April 7th, 2008
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5:30 pm est
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AMG Staff
So much music on television, so little time. TV Watch points out some of the best and most unusual programs and films combining music and TV for the coming week, and some of the highlights of what has already been on the air. Point your DVR, VCR, or browser to these prime(-time) destinations.
Monday:
Flix shows I Shot Andy Warhol, which features Yo La Tengo as the Velvet Underground, at 10 p.m.
Jimmy Eat World play on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC at 11:35 p.m.
Tuesday:
Hot Chip appear on Late Night with Conan O’Brien at 12:35 a.m. on NBC.
Gloria Gaynor celebrates the 30th anniversary of her hit “I Will Survive” by appearing on Today.
Promoting this year’s Idol Gives Back, Chris Daughtry performs with the African Children’s Choir on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Rick Ross appears on TRL at 3:30 p.m. on MTV.
P.O.D. drop by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC at 11:35 p.m.
Wednesday:
Phantom Planet promote their new album Raise the Dead by playing on Jimmy Kimmel Live at 12:05 a.m. on ABC.
Cobra Starship begin a two-day residency on TRL today, and Lupe Fiasco also appears; it all starts at 3:30 p.m. on MTV.
Without a doubt, the week’s biggest musical TV event is Idol Gives Back. Along with the American Idol contestants you’ve come to know and grow tired of, the two-and-a-half-hour spectacular also stars Celine Dion, Maroon 5, Miley Cyrus, Snoop Dogg, Bono, Heart, Mariah Carey, Chris Daughtry, Ashley Tisdale, and many, many others, starting at 7:30 p.m. on Fox.
If you’d rather watch something else, check out VH1 Classic’s showing of The Temptations at 8 p.m.
Thursday:
Counting Crows appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson at 12:37 a.m. on CBS.
Bret Michaels rocks Jimmy Kimmel Live’s world at 12:05 a.m. on ABC.
Tapes ‘N Tapes support their new album Walk It Off with a performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien at 12:35 a.m. on NBC.
Chart-topper Flo Rida drops by TRL at 3:30 p.m. on MTV.
Friday:
Switches play Jimmy Kimmel Live at 12:05 on ABC.
They Might Be Giants on Late Night with Conan O’Brien sounds like a match made in geek heaven; it starts at 12:35 a.m. on NBC.
Del tha Funkee Homosapien plays a track of his recent album Eleventh Hour on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferugson at 12:37 on CBS.
Showtime’s Iconoclasts features Alicia Keys and Ruby Dee at 6 p.m.
Saturday:
It Girl Leona Lewis plays Jimmy Kimmel Live at 12:05 a.m. on ABC.
Showtime Next presents the Beastie Boys documentary Awesome! I F**kin’ Shot That at 4:55 p.m.
Almost as quickly as they changed the release date of their second album The Odd Couple, Gnarls Barkley announced they’d be playing this week’s Saturday Night Live at 11:30 p.m. on NBC.
Sunday:
Ashford & Simpson appear on CBS News Sunday Morning at 9 a.m. on CBS.
Turner Classic Movies shows Rhapsody in Blue, the lavish and more than slightly fictionalized 1945 biopic of George Gershwin, at 8 p.m.
Get nostalgic with “Mayberry on Record,” a 1961 episode of The Andy Griffith show that nodded to the early ‘60s folk music boom and featured members of the Kentucky Colonels. It’s on TV Land (of course!) at 8:30 p.m.
Close out the weekend with a (head)bang by watching Fuse’s Talking Metal, which features Killswitch Engage, Devildriver, and Lamb of God, at 10:30 p.m.
The week’s video highlights:
R.E.M. performed “Supernatural Superserious” on The Colbert Report.
It was rumored that New Kids on the Block were going to perform on the Today Show last week. Their appearance ended up being an interview announcing their new album and upcoming tour, but judging by the screams, their faithful fans didn’t seem at all disappointed.
Panic at the Disco performed “Nine in the Afternoon” on Saturday Night Live.
On the April 4th episode of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher made a funny quip comparing the Democratic Primary race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to American Idol. He said, “What is so terrible about a long, drawn-out contest? A season of American Idol is, what? 87 weeks? That’s a lot of time just to pick a cruise ship entertainer. This is the presidency we’re talking about.” Here’s a transcript.
