Robert Philpot 
Channel surfing: Calling music fans, A to ZZ
Previous Columns
Robert Philpot
- Channel surfing: Music, movies and more
- Channel surfing: Ready for a marathon
- Channel Surfing: North Texans fall into step
- Channel surfing: Documentaries save the night
- Channel Surfing: Little Richard gets 'Restless'
- Channel surfing: Everybody plays tonight
- Dancing, Reeg and tributes
- BET examines hip-hop culture
- 'Farmer’ picks a wife tonight
- Networks still playing games with three new entries
- North Texans dealing with reality on the tube tonight
- Get in training for Olympics
- Daytime soaps get their big night
- 'Dance' the night away with two high-steppin' reality shows
- Reality TV can take the heat
- Kimmel’s back in prime time
- See hometown heroes tonight
- A marathon of 'Made'
- Lots going on off the tube
VH1 Classic in Concert: ZZ Top Live From Texas: VH1 Classic continues its "Rock Across America" weekend with this concert featuring rock music’s favorite bearded guys, filmed at Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. 3 p.m., VH1 Classic (Charter Channel 234, Time Warner 284, DirecTV 337, Dish 163, FIOS 188, U-Verse 520)
As the Bell Rings: The rapid-fire short sitcom bits — featuring Fort Worth’s Carlson Young, Colleyville’s Lindsey Black, Flower Mound’s Seth Ginsberg and Rockwall’s Collin Cole — returns for a second season of class-change antics. 6:55 p.m., DIS
Yves St. Laurent: His Life and Times: Sundance Channel pays tribute to the fashion designer, who died June 1, with this 2002 documentary about St. Laurent’s life. It’s followed at 7:20 p.m. by Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris, a companion piece going behind the scenes of the YSL fashion house as the designer prepared his 2001 women’s collection. 6 p.m., Sundance (Charter Channel 262, Time Warner 576, DirecTV 549, Dish 332, FIOS 384, U-verse 789)
A Gunfighter’s Pledge: Luke Perry and C. Thomas Howell, who is a former junior rodeo champion, star in this made-for-TV Western. Perry plays a gunman whose promise to a dying man leads to his getting caught in a dispute between an evil landowner (Howell) and the dead man’s spirited sister (Jaclyn DeSantis). 8 p.m., HALL
Election ’08: The Y Factor: That’s Y as in "Generation Y," as Heather Nauert hosts this special looking at how influential the youth vote could be in the presidential election. 8 p.m., FNC
Lockup: Raw: Ever Present Danger: What better way to celebrate Independence Day weekend than the season premiere of this documentary series about life behind bars? 9 p.m., MSN
