Brief SURF today: all the great TV is on Sunday night this weekend.
For the sports fans: don’t miss JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE tonight: Lakers! World Cup play continues and NBC has U.S. Open golf.
For the music fans: check out CMT’s CROSSROADS tonight with John Mayer and Keith Urban.
Good news for sports and comedy fans: Seth Meyers is hosting the ESPY Awards — those will air live July 14 on ESPN.
JIMMY KIMMEL AND THE LAKERS TONIGHT: Tune in to JIMMY KIMMEL tonight: Jimmy will host the entire Laker team tonight to celebrate the team’s back to back victories! LA will be buzzing with the victory parade Monday too.
LEVERAGE: One of my very favorite TNT shows returns Sunday night with a big two-hour premiere. Things I love about LEVERAGE: Tim Hutton’s character of Nate got sober for awhile and decided he worked better when he was a little drunk so by the end of the season, he was a little drunk a lot of the time. Christian Kane has become one of my favorite tough guys because he’s also good at the light comedy of the show. I’m a big fan of Gina Bellman and I think some of her funny has rubbed off on Beth Riesgraf because she’s miles funnier and sharper than she was when the show began. LEVERAGE kicks off a new season at 9pm Sunday night on TNT.
ABC SUMMER PREMIERES: SCOUNDRELS and THE GATES premiere Sunday night and basically it’s ABC keeping the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES suburban vibe alive. SCOUNDRELS has a family of small-time crooks moving into a suburban community. THE GATES has a family of vampires moving into a suburban community. Are you sensing a pattern?
ALSO SUNDAY NIGHT: THE TUDORS and TREME series finales, new episodes of TRUE BLOOD and DROP DEAD DIVA and the premiere of THE REAL L WORD on Showtime which is exactly what the title says: a reality show about lesbians. I tried to watch the scripted L WORD but the writing and acting was sub-par (and that’s being nice) so I stopped watching after a couple episodes. I won’t be tuning in for this reality version.
GET WELL & STAY WELL WISHES: To Dean Winters, OZ and 30 ROCK actor who had a “return from the dead” experience and is now talking about it. Check out his story in the NY POST’s Page Six column:
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/rock_star_back_from_dead_96z58EnG673W9mg08N2ZpL
TODAY’S SURF WRITTEN WHILE LISTENING TO: Snoop Dogg’s ode to his new crush “Oh Sookie”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiPOrh3R45c
Time for your weekend rundown.
Tonight 6/18
ABC: 8:00 p.m. Miley Cyrus: Live From London’s O2 9:00 p.m. Wife Swap (R) 10:00 p.m. 20/20 12:05pm: Jimmy Kimmel Live with the Los Angeles Lakers
CBS: 8:00 p.m. Medium (R) 9:00 p.m. Flashpoint 10:00 p.m. Miami Medical
NBC: 8:00 p.m. Friday Night Lights 9:00 p.m. Dateline (two hours)
FOX: 8:00 p.m. House (R) 9:00 p.m. The Good Guys (R)
THE CW: 8:00 p.m. Smallville (R) 9:00 p.m. Supernatural (R)
Starz: 10pm: Party Down
CMT: 10pm: Crossroads: John Mayer and Keith Urban
SATURDAY 6/19
ABC: 8:00 p.m. Saturday Movie: She’s the Man 10:00 p.m. Castle (R)
CBS: 8:00 p.m. Three Rivers 9:00 p.m. 48 Hours Mystery (R) 10:00 p.m. 48 Hours Mystery
NBC: 4-10pm. U.S. Open Golf
FOX: 8:00 p.m. Cops (original and repeat) 9:00 p.m. America’s Most Wanted
SUNDAY 6/20
ABC: 7:00 p.m. America’s Funniest Home Videos (R) 8:00 p.m. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (R) 9:00 p.m. Scoundrels (series premiere) 10:00 p.m. The Gates (series premiere)
SCOUNDRELS: A family of small-time criminals tries to go straight after the father is sent to prison in this dramedy. Virginia Madsen and David James Elliott star.
THE GATES: Set in an upscale suburban community, a big-city cop (Frank Grillo) who becomes chief of police realizes there’s something more to the sleepy community than he first realized. And yes, that means vampires. Audience favorite Rhona Mitra stars in the show.
CBS: 7:00 p.m. 60 Minutes 8:00 p.m. I Get That a Lot (R) 9:00 p.m. Cold Case (R) 10:00 p.m. Cold Case (R)
NBC: 7:00 p.m. U.S. Open Golf 9:00 p.m. Law & Order (R) 10:00 p.m. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season premiere)
FOX: 7:00 p.m. ‘Til Death (series finale) 7:30 p.m. Sons of Tucson 8:00 p.m. The Simpsons (R) 8:30 p.m. The Cleveland Show (R) 9:00 p.m. Family Guy (R) 9:30 p.m. American Dad (R)
PBS: 9pm: Masterpiece Mystery: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: The Secret of Chimneys
HBO: 9pm: True Blood 10pm: Treme (series finale)
On TRUE BLOOD: Bill gets to know the Vampire King of Mississippi and we learn more about Eric’s history and where he’s met werewolves before.
On TREME’s season finale: It will break my heart to watch this because of what happened to Creighton in last week’s episode. I’m already sad just thinking about it.
Lifetime: 9pm: Drop Dead Diva
Showtime: 9pm: The Tudors (series finale), 10pm: The Real L World (series premiere)
TNT: 9pm: Leverage 2 hour season premiere
That’s a wrap for this week.
