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Monday, April 28, 2008

Prime Pick

Carrier

PBS / Carrier Project

Whether you're familiar with life in the Navy or just curious what it's like to live in a floating city with 5,000 other people, the PBS documentary series "Carrier" (premieres 9 p.m. EDT on PBS, check listings) is well worth a look. Combining "Top Gun"-style montages with heartfelt profiles of everyone from pilots to the lowest ranking enlistees, this detailed series follows the USS Nimitz, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, over the course of a six-month deployment in 2005.

-- H.H.

Also…

Michelle Trachtenberg joins the cast of "Gossip Girl" as the eeevil ex-friend of Blair tonight (8 p.m. EDT on the CW), then another patient becomes mysteriously ill on the reliably raucous "House" (9 p.m. on Fox). Finally, the season finale of doc series "High School Confidential" airs at 10 p.m. on WE. Get out the hankies!

Friday night

What did you think of the "Battlestar Galactica" on Friday? Go here to discuss.

On the talk shows

Regis and Kelly

ABC, 9 a.m. EDT		 Mariah Carey, Chris Meloni, John Walsh

The View

ABC, 11 a.m. EDT		 Richard Lewis, Kate Nash

Ellen DeGeneres

Syndicated, check local listings		 Nicolette Sheridan

Oprah Winfrey

Syndicated, check local listings		 Nate's Kitchen of the Year Makeover

Charlie Rose

PBS, check local listings		 TBA

Larry King

CNN, 9 p.m. EDT		 TBA

Jon Stewart

Comedy Central, 11 p.m. EDT		 off

Stephen Colbert

Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m. EDT		 off

David Letterman

CBS, 11:30 p.m. EDT		 Craig Ferguson, Ira Glass, the Black Crowes

Jay Leno

NBC, 11:35 p.m. EDT		 Hugh Laurie, Doug Fine, Prince

Tavis Smiley

PBS, check local listings		 John Cho, Richard Thaler

Jimmy Kimmel

ABC, 12:05 a.m. EDT		 Neil Patrick Harris, Marilu Henner, the Swell Season

Conan O'Brien

NBC, 12:35 a.m. EDT		 Tina Fey, Fred Willard, Say Anything

Craig Ferguson

CBS, 12:35 a.m. EDT		 Jason Segel, Connie Schultz

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