A look at some of this week's noteworthy television: Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2007 (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., Spike TV) It is the fifth annual outing for this awards show for video games. Live From Lincoln Center: Red Hot Holiday Stomp (Monday, 8:00 p.m., WNET 13) Jazz at Lincoln Center is highlighted with this special hosted by Glenn Close. There will be a program of holiday music and jazz, plus it also features the broadcast......

A look at some noteworthy television this week: The Kill Point (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., Spike TV) The debut of a hostage drama miniseries starring John Leguizamo as a leader of a group of bank robbers who’s plans went wrong and Donnie Wahlberg as the Pittsburgh Police negotiator tasked to deal with them. Saving Grace (Monday, 10:00 p.m., TNT) Another cop show with a twist, this time Holly Hunter stars as an Oklahoma City Police detective......

NY Magazine gets city coroner Jonathan Hayes to write about the latest CSI spinoff, CSI: NY, set in our great city. Now, Gothamist is predisposed to the reigning cop-and-lawyer show in town, Law & Order, especially since it actually shoots its episodes in NY, but we won't mind seeing CSI:NY in reruns or on Spike TV at some point. Gothamist did like Hayes's insights about being a coroner:There’s a forensic saying that “there is......

In the many concepts that Spike TV is trying to introduce, in order to shore up their audience, Gothamist would definitely take a cotton to the Arts > Al Sharpton to Host 'I Hate My Job'" href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-TV-Sharpton.html?ex=1089565102&ei;=1&en;=2dbbae0b60ad2b62">proposed reality show hosted by Al Sharpton, "I Hate My Job." While the actual details of the show are okay ("eight men — including a pre-school teacher, a manure shoveler for a compost company, a lawyer and a handyman......

As we suspected, Spike Lee and Viacom have settled the "Who does the name Spike belong to" issue. Viacom can rebrand TNN "Spike TV," Spike Lee gets some cash money. One of his lawyers says, "We have settled the case with Viacom. It's obviously good when parties settle." Yeah, it's good Spike didn't have to pony up the $2 million bond for pursuing his suit against Viacom. Let that be a lesson to anyone who......

When we last looked at this story, we wondered if Spike Lee had a legitimate reason to complain about TNN changing its name to Spike TV. Well, Lee was granted an injunction against Spike TV from using the name "Spike." The judge wrote, "Contrary to defendants' position, the court is of the opinion that in the age of mass communication, a celebrity can in fact establish a vested right in the use of only their......

Celebrity hubris or legitimate complaint? Formerly rabblerousing director Spike Lee has sued Viacom Inc. over TNN renaming itself to "Spike TV." Newsday reports that "Lee asked for an injunction against Viacom's use of the name Spike for TNN." "I was extremely upset to see my name connected with a network when I had never given my consent to use my name," Lee said. Lee's court papers say that TNN's president, Albie Hecht, told the news......