Saturday's TV Highlights: TV Guide goes behind the scenes of 'Precious'
PUSH: Gabourey Sidibe appears in the new special 'Precious: The Story Behind the Movie' at 8 p.m. on TV Guide.
SERIES
The Penguins of Madagascar: The animated series returns for a new season (10 a.m. Nickelodeon).
Cops: Houston police officers detain a driver who tries to flee from a known drug area and is busted for possession, and in Las Vegas, police investigate suspicious behavior outside an abandoned apartment building and encounter a situation involving burglary and drugs in this new episode (8 p.m. Fox).
America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back: John Walsh takes on a violent murder-kidnap ring terrorizing the San Diego area, where Los Palillos -- "The Toothpicks" -- an offshoot of Mexico's drug cartels, are targeting innocent Americans in this new episode (9 p.m. Fox).
Pit Boss: Ashley looks for a home for a pit bull found at Shorty's office in this new episode (10 p.m. Animal Planet).
MOVIES
Elopement: A pilot and his fiancée crash into a lake while flying to Las Vegas to marry in this 2010 TV movie starring Pascale Hutton and Chris Kramer (7 p.m. ION).
Waitress: Keri Russell is engaging as the title character in this comedy, written and directed by Adrienne Shelly (also a costar in her last film before her shocking murder). Jeremy Sisto, Nathan Fillion and Andy Griffith co-stars (9 p.m. Lifetime).
SPORTS
College basketball: Siena at Butler (8 a.m. ESPN2); Stanford at Oregon State (Noon FSN); UCLA at Washington (6 p.m. ESPN); Gonzaga at Pepperdine (6 p.m. FSN).
XXI Winter Olympics: Curling, men's: USA vs. Sweden; hockey, men's: Switzerland vs. Norway (9 a.m. MSNBC). Curling, women's: USA vs. Great Britain (2 p.m. CNBC). Hockey, men's: Slovakia vs. Latvia (4:30 p.m. MSNBC). Curling, men's: Canada vs. Great Britain (7 p.m. CNBC). Speed skating: men's short track 1000m quarterfinals, semifinals and Gold Medal final; speed skating: men's 1500m Gold Medal final; bobsled: two-man; skiing: women's Super G Gold Medal final (8 p.m. NBC). Hockey, men's: Belarus vs. Germany (9 p.m. MSNBC).
Women's college basketball: Washington at USC (8 p.m. FSN).
Pro basketball: The Sacramento Kings visit the Clippers (7:30 p.m. FS Prime).
Photo: Anne Marie Fox / Lionsgate
"America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back: John Walsh takes on a violent murder-kidnap ring terrorizing the San Diego area, where Los Palillos -- "The Toothpicks" -- an offshoot of Mexico's drug cartels, are targeting innocent Americans in this new episode (9 p.m. Fox)."
Except that the offshoot was targeting those same drug cartel members they split from, not "innocent Americans". What a load of blatant race-baiting!
Posted by: Noah Harbinger | February 20, 2010 at 12:24 AM