Talk show guests

MONDAY

MATT DAMON - LIVE! with Kelly and Michael, 9 a.m., Ch. 7

ADAM LAMBERT, RADIO CITY ROCKETTES - The Wendy Williams Show, 10 a.m., Ch. 5 and 3 p.m., Ch. 9

BETTE MIDLER, BILLY CRYSTAL, BAILEE MADISON - The View, 11 a.m., Ch. 7

ROSIE O'DONNELL - Dr. Oz Show, 11 a.m., Ch. 5

GREGG ALLMAN, CAROLE KING - Tavis Smiley, 1 p.m., Ch. 13

JAMI GERTZ - The Chew, 1 p.m., Ch. 7

QUENTIN TARANTINO - Charlie Rose, 1:30 p.m., Ch. 13 and 3 p.m., Ch. 21

CARNIE WILSON, NEVE CAMPBELL, JACQUES HAERINGER - The Talk, 2 p.m., Ch. 2

PAULEY PERRETTE - Jeff Probst 2 p.m., Ch. 4

BARBRA STREISAND, SETH ROGEN - Dr. Phil, 3 p.m., Ch. 2

MARCUS SAMUELSSON - Katie, 3 p.m., Ch. 7

SONYA FITZPATRICK, SARAH CHARNESS - Steve Harvey, 3 p.m., Ch. 4

ROBERT PATTINSON, TAYLOR LAUTNER, KIRSTIE ALLEY - The Ellen DeGeneres Show , 4 p.m., Ch. 4

MARISA TOMEI, LIZ CAREY, SARAH COLONNA - Chelsea Lately, 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., (E!)

ANNE HATHAWAY, TOM HOOPER, HUGH JACKMAN - Charlie Rose, 11:30 p.m., Ch. 13

SAMUEL L. JACKSON - Jimmy Kimmel Live, 12:02 a.m., Ch. 7

TUESDAY

MARK CONSUELOS - LIVE! with Kelly and Michael, 9 a.m., Ch. 7

ALICIA KEYS - The Oprah Winfrey Show, 9 a.m., (OWN)

RACHEL ROY, DARA TORRES - The Wendy Williams Show, 10 a.m., Ch. 5 and 3 p.m., Ch. 9

AMELIA WARREN TYAGI - Dr. Phil, 11 a.m., (OWN)

ASHLEY GREENE, KATHIE LEE GIFFORD, HODA KOTB - Anderson Live, 12 p.m., Ch. 5

ANNE HATHAWAY, TOM HOOPER, HUGH JACKMAN - Charlie Rose, 1:30 p.m., Ch. 13

JAMIE LEE CURTIS, MICHELLE STAFFORD, MELODY THOMAS SCOTT - The Talk, 2 p.m., Ch. 2

JON CRYER - The Jeff Probst Show, 2 p.m., Ch. 4

HEIDI KLUM, NIKKI REED, MACKENZIE FOY - The Ellen DeGeneres Show , 4 p.m., Ch. 4

REESE WITHERSPOON, ANNIE LEDERMAN - Chelsea Lately, 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., (E!)

SCARLETT JOHANSSON, WILLIE NELSON - Late Show with David Letterman, 11:35 p.m., Ch. 2

CHELSEA HANDLER - Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings, 12 a.m., (E!)

HAYDEN PANETTIERE, JOHN GOODMAN - Jimmy Kimmel Live, 12:02 a.m., Ch. 7

REGIS PHILBIN, KATIE ASELTON - The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, 12:37 a.m., Ch. 2

DANNY WAY, COREY MAY - Last Call with Carson Daly, 1:36 a.m., Ch. 4

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Old ‘wives’ tale

Linda Stasi

TV REVIEW

"Wives With Beehives"
Thursday night at 10 on TLC Absolutely no stars

If greedy, mindless, blood-sucking modern "Real Housewives" who are famous for no reason aren't enough to make you pray for an earlier era, maybe you should tune in to see greedy, mindless, blood-sucking, modern housewives who pretend to be from another era.

I'm talking about a reality trial run "special" called "Wives With Beehives," which is so lame it may make you wish you'd never been born, or better yet, that these idiots had never been born. Not in this era nor the 1950s.

TLC has come up with the bright idea of a "special," which is clearly a test-run pilot for what they think is a clever idea: Find a bunch of self-promoting women who live the "vintage lifestyle" and make a reality show out of it.

NOT GOING ANYWHERE: Snooki

TLC

VINTAGE: "Wives With Beehives" attempt to live the '50s lifestyle.

That means that these women dress in 1950s clothing, sometimes use 1950s appliances and dedicate themselves to having 1950s-style marriages. Or what they mistakenly perceive to be 1950s marriages.

They believe that everyone was happily and faithfully married in the '50s and that husbands were king, and wives were glamour-pusses who puttered around the kitchen in spike heels and sheath dresses all day.

To this end, TLC found a bunch of vintage-lifestyle wives in California and then had them do the same things that "Real Housewives" do except they do it in ridiculous clothing, stupid hairstyles and white gloves.

The set-up and delivery are all too familiar: Have the ladies throw a party so they can fight.

However, instead of being jealous of one another's hideous McMansions and Lamborghinis, these women are jealous of one another's 1950s tract houses and 1957 Buicks.

The stars of this dog are Dollie, Amber, Leslie and Shelly —ranging in age from 24 to 43. They fit in perfectly in California because it's the only place where people look like idiots for a living. It's usually for filming purposes though, which now that I think of it, these dames have just managed to do.

The ladies all maintain that in the 1950s image was everything. To that end Leslie, 43, says "Everything was done with such opulence!" Good thing she's married to a plumber. Who else can afford such opulence nowadays? Or even back then?

The new girl in the Beehive group is 24-year old Dollie, who is the blond rival of Shelby. Dollie is a nightmare of jealousy and bitterness while living the perfect contentment of the 1950's.

When Amber throws Shelby a birthday party, Dollie seethes and is so angry she won't pin up a pinata. Right.

Apparently these idiots have based their entire world on 1950s Douglas Sirk movies or on the homage to Douglas Sirk movies, "Far From Heaven," with Julianne Moore. I guess they forgot that inevitably in those movies while the wife was trying on clothes, her husband was about to come out of the closet.

This vintage show is old hat.

Twitter @lindastasi

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‘Mother’ goes on with Segel

It lives!

"How I Met Your Mother" will return to CBS for a ninth season — after star Jason Segel agreed to one more go-'round.

Segel, who has been with the show for all eight seasons, had "decided to bail and leave the cast hanging" — but said "Yes" at the last minute for one more season, according to deadline.com.

While "HIMYM" still performs strongly on CBS's Monday-night lineup, the show was thought to be dead in the water when Segel opted not to return to pursue his movie career.

Segel is starring in the just-released "This Is 40" after roles in "The Five-Year Engagement," "I Love You, Man" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."

BACK: Jason Segel

"He just got turned around . . . at the last second," a source told deadline.com. "The show was literally dead."

"HIMYM" anchors a strong Monday-night lineup on CBS, which includes "Two Broke Girls" and "Mike and Molly."

Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan co-star in the series about a group of friends living in New York City.

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‘Cured’ for the common dessert

For Todd Fisher, the host of "United States of Bacon," almost everything goes well with bacon — except for bananas.

"For me, bacon and bananas don't work . . . just that tropical, robust sweetness that a banana has, with bacon, it sounds horrible in my mind. But I've met people who do bacon-wrapped bananas, and they say it's the best," Fisher tells The Post.

Fisher hosted "United States of Food" this summer, and the premiere episode, which focused on bacon dishes, was so popular that the second season of the show was reorganized to capitalize on the bacon craze.

Tamara Beckwith

"UNITED STATES OF BACON" HOST TODD FISHER

On the series, the California-based chef roadtrips around the country, similar to Guy Fieri on "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives," to discover what unusual things cooks are making with bacon — everything from cocktails to desserts.

One of his favorite unexpected bacon creations is the bacon bloody mary.

For those looking to ease their way into the bacon movement, Fisher suggests starting small.

"If you're going to try the dessert method, start with the classic chocolate chip cookie with crispy, crunchy bacon in it," he says. "It's like putting salted nuts into your cookie if it's chopped small enough. So, you don't necessarily know it's bacon until you sit back and focus on the smoke that comes through."

"United States of Bacon" premieres Saturday on Destination America.

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Go to Greg

With the horror in Connecticut, I am fearful, as a manager, of firing anyone because you just never know how someone is going to react. But some people just aren't cutting it and if I don't make changes it will reflect poorly on me. Help!

It's impossible to completely reassure anyone given the realities of these events. Horrible, heartbreaking, senseless don't even begin to describe these tragedies. As a manager, you need to help make sure that your employer has the proper security in place to create as safe a workplace as reasonably possible without feeling like you work in a maximum security prison. And, while nothing ever justifies workplace violence of any kind obviously, managers should remember to treat everyone with dignity and respect, even those who for one reason or another are being told they no longer have a job. Finally, it is also your responsibility to pay attention to warning signs. Employees who demonstrate any signs of threatening or aggressive behavior must be dealt with immediately — alert security and HR.

My colleague of five years just got promoted and is now my boss. I can't handle that — any tips?

Either put on the big-boy pants and handle it or look for a new job. Your situation isn't easy, and you have the right to say that you can't accept this and need to move on. You don't, however, have the right to stay in the job and complain. Take a holiday pause before doing anything rash. There might be something to learn here — did your colleague have some experience, skill or accomplishment that made him or her better qualified for the job? Your colleague is probably feeling a little awkward, too, so there might be an opportunity to forge a really strong alliance and put their concerns to rest. Congratulate them and demonstrate that you are on board to help them succeed. It's better to keep your options open, and besides 'tis the season for giving and wishing people well.

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No. 3 Syracuse upset by Temple at MSG

Syracuse had trouble making shots at one line and behind the other.

The combination of poor free throw shooting and a weak effort on 3-pointers turned into the first loss of the season for the third-ranked Orange.

Temple used the inside-outside combination of Khalif Wyatt and Anthony Lee to beat Syracuse 83-79 on Saturday in the first Chevrolet Gotham Classic at Madison Square Garden.

The Orange (10-1) finished 19 of 34 from the free throw line and 2 of 12 on 3s.

"They made free throws, we didn't," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "You don't like to say it comes down to that, but when you miss 15 free throws it's tough to win any game."

Point guard Michael Carter-Williams, who was 7 of 15 at the free throw line, took the heat.

"If I make free throws we win the game," he said.

Temple won because of free throws. The Owls (9-2) were 29 of 26 at the line with Wyatt going 15 of 15 and Lee 11 of 14.

The Orange led by two at halftime but never took a lead in the second half even though there were four ties, the last at 59-59 with 10:23 to play.

C.J. Fair had a career-high 25 points for Syracuse, which had its 52-game regular-season nonconference winning streak snapped. Boeheim remained at 900 wins, two behind Bob Knight for second place all-time among Division I men's coaches. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski has 938 wins.

"We have to stay confident and we will," said Fair, who wasn't part of the free throw problem as he went 8 for 8. ""It was one of those nights when it wouldn't fall," said Fair, whose only 3-point attempt of the game brought the Orange within 74-72 with 3:01 left but the Owls went 11 of 15 from the free throw line over the final 2:30.

Wyatt had a career-high 33 points and Lee added a career-high 21 for the Owls, who were coming off a 10-point home loss to Canisius.

"I don't think we would have won today without the loss in the last game," Temple coach Fran Dunphy said. "Our guys did a great job today. I wish it was worth more than one victory."

This is the fifth straight season Temple has beaten a top 10 team while being unranked.

The latest win in that stretch game with the combination of Wyatt from the outside and Lee inside.

"We wanted to go inside and out and that meant me going up strong and fighting for rebounds," said Lee, who had nine rebounds, five offensive, and worked the baseline again and again against Syracuse's vaunted zone. "That's playing the Temple game."

Dunphy said Wyatt challenged himself after a poor game against Canisius.

"He made some really good plays when we were struggling to score and had to stay in the game," Dunphy said.

The Orange led by two at halftime but never took a lead in the second half even though there were four ties, the last at 59-59 with 10:23 to play.

Temple hit three 3-pointers in an 11-3 run that gave it the lead for good. Scootie Randall started the run with a 3 that broke the 59-all tie. He closed the run with another 3, his only points of the game.

The 3-point line also hurt the Orange, who were 2 of 12 from behind the arc while Temple was 8 of 24.

Temple's last field goal was an offensive rebound by Quenton DeCosey with 5:41 left that gave the Owls a 72-66 lead.

Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson had four points and 10 rebounds for the Owls.

Brandon Triche had 17 points for Syracuse. Baye Moussa Keita added 12 and Carter-Williams, who leads the nation in assists at 10.7 per game, had 13 points and six assists.

"Wyatt was able to create a lot of contact and that got him to the free throw line," Carter-Williams said. "They didn't play off me and I have to get used to that. We have to learn from this. It's a long season."

Temple missed 10 of its first 12 shots in falling behind 19-10. The Owls, behind Wyatt who had 20 points in the first half, started hitting shots against the Orange's zone defense and they made nine of their next 14 shots and tied the game at 35. Syracuse scored five straight points but Wyatt capped his big half with a 3-pointer with 17 seconds left and Temple was within 40-38 at halftime.

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St. Francis pulls away from Colgate late

Jalen Cannon scored a game-high 24 points, and Travis Nichols finished with 20 points and 12 rebounds as St. Francis (NY) pulled away to beat Colgate 73-61 Saturday.

Ben Mockford chipped in with 9 points on 3-of-8 shooting from 3-point range for St. Francis (3-7).

Trailing 33-30 at halftime, Cannon's layup five minutes into the second half tied the game at 39.

The Terriers then went on a 24-11 run over the next 10 minutes to take a 63-50 lead with 5:07 left to play. Nichols finished off the run with back-to-back 3s. Colgate (3-9) failed to get within 10 the remainder of the game as St. Francis pulled away for the victory.

St. Francis made eight 3s in the final period and held Colgate to 37.9 percent (11 of 29) shooting in the second half.

Murphy Burnatowski led the Raiders with 19 points.

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Hofstra downed by Tarrant, Tulane

Ricky Tarrant exploded.

The sophomore guard made Tulane look more like the Green Tsunami than the Green Wave during a 20-0 run to start the second half that turned a tie game into an 83-62 blowout against Hofstra at Barclays Center on Saturday afternoon.

"Ricky's had some great moments in his career where he just explodes," Tulane head coach Ed Conroy said. "Tonight I knew after he hit the first one, it really got Ricky going and from there, you saw the smile on his face and knew he was going to explode."

After going into the locker room tied at 30, Tulane (10-3) simply overwhelmed Hofstra thanks to the sharpshooting of Tarrant and an aggressive defense. Tarrant opened up the second half by scoring 13 straight points for the Green Wave thanks to three consecutive treys, two free throws and a layup. Tarrant finished with a game-high 28 points.

"It wasn't necessarily adjustments at halftime, it was more getting back to what we do and what we planned on doing coming in," Conroy said. "We got the ball handling under control in the second half and were able to jump into some passing lanes and that's when we're at our best."

The 20-0 run was just too much for the Pride to overcome. Outside of the first 3:28 of the second half, the two teams were evenly matched, with Tulane barely outscoring Hofstra 63-62.

"It's a tough one," Hofstra coach Mo Cassara said. "We had a defensive breakdown to start the second half and then we didn't have the fortitude to fight through that and get the game back close.

"You have to give a lot of credit to Tulane, Tarrant is a terrific player and obviously we struggled from there."

Hofstra (3-9) looked to be in control at one point in the game. The Pride jumped on Tulane early, opening up a seven-point lead in the first half after big man Moussa Kone pulled down an offensive rebound and scored a layup to give Hofstra a 25-18 lead.

"I'm really proud of the way our team came out today," Cassara said. "I thought we really could have been up eight or ten points at halftime. I thought we shared the ball, moved the ball, battled on defense."

Hofstra's guard duo of Taran Buie and Stevie Mejia was completely outplayed by the Green Wave backcourt of Tarrant and Jordan Callahan. Buie and Mejia finished with 24 points on 8-of-36 shooting compared to the 43 combined points of Tarrant and Callahan.

"No question [we rushed shots]," Cassara said. "That's something that we really have to work on. I thought we had a lot of really good opportunities by the basket that just didn't go in."

The seven-game losing streak is the longest for the Pride since it lost eight straight during the 2002-03 season. Hofstra's last win came on Nov. 18 against Marshall.

"[We need to] take a little vacation, take a couple of days off. Obviously we're all frustrated, we all want to win," Cassara said. "We have to find a way to gut out some wins and starting January we're 0-0 going into [conference play]."

asulla-heffinger@nypost.com

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Adamek defeats Cunningham by decision

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Tomasz Adamek outpointed Steve Cunningham in a split decision Saturday in their IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Bethlehem Events Center.

Adamek (48-2) received winning scores of 115-112 from judge Debra Barnes and 116-112 from Dave Greer, while Tom Miller scored it 115-113 for Cunningham (25-5).

The fight was a rematch of a 2008 cruiserweight bout that Adamek also won. Cunningham got up from knockdowns three times in the first fight. But that time, Adamek weighed 198 to Cunningham's 197. This time, Adamek weighed in at 223, and Cunningham 203 1/2.

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'Virtual certainty' Tim Tebow will be a Jacksonville Jaguar in 2013: report

Tim Tebow could have a landing spot once the Jets get rid of him this offseason.

ESPN reported that it is a "virtual certainty" that Tebow will be a member of his hometown Jaguars in 2013. The Jets are expected to trade or release Tebow after the season, according to sources.

Tebow remains extremely popular in Jacksonville, where he spent much of his youth, played high school football and became a Heisman Trophy winner just down the road at the University of Florida.

Two weeks ago the Jets played in Jacksonville and there were a large number of Tebow supporters there even though he did not play in the game.

Jeff Zelevansky

Tim Tebow

The Jaguars were the only other serious bidder for Tebow's services in March when the Broncos ended up trading him to the Jets. ESPN reported that the Jaguars would like Tebow to come in and compete for the starting quarterback job next year after the team got inconsistent play from 2011 draft pick Blaine Gabbert this season and backup Chad Henne.

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