Matt's Help guide to Weekend TV

Bill Maher The Emmys would be the large draw a few days ago - my forecasts (a mixture wish list/analysis) are available here - but here's a glance at a few of the other TV a few days ago that sticks out. FRIDAYTop, or should I only say, topical pick from the evening: the return from hiatus of HBO's Real-time With Bill Maher (10/9c), using the usual variety of open visitors including Keith Olbermann in the roundtable and FX's Louis C.K. one of the interviewees. Question if the week's Tea Party-fueled debate on CNN can come up?Geek alert, or something like that to complete while discussing whether or not to spend out for that new Blu-Ray from the complete The Exorcist movie series: Cartoon Network launches the 4th season from the animated The Exorcist: The Clone Wars (8/7c) by having an hour-lengthy episode pitting the Jedi Knights in combat as well as their clone military from the Separatist droids. (I am presuming what this means is something towards the die-hard fan.) This really is preceded with a two-hour block of recent instances of action characters Batman: The Brave and also the Bold, Youthful Justice, Generator Rex and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. Want more fall TV news? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!CBS News' 48 Hrs drops the "mystery" format on the special evening for that hour-lengthy report Bullying: Words Can Kill (8/7c), searching particularly in the escalation of online bullies. Producers spent six several weeks following occasions in a Rhode Island junior high school which has directly faced the problem regarding how to break the rules against all the tormenting.What exactly else is on? Cinemax's bloody, bawdy guilty pleasure Strike Back (10/9c), getting lost among its team quite explosively the other day, reels inside a couple of notable guest stars - Bet on Thrones' Iain Glen like a weapons dealer and Lost's Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje like a Sudanese sadist of the militia leader - with this week's latest shoot-em-up heroics. Out of the box the show's tradition, mtss is a multi-episode mission ending on multiple cliffhangers. ... Talking about departing us hanging, Fox's fabulous Fringe (9/8c) repeats last season's mystifying finale, departing us wondering "What-The-Fringe?" about Peter Bishop's fate. ... NBC airs the ALMA Honours (8/7c), praising Latino entertainers. George Lopez and Avoi Longoria are hosts. SATURDAY Pick from the evening: A spooky new Physician Who (BBC America, 9/8c) takes the TARDIS vacationers to some hotel that sounds a lot more like a lethal funhouse, where all the rooms reflects the visitor's pitch-dark, most harmful fears. The Doctor's. Require a pick-me-up? BBCA spotlights a few of the UK's (and others') best stand-ups within the to begin a 2-part special, Funny as Hell (11/10c), shot at Montreal's Only for Laughs festival this summer time.Thanks, NBC-Universal, for challenging TV writers' spell-checking abilities. First came Syfy, and today Cloo, a funnel dedicated to crime and mystery. Cloo's first original true-crime series, Killer Instinct (premieres 9/8c), stars upon the market FBI profiler Mark Safarik because he recreates well known cases, giving his experience in to the criminal mind. This really is combined with Dateline on Cloo (10/9c), repurposing a few of the newsmag's most sensational tales.Even OWN gets in to the true-crime factor, though naturally having a more emotional twist, starting Facing (10/9c), a docu-series about prison mediation by which sufferers and culprits come in person.What exactly else is on? Like a prelude to ABC's last-ever broadcast of The Kids Sept. 23, SOAPnet airs a 2-day marathon of a number of AMC's best-appreciated moments. Saturday's I Really Like Lucci Erica Kane-fest begins at 7/6c, and Sunday's Last Opportunity for Romance wallow begins at 5 pm/4c. ... True romantics can mind to Hallmark Funnel for Love Starts (9/8c), starring Nancy McKeon in the Details of Existence and Wes Brown as Clark Davis, the hero of Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series, Hallmark's most effective brand-within-a-brand. This is actually the to begin several prequels. SUNDAYThe Emmy Honours telecast (Fox, 8/7c) is tonight's top pick, no matter whether you accept the outcomes (or perhaps the nominations). Jane Lynch hosts.Top non-Emmy pick: Ineligible for Emmys this season, AMC's Breaking Bad (10/9c) apparently has you win by airing a brand new episode opposite the honours. You won't want to miss it. This thrillingly pivotal episode features Emmy quality work by many people of their principals, including past those who win Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul as Walter Whitened and the conflicted partner in crime Jesse Pinkman. The majority of the OMG moments now derive from Jesse's eventful trip south from the border, with Gus and Mike searching on because the lab assistant steps as much as show the Mexican cartel steps to make the miracle meth. A poolside reunion between Gus and Don Eladio (Steven Bauer) increases the intensity. However the true heart from the hour is available in a wrenching father-boy talk between Wally and the boy (RJ Mitte, never better) on his 16th birthday.What exactly else is on? The indefatigable Linda Ellerbee has returned with a brand new edition of Nick News (9/8c) entitled A Present of Existence, about organ donation, presenting us to kids who've contributed and received existence-saving transplants plus some who're still waiting. ... VH1's latest Rock Doc defies you to definitely just refuse. Planet Rock: The Storyline of Stylish Hop and also the Crack Generation (10/9c), read by professional producer Ice-T, charts an upswing of crack cocaine and it is relation to the stylish-hop culture during the last quarter-century.Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!