What to Watch: June 16 - June 22
TUESDAY, JUNE 17
AFI’s 10 Top 10 -- 8/7c on CBS
Everyone loves lists and countdowns--and then there are the folks at the American Film Institute, who are positively obsessed with the stuff. Their latest entry counts down “America’s 10 greatest films in 10 classic genres”: animation, courtroom drama, epic, fantasy, gangster, mystery, romantic comedy, sci-fi, sports and Western. Indeed, bold move by the AFI to deem “gangster” and “courtroom drama” classic genres--and people say they’re not progressive! Further proof of the Institute’s progressiveness: Modern movies like The Departed actually made the cut. Still, expect to disagree strongly with the selections.
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America’s Got Talent (Season Premiere) -- 9/8c on NBC
And on the polar opposite end of the TV spectrum comes the third-season premiere of Simon Cowell’s other, slightly less intriguing reality show, America's Got Talent. (Cowell co-created the show but is not allowed to appear due to his American Idol contract.) The whole gang--judges David Hasselhoff, Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne, and host Jerry Springer--is back for the nationwide talent-search free-for-all, which embraces the failures as much as the rare successes. Hey, just like American Idol!