Beavis and Butt-head's Decade of Power (MTV2, 4 p.m. ET)
Premiere. Billy Dee Williams hosts this mock-infomercial that actually serves as a half-hour promotion for the release on DVD November 8 of Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection,
Volume One. (Judge, of course, is the creator and writer of and one of the vocal talents on this animated series that became a true force in popular culture in the early '90s.) Williams talks with the boys as they seize the opportunity to shamelessly promote their DVD and reveal details of the
extras in the package. (Heh, heh… He said "package.") Decade of Power will also run on MTV November 6 at 11:30 p.m. ET.
Pasadena (SoapNet, 7 p.m. ET)
Robert seeks to reclaim power at the newspaper as new editor Will struggles with the demands of his new position and the
return of his spiteful mistress. Meanwhile, Catherine continues to make inappropriate advances toward young Henry as the boy continues his desperate search for his mother.
Johnny Cash in San Quentin (CMT, 8 p.m. ET)
Johnny Cash's classic and
controversial 1969 performance for inmates at the notorious California prison includes the hits Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk the Line.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6
The West Wing (NBC, 8 p.m. ET)
Live. It's the live television event of the season: Presidential candidates Matthew Santos and Arnold Vinick debate the
issues of the day, with the actors who portray them -- Jimmy Smits and Alan Alda -- ad-libbing much of their passionate dialogue. Two live shows will be produced: One for the East Coast and one for the West Coast. (Check out MediaVillage TV Star-cast astrologer Philip Sedgwick's
prediction on who will win the election at www.MediaVillage.com)
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVI (Fox, 8 p.m. ET)
The annual Simpsons Halloween special, which is always scheduled for the Sunday after the holiday to avoid possible pre-emption by the World Series, premieres tonight with three new stories: B.I.: Artificial
Intelligence, in which Bart awakens from a coma to discover that he has been replaced by an artificial robot boy; Survival of the Fattest, about a ghoulish hunting party at Mr. Burns' estate, with Homer and
his friends as the prey; and I've Grown a Costume on Your Face, featuring a witch who turns Springfield residents into real-life versions of their Halloween costumes.
Category 7: The End of the World (CBS, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. First of Two Parts. In an uncomfortably timely turn, this CBS miniseries focuses on an over-stressed FEMA director struggling to cope during a time of unexpected natural disaster. This two-part, four-hour
miniseries is actually a continuation of last season's CBS ratings success Category 6: Day of Destruction, about a devastating superstorm. Seems the storm in the first production didn't really end -- it just caught its breath before surging onward and becoming even more cataclysmic. Now it's growing and ravaging the entire world, from Paris to Egypt to the United States, and it's bearing down on Washington, D.C. Randy Quaid returns as Tommy Tornado, the
storm chaser grievously injured in Category 6. Gina Gershon, Shannen Doherty, Tom Skerritt, Swoosie Kurtz, James Brolin, Adam Rodriguez, Cameron Daddo, Sebastian Spence, Nicholas Lea and Robert Wagner star.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC, 9 p.m. ET)
This season, weekly episodes of Criminal Intent have been alternating between stories featuring Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) and Detectives Logan (Chris Noth) and
Barek (Annabella Sciorra). Tonight's two-hour edition features all four working together to find a teenager from the Midwest who goes missing on the last night of her school trip to New York City -- a disappearance that may be connected to another crime. Colm Meany and Matt O'Leary guest star.
Who is the female breakout star of this television season?
Family Guy (Fox, 9 p.m. ET)
The Griffin family takes on the FCC for the right to enjoy fart jokes and other indelicate programming content in this timely episode. Their misadventure begins when David Hyde Pierce suffers a wardrobe malfunction
during a live telecast of the Emmy Awards, which prompts the FCC to begin censoring Peter's favorite television shows. A dismayed Peter responds by creating his own TV station and filling its schedule with Griffin-worthy programming, inviting the wrath of the FCC and leading to a showdown between both parties.
My Fair Brady (VH1, 9 p.m. ET)
Season Finale. Adrianne delivers an
ultimatum: She needs a solid commitment from Chris or she's moving out and ending their relationship.
Extras (HBO, 10:30 p.m. ET)
Season Finale. As the first season of Extras comes to a close, Andy continues his hapless quest for a substantial
acting role by pitching a sitcom pilot to stately thespian Patrick Stewart.
The Boondocks (Adult Swim, 11 p.m. ET)
Series Premiere. This animated adaptation of Aaron McGruder's outrageously funny comic strip about a cranky African American senior raising his two opinionated, outspoken grandsons in a white suburb
becomes the newest addition to the Cartoon Network's late-night Adult Swim franchise. With its liberal, uncensored use of the N-word, frequently beeped profanities and occasional pixilated nudity (including, in the opening episode, Granddad's genitalia and behind during a naked Taebo workout), the cartoon is destined to be even more controversial than the strip, which is
sometimes pulled from comic pages in newspapers around the country due to content that editors deem off-color or politically volatile. For more on this series, see the November 2 edition of Jack Myers Entertainment Report on www.MediaVillage.com.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Las Vegas (NBC, 9 p.m. ET)
The Montecito staff becomes employees of the Jubilee Hotel and Casino circa 1962 in this fantasy episode. Ed (James Caan) is the hotel and casino president, Danny (Josh Duhamel) is the director of
entertainment and Mary (Nikki Cox) runs the hotel restaurant. Sam (Vanessa Marcil), meanwhile, is a call girl with many high-rolling clients. Chubby Checker performs.
CSI: Miami (CBS, 10 p.m. ET)
New York City Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) travels to Miami to assist Horatio after a plane transporting a convicted
serial killer from Manhattan to Miami crashes and the murderer escapes and begins killing again. This two-part story concludes on CSI: NY Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.
American Chopper Special: On the Road -- Europe 2 (Discovery Channel, 10 p.m. ET)
The two-part saga of the Teutuls' tour of England, Ireland, Scotland and France concludes tonight as the men head to Omaha
Beach to pay their respects to fallen soldiers, explore Paris and join actor Ewan McGregor for the Ace Café Bike Rally.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Days of Our Lives (SoapNet, 6 p.m. ET)
The venerable NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives made its debut 40 years ago today. SoapNet, which features
same-day repeats of Days on its schedule, marks the occasion with back-to-back telecasts of the first two episodes from November 1965. (Each episode is thirty minutes long. The show expanded to one hour ten years later.)
Gilmore Girls (The WB, 8 p.m. ET)
Milo Ventimiglia, who will soon be seen starring in The WB's sexually charged midseason drama The Bedford Diaries, returns
as bad-boy Jess, the one-time love interest of good-girl Rory, with surprising news about changes in his life.
Bad Girls (BBC America, 9 p.m. ET)
U.S. Premiere. This violent British serial about life in a women's prison features the lesbian love affairs, bloody catfights and other genre staples found in those cheap 'n' cheesy exploitation flicks of the '60s that
explored the same sordid subject matter. Helen Stewart (Monarch of the Glen) and Shell Stephenson (Coronation Street) star.
Boston Legal (ABC, 10 p.m. ET)
Watch for the surprise guest star in this episode that finds Shore and Chase defending a TV station clown who was fired for telling his young viewers about environmental concerns and Crane landing in jail
after he goes to extreme lengths to avoid defending a man who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl. James Spader, William Shatner and Mark Valley star.
Bound for Glory (ESPN, 10 p.m. ET)
Season Finale. Call it When Bad Things Happen to Good Shows. First ESPN buried this well-made documentary-reality hybrid about a high school football team in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, that brings in
Hall of Fame middle linebacker Dick Butkus to help reverse its sliding standings in one of the toughest time periods on television. Over time, Butkus didn't help the school or the show very much, and the team's record continued to drop under his coaching. Then Butkus bolted from McKees Rocks with two games left in the season and the production crew was scaled back from seven cameras to one during the final two weeks of the season. Lou Cerro, the team's real head
coach, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in October that Butkus said he left "because he had fulfilled his contract for the show" and that he had been "contracted to work only eight weeks." Surely that left the kids who had come to depend on Butkus in a lurch, caught on film for ESPN viewers
everywhere to see. Perhaps because of all this turmoil ESPN has done little to promote this series, though it certainly sounds like there was plenty of drama to go around. The team's final game of the season is featured in this episode.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Paper Clips (HBO, 7:30 p.m. ET)
Premiere. In 1998, the principal and teachers at Whitwell Middle School in Whitwell, Tennessee, launched a project designed to educate their students about tolerance: The kids were asked to collect one paper
clip for each victim of the Nazis. (The paper clip was a symbol of resistance to the Nazis during World War II.) This documentary looks at the project from its beginning, when 150,000 paper clips were collected, to its peak in 2001, when after much national and international attention 27 million paper clips were sent to the school during a six week period, and to its unexpected conclusion, when two German journalists arranged for an actual WWII railcar that had transported victims to concentration camps to be sent to Whitwell. At that time, 11 million
paper clips representing six million Jews and five million gypsies, homosexuals and other Holocaust victims were loaded into the car and it became the Whitwell Paper Clip Memorial, which permanently stands on the grounds of the Whitwell Middle School.
Pioneers of Primetime (PBS, check local listings)
Premiere. Never-before-seen interviews with Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy
Ebsen, Donald O'Connor, Rose Marie and others are featured along with dozens of rare clips of these legends at work in this documentary about the medium's first true superstars and their transitions from vaudeville to radio to television in its infancy.
Stacked (Fox, 8:30 p.m. ET)
Season Premiere. It's the season premiere we've all
been waiting for: The return of the Pamela Anderson sitcom Stacked. Kid Rock is the guest star.
CSI: NY (CBS, 10 p.m. ET)
Mac and Horatio are in pursuit as the escaped serial killer returns to New York City with a college student as his hostage in
the conclusion of the crossover story that began Monday night on CSI: Miami. Horatio faces another challenge while he's in Manhattan, as the newly appointed DA names him a suspect in an old murder case. David Caruso guests.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Will & Grace (NBC, 8:30 p.m. ET)
Grace and her ex-husband Leo meet on a flight to London, Jack tries to reunite Karen and Rosario, and Karen's manipulative
new maid settles into her new job. Harry Connick Jr. and Millicent Martin guest star.
Reunion (Fox, 9 p.m. ET)
One of the six friends around whom this series revolves is a murderer and one is that person's victim. Tonight the
identity of the murdered individual is revealed. Meanwhile, Craig struggles to keep his father's business afloat and Will ships out to the Gulf War.
ER (NBC, 10 p.m. ET)
John Stamos begins a two-part guest appearance as a flirtatious paramedic and medical student who is also a veteran of the first Gulf War. Also, Abby (Maura Tierney) is caught in the middle of a dispute
between Kovac (Goran Visnijc) and Clemente (John Leguizamo) and Neela (Parminder Nagra) happily prepares for the homecoming of Dr. Gallant (Sharif Atkins). Kristen Johnston and Shane West co-star.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon, 8 p.m. ET)
Feeling neglected, SpongeBob's pet snail Gary runs away from home and is adopted by a new owner, leading to problems
for everyone. Once he realizes Gary is missing, SpongeBob begins a desperate search for his missing mollusk with the help of best friend Patrick, while Gary, who has been enjoying creature comforts SpongeBob never supplied, learns that his new owner harbors a dark secret.
Masters of Horror: Dance of the Dead (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET)
Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) directed this adaptation of Richard Matheson's
short story about a post-apocalyptic world in which re-animated corpses of their former friends and enemies dance for the entertainment of a few nuclear holocaust survivors.
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