What to Watch

What to Watch for week of Oct. 2-Oct.8, 2006

A day-to-day guide to notable programs*
| Sep 29, 2006
What to Watch for week of Oct. 2-Oct. 8, 2006 | 153514__monday_l
'WIRE' ON THE BRAIN
Wire in the Blood: Alan Peebles

Monday

October 2

SEASON PREMIERE
9-11PM
Wire in the Blood (BBC America, TV-MA) Four seasons in, and we're still not sure how he does it. Robson Green (pictured) returns as Tony Hill, the suspiciously keen psychologist (he never says ''profiler''), who survived season 3's brain tumor. But now Tony has to defend his quack theories regarding an S&M freak targeting young women to new detective inspector Fielding (Simone Lahbib). She'll come around — if only because, like us, she'll want to know what's inside Tony's head. A-

LENNIE ALERT!
2-3PM
Law & Order (TNT) TNT feeds our Briscoephilia: a month of episodes featuring Jerome Bernard Orbach on what would've been the occasion of his 71st birthday.

COOL RERUN ALERT!
6-7PM
Everwood (ABC Family) For those of you who have been jonesing for a fix of the Browns as they search for healing in Colorado, ABC Family now brings you Everwood every weekday. On tonight's pilot episode, Dr. Andy Brown moves his children Ephram and Delia from New York City to Everwood.

7-9PM
Inside the Actors Studio (Bravo, TV-PG-L) Breaking: Al Pacino sacrifices self in Studio's post-Hatcher bid to regain legitimacy.

COOL RERUN ALERT 2!
9-10:15PM, 10:15-11:30PM
Six Feet Under (Bravo) Who believes in reincarnation? Bravo does, and it's bringing back Six Feet Under with two new episodes, every Monday night, starting tonight with the series' first episode.

9-10PM
Vanished (Fox, TV-14-LV) New cast member Eddie Cibrian (Invasion) clearly loves conspiracies, or serials, or, y'know...working.

SEASON PREMIERE
9-11PM
The Bachelor: Rome (ABC, TV-PG-L) Come for the Italian prince; stay because you're too dang lazy to change the channel.

SERIES DEBUT
9-10PM
House of Carters (E!, TV-PG) Nick Carter's barely famous family will not go away.

9-11PM*
Eyes on the Prize (PBS, TV-PG-V) Civil rights classic re-airs all week long. Watch with the kids. (R) *check local listings

10-10:59PM
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC, TV-14-DL) It's the F-word: focus group. Okay, you're right, it's an f and a g, but — see right there, you're focus-grouping me!

DOGGFATHER ALERT!
10-10:30PM
Weeds (Showtime, TV-MA) Celebrity endorsements help sales. But not just any celeb — the right one. Like, for instance, Snoop Dogg.

100TH EPISODE!
10-11PM
CSI: Miami (CBS, TV-14-SV) And suddenly, David Caruso's corny-opening-quip-while-stripping-off-his-shades-like-a-G-string goes from tragic to trademark.

(Additional reporting by Helin Jung)

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