TV Party for Monday, August 15th

Well, like I said last Friday, it’s mid-August and that means it’s Football Season. Kick your night off with Monday Night Football at 6 on ESPN, as the Eagles take on the Steelers in a game no one cares about except people in Pennsylvania.

After the game, flip over to ABC for “Remember the Titans”, which is apparently not about the NFL team in Tennessee. Instead, it’s the true tale of a Virginia school that hires a black high-school football coach after it undergoes integration in 1971. Denzell Washington plays Coach Herman Boone, hired over a successful white coach to run the football program at the newly integrated T.C. Williams High School and must overcome both the player’s and parents’ resistance to the new changes brought on by integration.

If football isn’t quite your thing, how about some old-school spy work, Lazenby style? Tonight at 8 AMC brings you “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” the only Bond appearance by Australian model George Lazenby, who was cast in the role when Sean Connery refused to play Agent 007 again after doing five Bond films in as many years. The lovely and talented Emma Peel…sorry, that’s Diana Rigg…is the requisite love interest and the only of the many Bond girls to end up with the name “Mrs. Bond.” Kojak’s Telly Savalas plays SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the master criminal intent on destroying the world's agricultural economy. The film features that classic 60s Bond action you know and love, with a face you don’t see nearly as often as the other Bonds. And hey, it’s not every day you get to see 007 get married, now, is it?

Finally, at ten head to OLN for the first episode of “Survivor: Australian Outback.” OLN just finished running the original “Survivor” series, and are now moving on to season two. And while this isn’t the episode where the guy falls in the fire, it’s still sure to be a good one, as I believe one of the tribe’s camp is washed away in a flash flood. Or maybe someone’s baby is eaten by a dingo. One of those.

That’s your TV Party for Monday, August 15th, for Northwest Indy Radio I’m Scott Chicken