Five for fighting
It's really, really over. "Chuck" (7 p.m. Friday, KARE, Ch. 11), the dramedy that has hung on for dear life through five ratings-challenged seasons, makes its exit with a two-hour episode that hopefully reveals why a guy who's clearly in his 30s still goes by the name "Chuck."
Just shoot me
Why abandon "The Bachelor" for the similarly themed "Sweet Home Alabama" (8 p.m. Friday, CMT)? Well, maybe because the sweetie looking for romance works right here in Minnesota. When she's not picking out a fella on a reality show, Paige Duke is employed at a hunting farm in Starbuck, Minn. I may have to rethink my no-guns-on-dates policy. Jeremiah James Korfe of Clarissa, Minn., is among the suitors.
Extraordinary people
If you didn't think Minneapolis' own Mary Richards had made it after all, consider this: Dick Van Dyke will be presenting Mary Tyler Moore with a lifetime achievement award during "The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards" (7 p.m. Sunday, TBS and TNT), joining previous lifetime winners Ed Asner and Betty White. It's only a matter of time before they get to Georgia Engel.
Class act
In "Tony Bennett: Duets II" (8 p.m. Friday, KTCA, Ch. 2), the Grammy-winning singer is always seen wearing a sharp suit. I recently asked him why he dressed up, even when he's just in the recording studio. "Because I'm a gentleman," he said before calling some suspicious looking characters out from the wings to rough me up a little.
