national parks

I love the Ken Burns documentaries. I find that I don't schedule them on the DVR, but anytime I stumble across one on PBS -- like the recent one on national parks -- I wind up spending the afternoon watching the back to back hours.

Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the clever guys over there presented one of the funniest bits yet on the Jay Leno versus Conan O'Brien saga at NBC. Imagine, if you will, how Kevin Burns might document the conflagration...

• At 8, ABC has a new Shark Tank, followed by new episodes of Dancing with the Stars and The Forgotten.
• CBS has a new NCIS at 8, then new episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
• NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, followed by a new Jay Leno Show.
• There's a new Hell's Kitchen on FOX at 8, then a new So You Think You Can Dance.
• The CW has new episodes of 90210 and Melrose Place.
• PBS has another installment of The National Parks: America's Best Idea at 8.
• Also at 8: ESPN has two new episodes of The World Series of Poker.
• At 8:30, Cartoon Network has a new Total Drama Action.
• At 9, Headline News has the series premiere of The Joy Behar Show.
• At 10, FX has a new Sons of Anarchy.
• Food Network has a new Chopped at 10.
• Bravo has a new Flipping Out at 10.
• MTV has the season premiere of The Hills at 10, then the season premiere of The City.
• Current has a new InfoMania at 10, followed by a new Rotten Tomatoes Show.
• Travel Channel has a new Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

• TV Land has an Andy Griffith Show marathon all night.
• WE has a Golden Girls marathon all night.
• At 8, ABC has a new, two-hour Dancing with the Stars, followed by a new Castle.
• CBS has a new How I Met Your Mother at 8, then new episodes of Accidentally on Purpose, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and CSI: Miami.
• NBC has a new Heroes at 8, followed by the series premiere of Trauma and a new Jay Leno Show.
• FOX has a new House at 8, then the season premiere of Lie To Me.
• The CW has new episodes of One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl.
• PBS has a new episode of The National Parks: America's Best Idea at 8.
• There's a new Lincoln Heights on ABC Family at 8, then a new Greek.
• Also at 8: Nickelodeon has a new Glenn Martin, DDS.
• At 8:30, ESPN has a new Monday Night Football, the Panthers vs. the Cowboys.
• At 9, USA has a new Monday Night RAW.
• TLC has a new Jon & Kate Plus 8 at 9.
• At 10, A&E has a new Hoarders.
• TLC has a new Ultimate Cake-Off at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

Discovery Communications, the company behind the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, and a bunch of other networks with the word "Discovery" in them, has brought its video content to Google Earth, Google's tenacious mapping project. Right now the content can be seen by clicking a globe icon located next to ten of our National Parks. Users can select short-form videos featuring content from that particular area. More videos will be added in the coming months, as many as fifty, and will expand beyond just the United States. Finally, you can visit a National Park without exposing yourself to bear attacks. I assume that was the point of all this.