I’ve got to leave the Internet a little early today to do actual talk-to-people work, so I leave you with the reminder that 
the first episode of “The Pacific” airs this Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern. Above is the brand new trailer for the premiere, and once again: Chills. Goosebumps on my arms. The New York Times calls it “never less than spellbinding.”
Given that I’ve been excited for this miniseries for over a year now, there is nothing more important happening this weekend. People, if you don’t have HBO, break into someone’s house who does. If there’s a family there and they object to your presence, murder them with a Ka-Bar fighting knife. Then, after you’re done watching, torch the place with a flamethrower. It’s what the Devil Dogs of the 1st Marine Division (my old unit) would want you to do.
More weekend TV highlights and lowlights below.
Saturday Night Live (NBC) — Jude Law hosts. He always comes off as an A-hole nancy boy, but I’ll admit that he’s a pretty good actor. Still, I hope there’s at least one sketch where he gets his ass kicked.
Who Do You Think You Are? (tonight, NBC) — Emmitt Smiff learns about his geology.
Supernanny (tonight, ABC) — Season finale. If it’s anything like the DC Comics version, I think she gets killed off.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (tonight, Starz) — In this episode, Spartacus battles non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. THE CROWD GOES WILD!
Blue Collar Comedy: ten Years of Funny (Saturday, CMT) — I beg to differ.
Who Framed Jesus? (Sunday, Discovery) — This is two hours long, really? I thought Mel Gibson already established that it was the Jews.
Help! I’m Turning Into a Giant! (Sunday, TLC) — Oh, TLC. Never change.
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I don’t know if I can handle The Pacific. I mean, it looks amazing, but I think I still have WWII hangover from the History Channel series.
“The Pacific” airs this Sunday at 9 p.m. ”
So you’ll dvr Desperate Housewives?
Does TLC stand for This Looks Crazy?
I’m still waiting for the Hanks-Spielberg series depicting Operation Barbarossa. That there was some epic carnage, and mostly overlooked in my Cold War era textbooks.
Who Framed Jesus?
Spoiler alert: Pontious Pilate was a toon.
Mmmmmm Devil dogs
Damn you Danger Guerrero for beating me to that joke.
NOT JUST ANY TOON!!!!! REMEMBER ME JESUS!?! WHEN I KILLED JOHN THE BAPTIST I TALKED JUST! LIKE! THIIIISSSSS!!!!!
The Japanese ? Those the motherfucker’s who bombed Pearl Bailey ?
Why Ufford! Are you implying that Emmitt Smith is anything other than
articulate and well spokenEric Dickerson?And America’s Worst Driver looks amusing on Travel Channel Sunday night
“never less than spellbinding.”
Way to complement your praise with unnecessary words, New York Times.
I only get Latin HBO, so doesn’t that mean it’ll come on at 9:25pm (after the staff takes a nap?)
Anybody watch Supernanny and suddenly have this urge to bang a BBW with a British accent? Cause I do.
Damn you Danger Guerrero for beating me to that joke.
I was gonna go with “Pbpbppbpbpbpbppplease Potius Pilate.”
@ Me, Xander, Tim
Mary Magdalene isn’t bad, she’s just written that way.
whoahhhh
It would be better if Edward was is in this. MLIT
Did a 4 year pump in the Corps. Grandpa was a Marine Raider and AMTRAC stud.
I am going to watch this surrounded by the heads of dead gooks. Fresh ones.
Holy fucking shit. Correction, The Pacific debuts on Latin HBO on April 11th…FML.
white americans save the world again. sorry to pull a spike lee.
fuck you spammer
and sorry spam, your fine product is tainted by internet faggots
@ donturtuccio … It is most refreshing to find that the are yet some people that are still hypocritical, racist, prejudiced, and homophobic… I would just have to bet that you are the sterling epitome of Aryan-ideological juvenility — No offense, Wop-Nazi, ok!?!
I may be racist, prejudice, and homophobic… but hypocritical?
damn… btw I’m a gay, black, and Jewish
and btw kandi, i was actually referring to the actual spam (aka advertisement) that was posted, not the person talking about spike lee…
and faggot? well this is a tv blog so I hope you saw the south park episode about “fags”