Friday, April 27:

8:00 - 8:30PM

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4643. Another whole week has gone by and good old Gwen Ifill and National Journal are here to fill us in. For the record, I like to pretend the National Journal is a sidekick, like Robin to Batman, Starsky to Hutch, or chocolate sauce to chocolate ice cream.

8:30 - 9:00PM

NOW #317. It’s the Emmy award-winning weekly newsmagazine. It looks at issues facing our democracy. The show is hosted by David Brancaccio. And, even better, they still send me e-mails (I think that makes me cool and them nice). Thanks, Now!

9:00 - 10:00PM

Bill Moyers Journal #1102. This is, apparently, not the same episode that will be airing earlier in the week. Then again, it may be, PBS is tricksy that way.

10:00PM - 11:00PM

Secrets of the Dead - “Battle for the Bible”. Please see above joke

Saturday, April 28:

9:00 - 10:0PM

Austin City Limits - “The Raconteurs/Cat Power”. Wouldn’t it be better if this was The Ratconteurs followed by Cat Power? I wonder if that’s what the booker thought they were getting, because a quick glance at the names might lead one to believe that this was the case. I don’t know it for a fact, but I believe it and that’s enough for me.

Did you figure out what I was thinking? Did you? Yup, that’s right, I was thinking of Hohokus, not Ho-Ho-Kus, but Hohokus. I’m not entering into the whole one versus the other thing, but my understanding is that the former incorporates the latter. That’s what Wikipedia seemed to indicate anyway. I know, that’s not the most trustworthy source ever, but I’m going with it.