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Movies & TV

What to watch this week

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Thursday, January 6

WICKEDLY PERFECT Good Morning America’s perky Joan Lunden hosts this competition to find CBS’s next cash cow now that domestic diva Martha Stewart is temporarily in the hoosegow. Judges TV chef Bobby Flay , Sex And The City author Candace Bushnell and Rosie O’Donnell’s bald hairdresser, David Evangelista , offer advice and condolences. 8 pm on CBS/CHCH

Friday, January 7

MARTHA STEWART LIVING Briefly dropped from the airwaves while incarcerated, Stewart is set to come back this spring even bigger than Donald Trump with a new NBC prime-time slot produced by Survivor’s Mark Burnett. Until then, catch these resurfaced and revamped omnibus episodes of Martha’s greatest hits. 1 pm on Life, repeated at 4 am

BLUE RODEO AND FRIENDS The Toronto troubadours perform down on their farm along with musical pals Sarah Harmer , Great Big Sea’s Alan Doyle , Ron Sexsmith , the Sadies and Rick White . 9 pm on CMT, repeated at midnight and 3 am

Saturday, January 8

THE STICK Hockey withdrawal got you down? Here’s a historic look at the laminated northern white ash, rock elm or aluminum devices without which our national obsession would be a game played by kicking a vulcanized rubber disc around the ice. 1 pm on CBC

Sunday, January 9

KENNY LOGGINS ON ICE Footloose, anyone? 4 pm on NBC

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE(2000, dir Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) Ironic doc from the World of Wonder team follows the rise and fall of makeup-impaired televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Midnight on TVO, repeated at 1:30 am Wednesday

Monday, January 10

CELEBRITY GOLF Fascinating black-and-white cultural relic from the early 60s finds golfer Slammin’ Sammy Snead shooting nine holes with Hollywood celebs of the day like Harpo Marx , James Garner , Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin . Consummate announcer Harry von Zell calls the shots. Diagrams, too! 6:30 pm on Golf

MANHUNT: THE SEARCH FOR AMERICA’S MOST GORGEOUS MALE MODEL Who knew that the bimbo cast of this slightly more masculine version of Tyra Banks’s brutal model search would be even more air-headed than their female counterparts? Or more skimpily attired? Sadly, there’s no über-bitch judge like ANTM’s Janice Dickinson to destroy the contestants’ dreams of stardom, and even host Carmen Electra fails to get a rise out of these boys. 3 pm on Life, repeated at 9 pm and 2 am

Tuesday, January 11

MONTREAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Ace Motown house band the Funk Brothers perform their assisted hits last summer with guest vocalists Joan Osbourne , Jacksoul and Sam & Dave’s Sam Moore . 8 pm on Bravo

Wednesday, January 12

THE ROAD TO STARDOM WITH MISSY ELLIOTT Ms. E hosts this new “dramality” talent contest that’s part American Idol, Big Brother and Puffy’s Making The Band. Scripted hijinks ensue: someone gets called a bitch, then Missy sings. 9 pm on Much

CANADIAN ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Perennially perky Valerie Pringle visits Calgary to evaluate a rare 1972 hockey stick. On ice? 8 pm on CBC

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