TV Daily

Salon’s guide to what to watch

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Prime Pick

Top Chef

Bravo

There's sure to be love in the air and sweat on the foreheads tonight on "Top Chef" (10 p.m. EDT on Bravo) when the cheftestants are asked to cater a wedding with 200 guests. Of course imaginative cheftestant Richard will dream up a magnificent appetizer and talented cheftestant Dale will create an inventive entree, but what will twin lunatics Spike and Andrew do? If there's a God, those two will be in charge of carving the 6-foot-tall ice swan using only a box of matches and a set of cheap steak knives.

-- H.H.

Also…

"Gladiator" airs at 8 p.m. EDT on HBO, while the new series "Secrets of the Dead" premieres (8 p.m. on PBS, check listings) with a story about East Germany's history of doping female athletes, followed by an "American Masters" (9 p.m. on PBS, check listings) profile of Marvin Gaye. Then on "Audition: Barbara Walters' Journey" (10 p.m. on ABC), the first lady of teary interviews gives her own (teary?) interview about writing her memoirs.

Last night

What did you think of the "Escape From Suburbia" on Tuesday? Go here to discuss.

On the talk shows

Regis and Kelly

ABC, 9 a.m. EDT		 Ashton Kutcher, Barenaked Ladies

The View

ABC, 11 a.m. EDT		 Cindy Crawford, Steve Winwood

Ellen DeGeneres

Syndicated, check local listings		 Drew Carey, Alicia Keys

Oprah Winfrey

Syndicated, check local listings		 Viewers react: The week in review

Charlie Rose

PBS, check local listings		 TBA

Larry King

CNN, 9 p.m. EDT		 TBA

Jon Stewart

Comedy Central, 11 p.m. EDT		 Sen. John McCain

Stephen Colbert

Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m. EDT		 Hasan Elahi, George Johnson

David Letterman

CBS, 11:30 p.m. EDT		 Emile Hirsch, Tom Dreesen, Dirk Arthur

Jay Leno

NBC, 11:35 p.m. EDT		 Former President Jimmy Carter, Jenna Fischer, P.O.D.

Tavis Smiley

PBS, check local listings		 Former President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Kimmel

ABC, 12:05 a.m. EDT		 Christina Ricci, Mario Batali, Lil Mama

Conan O'Brien

NBC, 12:35 a.m. EDT		 Liam Neeson, BJ Novak, the Duke Spirit

Craig Ferguson

CBS, 12:35 a.m. EDT		 Felicity Huffman, Mike Doughty

Contributors: Molly Eichel, Heather Havrilesky, Amy Reiter, Charly Wilder

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