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["Lulu Bates" <number1chicken AT hotmail.com>]

Here! I'm here!  Finally. You know, traffic's terrible this time of day. 
Anyway, here's this weeks monkey-magnificent television watching:


2/15 on Animal Planet, If "Gorilla Project" leaves you hankering for more, 
and Valentine's Day just isn't your holiday, stay home with your Whitman's 
sampler and a bottle of chilled chablis and watch Wild Rescues explore what 
happens to NASA chimps when the space service puts them out to pasture. And, 
yes, gentle readers, I have been known to tear up on occasion of a monkey in 
a muddle and for that reason, Wild Rescues, is one of the saddest shows on 
television. So those who are Valentine-inclined, grab your honey and a box 
of Kleenex.

2/16 on Animal Planet, Remember what I was saying about monkeys enjoying a 
certain cache of late? Well, before you rush out and see Brendan Fraser 
embarrass all monkey lovers in Monkeybone, check out Animal Planet's tour de 
monkey, Summer of the Monkeys where a lonely boy saves some escaped circus 
monkeys in order to buy a pony. Yes, you heard me correctly, he trades four 
perfectly well-trained monkeys for a pony. Doesn't he know that there's 
nothing more fun than a barrel of monkeys?

2/16 on TNT, Circle of Iron a brilliant pre-Crouching Tiger, ersatz Kung Fu 
event where a blind (blind! Let's see Chow Yun Fat do that!) Zen master 
meets a bunch of monkey people and their monkeys. Of course it's on at 4 am, 
so be sure to go to bed early so you can wake up and watch this 
monkey-rageous movie!

Also on 2/16 on the WB, Arrest and Trial will focus on Operation: Gorilla, 
an organized stingset up to stop the smuggling of gorillas from the US to 
Mexico. Which, of course, begs the question: What do you smuggle a three 
hundred-pound gorilla in? A duffel bag?

2/17 on UPN Maximum Exposure "the coolest animals alive" will be showcased 
including some fantastic waterskiing monkeys. Next week, "the coolest 
animals not-so-much alive."

Also on 2/17 on the Sci Fi Channel, Friday the 13th will shift its focus 
slightly from hockey-mask wearing hacker-and-slashers to explore the rich 
history of Japanese sculpture. Check out the "Year of the Monkey," but set 
your alarms, cause it's on at 5 am. I'm sure it will be worth it.

And, finally, 2/17 on Animal Planet, catch the continuing adventures of the 
wacky Monkey Business crew. If you haven't seen the show yet, it makes those 
hefty cable bills seem worth it. Well, Monkey Business, The New Detectives 
and The Iron Chef, anyway.

2/19 on Animal Planet, the man in the mullet, Steve Irwin, continues the 
Croc Files' investigation into the personal lives of rich and famous chimps, 
gorillas, orangutangs and assorted other monkeys. Maybe they'll bite the 
mullet straight off his head on this episode. (I've been waiting for months 
now.)

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