School of Life (ABC Family, 8 p.m. ET)
Premiere. In a definite departure from his recent turn as vampire hunter Hannibal King in the horror flick "Blade: Trinity," Ryan
Reynolds plays Mr. D, a beloved middle school teacher with a disturbing secret. The ending of this film packs an emotional wallop. John Astin ("The Addams Family") and David Paymer co-star.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Headline Prime Preview (CNN Headline News, 7 p.m. ET)
Preview. CNN Headline News tomorrow officially debuts "Headline Prime," its new weeknight prime time lineup consisting of "Showbiz Tonight," "Nancy Grace" and "Prime News Tonight." But the
network is running special preview editions of "Showbiz Tonight" and "Nancy Grace" tonight. "Showbiz Tonight," which will be telecast at 7 p.m. ET, is a live entertainment news program anchored by Karyn Bryant and A.J. Hammer. "Nancy Grace" features the outspoken legal analyst so well known
to viewers of Court TV and CNN addressing the top legal stories of the day. Grace intends to interview legal experts, inmates, crime victims, jurors and others involved in the high profile legal dramas of our time. "Nancy Grace" will be telecast at 8 p.m. ET. "Prime News Tonight," a traditional
evening newscast, will follow every night at 9 p.m. ET.
Stone Cold (CBS, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Tom Selleck stars as Jesse Stone, a hard-drinking police chief forced to put his personal problems aside when a series of murders terrorize residents of his idyllic New England town. Mimi
Rogers co-stars. Based on the Jesse Stone novels by Robert B. Parker.
Chevy Chase
Live From New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (NBC, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. New interviews with original Not Ready for Prime Time Players Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Laraine Newman
and Garrett Morris, as well as executive producer Lorne Michaels and early guest hosts Candice Bergen, Penny Marshall, Eric Idle, Steve Martin, Buck Henry and Lily Tomlin, are featured in this documentary
about the early years of NBC's now-legendary late night franchise. Clips from classic skits and can't-miss musical performances from that period are also included, as are interviews with "SNL" stars from later years, among them Julia Louis Dreyfus, Norm Macdonald, Dana Carvey and Jimmy
Fallon.
Dan Aykroyd
The clips in this program make clear that while "SNL" is still very funny at times it rarely reaches the level of simple comedic brilliance it consistently achieved throughout its formative years.
The L Word (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. Arianna Huffington guest stars as herself in the second season premiere of Showtime's drama about a circle of lesbian friends in Los Angeles. Picking up where last season's firecracker finale left
off, the sexually confused Jenny, who cheated on Tim with both a man and a woman, bids an emotional farewell to her understandably distressed husband; Dana continues her affair with Alice and reconsiders her upcoming marriage to Tonya; Tina refuses to forgive Bette for having sex with Candace, and Kit has
an awkward moment with transgender Ivan, who is not yet the man she claimed to be. Jennifer Beals, Pam Grier and Mia Kirshner star.
Robot Chicken (Cartoon Network, 11:30 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. The latest addition to the Adult Swim lineup is one of those shows that will be called crude and repulsive by some and brilliantly funny by others. It's best described as an outlandish pop-culture
parody featuring dolls and toy action figures in stop-motion animation. Seth Green ("Austin Powers," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Matthew Senreich created and are executive producers of the show. Ryan Seacrest, Burt Reynolds Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, Mark
Hamill and most of the cast of "That '70s Show" are among the guest voices in the weeks to come.
Jack Myers Report will resume publication on Tuesday, February 22 Have a wonderful holiday weekend
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Birth Day Live! (Discovery Health Channel, 4 p.m. ET)
Live. Ten Hours. For those who like their reality television unflinchingly real, Discovery Health Channel offers its third annual presentation of a number of women undergoing live labor and deliveries. (Talk about
pre-production planning!) During these 10 hours Discovery Health intends to present multiple births at hospitals in Silver Spring, Maryland, San Diego, California and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. If all goes as planned these
will include premature births, multiple births and Caesarian sections. It's definitely not for the squeamish.
Headline Prime (CNN Headline News, 7 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Just another reminder folks that Headline News' new three-hour Monday-Friday prime time programming lineup
officially debuts tonight. For details see Sunday, February 20 above.
Everwood (The WB, 9 p.m. ET)
Andy accompanies Ephram to New York City for his audition at Julliard, where he is haunted by memories of his former life and late wife. Meanwhile, Ephram -- just about the only person in Everwood who
doesn't yet know that he got Madison pregnant before she left town, or that Andy paid Madison to leave -- happens to run into Madison herself. Only in New York, kids, only in New York. "Everwood" goes on hiatus
for several weeks after this episode, so it's guaranteed to end with one of those heavy-duty cliffhangers so common to WB dramas before they leave the network's schedule for a while. Sarah Lancaster (last seen in the
Rob Lowe dud "dr. vegas") returns as Madison.
CSI: Miami (CBS, 9:30 p.m. ET)
Ninety Minutes. Here's the second 90-minute episode of the season. The first featured a somewhat ridiculous storyline about a tidal wave hitting Miami that was totally out of step with this show's usual intense
personal drama. But this one sounds more promising, as Horatio and his team deal with a kidnapping, an escaped murderer and a fire in the Everglades that may have been set to destroy evidence of a crime.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
One Day at a Time Reunion (CBS, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. It's hard to believe that the topical comedy "One Day at a Time" has been off the air for over 20 years. Cast members Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli and Pat Harrington talk
about the issues this show tackled -- particularly those involving divorce, still an uncomfortable topic on television at the time of the series' 1975 premiere. Recurring cast members are also on hand to talk about the
show, including Richard Masur, Shelley Fabares, Michael Lembeck, Glenn Scarpelli and Nanette Fabray.
Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 10 p.m. ET)
The much-missed Stephanie March returns as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot in a story that finds Cabot bravely leaving witness
protection to prosecute the hit man who tried to kill her.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
American Idol (Fox, 9 p.m. ET)
Live. It's the first live results show of "American Idol" this season, as two guys and two girls among the semi-finalists are eliminated, this after special all-boy and all-girl competitions on Monday February
21 and Tuesday February 22, respectively, and the viewer voting that followed.
Jack & Bobby (The WB, 9 p.m. ET)
The aftermath drama of Jack's harrowing assault continues in this episode as Bobby finds Jack's missing wallet in a neighbor's garage, leading Jack to identify and confront one of the guys who attacked him.
Meanwhile, university professor Grace suffers the consequences of her ill-advised affair with grad student Tom.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs -- Seeing is Believing (ABC, 8 p.m. ET)
Premiere. For those who can't get enough of the subject, ABC News' Peter Jennings talks with scientists about the likelihood that unidentified flying objects from alien worlds have buzzed the earth, as well as people
who insist they have seen such alien spacecraft. According to ABC, almost 50 percent of Americans believe that UFOs are real, not to mention millions of individuals in other countries. Host Jennings conducted approximately 150 interviews for this program. Among the cases he further explores
are the reported sighting of nine flying saucers by recreational pilot Kenneth Arnold while he was flying over Washington state in 1947; the mystery surrounding Area 51; an incident at Minot Air Force base in North Dakota in 1968 during which airmen on the ground and the crew of a B-52 saw an enormous unidentified flying object near the base; and the mass sighting of mysterious
triangular ships hovering over Phoenix in 1997.
Stars Without Makeup (Fox, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Readers of the National Enquirer and the Star who can't resist those special issues devoted to celebrity cellulite will likely find much to enjoy in the latest cheapo reality special from
Fox, which clearly doesn't care about doing business with any of the performers shown in so unflattering a manner for fun and profit. Hidden camera footage reveals celebrities exposed in the unforgiving light of day without
benefit of makeup or hairstylists. In other words, they look like everyday people. The horror, the horror!
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25
JAG (CBS, 9 p.m. ET)
"As the World Turns" alumnus Chris Beetem joins the cast as Lt. Gregory Vukovic. Now that series star David James Elliott has announced his intention to leave the series at the end of this, its 10th season, Beetem is
being positioned as its new leading man should CBS renew the show for next fall.
Blue Collar TV (The WB, 9:30 p.m. ET)
One of television's freakiest guilty pleasures of the moment is the current season of "The Surreal Life" on VH1, which does little more than chronicle the bizarre adventures of a group of Hollywood has-beens and
never-weres living in a big tacky house, "Real World" style, and completing various tasks and challenges determined by the show's producers. One of the stranger subplots on the show involves the obsessive lust of "America's Next Top Model" winner and boozing, stripping party girl Adrianne Curry for
Christopher Knight, the man who will forever be known as teenager Peter Brady on the sitcom classic "The Brady Bunch." It's Knight's highest profile gig in years, and now that he's hot again he's appearing on tonight's
edition of "Blue Collar TV" in a skit titled "Brady Trash."
