March 16, 2005
SFist Watches: Springy TV This Week
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Tomorrow is St. Patrick's day and Spring Break is upon us. What better time to discuss local Latino TV programming?
What? Did we hear someone say "Boo! Bad segue!"?
Fine. How's this? On Sunday on CBS at 9 p.m. you can catch the awesomely titled made-for-TV movie Spring Break Shark Attack. We haven't heard a better title since last week's Mansquito! Can it possibly top that instant classic in gross-out gore? Being that it's on CBS, the network for grandparents, we venture to guess no. But it does star Shannon Lucio of "The O.C." (She played Lindsay, Ryan's girlfriend who left town after confirming that Caleb--Seth's grandfather and Marissa's stepfather--was indeed her biological father. What? That show sounds good to you? Well, it was. Last season. It sucks now. Go rent season one.) Set in Florida, the movie combines bikini-clad college students and blood-thirsty sharks. We doubt there could possibly be anything better on TV this Sunday night.
Image of shark bait from IGN FilmForce.
When SFist isn't watching bad made-for-TV horror movies, we're watching locally produced programming. We swear. One such program recently brought to our attention is LatinEyes, a half-hour entertainment magazine focused on Latin culture within the United States. Music videos and celebrity interviews make up the show's main content, but look for segments on travel, books, and food as well. And while the show is locally produced, it's syndicated nationally, and has also been nominated for a couple of Emmys. That just warms our TV viewing hearts. It airs Saturdays at 9:30 p. m. on KRON channel 4.
Which leads us nicely to The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo, a documentary premiering Wednesday the 23rd at 9 p.m. on KQED channel 9. Kahlo was actually a San Francisco resident for a brief period in 1930, when her husband worked on murals in the Pacific Stock Exchange building, and the Art Institute. We're sure the documentary will cover her tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, as well as her own life as a painter. But we're most excited to see the photos and home movies director Amy Stechler was able to get her hands on, many of them previously unseen. We just hope some of those photos and movies include a glimpse of Frida's many pet monkeys.
So. Sharks. Latin music videos. And monkeys. Sounds like Spring to us!


Don't forget the St Patrick's Day classic, The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Sullvan. The drunken fight scene at the end is one of cinema's best!
Don't forget the St Patrick's Day classic, The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Sullivan. The drunken fight scene at the end is one of cinema's best!
My bad! It's Maureen O'Hara! What was I thinking?