Thursday Watch List: Football Players' Debutante Ball

Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and celebrate Earth Day by turning off that lamp four minutes early. LET’S GO!

NFL DRAFT – 7:30PM (ESPN and NFL Network) Yes, the NFL Draft. The debutante ball for newly rich Oklahomans. When it comes to the draft, you either really like it (as I do), or you hate it and you are visibly angered that other people would dare find it interesting. Well, too bad for you, Mr. Hater, because the Draft has become so popular that this will be the first time ever that the event will be shown in prime time.

There are a lot of intriguing questions surrounding this draft, namely where QBs Tim Tebow and Jimmy Clausen will end up. But the biggest question of all has nothing to do with any of the college prospects: Will Pittsburgh trade franchise QB Ben Roethlisberger just before this draft takes place? There are rumors out there that it will happen, and if it does… Yep, that’s gonna make my jaw drop. You have your choice of networks this evening for the draft. You can go with ESPN, which has Chris Berman (ugh) and Mel Kiper (YAY), or you can go with NFL Network and the silky smooth Rich Eisen. I haven’t decided who I’ll pick yet. I’ll be sure to announce my channel selection at some sort of podium. ANTICIPATION: #1

THE OFFICE – 9:00PM (NBC) Oscar makes a viral mashup video of Kevin and Cookie Monster. Kevin is the dumbest character on this show. It’s like they airlifted him in from an inferior sitcom, like “According to Jim.” He’s all wacky, and this show has never been about wacky hijinks. That’s my two cents. Of course, the Cookie Monster thing overrides any Kevin concerns. ANTICIPATION: GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME

THE MARRIAGE REF – 10:00PM (NBC) Tonight’s panel is Adam Carolla, Donald Trump, and Gloria Estefan. Wait, what? Only one of those people is funny for a living. ANTICIPATION: GLORIA’S GONNA GET YA

SOBER HOUSE WITH DR. DREW – 10:00PM (VH1) Dr. Drew took heat this week for saying Lindsay Lohan’s folks should plant drugs on her and let her go to jail. What I find more distressing than that, since Lohan will end up in jail one day anyway, is how this man can simultaneously appear on ninety different TV and radio shows. Don’t we think this guy has a bit of a fame complex? Juuust a smidge? Don’t we think he gets off on being Mr. Sensible, scolding those celebrity layabouts with his no-nonsenseness? I think this man has a problem of his own. ANTICIPATION: CAMERAHOGGIN’

PROJECT RUNWAY – 10:00PM (Lifetime) The finale. Go Anthony? What’s that? He’s out? Well, go Seth Aaron, I guess. ANTICIPATION: SMOKY EYES

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