Category: tv

I’ve recently discovered Comix Remix on Comedy Central, and it’s quite good. Each half-hour show is a greatest-hits of stand-up with clips from many comics — much like a greatest-hits album, you can get all the best bits this way :).

Comix Remix airs Mondays at 10/9c on Comedy Central, and last week’s show featured clips from Richard Lewis, Margaret Cho, and Dave Attell (among other comics).

Based on the book of the same name, TBS is producing a TV-version of “Worst Case Scenario”. The show airs 9pm EST / 8pm CST on Wednesdays; I enjoyed the book, and I figured I’d give the show a try.

You just never know. That’s the principle behind “The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook,” a popular book that's the basis for a TBS show premiering this week.

“Worst-Case Scenario” will air Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on the cable network. The series, which is scheduled for 13 hour-long episodes, tackles dangerous situations and shows viewers how to get out of them safely.

You never know, for example, when you might have to jump out of a moving car. Or knock down a door. Or jump off a building. [...]

Of course, Wednesday is also the premier of Big Brother 3 at 9/8c. But, not to worry — you can record both by catching Big Brother at 9/8c and then the 10/9c showing of Worst Case Scenario.

I just saw a commercial on TLC for a new show called “While You Were Out”. The basic idea is that one spouse gets the other out of the house for a few days on a ruse. Then, while he/she is gone, the other one redecorates one room in their home.

With coaxing, conning and little white lies, one spouse or home-owning partner is sent out of town for a couple of days. Then the at-home partner teams up with an interior decorator and two handypersons to undertake a major makeover of the absent significant other's favorite indoor or outdoor space. [...]

It premiers this Saturday, and I already have a Season Pass for it :).

I’ve recently discovered Monster Garage on the Discovery Channel, and it’s excellent. It’s similar in some ways to Junkyard Wars, but maybe even better (if that’s possible).

The premise is that a team is given a vehicle, $3,000 (for buying parts) and a challenge. For instance, in one show, they had to turn a Eddie Bauer edition Ford Explorer into a working garbage truck that had to be able to grab trash cans and empty them into truck. In another challenge, they had to turn a Lincoln Towncar limousine into a working fire truck.

But, the catch is that the vehicles have to appear stock from the outside (until the machine goes into action, of course). So, in the example of the of the fire-truck limousine, the team had to build a retractable nozzle that would come out of a panel in the roof of the limo.

And, the team members are incredibly smart people — world class gearheads, hot rodders, and mechanics. Their skills, from welding to hand-machining parts, were truly impressive.

Anyhow, Monster Garage airs Sundays at 4pm EST / 3pm CST on the Discovery Channel. Check it out.

Cool, it looks like GI Joe is returning to Cartoon Network in July. (link from TiVo forum)

Oh, and Battlebots season 5 is apparently starting in August. (link from this thread)