Archive for Sunday, May 11, 2008
Today’s Highlights
FOREST FORAGING: ‘Nature’ (8 p.m. KCET) goes in search of red deer and other animals in the Austrian Alps.
Overtime: NBC offers four episodes of the workplace satire “The Office” (8, 8:30, 9 and 9:30 p.m. NBC).
Happy Mother’s Day? Homer tries to fulfill his mother’s dying wish on “The Simpsons” (8 p.m. Fox).
Faith and humor: “America at a Crossroads” (10 p.m. KCET) profiles Muslim-American comics.
Morning shows: “Today” (6 a.m. NBC); “Good Morning America” (6 a.m. ABC); “CBS News Sunday Morning” (7 a.m. CBS).
Public affairs: “Pacesetters” (6 a.m. CW); “Meet the Press” (8 a.m. NBC); “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” (8 a.m. ABC); “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace” (8 a.m. Fox); “Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer” (8 a.m. CNN); “Face the Nation” (8:30 a.m. CBS); “Midday Sunday” (9 a.m. Fox); “60 Minutes” (7 p.m. CBS).
Celebu-moms: The TV Guide Channel celebrates “Mother’s Day: Hollywood Style” (11 a.m. and 8 p.m. TVG).
Heal thyself: KCET presents the exposé “Struggling in Silence: Physician Depression and Suicide” (6 p.m. KCET).
Animalistic: An epic struggle among lions, water buffalo and crocodiles that became an Internet hit is explored in “Caught on Safari: Battle at Kruger” (6 and 9 p.m. Nat Geo).
Cetacean: “Ocean Voyagers” (8 and 11 p.m. Animal Planet) follows the 7,000-mile journey of a humpback whale.
Prehistoric: The battle for supremacy between Cro-Magnon man and Neanderthal man is explored in “Clash of the Cavemen” (8 p.m. History).
Faith and flight: “On a Wing and a Prayer: An American Muslim Learns to Fly” (11 p.m. KCET) details one man’s efforts to battle post-Sept. 11 perceptions and obtain a pilot’s license.
Traitor: Chris Cooper stars in the fact-based 2007 thriller “Breach” (6:05 p.m. Cinemax).
Mulder and Scully: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson star in the 1998 big-screen version of the sci-fi series “The X-Files” (7:30 p.m. MyNet).
Baseball: The Angels visit the Rays (10:30 a.m. FSN) and the Dodgers host the Astros (1 p.m. FSPrime).
Golf: The Players Championship concludes (11 a.m. NBC).
Basketball: The Western Conference semifinals continue as the Lakers visit the Jazz (12:30 p.m. ABC) and the Hornets visit the Spurs (5 p.m. TNT).
- Silver Lake's former Black Cat bar was a starting point for the gay rights movement
- Barack Obama: In search of identity
- Mormon Church feels the heat over Proposition 8
- A federal bailout for Prop. 8
- How does CBS spell success? 'NCIS'
- Memory loss: What's normal? What's not?
- Older adults' sexual desires don't have to fade
- Report to Congress: Gulf War syndrome is real
- Automakers' pain felt far beyond Detroit
- After more than 400 lawsuits, disabled man can sue no more
- Lakers face test from another rugged East team, the Bulls
- Eagles' McNabb is more than his gaffe about tie-game rule
- Democrats propose $25 billion in loans for carmakers
- Ethanol's troubles have sapped the dreams of an Indiana town
- Fox won't match ESPN offer on BCS games
- CSU may cut future enrollment by 10,000
- How Paramount let 'Twilight' get away
- Democrats' resentment against Lieberman cools
- Pirates seize oil tanker off East Africa coast
- 'No' to Obama's experimental government
