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So we see the start of the fall season tonight with the premiere of Gossip Girl. I started by mocking how cheesy this show was but came to relish in it. Teen soaps are faster today than they were when 90210 first hit the scene and the audience has become more sophisticated. Each new show seems to need to up the ante in some way. GGirl is based on a popular series of books and seems to combine the flash of the NY ultra privileged as well as the use of the digital age. Our unidentified narrator (wonderful Kristin Bell) is a blogger who tells all, with the help of people who send her reports and images of gossip in all its glory.

Serena is the reformed bad girl who finds the good guy Dan, but can’t keep him. Dan is the scholarship boy who doesn’t fit in with the snobs and doesn’t want to. Blair is the snobbiest of snobs playing the ever so good girl who can manipulate better than the rest. Nate was her true love who slept with Serena, and after the break Blair fell for bad boy Chuck (in his ridiculous bow ties). And of course we have Dan’s sister and wannabe social climber Jenny. And for a touch of the ‘old’ our true love couple Dan and Serena’s parents were once young lovers who are crossing paths again, through mostly not with each other.

Apparently we start the season off in the Hamptons, what will the kids be up to? Last we saw, Dan was breaking up with Serena because he couldn’t stand the lies. Blair was stood up by Chuck, who couldn’t go through with being a one gal guy. Nate was dealing with dad running out on his drug and embezzlement charges. Jenny was starting her devil wears prada internship, while her dad was hitting the road to tour with his band. And Serena’s mom was probably on her honeymoon with Chuck’s dad.

The challenge with this show, and those like it, is that the majority of the action is romance, or at least sex. And of course there’s at least one bad guy, who we start out hating but then we realize they have a heart of gold. And then once they reform, what are we to do, recruit new bad blood? But sadly we can never stand folks brought in for just that purpose. So once we’ve run through the coupling and the drama of the first season it all feels a little forced. Here’s hoping these kids can keep it fresh. If not there’s always the new 90210 which might be good for at least a season.

New and notable in the week ahead, procrastinator picks are underlined.

Monday

• Gossip Girl (CW, 8pm — repeats Sun/6pm) Season Premiere - What has become of split couples Blair/Chuck and Serena/Dan? Something tells me someone will be doing it as we greet our gang in the Hamptons before we return to school.
• Prison Break (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere - This two hour premiere continues the ridiculous brothers and others criminal chase, now apparently they’re working for homeland security… loved this show first season and can’t tune in now.
• One Tree Hill (CW, 9pm - repeats Sun 7pm) Season Premiere - I think that Lucas is still deciding between Brooke and Peyton and some other girls.
• The Middleman (ABC Fam, 10pm) Season Finale - I actually found this show pretty enjoyable with its mix of comicy humor and sarcastic fun as the Middleman and his trusty sidekick Wendy fight the weird.
• Raising the Bar (TNT, 10pm- repeats 9/2) Series Premiere - This courtroom drama is getting average reviews, but if courtroom dramas are you thing it might not be all bad with Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben, and Jane Kaczmarek.

Tuesday

• 90210 (CW, 8pm - repeats Th/8pm) Series Premiere - This two hour event returns us to beloved West Beverly Hills High School along with a returning principal and his transplanted family, and Brenda is on for at least 4 eps and Kelly is the guidance counselor, apparently they’re more mature now.
• The Shield (Fx, 10pm - repeats) Season Premiere - This final season starts with more drama, I have yet to catch this cop series but it’s in the queue as folks say great things.

Wednesday

• America’s Next Top Model (CW, 8pm - repeats Sun, 8pm) Season Premiere - The latest ladies (and one preop transgender gal) are cast in the two hour launch for another round of ridiculous drama and surprisingly engaging modelicious challenges that always promise to bring out the fierce.
• Bones (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere - This show returns with a two hour premiere as Booth and Bones do their special forensic anthropologic fbi investigations in England, promises lots of good fun.
• Ghost Hunters/Destination Truth (Sci fi, 9/10pm) Season Premieres - Ghost hunting and paranormal mosques oh my.
• Sons of Anarchy (Fx, 10pm- repeats) Series Premiere - This one hour+ show starts out with family issues and rival motorcycle gang hijinks.
• Top Design (Bravo, 10pm - repeats) Season Premiere - This 75 minute starter has the gang designing a loft, of course with limited time and money.

Thursday

• Kitchen Nightmares (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere - Gordon takes two hours to revisit kitchen’s he’s harassed before.
• Republican National Conventions (Various channels) - The convention wraps up its Minneapolis coverage that started Monday.

Friday

• Stand Up to Cancer (ABC/CBS/NBC, 8pm) - A big gang of celebs support cancer research (and oppose cancer).
• Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere - Kathy Ireland and the State Superintendent of Georgia meet the new 5th grade class in the 2 hour premiere.
• Samurai Girl (ABC Fam, 6/8pm - Sa/Su 8 and various times) - This six-part miniseries follows a girl whose marriage is interrupted and must avenge her family’s honor, or something like that.

Saturday

• Cops/America’s Most Wanted (Fox, 8/9pm) Season Premieres - The folks they are criminals and must be gotten.
• US Open Tennis (USA, throughout the week, CBS Fri-Sun) - The gang raps up this hard court run with a champ Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday

• Hole in the Wall (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere - This is the one where contestants have to shape their bodies to fit through holes they’re thrust through.
• America United: Support of Our Troops (ABC, 9pm) - Folks like Pam Anderson and Jessica Simpson honor the troops.
• MTV VMAs (MTV, 9pm - repeats) - Host Russell Brand keeps it moving, we hear no Britney but I’m sure the Jonas Brothers will show.
• True Blood (HBO, 9pm) Series Premiere - Alan Ball of Six Feet Under takes another pass at tv with this vampires live among us but they’re drinking synthetic blood, or are they, series based on books by Charlaine Harris.
• Entourage (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere - The guys are back as Vincent Chase and buddies deal with business and pleasure.

Check your local listings for final times and repeat showings.

Labor day is upon us and fall is here! TV Guide still does a nice job laying out the new season. I am a big fan of the printable premiere calendar and of course the grid of what’s on when: http://www.tvguide.com/special/fall-preview-2008/

Sadly as I take a closer gander at scheduling it’s looking a little cramped in a couple of slots. Monday at 8 with Big Bang/HIMYMother, Gossip Girl, Terminator, and Chuck. Then Wednesday at 8 with Pushing Daisies, Old Christine, ANTM, and Bones. I like to limit myself to two shows max per time slot so I’m going to have to make some accommodations. At least CW typically reruns ANTM and GGirl, and of course there’s some stuff online. I mean who could think of dropping a show, for other than enjoyment considerations, but that’s often how it happens for me. And of course I never expect the new shows to all hit so I should be able to drop one of the cramped Tuesday at 9 options of The Mentalist, Privileged, and Fringe (sadly the cute Joanna Garcia may lose to the cuter Simon Baker and of course JJ Abrams newest product).

So poke around and see what’s going to be happening. I will of course continue to note the premieres in the Next Weeks. And as soon as I hear a little more from the critics I’ll let you know what of the new stuff we’re all most excited about.

Well I just saw a promo for Gossip Girl and it reminded me of how much I enjoyed the campy trashy show. What else am I most eagerly awaiting? Funny you should ask.

• Bones (Fox, Wed 9/3) – Currently my favorite procedural because not only do they have fun cases with an anthropological science twist, but the leads Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz are good on their own but their chemistry is great, and the the quirky supporting cast works so well, I’ll forgive them for the weak wrap-up of last year’s serial killer.
• Chuck (NBC, Mon 9/29) – Seeing Geek Squad Best Buy Nerd Herd Buy More employee, and accidental keeper of government secrets, forced into the spy world as well as the spy world stuck into Chuck’s life creates not only plenty of action but plenty of humor as well as a little potential romance with his CIA handler (the pretty one, not the hilariously stiff Adam Baldwin).
• Gossip Girl (CW, Mon 9/1)/Dirty Sexy Money (ABC, Wed 10/1) – Who can pick between the two trashy campy soaps? Good thing you don’t have to as we catch the richest of rich families, and their lawyer who is trying to help out and not get sucked in, to more trouble each week than most folks do in a lifetime, unless that is you’re a bunch of rich private schoolers, being fashionable and popular and deceptive is such hard work.
• Heroes (NBC, Mon 9/22) – Currently my favorite of the involved conspiracy shows, though it’s been uneven, we have followed our cast favorite regular folks who got special powers like time travel, indestructibility, and mind reading, and have to deal with other heroes, secret organizations, and of course saving the world, this season as they struggle with their own right and wrong actions it looks like they take on some real villains, but typically good and evil aren’t so clear cut.
• Pushing Daisies (ABC, Wed 10/1) – Every aspect of this show was magical and captivating as I somehow fell for two characters who are so sweet and in love normally I couldn’t stand them, but I lament every moment they aren’t able to touch because what brought her back to life would take her from him forever, so in the meantime he and his supporting cast run the pie shop and solve crimes, who better to help out than a guy who brings the dead back to life for a minute.
• 30 Rock (NBC, Thurs 10/30)/The Office (NBC, Thurs 9/25) – Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin just made me laugh a lot last season as they found a good rhythm with Fey running a late night sketch comedy show, her mess of a life, and keeping a crazy supporting cast together while the season finale of the Office made me appreciate how far this show has come from one that I saw more as a placeholder in the lineup to one I tune in for, because just when you think they’ve pushed the wackies too far in one direction they remind you to care.

Everything new is old again… or vice versa. Serena jumps back into her old habits when the times they get tough. Lying, getting sloppy drunk, and going home with random guys. Well who doesn’t turn to alcohol in times of turmoil? And once the alcohol starts flowing judgement apparently goes out the window. On the plus side, the old Serena brought the gang back together again, Chuck, Nathan and Blair to the rescue! And what about Dan, well once he was able to confront our little S she fessed up to cheating on him. Not true but anything was better to say than the truth she thought.

And the truth? Well before S split town, partner in crime little miss Georgina tried to catch S with a nice little sex tape. But the guy who was the intended costar did one line too many… so G convinced S to leave the scene of the supposed crime. Of course S stuck around long enough to see his dead body hauled out, so she split to boarding school. And we all thought her sleeping with B’s boring boyfriend Nate was her worst crime. Ok we didn’t, but I could still use a few more skeletons in the closet.

So Serena’s crime was finally outed and with the help of mom she approached the parents of cokehead. She thought she could go back and pick up the pieces with Dan but alas, Georgina pretending to be Sarah had other plans. Dan didn’t sleep with her, ‘but he might as well have.’ And though Serena was willing to forgive if not forget, but Dan just couldn’t manage it. It wasn’t what she did, it was all the lying.

S wasn’t the only one lying. B got Dan in on the act setting up G for a little family reunion of her own. Apparently this caper was the latest in a long and tawdry line of mistakes… selling her champion horse for coke among others. Off to some sort of boot camp for her, thanks to B doing a little research on the ‘best’ place for her.  

Oh and the eldest Humphrey Rufus is heating things up between he and the eldest Vanderwoodsen, soon to be Mrs. Bass. When she ran into Rufus she let a kiss turn into a night. But she was ready to get married and she and Rufus seem to have agreed that if they hadn’t made it work yet she wasn’t willing to bet on a longshot. So down the aisle she went. And how romantic the wedding was, enough so that Chuck pledged his love to Blair and she agreed to give it a go.

So what’s old is new again for summer. Jenny’s back to sewing, and will be trying to be into good graces with the Waldorfs, except this time it’s an internship with Blair’s mom. Blair is jetting off to Europe with members of the Bass staff, but being stood up by Chuck, who is choosing to keep to his bad boy ways. Dan is hanging out with Vanessa in Brooklyn, though neither of them wants to talk about their splits with Serena or Boring B, who just so happen to be being alone together for the summer. And Rufus is touring with his 90s band.

I can only hope they continue to come up with good stuff to gossip about next season. One thing I like about this show is how fast they keep the dirt coming, but that usually works best for the first season. So until next year I can always revel in the start of it all with the replay of the pilot tonight.

Well we’ve had a week to wrap up the up fronts where networks tout their fall and onward tv seasons for advertisers, so let’s take a look at what looks like it will look like:

ABC

New:

• Life on Mars - David E Kelley’s version of BBC series where cop transports back to 1970s
• Opportunity Knocks – Game show where they knock on your door, or something

Returning: 20/20, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Boston Legal (final season), Brothers & sisters, Eli Stone, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, Dirty Sexy Money, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Pushing Daisies, Samantha Who?, Supernanny, Ugly Betty, Wife Swap
Midseason returns: According to Jim, The Bachelor, Lost, Scrubs (New from NBC)
Noteworthy not returning: Men in Trees, Miss Guided, October Road, Women’s Murder Club

CBS 

New:

• Eleventh Hour – Jerry Bruckheimer’s latest, adapting from the british 4 part sci fi series dealing with mysterious cases
• The Ex List – This one is based on an Israeli show where a psychic tells a woman she has already met her true love and so she revisits the exes
• The Mentalist – Simon Baker uses his powers of observation to solve crimes
• Project Gary – Comedy starring Jay Mohr as a recent divorce, and contractor which might explain the ‘project’ part
• Worst Week – This comedy of newly engaged couple is another BBC show made over american style

Returning: 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, Amazing Race, Big Bang Theory, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Ghost Whisperer, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS, New Adventures of Old Christine, Numb3rs, Survivor, Two and a Half Men, The Unit, Without a Trace
Midseason returns: Rules of Engagement
Noteworthy not returning: Moonlight, Shark

CW 

New:

• 90210 – The next generation, as a new brother and sister move and start at West Beverly High, including pop bys by Jennie Garth as Guidance Counselor
• Surviving the Filthy Rich - With Reba’s JoAnna Garcia as nanny to rich kids, based on a book series
• Stylista – New reality from Tyra Banks where folks compete to work at Elle

Noteworthy note: Contracting out Sunday nights to production finance company Media Rights Capital who will be responsible for two dramas and two comedies and selling the ad time.

• FAT City, IM Valentine, Book of Murphy, Surviving Suburbia

Returning: ANTM, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Supernatural
Midseason return: Reaper
Noteworthy not returning: Aliens in America, Girlfriends, New Amsterdam

Fox

New:

• Fringe - JJ Abrams latest starring Joshua Jackson teaming up to investigate unexplained phenomena, I wanna say like the x-files
• Do Not Disturb – Comedy starring Jerry O’Connell working at one of NY’s uber hip hotels

Returning: American Dad, America’s Most Wanted, Bones, Cops, Don’t Forget the Lyrics, Family Guy, House, King of the Hill, Kitchen Nightmares, Moment of Truth, Prison Break, Simpsons, Smarter than a 5th Grader, Terminator, Til Death
Midseason return: 24, American Idol, Hell’s Kitchen.
Noteworthy not returning: Back to You

NBC

New:

• Crusoe – As in Robinson…
• Kath & Kim – Molly Shannon and Selma Blair in remake of Australian sitcom about mother and daughter living together again
• Knight Rider – If you caught the ‘hit’ tv movie you’re familiar with this remake
• My Own Worst Enemy – Christian Slater as a gov agent/normal guy whose two lives start to blur
• Thursday Night Live – Special SNL shows leading up to the elections

Returning: The Biggest Loser, Chuck, Dateline, Deal or No Deal, Heroes, E.R. (final season), L&O:SVU, Life, Lipstick Jungle, My Name is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock
Midseason returning: Friday Night Lights, L&O, Medium
Noteworthy not returning: Bionic Woman, Journeyman, Las Vegas 

Additional Notes:

Tons of new shows scheduled for after fall, but we’ll chime in later once those become more solid, other than the fact that I should note there’s an Office spinoff scheduled as well as the new Joss Whedon show Dollhouse with Eliza Dushku, scheduled for midseason. I miss the Grr Arg.

And if you want to see the current stab at the schedule you can check it out at TV Guide.

More finales this week, hope the new Bachelorette and Last Comic will keep you entertained moving forward. 

Monday

• Big Bang Theory/How I Met Your Mother/Two and a Half Men/Rules of Engagement/CSI: Miami (CBS, 8/8:30/9/9:30pm) Season Finales - I have to say that Big Bang sort of grew on me over the season - Sheldon makes the show, HIMYMother also still makes me laugh, though 2 1/2 Men doesn’t as much, and I usually turn to Samantha Who instead of Rules… Horatio on Miami makes me cringe whenever he opens his mouth.
• Bones/House (Fox, 8/9pm) Season Finales - I have to say I like this lineup and I’m surprised how much I look forward to Bones, and in the finale we revisit Gorgamon!
• Gossip Girl/One Tree Hill (CW, 8/9pm) Season Finales - I can always use a little Gossip, the cheesier it gets the more I dig, but I refrain from visiting that Tree Hill.
• Bachelorette (ABC, 9pm) Season Premiere - This two hour episode reintroduces previously dismissed DeAnna to us while introducing her to 25 potential true loves, what’s the ratio one bachelorette to every five bachelors?

Tuesday

• American Idol (Fox, 8pm - also Wed 8pm) Season Finale - Performances on Tuesday with who knows how much filler on the 2 hr results show on Wed, but at least we’ll finally see the battle of the Davids and wonder if America could really prefer Archuletta to Cook.
• NCIS (CBS, 8pm) Season Finale  - The two hour season finale.
• Dancing With the Stars (ABC, 9pm - also Mon 8pm) Season Finale - The finalists compete on Monday, with a replay Tues at 8 before the winner is chosen at 9.
• Reaper (CW, 9pm) Season Finale - This show’s gotten much more interesting with Sam in trouble as the demon rebellion loses trust, is Sam really the son of the devil, but didn’t he date a girl who he thought was the devil’s daughter?
• Shark (CBS, 10pm) Season Finale - Sebastian’s nemesis threatens his daughter.

Wednesday

• Criminal Minds/CSI: New York (CBS, 9/10pm) Season Finales - Murders and crimes.
• Boston Legal (ABC, 10pm) Season Finale - Wacky legalness.
• Law & Order (NBC, 10pm) Season Finale - McCoy has some trouble with the politics of his new role as DA.

Thursday

• So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere - I don’t totally know the format of this but folks compete with dance.
• Ugly Betty/Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 8/9pm) Season Finales - Something happens on Betty and then of course more drama with Meredith and Derek, let’s hope they leave them together for a while this time.
• Last Comic Standing (NBC, 9:30pm) Season Premiere - This hour and a half ep kicks of the latest search for some funny.

Friday

• Take a break, see a movie, read a book…

Saturday

• Vinegar Hill (CBS, 8pm) - This telefilm based on the book by A Manette Ansay stars Mary Louise Parker as a wife and mother

Sunday

• Recount (HBO, 9pm) - This film dramatizes a story of the human side of the controversial 2000 presidential election.

Ah we always love the bad girl action on a soapy show and there has been plenty to go around. Serena was greeted by the return of former wild child partner in crime Georgina, with the guest appearance and rumored new cast member come fall, Michelle Trachtenberg (formerly Dawn from Buffy). Serena’s vilification of Chuck, as he took up stead as her step brother to be, ended with her leaning on his shoulder for help with the Georgina situation. But Serena made problems worse lying to Dan trying to keep the awful truth hidden. Well we all know the awful truth always comes out.

Serena tried to make nice but when she tried to stop her partying ways, after Georgina drugged her for a night out before the SATs, G moved to blackmail. G’s got a hidden video of the real reason S left town, apparently they ‘killed someone.’ Georgina isn’t just messing with Serena, she’s lying to Dan pretending to be normal gal Sarah to gain his trust and secrets. And she’s spreading the secrets wherever she can, outing S’s brother Eric to the family.

Turns out Eric didn’t have a crush on the littlest Humphrey, Jenny, he had a crush on her boyfriend. Apparently they’d been involved since rehab and were caught kissing on the street. So when gay boyfriend tried to up the ante on using Jenny as his beard she caved to the reality and made a pact to their mutual benefit, she’d fess up to doing the deed and he’d let the status-less gal lean on his pedigree. As we recall the Humphreys are on scholarship to the exclusive private school and are forced to bring things like a sack lunch from their tragically poor Brooklyn.

Jenny just couldn’t keep up with the Joneses, or the Waldorfs as the case may be. Since Jenny was so busy shoving Blair down to claw her way to the top, B couldn’t let things lie. After arranging for the gals to show up at Jenny’s house just in time to catch her in her ‘borrowed’ dress from one of the gal pals moms she arranged a full outing of Jenny’s new beau at the latest social event. Now Blair wasn’t going to out Eric, she does have her standards, but once the cat was out of the bag for Eric he was happy to call a gay a gay.

Something tells me more trouble is a brewing, so stay tuned tonight as Serena starts to return to her wild girl ways.

Monday

• Gossip Girl (CW, 8pm) - We’re back from the strike and get to find out how Blair adjusts to being dethroned as queen bee and how Serena adjusts to getting ready to being Chuck’s new step sis.

Tuesday

• Most Outrageous Moments (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere - A shows will clips of moments that are outrageous.
• Reaper (CW, 9pm) - Post strike premiere as Sam decides if turning against the devil is a good idea.

Wednesday

• Pussycat Dolls: Girlicious (CW, 9pm) Season Finale - The latest girl group that I will never listen to will be chosen. 
• Men in Trees (ABC, 10pm) - Last episode before a hiatus as that annoying Anne Heche is girly or something.
• Law & Order (NBC, 10pm) - The cops and lawyers return from strike but Jesse Martin is bowing out as Anthony Anderson takes his place in the latest cast change.

Thursday

• Ugly Betty/Grey’s Anatomy/Lost (ABC, 8/9/10pm) - Post strike returns to Mode Magazine and two shows that I have been greatly anticipating!
• Supernatural (CW, 9pm) - And the brothers fight or find or whatever they do to the supernatural.

Friday

• Moonlight (CBS, 9pm) - The vampire show I don’t watch returns from strike.

Saturday

• The Mighty B! (Nick, 10:30am) Series Premiere - Amy Poehler is the voice of this animated overzealous girl scout equivalent.

Sunday

• Big Brother (CBS, 8pm) Season Finale - And they… elect a king?
• Aliens in America (CW, 8:30pm) - This is new and I don’t remember if this is the first back from strike… but Raj gets a girl, or tries to get rid of a girl.

* ‘next week’s are posts of new or noteworthy shows for the week to come and do not imply endorsement by the procrastinator

Monday

• State of the Union (6/9pm est/pst, Check Your Local Listings) - We don’t have to listen to him for much longer.
• In Treatment (HBO, 9:30pm) Series Premiere - Gabriel Byrne is a therapist with of course a ton of issues of his own in this 5 night a week show, man, 5 nights a week?
• Gossip Girl (CW, 8pm) - A special presentation of the pilot with additional behind the scenes and interview footage.
• Making the Band (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere - Hmm, so I read that this is the 11th season, then I read that this was Making the Band 4, maybe they stopped making new bands? I remember watching the first season on network tv with the making of OTown but haven’t watched since.

Tuesday

• Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone (HBO, 8:30pm) - A close look at life in Baghdad by an Iraqi doctor who has since fled the country.
• House (Fox, 9pm) - It’s new, they try to diagnose someone… should still be two more after this.

Wednesday

• Lost (ABC, 9pm) - Last season’s finale with extra facts and tidbits to get you caught up. 
• Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants (CW, 8pm) Season Finale - I don’t know what they win, but one team will win.
• American Ballroom Challenge (PBS, 8pm) - And they dance….

Thursday

• Lost (ABC, 8/9pm) Season Premiere - It’s baaack, and they really want you to know what’s going on so the recap espisode at 8 should tell us all we need to know to get sucked in yet again… they better settle this strike.
• Eli Stone (ABC, 10pm) Series Premiere - Is this lawyer a prophet, a sick man, or a nut job? No matter what his life is going to change.

Friday

• 1 vs. 100, Friday Night Lights, Las Vegas (NBC, 8/9/10) - They’re new…
• Dinner for Five (IFC, 10:30) - Jon Favreau welcomes guests Vince Vaughn, Peter Billingsley, Justin Long and Keir O’Donnell.

Saturday

• Trading Spaces (TLC, 9pm) - This episode is the first in its regular timeslot, we had the first ep of the season last week, and we were all excited to have Paige back holding the reigns again.

Sunday

• Suberbowl XLII (Fox, 3pm/pst ) - This might be the only occasion that we use roman numerals.
• House (Fox, 7:15?) - In the coveted after superbowl spot Mira Sorvino gets some remote diagnosis.
• Life is Wild (CW, 8pm) Season Finale - I guess you could find out how the wild is treating this family.