My friend Kiran, an actor in Hollywood says: “I will be on two episodes of “24” in the next couple of weeks.
It looks like I will be on the 4/18 and 4/25 episodes, but there is a small chance you may see me in tonight’s as well. While I don’t have an accent, I do get to carry a gun!”

It's on at 9 p.m. on Fox. Wish I had TiVo set up at home.

Via Sree Sreenivasan

Tonight on “60 Minutes” – the biggest TV newsmagazine in the U.S. – there will be a 12-minute story called “The world's most beautiful woman?” It's about Bollywood actress Aishwariya Rai. The show is at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

The country that gave the world the Kama Sutra, one of the oldest known sex manuals, isn't prudish, just not into public displays of intimacy, says Rai. “In our society, you don't really see people around the street corner kissing or being extremely or overtly physically demonstrative,” she says.

The segment was produced by SAJAer Neeraj Khemlani – another example of the growing influence of desi journalists at the very top of American journalism. More on Neeraj here.

How many eyeballs a television channel attracts equates in the amount of money in advertising dollars that station garners. This is nothing new, but Sharon Reed, an anchor for WOIO (a CBS affiliate) took it a little too far. The controversy involves art photographer, Spencer Tunick.

The current controversy of some very disturbing images coming to light from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has brought to center stage, for better or worse, the power of photography and its impact on all of us. Right now on Deborah Norville Tonight is a segment on the POWER OF PICTURES.

While the discussion is stimulating, I found it odd that no photojournalist was represented in the panel. What's up with that? It's not like photojournalists are incapable of stating an opinion or staking a position.

If any of you find an email address for the DNT show, would you please email it to me? I couldn't find it on the DNT web site. I'll post the transcript from tonight's show when it is up on their site.

Via Monica Mehta

I have another rare TV viewing recommendation for everyone – something that moved Anand and I very deeply, and something you all should check out if you get a chance.

It's called The New Americans, an Independent Lens documentary series that follows four years in the lives of seven new immigrant families as they leave their homelands and settle in an alien land.

As Palestinian Naima leaves her war-torn home to marry a Palestinian-American, Nigerian refugee Israel flees Africa to find freedom, and Ricardo leaves the Dominican Republic to become a baseball player, each finds a major disconnect between what they thought they would find liberty, riches, and peace and what they must face racism, hard work and loneliness.

The second and third episodes follow an Indian hi-tech professional and his new wife as they come in on H-1B status, and a Mexican family that broke our hearts. But the filmmakers ultimately deliver a message of hope in this moving and intimate portrayal of migration.

It runs three nights starting March 29 at 9pm on PBS, concludes March 31 (check local listings). You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you won't look at the people around you the same way again.