Megalyn Echikunwoke
Bring out your dead!
Following last season’s departure of Khandi Alexander from CSI: Miami (Mondays at 9 pm/ET, CBS), there’s a new medical examiner getting her hands bloody in Miami: Megalyn Echikunwoke’s Dr. Tara Price.
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Olivia Munn, Attack of the Show!
To the unhip — or those of a certain age — G4's Attack of the Show! (Mondays at 7 and 10 pm/ET, G4) may sound like a forgotten B-movie. But to video-gamers, techies and fanboys, the nightly live newsmagazine hosted by Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn is required viewing. "It's like Regis & Kelly, but for males 18-34," Munn says. "We talk about everything that a guy that age cares about: pop culture, the Internet, video games." No doubt many of those guys are also tuning in for Munn, a 26-year-old with model looks who will do nearly anything for a laugh — including eating a dangling hot dog or riding a gyrating chair. We spoke to Munn, just days after she made a splash at Comic-Con.
TV Guide: How was Comic-Con?
Olivia Munn: The fan support is beyond me sometimes. At Comic-Con, I become Justin Timberlak
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Tommy Lee, Battleground Earth
Tommy Lee saving the planet? "It's not your normal thing to go cruising around doing, especially for a guy like me," laughs Mötley Crüe's wildman drummer, who stars alongside rapper Ludacris in the new Battleground Earth (Sundays at 10 pm/ET, Planet Green), a humorous yet educational competition series about the guys' efforts to go green.
TV Guide: Why'd you get involved with Battleground Earth?
Tommy Lee: I swore I wouldn't do another reality show, because I just did 'em [NBC's Tommy Lee Goes to College and CBS's Rock Star: Supernova]... but this is way more like a documentary. It's informative, educational, and it was another chance for me to learn about all this green stuff. Because to tell you the truth, bro... I only knew a little bit about this or that.
TV Guide: Can you sum up the show?
Lee:
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Haylie Duff, Legally Blonde: The Search for thr Next Elle Woods
It's a busy week for Haylie Duff. Perhaps best known as Summer in the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, and as the older sister of Hilary, the stage and screen actress mentors aspiring theater stars in MTV's new reality series, Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods (Mondays at 10 pm/ET). She also starred in Spike's hunted-in-the-forest thriller Backwoods Sunday.
TV Guide: Why'd you get involved with Elle?
Haylie Duff: I had done a Broadway show [Hairspray] and it was one of the best experiences of my life. It molded me into who I am as a performer…. I'm there to tell [the contestants] that all the times they want to cry and give up are worth it, because I've been there, too.
TV Guide: What can you tell us about Backwoods? It sounds like an updated D
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Bear Grylls, Man vs. Wild
Bear Grylls has survived everything from Saharan heat to Icelandic cold. In tonight’s first new episode of Man vs. Wild (Fridays at 9 pm/ET, Discovery) since December, he endures a stomach-turning trek through Zambia. We talked to the adventurer about hanging tough in Africa.
TV Guide: How was Zambia?
Bear Grylls: It was wild. We were [in] probably the most remote part of Africa and I got bad heatstroke. I had eaten a bad snake and got quite dehydrated.
TV Guide: A bad snake?
Grylls: As opposed to "a good snake" to eat? I had eaten a live snake and it had its revenge by crapping down my throat as I ate it. I had really bad diarrhea the next day. I was doing a big climb on a 120-foot cliff face when I suddenly realized I've got to go. I remember hangin
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Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Nova
You may not know the faces, but if you’re a fan of NPR’s automotive call-in show “Car Talk,” you certainly know the voices (and the frequent laughs) of Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, the Tappets. The boisterous brothers — who’ll get animated this summer for their very own PBS cartoon following their off-the-air lives — make a rare TV appearance on tonight’s Nova (8 pm/ET, PBS) to look at the “car of the future” and what will power it: ethanol, hydrogen or electricity.
TVGuide.com: You do so little TV. What attracted you to this installment of Nova?
Ray Magliozzi: The idea of the car of the future intrigues us. I was promised by reading Popular Science and
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Pauley Perrette, NCIS
Abby's career is in danger of going to the dogs — literally — when the forensics specialist stubbornly defends a canine suspected of mauling its owner to death in this week's new episode of NCIS (tonight at 8 pm/ET, CBS).
"All the evidence points to the fact that the dog did it," says executive producer Shane Brennan. "But Abby's determined to prove that the dog is innocent." Which leads to an admonishment from Gibbs, who believes the German shepherd is responsible for the death and warns Abby not to get attached.
Her response? "She calls the dog 'Jethro,'" Brennan laughs. "There's a lot of opportunity for humor in it."
The episode also marks one of the rare times the Goth gal leaves the lab — in her very Abby-appropriate car, no less. "We see her driving a car for the first time," explains Brennan. "It's a red hot rod [adorned with] skull-and-crossbones decorations and coffin emblems.
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Billy Ray Cyrus, cohost of the CMT Music Awards
If November's CMAs are the Oscars of country music, then the free and easy CMT Music Awards (tonight at 8 pm/ET) — honoring country music videos — are the Golden Globes. Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Sugarland and LeAnn Rimes perform at the Nashville event, along with hosts Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray, who phoned us from his home in Tennessee to discuss what's shaping up to be an awfully busy year for the Hannah Montana patriarch.
TVGuide.com: Are you all ready to host?
Billy Ray Cyrus: Man, I am so excited. Miley and I play everything by ear. We'll learn a script really good and do that whole thing, but we kind of play everything by ear. So it's going to be kind of an evolution, with any twists an
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Shannon Tweed, Gene Simmons Family Jewels
This August marks 25 years together for Shannon Tweed and KISS' Gene Simmons, the "happily unmarried" stars of Gene Simmons: Family Jewels (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET), now in its third season on A&E. We spoke to the gracious model-actress (and onetime Playboy Playmate of the Year) about the keys to her long relationship.
TV Guide: Twenty-five years. What's the secret?
Shannon Tweed: It's about being strong enough to have your own life. That doesn't mean be a nasty bitch who's loud or bossy; it just means be strong in your own sense of self. You can still be strong and be feminine.
TV Guide: Some people believe your relationship with Gene is an open one....
Tweed: "Open" has never been a word I've described my relationship as. And he has never described our relationship as "open," nor has it ever
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Dennis Miller, Amnesia
In NBC's new game show Amnesia (Fridays at 9 pm/ET), contestants compete for big money by answering questions about a subject they should have firsthand knowledge of — their own lives. We spoke to series host Dennis Miller, that hyper-articulate master of minutiae, about helping people remember those potentially moneymaking little details.
TV Guide: Amnesia sounds reminiscent of This Is Your Life.
Dennis Miller: It's This Is Your Life meets Jeopardy.... I think Ken Jennings would be better answering questions about trivia than he would his own life, because people don’t seem to remember things. Between the intricacy of the questions and the fact that we [don't] keep tabs on life like it’s a textbook, things fall between the cracks. Therein lies the mirth!
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