TV Episode Summaries for
12th January 2011

NCIS Season 8, Episode 11

Ships in the Night

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on CBS

Gibbs and the NCIS team partner with a Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) Agent to solve the murder of a Marine gunned down on a dinner boat.

No Ordinary Family Season 1, Episode 12

No Ordinary Brother

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on ABC

When Jim's brother Mike learns that his brother has powers, he attempts to use JJ's powers to win at the horse track. Meanwhile, Katie receives a promotion, and Daphne comes to believe a student accused of drug use is innocent.

The Biggest Loser Season 11, Episode 2

Season 11, Episode 2

Airs: 1:00am - 3:00am on NBC

This week kicks off with host Alison Sweeney issuing a challenge to the ranch-based contestants: if they have a higher percentage of weight loss than the 'unknowns' - the contestants working out with the two new mystery trainers -- they'll all have immunity this week. The 'unknowns' fuel the competitive spirit by delivering messages and surprises to the contestants at the ranch reminding them just how tough their competition really is. Then Dr. Huizenga gives sobering news to contestants about their health risks and their real ages vs. their chronological ages, but this time, loved ones from home are involved to really help drive the message home. Later, the ranch contestants' ability to work together as a team is tested when they try to beat the time of the unknowns in a wild bridge-building challenge using rafts. Then a tense weigh-in reveals whether the ranch contestants are safe from elimination, or whether they'll be sending another player home.

The Game Season 4, Episode 1

Parachutes

Airs: 1:30am - 2:00am on BET

Melanie decides to swab DJ for a DNA test, only to find out that the baby isn't Derwin's.
Rick is suffering from identity issues and the start of a mid-life crisis. Kelly is the star in her very own reality tv show.

The Game Season 4, Episode 2

Beach Chairs

Airs: 1:30am - 2:00am on BET

Melanie risks her marriage when she tells Derwin the truth about his son, and sends Janay on a warpath in the process. Jason lashes out against the Sabers after being released. Kelly and Tasha decide to settle their differences and become friends again.

InSecurity Season 1, Episode 2

Keeping Up With the Laslovs

Airs: 1:30am - 2:00am on CBC

A mission to retrieve stolen secret Canadian submarine plans is complicated when Agent Cranston and Director McNeil (who takes a rare turn at field work) are invited to dinner by the Russian couple they're surveilling.

Hardcore Pawn Season 2, Episode 4

Desperate Pawn

Airs: 2:00am - 2:30am on truTV

Seth takes a beating when a negotiation turns into a kung fu fiasco. Then, Ashley scrambles to find a customer's missing guitar. Plus, the Golds must stand together as they face off against a mob of desperate customers, all in a day that's brought in more business than they typically see in two weeks.

NOVA Season 38, Episode 8

Deadliest Earthquakes

Airs: 2:00am - 3:00am on PBS

In 2010, epic earthquakes all over the planet delivered one of the worst annual death tolls ever recorded. The deadliest strike was in Haiti, where a quake just southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince, killed more than 200,000, reducing homes, hospitals, schools and the presidential palace to rubble. In exclusive coverage, a NOVA camera crew follows a team of U.S. geologists as they first enter Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. It is a race against time as they hunt for crucial evidence that will help them determine exactly what happened deep underground and what the risks are of a new killer quake. Barely a month after the Haiti quake, Chile was struck by a quake 100 times more powerful, unleashing a tsunami that put the entire Pacific coast on high alert. In a coastal town devastated by the rushing wave, NOVA follows a team of geologists as they battle aftershocks to measure Earthquake. Could their work, and the work of geologists at earthquake hot-spots around the U.S., lead to a breakthrough in predicting quakes before they happen? NOVA investigates intriguing new leads in its gripping investigation of a deadly scientific conundrum.

Dirty Jobs Season 7, Episode 15

Rum Distiller

Airs: 2:00am - 3:00am on Discovery Channel

Mike visits a distillery where he turns molasses into rum, hauls hoses, scours copper, and works with scalding liquids.

NCIS: Los Angeles Season 2, Episode 12

Overwatch

Airs: 2:00am - 3:00am on CBS

The NCIS team uncovers an experimental Navy tracking system when a body containing a top-secret residue is stolen from an autopsy room. Meanwhile, Callen challenges Hetty on the rock wall.

Flashpoint Season 3, Episode 9

Thicker Then Blood

Airs: 3:00am - 4:00am on CTV

The SRU must free an abducted man and find out what his past holds and the reason for the abduction in the first place.

Southland Season 3, Episode 2

Punching Water

Airs: 3:00am - 4:00am on TNT

Detectives Sammy Bryant and Moretta are concerned when Detective Salinger asks Lydia and Josie to help solve a series of gang murders. When Officer John Cooper is asked to monitor Billy Dewey after he returns from rehab, Officer Ben Sherman is teamed up with Chickie Brown.

Tosh.0 Season 3, Episode 1

Bed Intruder

Airs: 3:00am - 3:30am on Comedy Central

Web Redemption for Antoine Dodson, from the Bed Intruder song that famously said "Hide yo kids, hide yo wives and hide yo husbands because they be raping everybody out here". Tosh responds to suggestions to change his green screen set including making it look like the set of the The Soup since both shows are done almost entirely in front of a green screen and a suggestion that he include a Nazi flag because he was born in Germany. He also debutes he new wardrobe for the beginning of season 3 which is as he describes it, known as "Colla". He does 20 seconds on the clock entitled carrot bukkake in which two men suggestively peel carrots into the face of a kneeling woman. "Is he Retarded" was debuted.

The Good Wife Season 2, Episode 10

Breaking Up

Airs: 3:00am - 4:00am on CBS

Alicia and her colleagues face a moral dilemma when they must try to turn a client's son against his girlfriend, after both are accused of murder. Meanwhile, Diane asks Alicia to make a tough decision regarding the company's split.

Parenthood Season 2, Episode 12

Meet the New Boss

Airs: 3:00am - 4:00am on NBC

Adam meets his new and much younger boss, while Amber, Haddie and Crosby deal with issues of their own.

V (2009) Season 2, Episode 2

Serpent's Tooth

Airs: 3:00am - 4:00am on ABC

Anna and Diana square off in the dark bowels of the Mothership - Diana has been down there for 15 years and not had a single glimpse of Anna.
Meanwhile, Erica has Tyler's blood analyzed, and learns the V's did something sinister to her when she was pregnant with him.

Detroit 1-8-7 Season 1, Episode 12

Key to the City

Airs: 3:00am - 4:00am on ABC

During Longford's retirement party, the squad learns that assistant prosecutor Alice Williams has been shot and killed in the courthouse parking garage. For the team this case is personal and the suspects are many. It also emerges that Williams and a reporter were building a case against a prominent figure, someone Fitch has had run-ins with in the past.

Lights Out Season 1, Episode 1

Pilot

Airs: 3:00am - 4:00am on FX

Follows the struggles of a former heavyweight boxing champion. His name is Patrick "Lights" Leary. He tries to find his identity and support his wife and three daughters after retiring from the ring.

The Daily Show Season 16, Episode 6

Colin Firth

Airs: 4:00am - 4:30am on Comedy Central

Colin Firth

Conan Season 1, Episode 30

Javier Bardem, Rashida Jones, Steel Train

Airs: 4:00am - 5:00am on TBS

Conan welcomes actor Javier Bardem, actress Rashida Jones and musical guests Steel Train.

The Colbert Report Season 7, Episode 6

Chris Hughes

Airs: 4:30am - 5:00am on Comedy Central

Chris Hughes

Late Show [Letterman] Season 18, Episode 7

Vince Vaughn, Cage the Elephant

Airs: 4:35am - 5:35am on CBS

Actor Vince Vaughn; reality TV stars Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz; Cage the Elephant performs.

The Tonight Show [Leno] Season 19, Episode 7

Bill Maher, the Duke Spirit

Airs: 4:35am - 5:35am on NBC

Bill Maher, the Duke Spirit

The Late Late Show Season 7, Episode 7

Paula Abdul, Dave Attell

Airs: 5:35am - 6:35am on CBS

Paula Abdul, Dave Attell

Midsomer Murders Season 13, Episode 7

Not in My Back Yard

Airs: 8:00pm - 10:00pm on ITV

A planning dispute ends up with a murder being committed after a star of the Midsomer Conservation Society believes that her neighbours are involved in a money-making development scam. Barnaby is called in to investigate.

Shameless (UK) Season 8, Episode 3

Where's Frank?

Airs: 10:00pm - 11:00pm on Channel 4

Libby is shocked back into reality after she sees footage from Frank's stag party. Frank remains completely lost in his own sci-fi world. Shane decides to go into the school security busoness. Mickey is worried when his gay pen pal Timmy is released from prison.
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