Notable TV Thru May 11, 2008
Daddy Bones Goes to Trial
Monday | May 5
Bones: Ryan O’Neal guest stars as Temperance Brennan’s father, who’s put on trial for the murder of the FBI deputy director, with conviction potentially landing him on Death Row. If you’re gonna kill someone, might as well aim high, right? [8pm EST/FOX]
Tuesday | May 6
Dancing with the Stars: Episode 100 is here. [9pm EST/ABC]
Wednesday | May 7
Audition: Barbara Walters’ Journey: This news special explores Barbara Walters as we’ve never seen her before, although I can’t imagine there’s many surprises left that can top the one about her 1970s affair with Edward Brooke, Massachusetts’ first black senator, who was married at the time, by the way. [10pm EST/ABC]
Thursday | May 8
Ugly Betty: Ooh la la! Third Watch and Invasion star Eddie Cibrian begins a series of episodes playing a possible romantic interest for Hilda. [8pm EST/ABC]
Supernatural: Billy Drago guest stars as the bad dude. If you don’t know who he is, shame on you. [9pm EST/The CW]
Friday | May 9
Ghost Whisperer: This episode is bursting at the seams with acting award nominees, namely Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Tess Harper and Emmy nominee Corin Nemec. Jennifer Love Hewitt’s current bread and butter is clearly attracting the cream of the crop these days, and it can’t be all because of her twins, so good for her. [8pm EST/CBS]
Saturday | May 10
Mom, Dad and Her: The Office and Monk’s Melora Hardin stars in this made-for-TV movie about the effects of divorce on family dynamics. [9pm EST/Lifetime]
Sunday | May 11
Eureka: Excellent — a ten-hour marathon of the second season featuring all but three episodes! [9am EST/Sci Fi Channel]
Survivor: It’s the expanded two-hour 16th-season finale for this reality staple that keeps going and going and going… [8pm EST/CBS]
Survivor: As if the two-hour season finale weren’t enough, there’s an hourlong reunion special immediately afterwards, too. [10pm EST/CBS]
Brothers & Sisters: And the second season comes to a close. [10:02pm EST/ABC]
Bones photo courtesy of Fox
