Nick DiPaolo and Artie Lange on Wednesday night. It’s been more than a year and a half since Artie Lange, the messy and at stud merry andrew and one-time sidekick to Howard Stern, was in heard red-hot on the radio, a stroke that came to an end on Wednesday night. On a Fox Sports Radio program hosted by his partner and companion funny man Nick DiPaolo (who in aim was components in for Tony Bruno), Mr. Lange joined the show to adopt questions from listeners and riff on contemporary events.
According to a fare blog of the program , confabulation of that kept Mr. Lange off the airwaves was not abundant, though Mr. Lange said he’s been getting calm at a rehabilitation readiness in West Palm Beach, Fla., and Mr. DiPaolo introduced him to the show by joking, "You might have seen him on ‘Intervention.’" The Web position The Comic’s Comic from the broadcast, in which a caller asks Mr. Lange if he’s light of a show up again to "The Howard Stern Show." Mr. Lange replied: "That would be the greatest horror ever, but listen, I was on the greatest show of all occasion for about nine years, and I put them in a very confused situation, to verbalize the least, so what am I prosperous to do? But I charity them all and they were great to me.
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"Warehouse 13" (9 p.m., SyFy) debuts tonight, a unique show on an outdated network (Sci Fi) with a renewed name. After a near-assassination at a museum opening, two misallied Secret Service agents consider themselves assigned (exiled, it seems) to a insignificant repository of nude items.
Pete (Eddie McClintock) has the untied manners of a basketball slang top banana and a disposition of following his instincts. Myka (Joanne Kelly) follows the rules to the letter. She loves her GPS, because it tells her systematically where she's putative to be.
Only now, Kelly is assigned to Secret Agent Artie Neilsen (Saul Rubinek), the wizard-like caretaker of Warehouse 13, a distant storage piece in the Dakota badlands where every share of weird technology and unexplained occurrence has been locked away for learn and safekeeping. If this all sounds familiar, it is. Very familiar, to be exact. Think of Sci Fi's own series "Eureka," and the TNT talkie franchise "The Librarian.
" It also hearkens back to the cavernous storage part at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," which was in arc inspired by "Citizen Kane." Artie exults in functional, though antiquated, versions of concomitant technology no-nonsense out of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil." If you don't remembrance all of its pissed off borrowing, "Warehouse," has merrymaking with its insane premise. Rubinek is quandary on here.
One two shakes he appears to be scatter-brained, the next he exhibits a laser-like focus, albeit a laser from Nicola Tesla's lab. He's also given many stupefied or inventive asides, such as potent his creative charges that Pandora's punch resides in the warehouse…"empty, of course." Look for CCH Pounder ("The Shield") in the untrivial character of Artie's mystifying and ageless superior. The two-hour run drags in parts, but "Warehouse" shows every mark of being an witty hour-long series. Its mingle of proficiency fiction, authentic whimsy and pipedream establish the programming and literary perchance the cast of the newly rechristened SyFy Network.
In the 1990s, classics were adapted to teen movies. Jane Austen's "Emma" became "Clueless" in 1995 and went on to arouse a sitcom that aired on ABC and later UPN. In 1999 Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" was transformed into "10 Things I Hate About You." Ten years later "10 Things I Hate About You" (8:00 p.m., ABC Family, TV-14) becomes its own sitcom. Better unpunctually than never. Or perchance not.
TV-Themed DVDs handy today involve the "Peanuts 1960s Collection," as well as "Young and Handsome," a comedy DVD from Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"). TONIGHT'S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS Seven families battle at in vogue day-tripper sites on the untrained authenticity series "Great American Road Trip" (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG). Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand leading man in the Coen Brothers' 2008 CIA comedy "Burn After Reading" (8 p.m., HBO, TV-14).
Amnesia strikes a spoil theorize on "The Mentalist" (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14). Auditions keep up on "America's Got Talent" (9 p.m., NBC, TV-PG).
Reese Witherspoon stars in the 2003 upshot "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde" (8 p.m., Fox, TV-PG). A loyal compress scours the blue for Earth-like planets on "NOVA ScienceNow" (9 p.m., PBS). Way up north on "Deadliest Catch" (9 p.m., Discovery, TV-14). Scheduled on "48 Hours Mystery" (10 p.m., CBS, r): eradication in Vegas Scheduled on "Primetime: Family Secrets" (10 p.m., ABC): a coupling vary procedure.
Franco needs finances on "Rescue Me" (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA) "Life. Support. Music." on "P.O.V." (10 p.m., PBS, break specific listings) profiles guitarist/singer/songwriter Jason Crigler after 2004 thought hemorrhage. "Masters of American Music" (10 p.m., Ovation) profiles Sarah Vaughan.
CULT CHOICE Lana Turner stars in cicerone George Cukor's form toil melodrama "A Life of Her Own" (3:30 p.m., Eastern, TCM).
SERIES NOTES Ducky's times gone by resurfaces on "NCIS" (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG,V) … Amateur hour on "The Superstars" (8 p.m., ABC) … The casting style looms on "90210" (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-14,L,V).
Quirky insolence property on "Better Off Ted" (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) … Couples sheathe the music on "Hitched or Ditched" (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-PG) … Elliot flounders on "Scrubs" (9:30 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) … Ron Eldard patron stars on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (10 p.m., NBC, r, TV-14).
LATE NIGHT Sacha Baron Cohen and Rob Thomas appear on "Late Show with David Letterman" (11:35 p.m., CBS) … Conan O'Brien hosts Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Connolly and Andrew Bird on "The Tonight Show" (11:35 p.m., NBC) … Kathy Griffin, Ramon Rodriguez and Ben Harper appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (12:05 a.m., ABC, r).
Anne Hathaway, Will Forte, Jon Favreau, and Mario Batali gabfest on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (12:35 a.m., NBC, r) … Craig Ferguson hosts Evan Rachel Wood and Christopher Gorham on "The Late, Late Show" (12:37 a.m., CBS).
