and Vince Vaughan star.
KLUTE (M-Pix Canada, 9 pm) Commie actress/fitness freak Jane Fonda got an Oscar portraying a hooker who witnesses a murder in this suspense drama from 1971. Donald Sutherland is the cop who tries to ptotect her.
THURSDAY
TRUE CRIME SCENE: National Geographic Channel Canada, 6 pm. Crime shows aren't what you'd expect on National Geographic, let alone documentaries big on grisly murder re-enactments. Still, give it a try and see evil North America at its worst.
DOC ZONE (CBC (Canada) 9 pm) examines how so-called global warming might affect Canada and other places soon. Debate on this has raged for a while and Toronto's warmer-than-usual winter will add to that debate.
DAVID BLANE: STREET MAGIC (TLC, 8 pm): Magic is misdirection get the attention with one hand while the other hand is busy (like how the government gets your money). Yet, magic is enjoying a resurgence of popularity with street illusionists like Blaine. Check it out.
MOVIES
PAPILLON (M-Pix (Canada) 9 pm) is a superior 1973 Steve McQueen drama based on a real-life story of a prisoner on Devi's Island with one thing on his mind escape (not Meatloaf Monday.) Dustin Hoffman co-stars.
THE COMPANY OF WOLVES: Vision TV Canada, 9 pm, has former TV sleuth Angela Lansbury (Murder She Wrote) as a grandma who warns her grand-daughter about the perils of the outdoors. Natch, she ignores her and it won't be pretty. There's too many Grimm fairy tales on anyway on TV this season.
FRIDAY
FRINGE: Fox, City-TV, 9 pm. Olivia and the gang enter their own version of "Brigadoon," the musical about a magical town. No music here, just scary stuff. Boo!
I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK: NEW SERIES Comedy (Canada, 10 pm) He does, but when he finds them, romance blooms for this (stupid white) young doofus in this new comedy. Followed by the debut of . . .
GOOD VIBES: Comedy, 10:30 pm. Imagine if The Simpsons were set among surfers, with two idiots (white, of course) in search of fun instead of Homer, Marge and the gang. Far out! No smart whites are featured in cartoons anymore (and I don't count Professor Frink!)
MOVIES
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (PBS Buffalo, 9 pm) Jack Nicholson heads the cast in this 1975 comedy about a con man who finagles his way into a mental institution only to find it's really no fun at all. Louise Fletcher co-stars as the evil nurse in this winner of five Academy Awards.
GIANT (TCM 10:30 am), from 1956, was a sort of forerunner of the evil-white Texas families TV hit Dallas, with Rock Hudson starring along with the final performance of Jew-picked movie rebel James Dean.
CHEYENNE AUTUMN (TCM, 10:30 pm) Another hate-Whitey opus from 1964, all about the last days of the Cheyenne tribe in the American West. This began a long stream of BS-filled, politically-correct and historically incorrect Westerns a genre that Jewish Hollywood hasn't done right in years. Richard Widmark stars.
