HDTV Listings for March 20, 2006

What we're watching: It's the Jack Bauer Power Hour again on Fox at 9 pm, but even before the new White Jesus returns to top his thrilling "walk through room filled with nerve gas" from last week, our old friend Prison Break returns tonight. Now I don't watch this show much because the inside of a prison just isn't my ideal use of stunning high definition, but if you can get past that it's pretty good.

Since the NCAA tourney is taking a break (Go George Mason!), tonight the premiere sporting event is the championship game of the World Baseball Classic between Japan and Cuba at 9 p.m.

Our traditional high-def listings continue below.
Here are some other HDTV programs showing on selected networks today. All times are Eastern and reruns are in italics:

CBS (1080i): King of Queens (8 p.m.), How I Met Your Mother (8:30 p.m.), Two and a Half Men (9 p.m.), New Adventures of Old Christine (9:30 p.m.), CSI: Miami (10 p.m.), The Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m.)

NBC (1080i): Medium (10 p.m.), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m.)

Fox (720p): Prison Break (8 p.m.), 24: Day Five: 8 pm to 9 pm (9 p.m.)

UPN (1080i): One on One (8 p.m.), All of Us (8:30 p.m.), Girlfriends (9 p.m.), Half and Half (9:30 p.m.)

WB (1080i): Related (9 p.m.)

Discovery-HD (1080i): Poisonous Women (6 p.m.), Viking Voyages (7 p.m.), Moments in Time: Napoleon's Lost Army (8 & 11 p.m.), Extreme Engineering (9 p.m.), Roush Racing: Driver X (10 p.m.)

ESPN-HD (720p): SportsCenter (6 & 12 p.m.), World Baseball Classic: Championship Game (9 p.m.)

INHD (1080i): NHL on OLN: Bruins at Rangers (8:30 p.m.), High School Basketball: Oregon City at Oswego (11:30 p.m.)

INHD2 (1080i): Laura McKenzie's Traveler (8 p.m.), Aussie Wine Trail (8:30 p.m.), Forensic Factor (9 p.m.), Maroon 5: Friday the 13th (10 p.m.), Ultimates: World's Most Unusual Houses (11:30 p.m.)

HBO-HD (1080i): City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (6 p.m.). Titanic (9 p.m.)

Showtime-HD (1080i): The Prince and Me (7 p.m.), The L Word (9 p.m.), Huff (10 p.m.), Sleeper Cell (11 p.m.)

TNT-HD (1080i): Charmed (6 p.m.), Law & Order (7, 8 , 9 & 10 p.m.), Without a Trace (11 p.m.)

[WAldenIV Posted Mar 21st 2006 8:17AM]

I caught an HD-blooper, if you will, last night watching "How I Met Your Mother". One of the characters compared his new internship to a female anthropologist who lived with the apes. He felt he needed to gain the respect of his new colleagues by acting like they did. He looked at himself in the mirror and saw his suit with an ape mask.

On the HD image you could see the fur from the ape mask on the right side of the screen. When the camera shot changed to the front of the actor, the mask was gone. You were not intended to see the mask on the right edge of the screen; it was supposed to be in the character's head.