Friday, January 25:
8:00 - 8:30PM
Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4730. 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 on PBS #403. 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, you guys are awesome!
9:00 - 10:00PM
Bill Moyers Journal #1142. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,142nd journal (not really, but I’m not going to explain to you the way in which TV shows are numbered at this point in time, maybe later if you’re nice). He’s a good journalist so I assume this will be good journalism (at least the odds are it will).
10:00PM - 11:00PM
Slavery and the Making of America – "Seeds of Destruction". The third hour of this repeat series looks at slavery and its ramifications from 1800 through the Civil War. As our nation went west, slavery sometimes expanded, and the country repeatedly faced the issue of whether new states should be slave or free. As we all know though, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Saturday, January 26:
9:00 – 10:00PM
Austin City Limits – "Brad Paisley/Dierks Bentley". Ah Paisley, that pattern that shouldn't exist. The country singer, however, is pretty fun. Now, I'm not the biggest country guy, but that Paisley sure can sing. He rocks like a Bentley rolls, smooth.
I'd like to, at this time, point out that I always liked the idea of Daniel Craig as James Bond. I thought from the moment they hired him that he would do a good job, and, happily, I was proven right. You know, back when I had a cubicle, I had pictures of Craig and the other Bonds up; that, frankly, was the best part of my being in a place that had me work in a cubicle.
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