HDTV Listings for April 2, 2006
What we're watching: Crash, the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture premieres tonight at 8 on Showtime. It's got plenty of competition however, with new episodes of Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Sopranos and Cold Case all at the same time. We'll probably be checking out even more Final Four action as the women go at it tonight on ESPN-HD.Of course, you can always check out the second part of Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime on Discovery. So many choices, so few tuners on the DVR.
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:
ABC (720p): Desperate Housewives (9 p.m.), Grey's Anatomy (10 p.m.)
CBS (1080i): Cold Case (8 & 9 p.m.), CSI (10 p.m.)
NBC (1080i): West Wing (8 p.m.), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (9 p.m.), Crossing Jordan (10 p.m.)
Fox (720p): Malcolm in the Middle (7 p.m.), War at Home (8:30 p.m.), Free Ride (9:30 p.m.)
WB (1080i): Reba (7 & 7:30 p.m.) Smallville (11 p.m.)
UPN (1080i): Veronica Mars (7 p.m.)
Discovery-HD (1080i): Destination HD: Senegal (6 p.m.), Sunrise Earth (7 p.m.), Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime: Southern India (8 & 11 p.m.), Rides (9 p.m.), Ultimate Car Show (10 p.m.)
ESPN-HD (720p): Sportscenter (6 & 11:30 p.m.), NCAA Womens Basketball Tournament: Final Four (7 p.m.)
INHD (1080i): NBA Basketball: Heat at Nets (6 p.m.), USA Basketball: The Drive for Gold (10, 10:30, 11 & 11:30 p.m.)
INHD2 (1080i): Twilight Zone Marathon
HBO-HD (1080i): Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban (5:30 p.m.), The Sopranos (9 p.m.). Big Love (10 p.m.), The Wedding Date (11 p.m.)
Showtime-HD (1080i): Hotel Rwanda (5:30 p.m.), Crash (8 p.m.), Huff (10 p.m.)
TNT-HD (1080i): Law & Order ( 6,7, 8, 9, 10, 11 p.m.)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matt @ Apr 2nd 2006 8:49PM
Showtime is usually much better about these things, but sadly "Crash" is cropped to 1.78:1 from its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Overall, the presentation seems fairly grainy/not sharp to boot. I am not impressed.
Sean @ Apr 2nd 2006 11:29PM
Considering "Crash" is probably the worst movie I've ever seen in my life and I would probably happier watching Opera give birth in 480i than a cropped HD "Crash", I would say that's nothing to worry about, Matt!
Terrence @ Apr 13th 2006 4:51PM
Crash was the worst movie you've ever seen? Probably because it was so unrealistic and overblown huh?
Regardless, I've found ShowtimeHD to be very weak. They mostly show weeds every night and half the movies they do show aren't in HD anyways. I'm kinda disappointed. If Dish wasn't doing 2 for $20 I'd cancel it.