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Thursday, August 5
WILL AND GRACE Forced to vacate her luxury digs, Karen moves into a tacky apartment with too many clocks, vanilla candles and new roommate Madonna. Will Esther abandon her fake English accent for a more convincing Lawn Guyland twang? 8:30 pm on Global
DOG PARK (1998, dir Bruce McCulloch, w/ Luke Wilson, Janeane Garofalo and Harland Williams) Jilted boyfriend finds romance among the hounds of Riverdale Park in this lightweight comedy from former Kids in the Hall member. Fun game: spot your friends in the background as extras! 11:30 pm on CBC
Friday, August 6
BIOGRAPHY Three back-to-back episodes profile the private lives and very public careers of 20th-century sex bombs and closet intellectuals Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot. 8 pm on A&E, repeated at midnight
SOUNDSTAGE Cyndi Lauper demonstrates her more adult direction with interpretations of Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose, Nina Simone’s Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, as well as her own 1980s hits True Colors and Girls Just Want To Have Fun. 1 am on PBS
Saturday, August 7
FIND! Geeky identical twins and possible alien life forms Leigh and Leslie Keno evaluate American antiques and art in this spinoff of the U.S. version of Antiques Roadshow. 4 pm on PBS
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Live With Regis co-host Kelly Ripa guests alongside OutKast, who perform their double-side smash Hey Ya/I Like the Way You Move in this re-broadcast from November. 11:30 pm on NBC
Sunday, August 8
ORLANDO (1992, dir Sally Potter, w/ Tilda Swinton, Lothaire Bluteau and Quentin Crisp) Adapting the Virginia Woolf novel, Potter condenses 400 years of English pageantry into 90-some minutes. Arty gender-bending of history finds Crisp as the Virgin Queen Elizabeth – the first one, not our Brenda – and swoonsome Swinton as both hero and heroine title character. 8 pm on TVO
Monday, August 9
EMMERDALE Known by most as that British soap that’s on after Coronation Street, or the show with a plot that’s too convoluted to follow. Here’s a chance to catch up on this superior sudser before the CBC pulls it and Corrie from its sked for the Olympics. Plot synopsis: hunky chef Carlos is about to marry snooty lamebrain Nicola, who is pregnant with his child as is her sister Berniece, the wife of clueless local vicar Ashley. Meanwhile, the town teens have accidentally beheaded their school’s headmistress in a drunken joyride hit-and-run, and party girl Charity Dingle, cousin of serious nut case Cain Dingle (the nasty Gallagher brother clone who’s had his way with local copper Angie and her 15-year-old daughter Ollie), is about to wed wealthy wheelchair-bound Chris Tate for his money even though she’s having an affair with his sister Zoe, Emmerdale’s vindictive veterinarian. Got that? 3:30 pm Monday to Thursday on CBC
Tuesday, August 10
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN Meet The Fockers’ Ben Stiller joins aging rappers the Beastie Boys on the couch in a repeat from June. 11:35 pm on CBS/Omni1
Wednesday, August 11
REAGAN: THE HOLLYWOOD YEARS Sugar-coated doc fondly recalls the Tinseltown career of the recently dead prez and Bedtime For Bonzo star. 10 pm on PBS, repeated at 4:30 am
AIMEE AND JAGUAR (1998, dir Max Färberböck, w/ Maria Shrader and Juliane Köhler) Two women, one a Jew, the other a hausfrau married to a Nazi officer, fall in love in war-torn Berlin. Based on a true story. CBC at 11:30 pm
