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OSCARS MORNING, NOON & NIGHT.


Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski

Rise and shine! It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a  to get ready for the 77th annual Academy Awards!

We're not talking to nominees and presenters. Starting at 9 a.m. today, all serious couch potatoes and movie fans can tune in for everything Oscar. Grab your nonfat non·fat
adj.
Lacking fat solids or having the fat content removed.
 vanilla latte, your Oscar ballot and your remote.

``Countdown to the Red Carpet''(9 a.m., E!) It's a six-hour minutiaefest featuring film clips, interviews with Jamie Foxx's makeup artist and shoe designer Stuart Weitzman, and commentary from ``lifestyle correspondent'' Jen Schefft of ``The Bachelorette.''

``Guide to the Academy Awards With Joan & Melissa'' (2 p.m., TV Guide Channel) Mother and daughter Rivers get ready for the red carpet. Joan spars where Hilary Swank trained, Melissa tastes wine with Virginia Madsen.

``Joan & Melissa Live at the Academy Awards'' (3 p.m., TV Guide Channel) The duo will tag-team stars as they make their grand entrances outside the Kodak Theatre. Not to be outdone out·do  
tr.v. out·did , out·done , out·do·ing, out·does
To do more or better than in performance or action. See Synonyms at excel.
 by the celebrity bling, Joan and Melissa will be cooing, oohing and booing into custom bejeweled be·jew·eled or be·jew·elled  
adj.
Decorated with or as if with jewels.
 million-dollar microphones.

``Live From the Red Carpet Live From the Red Carpet is the pre-show to the major award shows that airs on E! Entertainment Television. Live From the Red Carpet gets you right up for a first-row seat to see the stars and all the excitement with live coverage of the fashion, flair, glitz and glamour. : Academy Awards'' (3 p.m., E!)Star Jones Reynolds chats it up with arriving celebrities, while Kathy Griffin walks a fine line between amusing and offending. The network says there will be no commercials in the second hour, excepting, of course, the many plugs for fashion designers, Beverly Hills jewelers, and nominated and upcoming films.

``Evening at the Academy Awards: The Arrivals'' (3 p.m., KABC KABC Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children , Channel 7) Carpet talk with George Pennacchio, Michelle Tuzee, critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, designer Randolph Duke and others.

``Live From the Academy Awards'' (3 p.m., KTLA KTLA KCBS TV in Los Angeles , Channel 5) More carpet talk with Sam Rubin and Tony Senecal.

``Oscar Countdown 2005'' (5 p.m., ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
, Channel 7) The final 30 minutes belong exclusively to ABC. Billy Bush, Jann Carl, Chris Connelly and Shaun Robinson chat with the last-minute arrivals at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

``The 77th annual Academy Awards'' (5:30 p.m. until it's over, ABC, Channel 7) The reason for the season.

``Barbara Walters Oscar Special'' (8:30 p.m.-ish, ABC, Channel 7) Interviews with - dare we say it? - Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, ``Desperate Housewives'' star Teri Hatcher and comic actor Will Ferrell.

``Academy Awards Post Show'' (9 p.m., E!) Clips of backstage comments from winners and snippets from the party scene.

``Evening at the Academy Awards.'' (Immediately after Walters' special, ABC, Channel 7) Network wrap-up of winners, party hoppers.

And that's not all ...

``Academy Awards Fashion Wrap With Joan & Melissa'' (8 p.m. Monday, TV Guide Channel) They're back, praising and poo-pooing what the stars wore on the red carpet.

``Fashion Police'' (8 p.m. Monday, E!) Joan's & Melissa's former postmortem postmortem /post·mor·tem/ (post-mort´im) performed or occurring after death.

post·mor·tem
adj.
Relating to or occurring during the period after death.

n.
See autopsy.
, now turned over to Griffin with design expert Robert Verdi.

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