Besides sports there isn’t much to look forward to until Sunday with the Sopranos finale and John From Cincinnati premiere. Plus, Brian Regan has a Comedy Central Special.

Sports

Belmont Stakes (5, ABC) – No one going for the Triple Crown this year. Still, I’m hooked on this horse racing thing. Just watching, I’m not at the point of betting on it. You can make picks for fun at Ice Cream Helmet.

Stanley Cup Finals
Ducks vs Senators
Game 4 @ Ottawa: Monday (8, NBC)
Game 5 @ Anaheim: Wednesday (8, NBC)
Game 6 @ Ottawa: Saturday (8, NBC)

NBA Finals
Spurs vs Cavaliers
Game 1 @ San Antonio: Thursday (9, ABC)
Game 2 @ San Antonio: Sunday (9, ABC)

French Open
Women’s Final: Saturday (9am, NBC)
Men’s Final: Sunday (9am, NBC)

Check out the week …

Monday

Make Over Train (TLC Broadband) – TLC’s first broadband show. They makeover people on the subway in Boston. Oh, they do it in three minutes. I was hoping they were making over the subway car itself. I’m hoping someone figures out this broadband tv so I have to check this out at least to see how they do it. Apparently you will be able to watch it at tlc.com/makeovertrain.

Tuesday

The Universe (9, The History Channel) – Mars.

The Shield (10, FX) – Season Finale. People tell me this is a good show.

Wednesday

American Inventor (9, ABC) – Pat Croce is a judge this year.

Mythbusters (9, Discovery Channel) – Big Rig Myths. They try to find out if an exploding truck tire can kill someone and test if drafting works.

Barbaro (10, HBO) – Haven’t gotten enough of Barbaro? This documentry is very likely excellent, but no one wants to hear any more about it.

Destination Truth (10, Sci-Fi) – Sounds like MythBusters on the road. This week they head to Papua New Guinea to find a mermaid.

Thursday

The Office (9, NBC) – Grief Counseling. A former regional manager dies and Michael forces everyone into grief counseling.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (10, NBC) – NBC doesn’t even know this is on. Last week’s was listed as a repeat. One thing that could have helped would have been to make the guest host involved every week. Its only happened a few times. This past week Jenna Fischer only appeared on a TV during the goodbye at the end of the show.

Friday

Might as well get a Friday night hobby.

Saturday

The States (10, The History Channel) – I haven’t even heard about this and its almost over. A look at each state, a couple each week. One per week would have been interesting. This week: Virginia, Ohio, Idaho, Alabama, North Dakota.

Sunday

The Sopranos (9, HBO) – This is it. The finale. The question is do I care more aobut what’s going to happen or that its finally over? We’ll see.

John From Cincinnati (10, HBO) – I have a rule that I watch the first episode of every new HBO show. They don’t come around that often and they have a pretty good track record. From reading the summary it appears the show is about cursed surfers. This guy John shows up, who is a mysterious stranger and all sorts of things happen.

Brian Regan: Standing Up (10, Comedy Central) – New stand up special from Brian Regan.

This week will be especially difficult with all the talk shows on break.

Sports

Stanley Cup Finals: Monday (Versus), Wednesday (Versus), Saturday (NBC)

French Open: ESPN2 and The Tennis Channel – Comcast is giving us The Tennis Channel for free for this. Trying to tempt me into purchasing the Sports Package. Little do they know I’m planning on getting it when the college football season starts. That is, if I can hold old during the college baseball regionals.

Now that the important stuff is out of the way, check out the whole week …

Monday

Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed (9, The History Channel, 2 hours) – Explores where it came from and why its still so popular.

Tuesday

The Universe (9, The History Channel) – I haven’t watched The History Channel in quite a few years. It was one of my most watched channels back in middle school. I don’t think space when I think The History Channel. This week’s is all about the Sun.

Wednesday

Outrageous TV Moments (8, NBC, 2 hours) – Somehow I always wind up watching these. The perfect summer filler. They have perfected the tease on these shows. Once you start watching you can’t turn it off. You want to know which current TV star appeared on The [enter $ amount here] Pyramid 20 years ago.

Hidden Palms (8, CW) – Seems like The OC, with more people dying. Unless people died often on The OC, I only saw one episode. If they did, then it sounds exactly like The OC.

Traveler (9, ABC, 2 hours) – There was a preview a few weeks ago. I didn’t watch. From what I gathered, three friends are traveling and one of them blows something up and disappears. So I think they are trying to figure out who this person was while also trying to avoid getting blamed for the explosion themselves. That actually doesn’t sound half bad.

Thursday

Pirate Master (8, CBS) – A reality show about searching for treasure. I’m going to take a wild guess and say whoever gets voted off (or however they do it) will have to walk the plank.

Spelling Bee (8, ABC, 2 hours) – Move this back to ESPN where it belongs. Its just not the same on network primetime TV.

The Office (9, NBC) – The only show that I’m willing to watch a random repeat in no particular order. Other shows I will watch over and over on DVD. It helps that each episode can stand on its own. This is The Coup, where Dwight tries to take Michael’s job.

Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip (10, NBC) – I’m in to the end. I know its not coming back but its Aaron Sorkin and he doesn’t let me down. Really, I should take the time I would to watch this and watch my Sports Night DVDs.

Friday

Hmm, looks like you’re on your own.

Saturday

MythBusters (9, Discovery Channel, 2 hours) – Pirate Special. Do I need to say anything else?

Sunday

MTV Movie Awards (8, MTV, however long these things last) – I don’t remember the Music Video Awards being good since my Freshman year of college and I don’t ever remember the Movie awards being any good. Sarah Silverman is hosting, which should be better than usual. I feel like Jack Black and Justin Timberlake have hosted everything.

The Sopranos (9, HBO) – Second to last episode. I’m hoping for two things: excitement in the last two episodes and for it to end. I put too much time into the show to quit during the last season, so it needs to end.

Entourage (10, HBO) – I believe this is considered the season finally with the next season starting two weeks later. It seems to me that this season was way too quick. Turns out that it was off from the end of August until April and when it came back it was still the third season.

Shot in the Dark (10:30, HBO) – Documentary about Adrian Grenier (Vincent Chase in Entourage) as he tries to find his father.

Any other suggestions for my week. Don’t worry, I’m not planning on watching all of this. Just some things I thought someone might find interesting.