Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
10 pm/ET Showtime
She's back! The prodigiously talented and incredibly amusing Tracey Ullman returns for a second season of skewering Americans in the news (and celebrity visitors to America). She kicks things into comic high gear with a wickedly funny spoof of Heather Mills (Paul McCartney's ex) as a reality-TV star. Other highlights include Ullman as Texas-ranch retiree Laura Bush presiding over a garage sale featuring "doodads and objets d'art" from her White House stay, and a send-up of Celine Dion doing post-Katrina calamity cleanup in New Orleans.
Read on for previews of The Masters, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Breaking Bad and Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels.
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The 2008 Masters — beginning Thursday — carries some impressive numbers. This will be CBS’ 53rd straight year of televising golf’s most megawatt major. The network has eight hours of coverage during the last two rounds at Augusta National Golf Club, on Saturday (April 12, 3:30 pm/ET) and Sunday (April 13, 2:30 pm/ET). ESPN is making its Masters debut this year with first- and second-round coverage Thursday and Friday (April 10 and 11, 4 pm/ET).Online coverage at masters.org includes over 48 hours of live video throughout the four-day event. This includes, for the first time, live looks from the 15th and 16th holes, adding to the successful live views from Amen Corner (11th, 12th and 13th holes), which have been streamed since 2006. (Much of the video can also be found at cbssports.com and espn360.com.) But arguably, the most important number at the Masters will be 42, as in 42 Long, reportedly Tiger Woods’ jacket size. The sport’s unstoppable force ...
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