0-for-Balfour?
’Bred Alerts, 02.28.06 - 03.10.06
’Bred Alerts took a little vacation, since you should have been watching the Olympics anyway. But now, back to our regularly crapped-out programming. (All times Pacific)
TV
The Amazing Race (Tue. 02.28, 9 p.m., CBS, season premiere) To the fans’ delight, it’s ixnay on the amily fay.
Stargate SG-1* (Fri. 03.03, 8 p.m., SciFi) Black (Claudia) is back. Watch the show’s energy level suddenly quadruple. (Recommendation retracted on 03.04. See next entry.)
Conviction (Fri. 03.03, 10 p.m., NBC; series premiere) So there’s this man, Eric Balfour. Decent enough actor, hot guy, played a great devil in a car commercial, but every new series he stars in lately plummets off the face of the earth within a month. Veritas, Hawaii, Sex, Love & Secrets. (He’s much safer as a guest star. Six Feet Under, 24, and The O.C. lived to tell the tale.) Lend a brutha a hand and tune in, wouldja?
The Yearly Show with Jon Stewart (Sun. 03.05, 5 p.m., ABC) Movie awards are handed out, in an auditorium filled with pretty much all the people who saw the nominees.
24* (Mon. 03.06, 8 p.m., Fox) Different time, two episodes. Please make a covertly rerouted note of it.
Joey (Tue. 03.07, 8 p.m., NBC) It’s back. And the crowd goes mild.
The Unit (Tue. 03.07, 9 p.m., CBS, series premiere) David Mamet wrote the pilot. The mind boggles at how filthy the original series title must have been.
Battlestar Galactica (Fri. 03.10, 10 p.m., SciFi, 90-minute season finale) Please Cylon-chick God, let there be more bubble bath scenes. (Pretend heterosexuality, or just sarcasm? You make the call.)
Movies
Dave Chapelle’s Block Party (in theaters Fri. 03.03) Sure hope he doesn’t quit halfway through the movie.
The Hills Have Eyes and The Shaggy Dog (Fri. 03.10) I always hoped that someday I would be able to again not see the movies I avoided in the ’70s.
Balfour also did guest stints on The West Wing (a show strong enough to withstand the Grim Reaper of Television, Ted McGinley), and the first episode of Buffy.