This week in Sci-fi TV: May 4 - May 11

Please consult your local listings to verify this week's prime time and weekend TV highlights:

Monday, May 5th
Elektra - 8pm, FX [Movie]
     >As it's Cinco de Mayo, a couple drinks might help this movie go down a little easier.
Medium - 10pm, NBC
     >The always enjoyable Miguel Ferrer guest stars in this ep.
Batman: The Animated Series - 10:30pm, Toon Disney
     >One of my favorite episodes, it revolves around a botched police sting operation told in three different points of view (hence the title "P.O.V.").
 
Tuesday, May 6th
Stargate: Atlantis - 7pm-9pm, SciFi Channel
Reaper - 9pm, The CW
South Park - 9:30pm, Comedy Central
     >It's the Terminator 2 themed "Trapper Keeper" episode. Good times.

Wednesday, May 7th
Ghost Hunters - 9pm, SciFi Channel
Children of the Grave - 9pm, SciFi Channel [Special]
     >This two-hour bit of creepiness investigates the phenomenon of hauntings by spirit children.
Mythbusters - 9pm, Discovery Channel [repeat]
     >Jamie and Adam build a giant cannon. Because they're awesome.
The Long Kiss Goodnight - 10pm, AMC [Movie]

Thursday, May 8th
Planet of the Apes - 8pm, AMC [Movie]
     >This is the original 60's film, not the Tim Burton remake starring Mark Wahlberg. And I will resist making a Marky Mark & The Wild Bunch/bananas joke here.
Smallville - 8pm, The CW
Basilisk - 8:30pm, IFC [Anime]
Supernatural - 9pm, The CW
Lost - 10pm, ABC

Friday, May 9th
Ghost Whisperer - 8pm, CBS
The Sarah Jane Adventures - 8pm, SciFi Channel
Troy - 8pm, AMC [Movie]
Speed Grapher - 8pm, IFC [Anime]
Witchblade - 8:30pm, IFC [Anime]
Doctor Who - 9pm, SciFi Channel
Moonlight - 9pm, CBS
Battlestar Galactica - 10pm, SciFi Channel

Saturday - May 10th
Princess - 11:30am, ABCFamily [Movie]
     >Enjoyable yet pacing challenged modern fairy tale.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - 4pm, Cartoon Netwook [Movie]
     >If you dig cartoons, I highly recommend checking this out. It's the 90-minute pilot for one of the best toons this decade if not ever.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 3pm, USA [Movie]
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 5:51pm, USA [Movie]
     >This has got to be the oddest start time for a program I've ever seen.
Raiders of the Lost Ark - 8:27pm, USA [Movie]
     >Or is this the oddest start time? Hmm.
Saturday Night Live - 11:29pm, NBC
     >Shia LaBeouf hosts. It won't just be good, it'll be Sofa King good!

Sunday - May 11th
Eureka - Marathon (9am-7pm), SciFi Channel
Mary Poppins - 1:30pm, ABCFamily [Movie]
H20 - 7:30pm, Nickelodeon
Never Cry Werewolf - 9pm, SciFi Channel
     >Kevin "Hercules" Sorbo stars and it's about werewolves. What else do you need to know?
Matilda - 2pm, ABCFamily [Movie]
Hulu Spotlight - Swamp Thing [Online]
     >When a man turns into an amalgamation of swampy bits, he must be pretty darn charming if he can still have a girlfriend.

Comments

The ending scene of last Friday's Doctor Who "The Fires of Pompeii" was chopped off showing the happy family in Rome six months later paying tribute to their household gods, the Doctor and Donna. This Friday on Doctor Who is "Planet of the Ood", set on the ice planet Odd-Sphere. It is heavy-handed anti-slavery tale.

Dean L. Kaufman | May 6, 2008 9:47:05 AM | #

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The May 16th and May 23rd episodes of Doctor Who are a two parter, bringing back Dr. Martha Jones and UNIT (now known as the Unified Nations Intelligence Taskforce). It also brings back the Sontarans. The first part of the saga is called "The Sontaran Stratagem" and Part 2 is called "The Poison Sky". Part 2 also boasts a very quick (4 seconds?) cameo by a previous companion of the Doctor and has a cliffhanger ending sending the Doctor, Donna and an unwilling Martha off to their next adventure "The Doctor's Daughter".

Dean L. Kaufman | May 9, 2008 10:14:40 AM | #

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