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Thursday, May 6
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO Why, if it isn’t the cast of Friends getting all misty-eyed over the long-overdue demise of their sitcom! Musical guests the Black Eyed Peas say it for the rest of us: Shut Up. 11:35 pm NBC/CKVR, repeated at 3:30 am on NBC, 10 pm Friday on Star
THE BLOOD OF A POET (1930, dir Jean Cocteau, with Elizabeth Lee Miller and Enrique Rivero) When the water-cooler contingent ask your opinion on tonight’s Friends finale (as if it won’t be in perpetual syndication), tell them you were watching a double bill of arty black-and-white movies instead. In French with subtitles. Cocteau narrates his first feature, a 50-minute surrealistic dream sequence about the meaning of art – or something – that ends with a baffling cosmic conclusion. 9 pm on TFO
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946, dir Jean Cocteau, with Jean Marais and Josette Day) followed by his fantastical fairy-tale adaptation that inspired Disney’s musical remake. 9:50 pm on TFO
Friday, May 7
ELTON JOHN ONE NIGHT ONLY: GREATEST HITS LIVE Directed by David Mamet and shot during a two-night stand at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, One Night finds the flamboyant pianist trolling through his back catalogue yet another time with guests Mary J. Blige, Billy Joel, Bryan Adams and leather-lunged Anastasia. 3 pm on MuchMoreMusic
THIRD WATCH Kiss’s Gene Simmons portrays a vengeful drug dealer on the first of a two-parter that concludes next Friday. Charlie’s Angel Kate Jackson and Henry (the Fonz) Winkler co-star. 10 pm on NBC/CTV
THE SEASON Anger management graduate and hockey fan James Hatfield of Metallica narrates this behind-the-scenes profile of the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche. Midnight on TSN
Saturday, May 8
WORDS AND MUSIC BY PRINCE His Purpleness gives a rare interview and in-the-studio preview of his Musicology CD and summer tour. 8 pm on BET
TIGERLAND (2000, dir Joel Schumacher, with Colin Farrell) Using hand-held cameras, Schumacher (St. Elmo’s Fire, Batman Forever) dumps his usual bombast for this gritty portrayal of reluctant Vietnam War boot camp recruits desperate to avoid being sent overseas. 9 pm on History, repeated at midnight
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991, dir Wim Wenders, with William Hurt, Jeanne Moreau and Max von Sydow) Intriguing heist caper derails halfway through, turning into a confusing and overlong apocalyptic snooze-fest set in the Australian outback. Soundtrack: U2, Jane Siberry, Daniel Lanois, Lou Reed and the MC5’s Fred “Sonic” Smith. 9 pm on Space
BONES (2001, dir Ernest R. Dickenson, with Snoop Dogg and Pam Grier) Murdered by a corrupt cop, Dogg returns from the dead 22 years later to even the score in this grade-Z teen slasher flick. 11 pm on BET
Sunday, May 9
THE CORPORATION (2003, dir Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan) Hit doc’s three episodes (The Pathology Of Commerce, Planet Inc and The Reckoning), delving into the phenomenon of corporate psychosis, screen consecutively. With Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Anna Nicole Smith. 8 pm on TVO
THE SURREAL LIFE The last four back-to-back episodes of this seriously wack reality show conclude with
MC Hammer officiating at whiner Corey Feldman ‘s wedding. Geriatric playboy Hugh Hefner and his retinue of silicone fembots attend the ceremony. 6 pm on MuchMoreMusic
INDEPENDENT LENS: THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND (2002, dir Sam Green, Bill Siegel) Oscar-nominated doc in which former 60s student radicals recall their intent to violently overthrow imperialism though they’re white, middle-class and conflicted. 11 pm on PBS
Monday, May 10
LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY New wave funksters the Rapture perform. 1:35 am on NBC
Tuesday, May 11
BORN TO BE WILD Profile of John Kay , the frontman of 60s rockers Steppenwolf, the Toronto combo forever remembered for introducing the phrase “heavy metal” into the rock ‘n’ roll lexicon. 9 pm on Bravo
LIVE AT THE REHEARSAL HALL: RANDY BACHMAN BTO and Guess Who guitarist gets jazzy in concert to promote his new mature direction. 10 pm on Bravo
THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG KILBORN Reggae superstars Toots and the Maytals perform. 12:35 am, CBS/CHCH
LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN Twenty-year-old Norwegian heartthrob
Sondre Lerche – who plays the Horseshoe Saturday (May 8) – promotes his second Bacharach-inspired CD, Two Way Monologue. 12:35 am on NBC/CKVR, repeated Thursday (May 12) at 5 pm on Star
Wednesday, May 12
MADE IN U.S.A. (1966, dir Jean-Luc Godard, with Anna Karina, Richard Widmark and Marianne Faithfull as herself). TFO’s chronological Godard retrospective continues with this convoluted and didactic film noir that finds Karina, in her last film with Godard, on the run from rhetorical gangsters. Faithfull sings As Tears Go By. As one would. 9 pm on TFO
