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Daily Picks For Friday, March 28, 2008

by Joe R. March 28, 2008 9:42 AM
Your picks for lazy Friday viewing.

This happens more often than you'd think, but Bravo's running School Ties this morning. Whether or not you feel the experiment to allow Brendan Fraser to carry a dramatic motion picture was successful, you at least have to marvel at the dizzying array of co-stars. Matt Damon and Benn Affleck AND Cole Hauser, making this kind of a Bad Will Hunting. Plus Chris O'Donnell, Anthony Rapp, and Amy Locane before she retreated from public society. That's worth something. (Bravo, 10 AM)

Hey, so if you ever felt regretful that you never went to film school while you still have your youth to burn, let me help you out: just DVR The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on Fox Movie Channel and make note of how dark, angular, and German everything is. Then next week we can focus on Modern Times. (Fox Movie Channel, 2 PM)

No one's casting aspersions here, but if you're not really in the mood to go anywhere or do much of anything besides sit around, drink, maybe smoke some smokables, I really can't recommend anything better than VH1's countdown of the 100 Greatest Songs Of The 90s. If you have a dartboard on hand, all the better to get you in the right mood to relive that year you spent in college listening to that Candlebox song over and over again. (VH1, 4:30 PM)

One of the many, many incredibly sad things about Heath Ledger's death is that now all of his movies -- especially the not-particularly heavy ones -- now have this pall cast over them. And nowhere is this stranger than in 10 Things I Hate About You, which up until now I've found to be an enjoyable trifle of a movie. Good enough for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Now, of course, it's just incredibly sad and now instead of looking at Heath Ledger being all broody and cute we're forced to gaze into the pie face of Julia Stiles just so we don't get too sad. Bummer. (Starz, 5:20 PM)

NCAA March Madness continues tonight with four games, including the nation's new favorite team, the Davidson Wildcats. It's just not an NCAA tournament without a little-team-that-could, and they don't come littler than these guys. They face Wisconsin for the right to go to the regional final. (CBS, 7 PM)

If you're one of those people who get eye-rollingly sick of people like me going on and on about how awesome Brooke Smith is and how she's being wasted in the role of Erica Hahn on Grey's Anatomy, then you've obviously never seen her in Series 7: The Contenders. Remedy this immediately. (Sundance, 8:30 PM)

Yep -- I'm still telling you to watch The Soup. Dude, The Hills and Dancing With The stars are back on the air -- you can't afford NOT to watch it. (E!, 10 PM)

Last fall when I went to see Patton Oswalt and the Comedians of Comedy perform here in New York, my favorite of the bunch was clearly omnipresent go-to nerd Brian Posehn. It's doubtful that Comedy Central will allow his best bits past the censors, but his Comedy Central Presents: Brian Posehn special is still pretty much guaranteed to kill you. With comedy! (Comedy Central, 10:30 PM)

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