The Remote Patrol: 4/2 Will Work for Fools
Thomas Heald, Esquire
by Thomas Allen Heald, I'm out of order? You're out of order!
All times Eastern, for PBS programs, check local listings
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I saved the news for a bit lest it be considered an April Fools Day joke
yesterday. The Rapid City Weekly News, where I was an A&E columnist for
four years, folded on Tuesday. Today's edition is the last to see print.
The daily sibling The Black Hills Pioneer (yes, as seen on HBO's
"Deadwood") will continue its 133 year run as the main focus of Seaton
Publishing. So, along with several other writers and staff, I am no
longer employed in "the biz." We were a nice 23,000 circ. (55,000
reader) paper in a market of 60,000. But with real estate, the auto
industry, and classifieds all tanking for us and everyone else it was
the perfect storm. If San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago papers are in
trouble .... it just was nice doing something I enjoyed and, I'm told,
mattering to people in one's hometown. Back to land surveying AKA the
salt mines.
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8 p.m.
Superman is blackmailed into murdering someone to protect his not that
secret identity on "SMALLVILLE" (CW).
"BONES" (Fox) catches a tiger by the toe. He hollers.
9 p.m.
The gang on "SUPERNATURAL" (CW) discover they're in a comic book titled
"Supernatural." Bring me the eyes of Isaac Mendez!
CLOSING TIME
A helicopter falls on "ER" (NBC).
Alice and Tommy struggle to pay the rent with the restaurant closed for
repairs while Flo and Vera moonlight at a bowling alley on "MEL'S
KITCHEN" (Fox).
TELE-GEBRA
"Nip Tuck" + "Yuck" = 9 p.m. "PERFECT PRIVATE PARTS" (BBC America)
10 p.m.
"ELEVENTH HOUR" (CBS) is still apparently on the air.
TALK TALK * Tavis is evil with Carlos Santana.
* David spins in the city with Michael J. Fox and the Fray.
* Jay rides in on his white horse for Ben Affleck and Taylor Swift.
* Jimmy Kimmel is fast and/or furious with Vin Diesel, Anna Faris, and
the Eli Young Band.
* Craig reminds you of anyone with Brittany Murphy and Christopher Gorham.
* Jimmy Fallon shares haircare secrets with Seth Rogen, Leighton
Meester, and Dr. Dog.
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