Visit our website:DVDSETPRO.COM! Enjoy more.One mustn't dwell on the negative in these hard times. No less an authority than Dr. Phil himself warns of the health risks attached to stinkin' thinkin' and regularly tells viewers of his daytime talk show to get outside for a walk now and then.
Dr. Phil also suggests people take pleasure in the small things in life, like watching Dr. Phil, or any other TV program that might provide a fleeting hour of escapist entertainment. More sound medical advice, but there's little regard for the easily depressed in tonight's TV lineup. Most of what airs on Wednesday night is only going to make you feel worse. Like Wednesday's child, the hump-night schedule is full of woe. Midweek prime time is the zone of the network crime drama, with Life (NBC, 9 p.m.) the better than usual suspect.
Life is a decent cop show, driven by British actor Damian Lewis's portrayal of Charlie Crews, a police detective once framed and sent to prison, then made a millionaire in compensation for being wrongly convicted. Like every other network cop show, Life is also relentlessly grim.
Tonight, Crews and his new partner (Brent Sexton) are called to a grisly crime scene: the murder by impalement of a ladies man with an abiding affection for pigeons. Don't ask. The investigation leads into the world of low-rent contract killers.
Over on the still highly rated Criminal Minds (CBS, 9 p.m.), the profiler team tracks another contract killer, this one a sexy lady who poses as a call girl to knock off executives. Bodies are turning up in hotel rooms all over the city.
Further police-procedural unpleasantries unfolds on CSI:NY (CBS, CTV, 10 p.m.)- the CSI team try to reunite a human eyeball with its owner - and on Law & Order (NBC, A, 10 p.m.), which has a story about a stockbroker who dies after a bad lunch - a pretty obvious attempt to cheer up viewers.
The only thing more depressing than the cop shows on Wednesday night is the ongoing chronicle of Lost (ABC, CTV, 9 p.m.), still growing its own mythology as it draws to a close. Does anyone know or care about what's happening on Lost any more? Tonight's show is a Locke episode, so enjoy if you're still paying attention.
It's perhaps wiser these days to find a program that will take your mind completely off world events, or your own dwindling stock portfolio. Colour me sheepish, but lately I'm more drawn to the easy viewing of MuchMoreMusic.
Besides being the only Canadian showcase for wonderfully awful eighties music -Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!- the channel has several fine original series, most notably Where You At, Baby?(MuchMoreMusic, 8 p.m.).