Posted on Sat, Jun. 14, 2008 10:15 PM
What to watch June 15-21
“Weeds” returns for a fourth season (9 p.m., Showtime) that promises to be even loopier than the third. Now we’re to believe that Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) is living on the lam, having torched her marijuana-laden house and run off to the Mexican border, and has gotten into bed with smugglers who move illegals. Pot-selling suburban mom, that I could buy. But I draw the line at hot 40-something coyote! At least the always-delightful Albert Brooks will be chewing up scenes for four weeks as Nancy’s father-in-law.
That’s followed by “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” a British import about a hooker who never takes off her undergarments, so don’t say you weren’t warned.
TUESDAY
A rare summer “Frontline” (8 p.m., KCPT) takes a hard look at China’s new generation of consumers, some of whom have childhood memories of staggering poverty. It’s an attempt to show the moral and spiritual dimensions of going from rags to riches.
WEDNESDAY
Let’s see: We’ve had extreme fishing, extreme trucking, extreme container-shipping — what’s left? Extreme rigging, that’s what. “Black Gold” (9 p.m., TruTV) comes from the folks who brought you “Ice Road Truckers” and “Deadliest Catch” and “America’s Port,” and this one is just like that, only it’s on a new channel (formerly known as Court TV) and it’s about oil. I don’t care how high your cable bill is — watching oil is cheaper than burning it!
| Aaron Barnhart, The Star
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