2012 February

Real Time with Bill Maher (10 p.m. ET, Fridays only, on HBO Canada)

Mr. Rose announces his guests only on the day of broadcast, check the show’s Twitter account for guest announcements.

Friday: tba

DAYTIME

Live with Kelly (9 a.m. ET, NBC and CTV)

Monday: Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Uggie (The Artist)

Tuesday: Lucy Liu (Southland), Poppy Montgomery (Unforgettable)

Wednesday: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Larry the Cable Guy, Taylor Kitsch (John Carter)

Thursday: Dan Abrams, Don Cheadle (House of Lies), Kristin Chenoweth (GCB)

Friday: Dan Abrams, Anjelica Huston (Smash), Donnie Wahlberg (Blue Bloods)

The View 11 a.m. ET, ABC and CTV)

Monday: Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Ed Helms (The Lorax), Kathy Gingrich Lubbers and Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Tuesday: Mary J. Blige, Dana Delaney, Alan Rickman

Wednesday: Gayle King, Kathy Ireland, Lyle Lovett (Release Me)

Thursday: Zac Efron (the Lorax), Olympic boxing hopeful Quanitta Underwood and Hazzauna Underwood

Friday: Katharine McPhee (Smash), Dr. Drew Pinsky

The Talk (2 p.m., CBS)

Monday: Patrick Heaton

Tuesday: Penny Marshall

Wednesday: Emmy Rossum (Shameless)

Thursday: Jane Leeves

Friday: David James Elliot

Anderson (weekdays at 3 p.m. ET on CTV Two and NBC, 5 p.m. ET on CTV)

Monday: tba

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show (4 p.m. ET, CBS)

Monday: Meredith Vieira (Rock Center with Brian Williams), Emily VanCamp (Revenge)

Tuesday: Sophia Grace and Rosie, Kate Walsh (Private Practice)

Wednesday: Kacie B. (The Bachelor), Lauren Gray (American Idol)

Thursday: tba

Friday:

The Jay Leno Show (10 p.m. ET on NBC, A Channel)

Talk-show Tango Feb. 20-24: Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux, Paul Rudd and Wanderlust

In television on 02/20/2012 at 10:16 am

Who doesn’t love Jennifer Aniston. Well, except for … Nevermind.

Jennifer Aniston and equally gotta-love Paul Rudd are in this new movie (along with Jen’s new beau, Justin Theroux, comic knockout Malin Akerman and Energizer bunny Alan Alda) called Wanderlust. You gotta see it. Or at least that’s the message I’m getting from this week’s talk-show guest list. It’s everywhere. Here’s the trailer. Have a good week.

LATE NIGHT

Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Jungle Jack Hanna, Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)

Tuesday: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Eric Hutchinson (Moving Up Living Down)

Wednesday: Paul Rudd (Wanderlust), John Witherspoon, Heartless Bastards (Arrow)

Thursday: K’naan and Nelly Furtado (More Beautiful than Silence)

Friday: Matthew Broderick (Nice Work If You Can Get It), comic Nick Griffin, We Are Augustines (Rise Ye Sunken Ships)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Jayma Mays (Glee), Jean Michel Cousteau

Tuesday: Bill Maher (Real Time), Eloise Mumford

Wednesday: Carson Kressley, Anne Rice

Thursday: Malin Akerman (Wanderlust), Jon Ronson

Friday: John Waters, Jennifer Carpenter (Gone, Dexter)

Monday: Taylor Swift, Michael Clarke Duncan (The Finder), Los Lobos’ Cesar Rosas and David Hidalgo with Robert Randolph and Chris Layton

Tuesday: Bill O’Reilly, Rob Riggle, Rumer

Wednesday: Tim Allen (Last Man Standing), Rocket City Rednecks, Jessie Baylin

Thursday: Meredith Vieira (Rock Center with Brian Williams), Jackson Murphy, Redlight King

Friday: Jennifer Aniston (Wanderlust), Adam Levine, Chiddy Bang

Conan (midnight ET on Comedy Network, 1 a.m. on CTV)

Monday: Adam Sandler, Christina Tosi, Joe Jonas (R)

Tuesday: Amanda Seyfried (Gone), Andy Lewis, Fun (Some Nights)

Wednesday: Jennifer Aniston (Wanderlust), Ron and Amy Shirley (Lizard Lick Towing Company), Jay Larson (Self-Diagnosed)

Thursday: comic Mike Epps, Dhani Harrison (George Harrison Guitar App)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Anjelica Huston (Smash), Hugh Dancy, Todd Glass, Nick Jonas (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

Tuesday: Tyler Perry (Good Deeds), David Wain, David Alan Grier (Porgy and Bess)

Wednesday: Alan Alda (Wanderlust), performance from Broadway show Ghost

Thursday: William Shatner (Shatner’s World: We All Just Live in It), Padma Lakshmi (Alcatraz), performance from Broadway’s Anything Goes

Friday: Paul Rudd (Wanderlust), Gabrielle Union, performance from Broadway’s Sister Act

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m. ET on ABC)

Monday: Nathan Fillion (Castle), Josh Hutcherson (Jorney 2: The Mysterious Island), Far East Movement

Tuesday: Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family), Kate Upton (2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition)

Wednesday: Jessica Alba (The Honest Company), Barney Frank, Nathan Myhrvold, Tower of Power

Thursday: Justin Theroux (Wanderlust), Die Antwoord

Note special Sunday (Oscar) night special, live starting at (approximately) midnight: Billy Crystal, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Martin Scorsese, Coldplay and more

Chelsea Lately (11-11:30 p.m. ET on E!, formerly Star!, Videotron digital 125, Bell 621, Shaw Direct 168 and 527)

Monday: tba

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Daily Show with Jon Stewart (11 p.m. Comedy Network, midnight ET, CTV)

Monday: Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian (We’re with Nobody)

Tuesday: Russ Feingold (While America Sleeps: A Walke-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era)

Wednesday: tba

Thursday: Paul Rudd (Wanderlust)

The Colbert Report (11:30 p.m. Comedy Network, 12:30 a.m. ET, CTV)

Monday: Ann Patchett (Parnassus Books)

Tuesday: Robert Kagan (The World America Made)

Wednesday: Nancy Pelosi

Thursday: Placido Domingo (Los Angeles Opera)

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (11 p.m. ET, CBC)

Monday: Gerry Dee (Mr. R), Samantha Bee (Daily Show), Coeur de Pirate

Tuesday: Eugene Levy, Martin Short, F–ked Up

Wednesday: Alan Thicke, Ron James, The Sheepdogs

Thursday: Jason Segel, Jeff Ross, Trombone Shorty

Friday: Russell Peters, Angelo Tsarouchas, k-os

Real Time with Bill Maher (10 p.m. ET, Fridays only, on HBO Canada)

Mr. Rose announces his guests only on the day of broadcast, check the show’s Twitter account for guest announcements.

Friday: tba

DAYTIME

Live with Kelly (9 a.m. ET, NBC and CTV)

Monday: Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-0), Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men), Derek Hough (Dancing with the Stars)

Tuesday: Matthew Morrison (Glee) cohosts, Rico Rodriguez (Modern Family)

Wednesday: Carrie Ann Inaba (Dancing with the Stars) cohosts, Patricia Heaton (The Middle)

Thursday: Mark Consuel0s cohosts, Jorge Garcia (Alcatraz), Cobra Starship

Friday: Mark Consuelos cohosts

The View 11 a.m. ET, ABC and CTV)

Monday: William Shatner (Shatner’s World: We All Just Live in It), M. William Phelps (Dark Minds)

Tuesday: Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family), Tyler Perry (Good Deeds), cast of Dance Moms

Wednesday: Star Jones

Thursday: Dr. Mehmet Oz, Paul Adelstein (Private Practice)

Friday: Lori Greiner (Shark Tank)

The Talk (2 p.m., CBS)

Monday: Jamie Lee Curtis

Tuesday: Regis Philbin

Wednesday: Joan and Melissa Rivers

Thursday: Tom Arnold

Friday: Tyler Perry (Good Deeds)

Anderson (weekdays at 3 p.m. ET on CTV Two and NBC, 5 p.m. ET on CTV)

Monday: tba

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show (4 p.m. ET, CBS)

Monday: Amanda Seyfried (Gone)

Tuesday: Zac Efron and Taylor Swift

Wednesday: Randy Jackson (American Idol), Justin Theroux (Wanderlust), Natasha Bedingfield (Chimes of Freedom)

Thursday: Jennifer Aniston (Wanderlust), performance from the Cirque du soleil show OVO

Friday: Seth Rogen, Bethenny Frankel

The Jay Leno Show (10 p.m. ET on NBC, A Channel)

Talk-show Tango Feb. 13-17: Reese Witherspoon, Courteney Cox, and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

In television on 02/13/2012 at 10:08 am

The thing I am most looking forward to this week is Valentine’s Day. Not because it’s all chocolate and flowers. Blech! But because it marks the return of Courteney Cox and Co. on Cougar Town, the great show with the stupid name, Tuesday at 8:30 on ABC and Citytv. Also, because it’s the debut of the very slick, fun-looking spy action romance This Means War, starring Reese Witherspoon and in theatres Tuesday.

Others of you might be more interested in more manly things, like the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Or Montreal star Jay Baruchel’s new movie, Goon. Nobody’s judging. You go ahead.

LATE NIGHT

Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Reese Witherspoon (This Means War), Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Top 10, Michael Weatherly (NCIS), Kasabian (Velociraptor!)

Tuesday: Viola Davis (The Help), Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, Mark Ronson, Erykah Badu, Zigaboo Modeliste and Dap Kings (RE: GENERATION)

Wednesday: Jon Stewart (The Daily Show), Yelawolf with Kid Rock (Radioactive)

Thursday: Joan Rivers, Andrew Lincoln (Walking Dead)

Friday: Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live), Mike Birbiglia

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Carol Burnett, Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race)

Tuesday: Joss Stone with Dave Stewart

Wednesday: Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men), Morena Baccarin (The Mentalist)

Thursday: Jeffrey Tambor, Amy Smart

Friday: Margaret Cho

Monday: Jennifer Lopez (American Idol, Q’Viva), Jeff Dunham, The Civil Wars (Barton Hollow)

Tuesday: Tyler Perry (Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds), Dorothy Custer, The Cranberries

Wednesday: Bill Maher (Real Time), Alexandra Wentworth, Punch Brothers

Thursday: Amanda Seyfried, Billy Gardell, Monica and Brandy

Friday: Dave Salmoni, The Fray

Conan (midnight ET on Comedy Network, 1 a.m. on CTV)

Monday: Ice-T and Coco (Ice Loves Coco), Adam Prally (Happy Endings), Wale

Tuesday: Reese Witherspoon (This Means War), RZA (Californication), The Intergalactic Nemesis

Wednesday: Curt Schilling

Thursday: Steve Martin, Rebecca Romijn (Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds), Cake

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance), Curt Schilling, John Besh

Tuesday: Donald Trump, Idris Elba (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance), Jake Owen

Wednesday: Greg Kinnear, Poppy Montgomery (Unforgettable), The Drums

Thursday: Maya Rudolph (Up All Night), Dylan Ratigan, Young Jeezy featuring Ne-Yo

Friday: Ricky Gervais (Life’s Too Short), Thandie Newton, Sinead O’Connor

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m. ET on ABC)

Monday: Jeff Goldblum (Glee), David Alan Grier (Porgy & Bess), Lana Del Rey

Tuesday: John Goodman (The Artist), Kevin Nealon, Robin Thicke

Wednesday: Science Bob Pflugfelder, Miley Cyrus

Thursday: Chris Pine (This Means War), Khloe Kardashian Odom (Khloe and Lamar), Puscifer

Friday: tba

Chelsea Lately (11-11:30 p.m. ET on E!, formerly Star!, Videotron digital 125, Bell 621, Shaw Direct 168 and 527)

Monday: tba

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Daily Show with Jon Stewart (11 p.m. Comedy Network, midnight ET, CTV)

Monday: Fawzia Koofi

Tuesday: Ricky Gervais (Life’s Too Short)

Wednesday: tba

Thursday: Arne Duncan

The Colbert Report (11:30 p.m. Comedy Network, 12:30 a.m. ET, CTV)

Monday: Bill McKibben (350.org)

Tuesday: William J. Broad (The Science of Yoga)

Wednesday: Claire Danes (Homeland)

Thursday: Susan Cain (Quiet)

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (11 p.m. ET, CBC)

Monday: Anne Rice (The Wolf Gift), Craig Oliver

Tuesday: Jay Baruchel and Alison Pill (Goon), Spencer Wells

Wednesday: Adrienne Arsenault, Bill Duke (Dark Girls)

Thursday: Wendy Crewson (The Vow, Winnie), John Giorno

Friday: best of the week and Young Empires

Real Time with Bill Maher (10 p.m. ET, Fridays only, on HBO Canada)

Mr. Rose announces his guests only on the day of broadcast, check the show’s Twitter account for guest announcements.

Friday: tba

DAYTIME

Live with Kelly (9 a.m. ET, NBC and CTV)

Monday: Randy Jackson cohosts, Reese Witherspoon (This Means War), Katharine McPhee (Smash)

Tuesday: Randy Jackson cohosts, Christina Perri (A Thousand Years)

Wednesday: Tony Potts cohosts, Ricky Martin and Nicki Minaj (Viva Glam), Khloe Kardashian

Thursday: Josh Groban cohosts, Tracy Morgan (30 Rock), Jersey Shore’s male cast

Friday: Josh Groban cohosts, Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Chris Byrne (American International Toy Fair)

The View 11 a.m. ET, ABC and CTV)

Monday: Sara Ramirez (Grey’s Anatomy)

Tuesday: Courteney Cox and Josh Hopkins (Cougar Town), Roma Downey, Deborah Feldman (Unorthodox)

Wednesday: Ricky Gervais (Life’s Too Short), Westminster Dog Show winner

Thursday: Ricardo Chavira, James Denton, Doug Savant (Desperate Housewives)

Friday: fourth annual Mutt Show

The Talk (2 p.m., CBS)

Monday: Ice T and Coco (Ice Loves Coco), Khloe Kardashian

Tuesday: Daniel Goddard and Christen Khalil

Wednesday: Thandie Newton

Thursday: Lisa Kudrow

Friday: tba

Anderson (weekdays at 3 p.m. ET on CTV Two and NBC, 5 p.m. ET on CTV)

Monday: MTV’s Teen Mom and The Real Face of Teen Pregnancy, plus What Would You Do? with John Quinones

Tuesday: Could You Protect Yourself? and Animal Planet’s Pit Boss Shorty Rossi

Wednesday: Blended Family Boot Camp

Thursday: Making Money Off of Murder and Public Shaming

Friday: New Toddlers and Tiaras Controversy

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (4 p.m. ET, CBS)

Monday: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony (Q’Viva),

Tuesday: Kris and Bruce Jenner (Kris Jenner … and All Things Kardashian), Sophia Grace and Rosie

Wednesday: Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy), skier Josh Dueck, Sierks Bentley (Home)

Thursday: tba

Friday: tba

New series debut Monday, Feb. 6: Heard enough of Smash yet? No you haven’t

In television on 02/06/2012 at 9:25 am

Yes, you’ve seen the promos on NBC and CTV enough times that you’re already sick of this new drama. But try it. I think you’ll like it. I love it.

Smash

Debuts:
Monday, Feb. 6 at 10 p.m. ET on CTV and NBC, regularly airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET (watch a meet-the-cast sneak preview online right now)

Premise:
Two of Broadway’s most successful musical theatre writing teams decide to write a musical inspired by the life of Marilyn Monroe. Casting frenzy, career victories and disappointments, midlife crises, and the messiness of new love, old love and old rivalries ensue. Cue the band. Also, might be interesting to Google All About Eve.

Cast:
Christian Borle (The Bounty Hunter) is Tom Levitt, one half the genius writing team. The common-sense half. Single. Who has just acquired an eager assistant.
Debra Messing (The Starter Wife, Will & Grace) is Julia Houston, the neurotic half of the writing team. Also wife, mom. Got baggage.
Katharine McPhee (Shark Night 3D, The House Bunny, American Idol) is Karen Cartwright, the dark horse in the race for the lead role in Marilyn. Sing it.
Jack Davenport (FlashForward, Swingtown) is Derek Wills, petulant but brilliant director. Nothing but trouble. Also other stuff.
Megan Hilty (Desperate Housewives, The Closer) is Ivy Lynn, the top contender in the competition for the lead role. Shall we say she’s … living it?
Anjelica Huston (Medium, Huff, The Royal Tenanbaums) is Eileen Rand, producer. A barracuda with a cocktail. Lives for theatre. Not that there’s much else going on in her life.
Jaime Cepero is Ellis Tancharoen, Tom’s new assistant. Hmmm.
Raza Jaffrey (Mistresses, Spooks) is Dev Sundaram, Karen’s devoted non-theatre-type boyfriend. Bedrock.
Brian d’Arcy James (Rescue Me, Person of Interest) is Frank Houston, husband to genius writer Julia. Also bedrock. Maybe a little erosion…
Steven Spielberg (Terra Nova, Falling Skies, The United States of Tara) and Theresa Rebeck (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Canterbury’s Law) are among the exec producers, with Rebeck pulling a lot of writing duty as well.

Review in six words*:
Previewed four episodes. Watching again live.

Real review:
I hate musicals. They’re not all horrible. Just not my taste. Also, too often the music takes you right out of the story and then plunks you back. Unpause. Narrative continues. But Glee has worn me down. It doesn’t plunk. I find myself smiling a lot for the pleasure of the music and performance, but also how the music is used to extend the viewers’ knowledge of the characters and story. Nice.

So Glee definitely put me in more of a mood for Smash, but I think I would have loved it anyway. And i do love it. The entire cast is excellent. The music is just enough and not too much. The story grabbed me not for its grandeur – I expected something called Smash would go way over the top in the first episode – but for its intimacy. In the first hour, you get small scenes with most of the main players that hint at the complexity of their connectedness. Tom and Julia (Borle and Messing) are the core, immediately believable as longtime partners and best friends. Made me think West Wing, without the speedy patter.

Having said that, Messing’s Julia is not yet convincing as Tom’s creative equal, though I’ll forgive that (for a while). Tom’s new assistant? I’ll also forgive the torquing of melodrama there, hoping it will go somewhere not too overwhelmed with soap bubbles. Another weak spot is Julia’s husband or, more accurately, her marriage. Work it, my dear. It’s not quite there yet.

Funtime:
You might want to be a star, might you? Well the show’s Facebook page wants you on the cover of Playbill, the program that comes with every New York theatre show. This app allows you to jam your own photo on the cover.

* The six-word conceit is inspired by Smith Magazine’s six-word memoir series, in which they invite people to submit six-word memoirs, often on a theme such as Father’s Day, and then publish them. Lovely. Wonderful. An excellent exercise in boiling stuff down. Which I don’t do often enough and thought I’d try here.

The Jay Leno Show (10 p.m. ET on NBC, A Channel)

Talk-show Tango Feb. 6-10: In praise of Nicolas Cage and Ghost Rider

In television on 02/05/2012 at 5:34 pm

Nic Cage. He has the honour of being in the only movie at the public screening of which I could not stop myself from shouting out loud at the screen. Gone in Sixty Seconds. Ridiculous. So many leaps of logic I sprained my medulla oblongata. Or something. So why do I love Ghost Rider so much? It’s true, but no fun at all, to argue that I don’t expect realism from a movie about a living dead flaming avenger with a crispy hot motorcycle. More like Ghost Rider – sequel of which opens Feb. 17 – is possibly the only character that can grant joyful freedom of (over) expression to the wildman of scenery chewing. And I know you fans of the comic book hated the first film. But you people are never happy are you? (Kidding! But seriously, you’re not ever happy with film treatments, are you?) Here’s a trailer. He’s on Letterman on Thursday. Burn baby, burn.

LATE NIGHT

Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Ringer), Joe Scarborough (Morning Joe), Die Antwoord (Tension)

Tuesday: Denzel Washington (Safe House), The Fray (Scars and Stories)

Wednesday: Ryan Reynolds (Safe House), Ellie Kemper (The Office), Dierks Bentley (Home)

Thursday: Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance), The Kills (Blood Pressures)

Friday: David Spade, Betty Wright (Betty Wright: The Movie)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Mark Harmon (NCIS), Martha Plimpton (Raising Hope)

Tuesday: Kenneth Branagh

Wednesday: Christina Applegate (Up All Night), Brad Goreski

Thursday: Lisa Kudrow, Weird Al Yankovic

Friday: Chelsea Handler (Are You There, Chelsea?), Dan Riskin

Monday: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Miranda Cosgrove, OKO from Cirque du Soleil

Tuesday: Chelsea Handler (Are You There, Chelsea?), John Huntsman, 2 Cellos

Wednesday: Chris Pine, Lisa Lampanelli, Anthony Hamilton

Thursday: Denzel Washington (Safe House), Octavia Spencer (The Help), Estelle

Friday: Rachel McAdams (The Vow), Cee Lo Green

Conan (midnight ET on Comedy Network, 1 a.m. on CTV)

Monday: Kristen Bell (House of Lies), Bret McKenzie (Flight of hte Conchords)

Tuesday: Phil McGraw, Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), Alabama Shakes

Wednesday: Martin Short, Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead), Dr. Dog

Thursday: Carol burnett, Jon Glaser (Delocated)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: tba

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Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m. ET on ABC)

Monday: L.L. Cool J. (NCIS: LA, Grammys), Angela “Big Ang” Raiola (Mob Wives), Pitbull

Tuesday: Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn), Damon Wayans Jr. (Happy Endings), 50 Cent

Wednesday: Nathan Fillion (Castle), Josh Hutcherson (Jorney 2: The Mysterious Island), Far East Movement

Thursday: Courteney Cox (Cougar Town), Tony Bennett

Friday: tba

Chelsea Lately (11-11:30 p.m. ET on E!, formerly Star!, Videotron digital 125, Bell 621, Shaw Direct 168 and 527)

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Daily Show with Jon Stewart (11 p.m. Comedy Network, midnight ET, CTV)

Monday: Tilda Swinton (We Have to Talk About Kevin)

Tuesday: Lou Dobbs

Wednesday: Jonathan Macey

Thursday: Brad Pitt (Moneyball)

The Colbert Report (11:30 p.m. Comedy Network, 12:30 a.m. ET, CTV)

Monday: Drew Barrymore (Big Miracle) (R)

Tuesday: Laurence H. Tribe (R)

Wednesday: Christiane Amanpour (R)

Thursday: Ameena Matthews (The Interrupters) (R)

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (11 p.m. ET, CBC)

Monday: Mark Tewksbury, Michelle Shephard

Tuesday: Clara Hughes, Dave Bidini

Wednesday: Alan Thicke, Brad Peyton

Thursday: Jill Hennessey, Caroline Rhea, Jeffrey Ross

Friday: best of the week and Adam Cohen

Real Time with Bill Maher (10 p.m. ET, Fridays only, on HBO Canada)

Mr. Rose announces his guests only on the day of broadcast, check the show’s Twitter account for guest announcements.

Friday: Al Sharpton, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Reihan Salam,

DAYTIME

Live with Kelly (9 a.m. ET, NBC and CTV)

Monday: Derek Hough, Debra Messing (Smash), Atticus Shaffer, Sally Hogshead

Tuesday: Michael Strahan, Sarah Michelle Gellar (Ringer), Michael Weatherly (NCIS)

Wednesday: Michael Strahan, Denzel Washington (Safe House), Vanessa Hudgens (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island)

Thursday: Jerry O’Connell, Ryan Reynolds (Safe House), Sammi and Deena (Jersey Shore)

Friday: Jerry O’Connell, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Rebecca Romijn

The View 11 a.m. ET, ABC and CTV)

Monday: Madeleine Stowe (Revenge), Taylor Armstrong (Real Housewives of Beverly Hills)

Tuesday: Zooey Deschanel (New Girl), Ali Westworth, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Wednesday: Faith Hill, Tim Mcgraw Andie MacDowell (Jane By Design)

Thursday: Viola Davis (The Help), White House chef Cris Comerford

Friday: Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), David Arquette, The Cranberries, Michael Fazio

The Talk (2 p.m., CBS)

Monday: Neil Patrick Harris

Tuesday: Kunal Nayyar (Big Bang Theory)

Wednesday: Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil)

Thursday: John Stamos

Friday: Daniel Radcliffe (Woman in Black)

Anderson (weekdays at 3 p.m. ET on CTV Two and NBC, 5 p.m. ET on CTV)

Monday: Joan and Melissa Rivers, My Mom’s a Hoarder

Tuesday: Howie Mandel, OCD Is Ruining My Life

Wednesday: How My Husband Became My Wife, plus The Latest Theory on Why Men Cheat

Thursday: Barbara Sheehan plus What You You Do? wiht Jon Quinones

Friday: Town Affected By Mystery Ilness plus My Strange Addiction

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (4 p.m. ET, CBS)

Monday: Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory), Miley Cyrus

Tuesday: Martin Scorsese (Hugo), Rachel McAdams (The Vow)

Wednesday: Julie Bowen (Modern Family), Josh Hutcherson (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island)

Thursday: tba

Friday: