Please consult your local listings to verify this week's prime time and weekend TV highlights.
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Please consult your local listings to verify this week’s prime time and weekend TV highlights.
Monday, July 7th
Star Trek: The Next Generation – 7pm-11pm, SciFi Channel
>The block starts with yet another episode in which something awful happens to Geordi and ends with the fantastic Enemy Mine type episode "Darmok."
Alf – 8pm-10pm, WGN (repeats)
>How did I not notice they were airing reruns of this? Shame on me!
American Gladiators – 8pm, NBC
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed – 8pm, ABCFamily [Movie]
Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi – 9pm, SpikeTV [Movie]
Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal – 10pm, A&E
The Middleman – 10pm, ABCFamily
Tuesday, July 8th
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends – 8pm, Toon Disney
Wipeout – 8pm, ABC
I Survived a Japanese Game Show – 9:01pm, ABC
Hulu Spotlight: Angel
>The first season is already up with more to come I’m sure. It’s fantastic!
Wednesday, July 9th
Ghost Hunters International – 7pm-9pm, SciFi Channel (repeats)
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends – 8pm, Toon Disney
Mythbusters – 8pm, Discovery Channel (repeat)
>I always found this episode fascinating – they examine exactly what in Mentos makes soda explode.
Ghost Hunters International – 9pm, SciFi Channel [Season Premiere]
>The overseas investigators check out Larnach Castle.
MonsterQuest – 9pm, History Channel
>The "MQ team" looks into the "Black Beast of Exmoor," a creature that kills livestock in the moors of England.
Scare Tactics – 10pm, SciFi Channel [Season Premiere]
>The most jacked up practical joke show ever returns with back-to-back episodes.
Thursday, July 10th
Jeremiah – 7pm-11pm, SciFi Channel (repeats)
>Short lived post-apocalyptic series gets another run.
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends – 8pm, Toon Disney
Hellboy – 8pm, FX [Movie]
Samurai 7 – 8:30pm, IFC [Anime]
Supernatural – 9pm, The CW (repeat)
>The most messed up Christmas episode of anything ever. Ever.
Burn Notice – 10pm, USA [Season Premiere!]
>It’s not sci-fi but it’s one of my favorite shows. Good times all around.
Friday, July 11th
Speed Grapher – 8pm, IFC [Anime]
Joan of Arcadia – 8pm, SciFi Channel (repeats)
>The SciFi premiere of the beloved series.
Doctor Who – 9pm, SciFi Channel
>After taking a vacation last week, The Doctor returns with a new episode.
Stargate Atlantis – 10pm, SciFi Channel [Season Premiere!]
>Sheppard and the crew must rescue the very pregnant Teyla and her fellow Athosians from the clutches of Michael the Human-Wraith Hybrid.
Dracula 2000 – 10:30pm, AMC [Movie]
>It’s craptacular!
Saturday, July 12th
Ella Enchanted – 10:10am, TBS [Movie]
Intermedio – 1pm, SciFi Channel [Movie]
>Edward Furlong and Amber Benson star in this flick about tunnel monsters at the Mexican/US border.
Wicked Little Things – 3pm, SciFi Channel [Movie]
>A woman and her two daughters stay at a house in the woods…which are full of zombie children. I’m sure the Real Estate agent left that out of the listing description.
Deep Rising – 3pm, WGN [Movie]
>A sea monster hunts people on a seemingly marooned boat. Stars all kinds of famous folks including Treat Willimas, Famke Janssen, Djimon Hounsou, Paul Bettany, and Kevin J. "Benny from The Mummy" O’Connor.
Futureweapons – 4pm, Discovery Channel
>This episode takes a look at stealth technology and what it may develop into.
Journey to the Center of the World – 6pm, History Channel [Documentary]
>A team of explorers and scientists investigate a cave in the Guatemalan jungles.
Jurassic Park – 8pm, USA [Movie]
Journey to the Center of the Earth – 9pm, ION [Movie]
>Just as Brendan Fraser’s 3-D adaption hits the big screen, this version of the Jules Verne novel airs on the small one. It stars Rick Schroder which automatically qualifies it as interesting.
Ghouls – 9pm, SciFi Channel [Movie]
>A college student family history may include a little detail about bringing about massive mayham and destruction.
Superman: Doomsday – 9pm, Cartoon Network [Animated]
>Misfits favorites Adam Baldwin and James Marsters are among the vocal cast.
Eli Stone – 10pm, ABC (repeat)
Sunday, July 13th
Courage the Cowardly Dog – 12pm-5pm, Cartoon Network [Animation]
>One of my favorite odd little cartoons.
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God – 12:30pm, SciFi Channel [Movie}
>I’ve never heard of this before now…but it can’t be worse than the other Dungeons & Dragons movie…
Predator – 1:30pm, SpikeTV [Movie]
Quest for the Lost Ark – 3pm, History Channel [Documentary]
>A professor searches for the real Ark of the Covenant. Hopefully sans face-melting.
Deep Impact – 5:30pm, TNT [Movie]
>The thinking man’s Armegeddon.
Scrooged – 6pm, SpikeTV [Movie]
>I’d rather watch this than It’s A Wonderful Life any and every Christmas.
Weird Travels – 6pm, Travel Channel
>A look at UFO sightings that happen worldwide.
Light Fantastic – 8pm, Science Channel
>A look at how light affects science, art and the brain. Cool.
King Kong – 8pm, TNT [Movie]
>The new version with Naomi Watts, Jack Black, and Adrian Brody.
Tamara:
Please, please DO NOT include competition-game shows like ‘Wipeout’ and ‘I Survived a Japanese Game Show’ in this weekly list.
They have absolutely NOTHING to do with this genre and advertising/promoting this sort of mindless, cheap network programming is just criminal… even during summer.
Thank you.
Harsh….
Anyway.
Tamara, I actually liked Dracula 2000. It’s not grade A material, but it is a good fun ride. By the way, are you a Doctor Who watcher? I love this show and I am pissed to find out that SciFi has been editing the show for time and ads. Its a disservice, because it leaves out crucial info. I just saw the finale and I pray that it is treated with some respect.
Mark – I feel the same way about Dracula 2000, hence the hybrid description of “crap” and “spectacular”. It’s good times.
I am a Doctor Who fan, though I’m a fairly recent convert. I wasn’t aware that they edited the show down on SciFi – that sucks. Hopefully the BBC America airings don’t do the same thing.
Sorry, but I agree about Wipeout and any other crappy reality show. They don’t belong, including Ghost Hunters, Scare Tactics; anything of this ilk is the absolute worst TV has to offer.
You miss a lot of other shows much more worthwhile to profile, why not turn people on to Avatar the Last Airbender on Nik, Kindred: the Embraced on CHLL, Mars Rising on SCI (or anything on SCI for that matter), and repeats of Star Trek: DS9 on Spike?
If Doctor Who is anything like Torchwood then BBAmerica is the place to watch it.
Sorry, that is BBC America
I think they edit them on BBC America as well, but I am not sure. Torchwood, as I am sure everyone here knows, is Doctor Who’s spinoff, but my problem is that if they did edit some of Torchwood it would be for some of the sexually explicit material, not time. Doctor Who was edited for time, which sucks and it doesn’t help the flow of the story. I rewatched the Season Three finale a week ago and nearly puked when they left out a big dramatic scene. I was grateful to have seen it unedited from the British broadcast a year ago.
Tamara, I am a recent convert myself, actually during Season Two. I have already seen the rest of the episodes of Season 4 and they are shockers.
I am so excited about the return of SGA this week, any chance there’ll be a recap of it this season.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a recap of any Stargate show on Zap2it’s website.
Too bad since it has a very loyal fan base.
Same can be said for the shows mentioned above, such as Dr. Who, Torchwood, etc. The only true sci-fi series I’ve seen recapped here is BSG.
I guess Zap2it does not consider the genre worthy of recapping. Zap2it is more than happy to recap every pathetic reality show on deep cable tho.
I hate to say it, but you’ll probably have to go to http://www.gateworld.net or another site for Stargate reviews, recaps, production notes, photos and discussion.