BY CLIF GARBODEN

FRIDAY 20

8:00 (12) The 32nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Who are these people? (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (6) The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz. A new Disney effort and, perhaps, a welcome remake of the movie sane people are sick of. Ashanti steps into Dorothy’s slippers and follows the green-brick road to Oz. Pepe the King Prawn plays Toto; Kermit plays the Scarecrow; Gonzo is the Tin Thing; and who better to be the Wicked Witch of the West than Miss Piggy? Humans in support of the ragged rascals include David Alan Grier, Queen Latifah, and Quentin Tarantino. Plus, alas, all-new music. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (64) Shallow Hal (movie). In fact, the entire film is only about three inches deep. Jack Black stars in this 2001 Farrelly Brothers comedy about a shallow man who learns to see people for their inner beauty and promptly falls in love with Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit. The Chubbette Anti-Defamation League probably didn’t appreciate this one. (Until 10 p.m.)

SATURDAY 21

11:00 a.m. (2) Viewer Favorites. In what could be the most terrifying "broadcast changes" memo ever issued, WGBH has tried to tell us which fund-raising programs will be aired during the times designated Viewer Favorites on the program schedule. The trouble is, most of the shows (listed in order but without specific air times) are too lame to mention — Yoga for the Rest of Us, for example. Even the oldies music programs are stale, the best of them being My Music: The ’60s Experience, which in addition to dinosaur re-creations from Steppenwolf’s John Kay, Three Dog Night’s Chuck Negron, Roger McGuinn, and Eric Burdon offers some rare and ancient performance clips — Hendrix doing "Purple Haze"; Procol Harum droning "A Whiter Shade of Pale"; the Doors doing "Light My Fire"; and Janis Joplin doing "Piece of My Heart." Trouble is, we don’t know exactly when that’s airing; our best guess is at around 1:30 or 2 p.m. But it all depends on the length of the pledge interruptions. We can tell you that My Music is followed at who-knows-when by the oft-repeated pledge special Celtic Woman, which bears describing if not watching. Deep breath . . . how to explain. Well . . . it’s an overproduced concert at Dublin’s Helix Center by Riverdance music director David Downes featuring five Celtic women (one of them only 15 years old) in bright-colored evening gowns singing pretentiously with and without electronic enhancement. Actually, four of them sing; Máiréad Nesbitt plays violin solos and has a "musical battle" with a pair of bodhrán drummers. The other four — Chloë Agnew (the 15-year-old), Lisa Kelly, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, and Orlagh Fallon — over-dramatize everything from "Danny Boy" to "Ave Maria" to "Send Me a Song" from The Lord of the Rings. It’s like a concert from our moon colony: watchable but void of meaning. (Until 8 p.m.)

11:00 a.m. (44) Viewer Favorites. Same story over on WGBX Channel 44, except that here the concept of "favorite" stretches to Tai Chi with David Carradine. And sometime in the evening (try around 9:30 or 10 p.m.) you could catch Celtic Woman. (Until midnight.)

1:00 (64) Baseball. The Mets versus the Yankees — Pedro against the Pinstripes?

5:00 (10) Horse Racing. The Preakness, live from Pimlico. We neglected to mention two weeks back that Bellamy Road is owned by that nice Mr. Steinbrenner. The Derby favorite has injured a foot and won’t be racing for a while. We’ll tell you where to send your get-well card as soon as George provides Bellamy’s address. (Until 6:30 p.m.)

11:00 (2) Soundstage: Fleetwood Mac. John McVie, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and Mick Fleetwood in a reunion show. (Until midnight.)

SUNDAY 22

Noon (2) Viewer Favorites. Between the ’GBH weekly program schedule, the ’GBH Web site, and that "broadcast changes" memo, we now have enough contradictory information to give up trying to decipher what’s on during Viewer Favorites times. Let us then revert to fantasy. (Until 9 p.m.)

Noon (44) Viewer Favorites. Gilfaethwy the Intrepid But Basically Unpronounceable sighed and turned to his recently acquired sidekick, Piglet of Arimathea, and complained, "I grow old, comrade Piglet, and fear the fate that all mythic heroes share." "Nay, nay," objected Piglet. "None will forget your name — fabled in story and song." "Ha!" retorted Gilfaethwy. "Song indeed. What does my name rhyme with?" "Well, epic blank verse, perhaps," suggested Piglet. "Have a doughnut, you’ll feel better." (Until midnight.)

3:00 (6) Basketball. An NBA game #7, if necessary. (Until 6 p.m.)

7:00 (64) Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones (movie). We think Phoenix film editor Peter Keough said it all when he wrote, "Displaying all the ineptitude of an Ed Wood but none of the innocence, Attack of the Clones falls to new depths of narrative incoherence, torturous banality, and acting incompetence." (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Mystery! Miss Marple: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, part two. A mystery better known to Christie fans by its other title, 4:50 from Paddington, in which Geraldine McEwan as Jane Marple figures out why the police can’t find the body of the victim her friend Mrs. McGillicuddy saw being murdered on a passing train. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. and at 4 a.m. on Channels 2 and 44. (Until 10 p.m.)

MONDAY 23

8:00 (2) Antiques Roadshow: Roadshow’s Greatest Finds. Revisiting the $500,000 Navajo chief’s blanket and other excessively valued objects. Although the strike-it-rich aspect of having some yard-sale trinket turn out to be one of the crown jewels is irresistible, it is not the best part of the Antiques Roadshow. We find the odd commercial and historical objects (and the stories that go with them) far more intriguing than the high-priced swords and paintings and sideboards. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Mystery! The Inspector Lynley Mysteries II: A Suitable Vengeance. Aristocratic inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and his street-smart partner Barbara Havers (Sharon Small) investigate a shopkeeper’s murder in the town near Lynley’s ancestral home where he’s gone to celebrate his engagement. (Further proof: if a British detective comes to town, somebody’s bound to die.) To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9:30 p.m.)

9:00 (2) American Experience: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst. A 2004 documentary by Robert Stone following the media frenzy provoked by the 1974 kidnapping of 19-year-old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, who eventually changed her name to Tania and professed solidarity with her captors, the Symbionese Liberation Army. This film unearths some SLA members to discuss the good old days. To be repeated tonight at 3 a.m. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

9:30 (44) Mystery! The Inspector Lynley Mysteries II: Deception on His Mind. Inspector Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) can’t buy a break. Off he goes on his honeymoon to Mexico only to be recalled to handle the politically sensitive murder of a young Pakistani man on a deserted beach. To be repeated tonight at 2:30 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 11 p.m.)

TUESDAY 24

7:30 (2) La Plaza. Conversations with Ilan Stavans: David Hayes Bautista. Bautista, founding director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, discusses some alarming new trends in Latino health. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Nova: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. At the turn of the 20th century, you’d have thought that title would have gone to some anarchist, but no, the greatest threat was seen to come from Mary Mallon, a/k/a/ Typhoid Mary, who was quarantined on North Brother Island in New York’s East River after being identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. To be repeated tonight at 1 and 3 a.m. on Channel 44, and then at 4 a.m. back on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Sydney City Guide. Trekker Justine Shapiro tours the Gateway to Australia by taking in the sights at its earliest settlement, its trendiest beaches, and its opulent Opera House. She also samples Aboriginal culture and visits a rain forest full of kangaroos and the city’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Frontline/World. In honor of Iran’s recent threat to resume uranium enrichment, WGBH moved this Frontline/World edition up from June 14. BBC reporter Paul Kenyon got to tag along with weapons inspectors on a tour of Iran’s most sensitive nuclear sites, and he reports on the complex diplomacy of discouraging the refinement of more Iranian uranium. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (12) Rob & Amber: The Wedding. That’s Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich, for those of you (us) who haven’t been paying attention. Rob and Amb are left over from the cast of Survivor All-Stars. They must be in love. This show covers the wedding prep and the Bahaman nupts as well. What will fascinate future generations as they gaze back at the vacuous 21st-century entertainment landscape is that this couple have used the reality-TV universe to become stars. Mariano (aka Boston Rob) started out on Survivor: Marquesas; Brkich (aka Suburban Pittsburgh Amber) was first a Survivor in the Australian Outback. The proposal came at the end of the All-Stars show, and the couple were contestants on the latest The Amazing Race. Welcome to Careers Without Qualifications. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (6) Trump Unauthorized (movie). In which everything is explained but the hair. Before he became a reality-TV hog, Trump built a fortune (then lost it and rebuilt it) in high-end real estate. Based largely on Gwenda Blair’s biographies Donald Trump: Master Apprentice and The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire, this bio-pic follows his life, from early days as a rich developer’s son who dared to dream bigger to his becoming a high-profile businessman who left a lasting impression on New York City. Plus we get the Ivana and Marla sagas. (Until 11 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY 25

8:00 (6) Lost. The season finale, in which we discover that 1) the plane didn’t really crash; 2) the cast members have actually been the subjects of an extreme virtual-reality experiment; 3) Tori Spelling lives under that big rock in the forest. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Battlefield Britain: Culloden. Battle historians Peter and Dan Snow show us how Bonnie Prince Charles lost out and the Hanovers united the English and Scottish crowns. Explaining how we got the Duke of Windsor and Elizabeth II and Prince Charles and the rest of them. Surely the Stuarts couldn’t have been any worse? To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (2) American Masters: Cary Grant: A Class Apart. Helen Mirren narrates this elaborate Grant bio featuring interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Lauren, Jill St. John, Martin Landau, and his ex-wife and widow — plus vintage interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and George Cukor. Bawdy highlights include ex-wife Betsy Drake’s stories about Grant’s affair with Sophia Loren, his use of LSD, and his rumored affair with Randolph Scott. To be repeated tonight at 1 a.m. on Channel 44, and at 4 a.m. on Channels 2 and 44, and on Thursday at 10 p.m. on Channel 44. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

9:00 (4) Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution. The usually delightful Janel Moloney (Donna on The West Wing) slips into a role less comfortable as the generally messed-up heroine of the Scott Peterson murder trial. Okay, so Amber’s real life was a little trashy; at least she stepped up to help nail the murdering husband/father. Co-starring Nora Dunn and Terry Kinney. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (44) The Men Who Sailed the Liberty Ships. Liberty Ships were US Merchant Marine ships that supplied Allied troops during World War II. This documentary offers their lore and legend; it was filmed aboard a surviving Liberty Ship, the Jeremiah O’Brien, that revisited Normandy on the 60th anniversary of D-Day. To be repeated tonight at 2 a.m. on Channel 2. (Until 10 p.m.)

THURSDAY 26

8:00 (6) The Waterboy (movie). If you accept the idea that Adam Sandler is nuts, then you should be able to get through this 1998 sports fantasy about the title waterboy (Sandler) turning into a world-class tackler by "channeling his negative energy." Okay, it sounds like an Adam Sandler movie. From director Frank Coraci, who brought us Adam as The Wedding Singer. (Until 10 p.m.)