Kanye's fundraiser televised this weekend
The cable Fuse channel runs Kanye West's recent fundraising concert in "Live From the Chicago Theater," at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 25. It features the Chicago rapper's performance June 11 and finds him talking about his late mother, Dr. Donda West, who founded the Kanye West Foundation to help kids stay in school.
Tons of reality fun
The Fox network renews its never-ending quest to scrape right through the bottom of TV's reality barrel with the debut of "More to Love" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, on WFLD Channel 32. It finds "husky hunk" Luke Conley choosing from 20 "beautiful, full-figured, voluptuous, eligible women" for a meaty mate. What, no "Rubenesque" in that list of adjectives?
Someone to applaud
Harry Porterfield bids a humble adieu to WLS Channel 7 when he airs his final "Someone You Should Know" report on the Thursday, July 30, newscasts. "In keeping with his wishes, his upcoming farewell will be decidedly low-key," said Channel 7 Vice President and News Director Jennifer Graves, but Porterfield will be featured on the 5 p.m. news.
Mute comedy
Why is it comedians are never satisfied with just being funny? "The Honeymooners" remains Jackie Gleason's masterpiece, but he was always more proud of "Gigot," the tragicomic film he did in the early '60s, starring as a mute Parisian janitor. It's worth seeing at 9 p.m. Saturday, July 25, on WTTW Channel 11, but you wish he could talk if only to say, "Baby, you're the greatest."