Season Premiere of the Long Awaited Laguna Beach and Reality Stars Make a Movie in E!'s Kill Reality! and Other Watercooler TV
By Jacki Garfinkel
Watercooler for the Week of July 23-29
Who is your Favorite Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series?
SATURDAY, JULY 23
Eukanuba Tournament of Champions (Animal Planet, 8 p.m. ET)
Watch one of the world's most
prestigious dog shows. The show also includes behind-the-scenes features of the dogs and their owners.
Blowin' Up!: Fatty Koo (BET, 8:30 p.m. ET)
Season Finale. The show follows the members of the band Fatty Koo as they try to break into the record business. The
band is made up of real people with real problems who came together to start a band. They weren't created by a record label and weren't given a mansion to live in. Together they experience the ups and downs of
working as a group and creating an album.
CMT in the Moment: Marty Stuart (CMT, 10 p.m. ET)
Marty Stuart travels with the son of his mentor, Johnny Cash, to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - the place
that inspired his Badlands album. Stuart shares the uncensored experience of making the album, while paying tribute to the
home of the Sioux Nation as he presents his album to the Lakota Sioux, honoring their legacy.
SUNDAY, JULY 24
Pizza My Heart (ABC Family, 7 p.m. ET)
Premiere. This ABC Family original movie is a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Joe and Gina live in Verona, NJ (no, not Italy) and
their families are longtime rivals due to their competing pizza shops. When Gina returns from college, she meets Joe and the two fall in love, despite their families' great disapproval. Will this story end tragically
like the real Romeo and Juliet, or will their love prevail?
The 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (LOGO, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. The first-ever television broadcast of the show. It rewards media and entertainment who provide balanced and factual
representations of the LGBT community. This year's show features Liza Minnelli, Felicity Huffman, Billy Crystal, The Fab Five, Marcia Cross, John Stamos, and many other celebrities.
Last Mysteries of the Titanic with James Cameron (Discovery, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. In this two hour special, director James
Cameron takes a team of underwater explorers back to the Titanic.
Six Feet Under (HBO, 9 p.m. ET)
Claire invites co-worker Ted to her art
exhibit, Brenda gets news about the baby, and the funeral parlor experiences a cultural obstacle.
MONDAY, JULY 25
The Dive from Clausen's Pier (Lifetime, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Just after Carrie (Michelle Trachtenberg) realizes she has fallen out of love with her childhood
sweetheart and fiancé, he gets into an accident that leaves him paralyzed. Carrie flees to New York City where she starts a rendezvous with a mystery man.
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County (MTV, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. In the second season of this reality show, MTV continues to follow the wealthy and beautiful
teenagers leading fabulous lives in Orange County, California, where lines like "Everyone has Tiffany's" is everyday vernacular. Watch it all unfold as these eight best friends deal with the dramas of being a
teenager. They party, they fight, and they fall in love.
Girls Behaving Badly: Revenge of the Boys (Oxygen, 10 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. In every episode of Girls Behaving Badly, the four female hosts pull off a variety of
hoaxes on unsuspecting victims. Starting this summer, there's a twist. In this series premiere, the five male cast members are out to
prove that anything the girls can do, they can do even better.
Kill Reality (E!, 10 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. The best reality TV stars are living under one roof and shooting a horror film. The cast includes Bob
Guiney and Trish Schneider (The Bachelor), Ethan Zohn, Jenna Lewis, Jon "Jonny Fairplay" Dalton and Jenna Morasca (Survivor), Trishelle Cannatella, Steven Hill and Tonya Cooley (Real World), Reichen
Lehmkuhl (Amazing Race), Toni Ferrari (Love Cruise) and Stacie J. Upchurch (The Apprentice). The film and the TV show will be full of romances
and deaths to add to the drama. The completed movie will air on E! in September.
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel, 10 p.m. ET)
Premiere. This best-selling
author and food celebrity is traveling the globe in search of authentic food experiences and adventures.
Tammy Faye: Death Defying (WE, 10 p.m. ET)
Premiere. The eye shadow queen has preached on Christian television, starred on VH1's The Surreal Life, written
books and released albums. Watch as Tammy Faye, a true survivor, is diagnosed with lung cancer, goes through treatment, and deals with remission.
TUESDAY, JULY 26
Situation: Comedy (BRAVO, 8 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) created this show which documents amateur writers hoping to make it big and the production of a sitcom pilot. In the premiere episode, nine scripts are chosen
from 10,000. The writers then have to present their scripts to network executives. In the end, audiences will vote on the best sitcom,
and the winner will receive $25,000.
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. Bryant Gumbel looks into cyclist Tyler Hamilton's 2-year suspension, commemorates Dodgers' play-by-play
announcer Vin Scully, and talks with Evander Holyfield and famed sports agent Drew Rosenhaus.
Dirty Jobs (Discovery, 10 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. Get down and dirty with the hardworking men and women who perform unusual, but necessary jobs in
such occupations as rattlesnake catchers, bee removers, and septic-tank technicians.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27
R U the Girl (UPN, 8 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. The two remaining members of TLC, T-Boz and Chilli, travel across the country to find the talented lady who will make their group whole once again. At the end of their journey, the winner
will perform with T-Boz and Chilli and record a single with them. Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, the original third member of TLC, died in a car accident in 2002.
Master Blasters (Sci Fi, 9 p.m.)
Series Premiere. Each week the Masters Blasters home team competes against a team of competitors to solve a problem that
they only know about once the clock starts. At the end of each mission, the winning team will be titled the Master Blasters.
Over There (FX, 10 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. A groundbreaking, scripted show by Stephen Bochco that depicts the current war in Iraq. It's non-biased and
emotional, and tells the stories of everyone involved in the war - the insurgents, the soldiers and their families, and the people living in the Middle East.
Be sure to read Jack Myers' interview with Josh Henderson (Bo Rider) next week at www.mediavillage.com.
Tripping the Rift (Sci Fi, 10 p.m.)
Season Premiere. Carmen Electra joins the cast as a voice for this animated adult comedy. The show revolves around the group of
five characters who spend their lives on the starship Jupiter 42. While the captain and the crew hate each other, they also have to deal with characters trying to dominate the galaxy and others trying to bring the crew down.
THURSDAY, JULY 28
U.S. Open of Competitive Eating (ESPN, 8 p.m. ET)
National hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi and runner up Sonya Thomas compete with thirty others in
five rounds of one-on-one elimination matches. The event features various foods, and the winner receives $40,000.
The Law Firm (NBC, 9 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. David E. Kelley, who created the dramas Boston Legal, Ally McBeal, and The Practice, is sticking to legal shows, but this time he's going for pure reality. In this new
reality show, twelve lawyers compete for $250,000. Each week the lawyers try real court cases, and the results are legal and binding. At the end of each episode a lawyer is eliminated, until only one person remains.
FRIDAY, JULY 29
Veronica Mars (CBS, 8 p.m. ET)
Two Episodes. CBS lends a hand to corporate sibling UPN tonight by providing a grander prime time platform for the latter's cult hit "Veronica Mars." It's difficult to tell
who's more excited about this show - fans in Internet chat rooms or members of the Television Critics Association, who haven't stopped raving about it since the Summer 2005 TCA tour
began three weeks ago. CBS will also air one "Mars" episode at 8 p.m. ET on each of the next two Fridays. Some extra exposure is better than nothing, but it's a shame the DVD release of the first season of this series has
been so poorly handled. This is a show that would have benefited enormously heading into its sophomore season had people been given the chance to watch the entire first season on DVD over the summer. But the DVD isn't hitting the street until October, long after the Sept. 21 sophomore
season premiere of the show. The episodes set for telecast tonight are the series' pilot (an essential introduction to the long narrative that follows) and the
Christmas show, which introduced Logan's creepy parents, Lynn and Aaron Echolls (played by Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin). - Ed Martin
Weekends at the D.L. (Comedy Central, 11 p.m. ET)
Premiere. D.L. Hughley hosts his own late night talk show that airs
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 11pm. The show will feature
celebrity guests, music, comedy sketches, and a whole lot of edgy D.L. humor, making fun of anything people are gossiping about.
Monk (USA, 10 p.m. ET)
Mr. Monk goes undercover as an office worker to solve the case of a stock analyst whose hand was broken in the same
parking garage where someone murdered an attendant.
Behind Bars (Court TV, 11 p.m. ET)
Court TV investigates the
convicted murderers who continue to kill even while behind bars, and what the prisons must do to control them.
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