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Thursday, September 2
RALPH: COFFEE JAZZ AND POETRY Vancouver-based beat poet, performer and zine publisher Ralph Alfonso gets profiled offstage and on. 8:30 pm on Bravo
LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN UK buzz band Snow Patrol make their North American TV debut. 11:35 pm on CBS
MIFUNE (1999, dir: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Anders Thomas Jensen, w/ Iben Hjejle and Paprika Steen) The third Dogme film, this Danish-Swedish co-production attempts slapstick romantic comedy minus all of Hollywood’s glitzy affectation. 12:10 am on Showcase
Friday, September 3
FOO FIGHTERS: EVERYWHERE BUT HOME Home movies and concert footage from the Seattle rockers’ last world tour. 3 pm on MuchMoreMusic
Saturday, September 4
FISHING WITH SHELLEY AND COURTNEY Courtney Love, the troubled widow Cobain, attempts to contact romantic British poet Percy “Ode To The West Wind” Bysshe by Ouija board. 1:30 pm on Toronto1
FATHER OF THE PRIDE Can this animated series featuring the voices of John Goodman and Carl Reiner as showbiz tigers in the employ of Siegfried and Roy last long? We say pride goeth before the fall. 8 pm on NBC
Sunday, September 5
ACTOR’S STUDIO: TOM CRUISE The greatest living actor of the American cinema avoids all questions relating to his religion or sexuality in this two-hour Q&A. Now, that’s acting! 5 pm on Bravo
Monday, September 6
THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW The dancing fool returns for her second daytime series of celebrity chat and late-night-style zaniness on a new channel and second daily time slot. American Idol Kelly Clarkson performs her new single, Breakaway. 10 am weekdays on CKVR, repeated 5 pm weekdays on Citytv
Tuesday, September 7
OIL: THE WORLD OVER A BARREL Repeat of the three-part doc examining the industry’s insatiable expansion into politically unstable countries like Azerbaijan, Ecuador and Angola as well as ecologically sensitive areas in the Arctic and Alberta’s tar sands. 8 pm on Newsworld, repeated at 11 pm, 2 am and 5 am continues Wednesday and Thursday at the same times
Wednesday, September 8
TOMMY – A FAMILY PORTRAIT A very funny and moving biography of brilliant Codco comic and consummate party animal Tommy Sexton , who died much too early of AIDS in 1993. 9:30 pm on Bravo
