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Susan Sarandon appears in a couple of films on the tube tonight. |
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Do the time warp again on 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' 
THIS WEEKEND ON TV
Canwest News Service
Saturday
Rice shower, anyone? Get your lighters ready and prepare to do the Time Warp all over again: The creeptacular rock musical 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' is resurrected yet again, this time just in time for Halloween. Yes, that's Susan Sarandon as the naif Janet, in her pre-Enchanted phase. Who'd've guessed? (CTV)
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Another side of Sarandon is on display in 'The Witches of Eastwick,' Mad Max-filmmaker George Miller's crafty, visually sumptuous 1987 reimagining of the John Updike novel about a trio of modern gals (Sarandon, Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer) whose inner power comes to life with the arrival of a dark, mysterious stranger (Jack Nicholson). A playful romp, and a heckuva lot of fun. (CMT)
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Sure, 'Saturday Night Live' is a repeat tonight - Ryan Reynolds is the host - but musical guest Lady Gaga's eccentric medley of LoveGame, Bad Romance and Poker Face is exactly the kind of musical performance that gives SNL its white-hot cultural cachet and has helped keep the show alive for going-on 35 seasons now. Lady Gaga's impromptu dance sketch with (an unbilled) Madonna isn't too shabby, either. SNL runs hot and cold most weeks. Tonight's show is top-shelf all the way. (Global, NBC)
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The ghostbusters team on 'Most Haunted' heads to Transylvania for a special Halloween episode. The two-hour show promises "frightening and sinister evidence of otherworldly activity" including ghosts, imprisonment and unexplained death. (W Network)
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There's a slew of scary films airing tonight, with varying degrees of cheese and chills. They include Martin Scorsese's violent 1991 remake of the 1962 psychological thriller 'Cape Fear' on Bravo; the high school angst of wannabe witches on 'The Craft' on Viva; and the gore of the 2003 remake, 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' on Space.
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Sunday
From the frying pan into the cool box: 'The Amazing Race' runs pell-mell from Dubai - 40 degrees in the shade - into a biting wind and a cold rain in the Netherlands in tonight's outing. The episode is called, somewhat forebodingly, "This Is Not My Finest Hour." Every episode since the competition's second season in 2002 has been named after something either host Phil Keoghan or one of the contestants said on that leg of the Race. Earlier this season, there was, "Sean Penn, Cambodia, here we come!" - one of the Race contestants misstated the name of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, as "Sean Penn," presumably as a joke - and last week, it was, "Do it for the hood! Do it for the 'burbs!" That last one came from the team that, just five episodes into The Amazing Race's most frantically paced season yet, has become an audience favourite: Harlem Globetrotters and 'hood homeboys Nathaniel "The Big Easy" Lofton and Herbert "Flight Time" Lang. Leave it to The Amazing Race, the most inspired reality-TV concept since Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, to feature a pair of race-around-the-world contestants who are official Globetrotters. Viewers certainly seem to respond: Last week's episode scored a chart-topping 2.6 million viewers in Canada. (CTV, CBS)
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According to tonight's story synopsis for 'Mad Men,' "Peggy's taste in men proves questionable." Bet you never saw that coming. (AMC)
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Surprise! The wives have issues tonight on 'Desperate Housewives.' Bree (Marcia Cross) is becoming increasingly fed up with Orson - what, already? - Katherine (Dana Delany) is developing a serious crush on Mike - what, so soon? - and Susan (Teri Hatcher) has just about had it up-to-here with, well, just about everyone. Issues, people. These women have issues. (CTV, ABC)
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Tommy (Balthazar Getty) returns from his Mexican hippie hideout in 'Brothers & Sisters,' bringing with him a killer tan, a new Zen attitude, a nifty chicken-mole recipe and a secret. What secret, you ask? That would be telling. (Global, ABC)
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Bender, Fry, Leela and the gang are back on TV with the film 'Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder.' This time around, Bender's in love with a married fembot, Leela's on the run from the law and Fry is recruited for an ultra-secret mission to stop a mysterious species from destroying all life in the universe. (Global)
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'The Nature of Things With David Suzuki' kicks off a three-part docu-drama on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. "Darwin's Brave New World" explores how the naturalist's controversial ideas have transformed the world and challenged the scientific community. (CBC)
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