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Parents Guide
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Wednesday,
May 7,
2008
Price is Right Million Dollar Spectacular, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) CBS
Contestants get a chance to win a million dollars if they are able to land
on the 1$ spot twice.
An Extremely Goofy Movie, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Disney Channel
Goofy
joins his son in college because he feels lonely since he left the house.
Pizza Paradise, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) Travel Channel
Navigates through the origin of pizza and it many variations.
Dr. Doolittle, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) ABC Family
A famous
San Francisco doctor medical practice is flooded after he suddenly regains
his childhood ability to communicate with animals.
SpongeBob Square Pants, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) Nickelodeon
SpongeBob
tries to soar above Bikini Bottom with his jellyfish friends.
Little People, Big World 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) TLC
A highlight of unaired interviews from the first season.
Thursday, May 8,
2008
Are You Smarter Than a 5th
Grader?, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) Fox
Adults answer questions
from elementary grade school curricula and get help from 5th
grade students in an attempt to win $1,000,000. Comedian Jeff Foxworthy
hosts.
102 Dalmatians, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Disney Channel
Now out of prison, Cruella De Vil resumes her quest for Dalmatian furs.
Jeopardy!, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) Animal Planet
2008
College championship, day 4 quarterfinal round Wisconsin.
Dr. Doolittle 3, 8:00
p.m. (Eastern) ABC Family
A young woman with an
uncanny ability to talk to animals uses her ability to help save a dude
ranch from financial ruin.
Reba, 8:30 p.m.
(Eastern) Life
In the series finale,
Cheyenne and Van ask Reba if they can move back in with her after Van
accidentally starts a fire at their new house.
Life with Derek: When
Derek Met Sally, 10:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Disney Channel
Derek is attracted to a cute waitress at Smellie Nellie’s, even though she
has a boyfriend; Jamie tells Lizzie he likes her.
Friday, May 9,
2008
Good Eats, 8:00 p.m.
(Eastern) Food
An in depth look at the
world of beef jerky.
The Shaggy Dog, 8:00
p.m. (Eastern) Discovery Channel
A lawyer with no time
for fun undergoes a metamorphosis as he is transformed from a human to a
dog. This film is rated PG for some mild rude humor.
Lemur Kingdom, 8:30 p.m.
(Eastern) Animal Planet
Juno ventures away from
the graveyard with her group to live as forest nomads and Amazon takes the
jungle for herself.
Everybody Loves Raymond,
8:30 p.m. (Eastern) TBS
Ray convinces Debra to
start calling his mother “Mom.” When Debra complies, Marie’s reaction is
quite unexpected.
Saturday, May 10,
2008
Back to You and Me, 7:00
p.m. (Eastern)
Hallmark Channel
A successful
doctor returns to her rural hometown to renew her relationship with her
mother. While she’s there, she rekindles an old flame.
The Princess Diaries,
8:00 p.m. (Eastern) ABC Family
An awkward young girl is transformed into the princess she didn’t know she
was in this 2001 rated G film. Anne Hathaway stars as the princess and Julie
Andrews stars as her royal grandmother.
A Cinderella Story, 8:00
p.m. (Eastern) Oxygen
A young girl (Hilary Duff) gets an obnoxious new stepmother and
stepsisters. She starts a secret e-mail relationship with the school
football star and they have a romantic connection at school dance. The
movie has an MPAA rating of PG for mild language and innuendo.
Trading Spaces, 9:00
p.m. (Eastern) TLC
Two people, with the
help of designers, redecorate a room in each others’ homes.
Eddie’s
Million-Dollar Cook-Off, 9:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Disney Channel
A talented fourteen-year-old must juggle his baseball playoffs and a cooking
contest.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Mary Poppins, 7:00 p.m.
(Eastern) ABC Family
A mysterious nanny arrives to care for the Banks children and helps them to
better understand their father. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke star in this
fun family classic.
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) ABC
The
experts help redesign a man’s home so that is accessible for the
handicapped. He was injured in a car accident and it is thrilling is able
to move back in with his family and out of the retirement development for
the handicapped.
Everybody Hates Chris, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) CW
Chris
isn’t able to buy the really expensive perfume his mother covets for
Mother’s Day, so he gets her a knockoff brand that causes her to break out
in a rash.
Iron Chef America, 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) Food Network
Chefs go head to head, cooking dishes that judges then taste and rate.
Whoever receives the highest ratings wins the challenge.
The Lizzie McGuire
Movie, 9:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Disney Channel
After
finishing junior high school, Lizzie travels to Rome with her classmates and
meets a pop singer.
Home Improvement, 9:00
p.m. (Eastern) Nickelodeon
Tim’s son Randy writes an article for the school on Binford Tool’s. Randy
exposes their unimpressive environmental history.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Around the World in 80 Days, 8:00 (Eastern)
Disney Channel
Jackie
Chan is a martial artist and servant to a strange traveling inventor named
Phileas Fogg.
Dancing with the Stars, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) ABC
Celebrities are paired up with professional dancers. Each week a pair is
voted off by the judges and viewers after their performances.
Hidden Places, 9:00 p.m.
(Eastern)
Hallmark Channel
A man looking for work
helps a widow save her family apple orchard.
Bizarre Foods with
Andrew Zimmern, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) Travel Channel
Andrew taste tests strange foods from across the continents.
Antiques Roadshow: Las
Vegas, Nevada, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) PBS
This is part 1 of a 3 series arc set in Las Vegas. Items consist of drawing
by folk musician Woody Guthrie among other things.
Unwrapped, 9:00 p.m.
(Eastern) Food Network
American drive-ins are explored, beginning with one of the oldest ones in
Texas.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
America’s Funniest Home Videos, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) ABC Family
Audience
members roll in the aisles as they watch home movies sent in by people from
across the United States, catching the spontaneous and comical moments of
everyday life.
American Idol, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) Fox
The last
three contestants perform.
Model Behavior, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Disney Channel
A reserved
and plain highschooler named Maggie Lawson pulls a switch with a gorgeous
supermodel look-alike. When they find themselves in the others place, they
learn to be thankful for what they have.
Reba, 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) Lifetime
Reba calls a plumber, she needs her faucet fixed. Their encounter allows
them to arrange a date at the hardware store.
Deal or No Deal 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) CNBC
Contestants rival each other for cash inside sealed briefcases in this game
show.
Home Improvement, 9:30 (Eastern) Nickelodeon
Tim and his partner Al are eligible for a space-shuttle mission that will be
conducted with Binford Tools.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Price is
Right Million Dollar Spectacular, 8:00 p.m. (CBS)
The contestants have a chance to win 1
million dollars.
Supernanny,
9:00 p.m. (Eastern) ABC
In a reality series a nanny enters the house to bring some much needed order
to the chaos the kids are wreaking.
Deal or no
Deal,
8:00 p.m. (Eastern) NBC The series finishes its world tour in
Johannesburg. Two players go head to head for a million dollars.
Wild
Kingdom: The Snow Leopard’s Lair, 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) Animal Planet
Two men sojourn into the mountains of Pakistan
to seek out the most difficult to find big cat in the world, the snow
leopard.
Stuck in the Suburbs,
8:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Disney Channel
Two friends
try to debunk a flashy pop star’s manufactured image by revealing that his
true identity.
What I Did For Love,
9:00 p.m. (Eastern)
Hallmark Channel
A big-city lawyer faces
his toughest judges when his country girl fiancée takes him home to meet her
parents for Christmas.
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