Dec. 12: What's on HDTV Today

 
What we're watching: What do you do when traffic bottlenecks in Southern France? Simple, you build a massive bridge over a 1.3 mile gorge, right? Actually, that should be about 2 kilometers, but we really never gave in on the metric system.

Check out the plans and progress on Discovery-HD at 9 p.m. tonight. "Extreme Engineering" features the Milau Viaduct this evening in 1080i. The show is only an hour long, so that leaves plenty of time to catch Monday Night Football on ABC in 720p. It started at 9 also, but you can tune in at 10 p.m. and watch the Saints at the Falcons. One of these NFC South teams should have scored by then. In the "by-the-way" category: the Saints have lost their last 6 MNF games in SD and HD.

After the jump is our traditional listing of HD programs throughout the night.
     
Here are some other HDTV programs showing on selected networks today. All times are Eastern:

ABC (720p): Monday Night Football: Saints at Falcons (9 p.m.)

CBS: King of Queens (8 p.m.), How I Met Your Mother (8:30 p.m.), Two and a Half Men (9 p.m.), Out of Practice (9:30 p.m.), CSI: Miami (10 p.m.), The Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m.)

NBC (1080i): Las Vegas (9 p.m.), Medium (10 p.m.), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m.)

Fox (720p): Arrested Development (8 & 8:30 p.m.)

WB (1080i): Related (9 p.m.)

UPN (1080i): One on One (8 p.m.), All of Us (8:30 p.m.), Girlfriends (9 p.m.), Half and Half (9:30 p.m.)

Monsters-HD (1080i): The Crater Lake Monster (7:15 p.m.),
Vampire's Kiss (8:45 p.m.), Friday the 13th (10:30 p.m.)