Monday

• House (Fox, 8pm) Season Finale – Can House save another?
• One Tree Hill (CW, 8pm) Season Finale – Are those kids still living in One Tree Hill?
• Gossip Girl (CW, 9pm) Season Finale – Will Georgina’s return bring more drama?
• Castle (ABC, 10pm) Season Finale – Will Castle declare his love for Beckett?

Tuesday

• 90210 (CW, 8pm) Season Finale – Drama? Romance? Arson?
• V (ABC, 10pm) Season Finale – What are those Vs up to?

Wednesday

• The Good Guys (Fx, 8pm) Series Premiere – Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks give the odd couple buddy cop show another avenue, the series premieres in its regular timeslot on 6/7.
• The Middle/Modern Family/Cougar Town (ABC, 8:30-10pm) Season Finales – Did Cougar Town actually become one of my favorite comedies?
• Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 10pm) Season Finale – Will Sharon Stone be the next ADA to leave?

Thursday

• Bones/Fringe (Fox, 8/9pm) Season Finales – Will we continue to see creepy death and just plain creepy?
• Community/Parks & Recreation/The Office /30 Rock/The Marriage Ref (NBC, 8-11pm) Season Finales – Will Community keep up the goodness? Will the other comedies return to goodness? Will I ever watch an ep of Ref?
• CSI/The Mentalist (CBS, 9pm) Season Finale – Will death hit close to home? Will the psychic detective solve another?
• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 9pm) Season Finale – What good could Mandy Moore bring to Grey’s?

Friday

• Ghost Whisperer/Medium/Miami Medical (CBS, 8/9pm) Season Finale – If they don’t survive Miami Medical will one of the ladies talk to their ghosts?
• Kitchen Nightmares (Fox, 9pm) Season Finale – Will the Chef ever stop yelling?

Saturday

• Golden God Awards (VH1 Classic, 10pm) – Metal awards?

Sunday

• Lost (ABC, 7/9) Series Finale – Will Jack wake to find it was all a dream?
• Brooks & Dunn (CBS, 8pm) – Whatever.
• The Simpsons/The Cleveland Show/Family Guy (Fox, 8-10pm) Season Finale – Will animation domination be funny?
• The Apprentice (NBC, 9pm) Season Finale – Will anyone care who wins?

Monday

• NCAA Men’s Championship (CBS, 6pm) – The title game in Indianapolis.
• Runaway Squad (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – A search for runaways to reunite them with their families.
• Tori & Dean (Oxy, 10pm) Season Premiere – Do we really want to see them take an RV road trip?

Tuesday

• Chopped (Food, 10pm) Season Premiere – Rattlesnake meat?

Wednesday

• Criminal Minds (CBS, 9pm) – I only occasionally tune in to this show but am intrigued by the promise of a spin-off with tonight’s look at another BAU unit led by Forest Whitaker.
• Peep Show/That Mitchell & Webb Look (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Roomie shenanigans and sketch comedy.
• The Real World/Road Rules Challenge (MTV, 10pm) Season Premiere – They’re at it again.
• Top Chef Masters (Brav, 11pm) Season Premiere – New competing chefs and a new judge at the table.

Thursday

• Bones (Fox, 8pm) – The 100th episode brings Booth and Bone’s first case together.

Friday

• Gator 911/Danger Coast (CMT, 9/9:30pm) Series Premieres – Gators and water rescues.
• Private Chefs of Beverly Hills (Food, 10pm) Series Premiere – We’re following yet another profession, caterers to the over the top.

Saturday

• 24/7 (HBO, 10pm) Season Premiere – Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley.

Sunday

• Brandy & Ray J/Basketball Wives/What Chilli Wants (VH1, 9/10/10:30pm) Series Premieres – More reality fare.
• The Tudors (Show, 9pm) Season Premiere – Henry takes a fifth wife.
• Army Wives (Life, 10pm) Season Premiere – More drama.
• Treme (HBO, 10pm) Series Premiere – A new drama, from the creators of The Wire, set in New Orleans following Katrina.

• 10 Things I Hate About You (ABCFam, 8pm) Season Premiere – Maybe they cover a thing a season.
• Pawn Star$ (Hist, 10pm) Season Premiere – What’s for sale?
• Saving Grace (TNT, 10pm) Season Premiere – We edge into the final season as Grace continues her drama and her chat with her angel.

Tuesday

• My First Home/Little Chocolatiers (TLC, 8/10pm) Season Premieres – Homes and chocolate, who could ask for more?
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Goran, Eames, and their lieutenant are counting down to their departures.
• V (ABC, 10pm) Season Premiere – The aliens are back.

Wednesday

• In Plain Sight (USA, 10pm) Season Premiere – Mary and Marshall together again.
• The Ultimate Fighter (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – Let the competition begin.

Thursday

• Bones/Fringe (Fox, 8/9pm) – They’ve taken a break but now they’re back.
• Mentalist (CBS, 9pm) – Will his powers of perception and persuasion work at an earlier timeslot?
• Fugitive Chronicles (A&E, 10pm) Series Premiere – Real life infamous manhunts brought to life, I love a good reenactment.

Friday

• Wife Swap (ABC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Tv sanctioned family torture is back.
• Stargate Universe/Merlin (Syfy, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Alien and magical worlds return.
• Miami Medical (CBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Another take on the medical drama, the trauma unit finds expert surgeons and an adrenaline rush.

Saturday

• Maybe I should review my Netflix queue.

Sunday

• Sunday Best (BET, 5pm) Season Premiere – The gospel competition kicks off in Nigeria.
• Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom (AnPl, 7pm) – Bears like food!

So here goes:

• Sons of Anarchy (Fx) – A motorcycle club with layers and layers of drama and plenty of violence, I can’t turn away and I can’t wait to tune in to see what Jax and the others will do next season.
• Chuck (NBC) – A wonderful balance between the spy capers, the geeky humor, and of course the romance, I’m thrilled to see Chuck 2.0 next season.
• Glee (Fox) – My favorite newcomer, although the first season was a bit uneven (we were all so over the wife) the humor, the mix of poignant moments, and yes, the songs, made me keep coming back.
• Bones (Fox) – Still my favorite crime solving pair, will FBI Sealy Booth and Forensic Anthropologist Temperance Brennan ever get together?
• The Good Wife (CBS) – Another new addition to the lineup, so far it’s a great balance between the case-of-the-week and Margulies struggling with her family and potentially corrupt cheater husband, there’s more politics afoot than we know.
• The Mentalist (CBS) /Castle (ABC) – These two guys are worth tuning into no matter where they are but both are set up as great characters with fun casts and of course the case-of-the-week.
• Dexter (Sho) – No season has been as good at the first but it doesn’t stop me from yelling at the tv when Dexter is doing something foolish, juggling job, family, friends, and being a serial killer is a tough balance.
• Dollhouse (Fox) – Another uneven addition to the list but as the season has progressed we see what the show could have been with its corrupt organization and complex issues of identity, too bad there are only three more.
• Modern Family (ABC)/Community (NBC) – So I still laugh at 30 Rock, The Office, HIMYM, Parks & Rec, but the shows I was most excited to watch were the new ones, MF takes us into the new form of funny families and Community just puts together some weirdos, I don’t know, I am amused.

Special shout outs  for some of the cable fluff that I tended to watch first that even I’m not tempted to make the case that they’re ‘the best’: Drop Dead Diva (Life) – the dumbest premise made the cutest show, Leverage (TNT) – I love a good caper show, and this was good enough, Burn Notice (USA) – cheesy but Macgyver of this generation shouldn’t be skipped, and Greek (ABCFam) – fun plots and characters are all you need to keep you tuning in.

For my take on some of the ones I watch and why:

• Bones (FOX) – This one is first in my book because I think the two lead characters Booth (FBI Agent) and Bones (Forensic Anthropologist) are both equally interesting and have great chemistry playing off their complementary approaches, having Booth brought into the world of science and the supporting cast of the ’squints’ is fun with the some dark humor from the quirky cast and some fun science in the lab to solve the cases.
• Castle (ABC) – I adore Nathan Fillion and I think this is a good role for him as charismatic mystery writer who forces his way into a detective unit, he does have good chemistry with his cop partner, and I like his family as supporters, but the cases are pretty standard and the supporting police detectives so far don’t quite distinguish themselves.
• The Good Wife (CBS) – I’m still on the fence as to whether this will continue to fall in the procedural camp or move more toward the political drama but so far I am liking Marguiles character as a wife trying to reenter the working world to support her family after her politico husband leaves job and family in scandal, though he may be in prison for now the drama keeps going.
• House (FOX) – There’s no question that Hugh Laurie is great in this role as personally damaged medical diagnostic genius, and I still like his relationship with his ‘best friend’, but I’m over the general format of getting an unsolvable case and guessing and almost killing the patient repeatedly until House figures it out at the last minute, and the supporting cast has also suffered from the initially intriguing shakeup up of his team leaving original support players underutilized but still standing by.
• Law & Order (NBC) – This is what I sort of think of as the most standard procedural of the shows I watch, there’s very little character development with a very standard case-of-the-week but they’ve landed on a decent version of the rotating cast with two key detectives (law) and two key attorneys (order), though I tend to forget about each episode almost immediately even with the continued ‘ripped from the headlines’ approach.
• Law & Order: SVU (NBC) – This one is a little more focused on the law aspect of things and a little more emphasis is on the relationship between the two lead detectives and I’m not quite as enamored with Benson and Stabler as everyone else is but Munch and Tutuola are good and the ’special victims’ slant with a little more emphasis on the psychology of the victim and perp give the show a little more oomph.
• The Mentalist (CBS) – I like Simon Baker maybe as much as I like Nathan Fillion and his character’s ability to notice what others don’t and stir the pot in a way to get things done is what makes this show interesting, I also have always liked Robin Tunny (Cherish was a delightful flick) but her character’s straight arrow-ness sometimes leaves me a little cold though I like the supporting detective players.
• Numb3rs (CBS) – I tend to treat this show as a good solid backup, always engaging enough as we have spent a few seasons with the brothers who were never close until they realized the math genius and the FBI cases could actually bring them together, along with dear old dad and some supporting academic and FBI folk, they manage to entertain with their unique approach to solving the latest case.

And for a few that I’ve dabbled and just can’t add to the queue: Cold Case (CBS), Criminal Minds (CBS), CSIs (CBS), the forgotten (ABC), Lie to Me (Fox), NCISs (CBS).

Monday

• 8pm – House (Fox) / How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
• 9pm – Gossip Girl (CW) / Big Bang Theory (CBS 9:30)
• 10pm – Castle (ABC)

House is one of those shows I wish I could give up but somehow don’t (Laurie is good but they just almost kill a person until they save them every week), Gossip Girl is a quality guilty pleasure, and Castle has Nathan Fillion who is great enough to pull off this relatively formulaic weekly crime drama; although I do occasionally catch 2 1/2 Men I would love to redo the schedule and put HIMYM and BBTheory in the same hour, both are good fun. I’ve been catching Trauma on Saturday repeats.

Tuesday

• 9pm – Melrose Place (CW)
• 10pm – The Good Wife (CBS)

Melrose has just been so bad I can’t quite turn away, mostly because there is no competition for me on this night (I hope the cheesiness is intended) but I’ll probably tune in until Heather shows, and have found Julianna and supporting cast to be interesting in the mix of personal drama and weekly lawyerness on Wife.

Wednesday

• 8pm – The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS) / The Middle (ABC) / Mercy (NBC)
• 9pm – Glee (Fox) / Modern Family (ABC)

Christine is finally paired with something that might be kind of funny, too bad it’s on another network, let’s hope they don’t mess up my time blocks, unless they pair Middle with Modern which so far is good; Glee is my favorite new show of the season, and I don’t know why so far I keep watching Mercy it’s not actually good. Have been getting SVU and ANTM on repeat nights.

Thursday

• 8pm – Bones (Fox) / Community / Parks & Recreation (NBC)
• 9pm – Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) / The Office / 30 Rock (NBC)
• 10pm – The Mentalist (CBS)

I still dig Bones and am happy that Community actually seems to be funny paired with P&R which I still find a little uneven but funny. I am almost over Grey’s (I’m never excited to watch but still seem to enjoy the episodes) and still enjoying Office and looking forward to return of 30Rock; oh yeah and Simon is still good on the Mentalist.

Friday

• 8pm – Law & Order (NBC)
• 9pm – Dollhouse (Fox) / ANTM (CW)
• 10pm  – Numb3rs (CBS)

L&O is always a good staple but I don’t so much care, Dollhouse is still a little uneven but I love the way they explore the themes of identity, and I really want to be over ANTM (the less of Tyra the better); Numb3rs is a show I just keep on the list just because I kind of like the math FBI brothers and their dad.

Saturday

• 9pm – Trauma (NBC)
• 10pm – Law & Order: SVU (NBC)

I don’t know if I’ll stick with Trauma but we’ll see, and if I miss an ep of any of the L&Os I don’t really notice but keep them in the queue.

Sunday

• Day of rest.

But what about cable? Fortunately those shows I’m still getting tend to repeat in the off hours so I can catch at random times, currently I am mostly catching Sons of Anarchy on FX and am going to have to check online for the final eps of Greek and Monk until I decide on a cable commitment (I’ve got some Dexter waiting for me one someone else’s Tivo as well).

Monday

• Lincoln Heights (ABCFam, 8pm) Season Premiere – One of the few shows I’ve never seen an episode of, probably won’t tune in now with expectations of tuning out.
• One Tree Hill (CW, 8pm) Season Premiere – I made it through the first season before I couldn’t take it anymore and sort of surprised it’s still on.
• Gossip Girl (CW, 9pm) Season Premiere – The gang is back with the high school drama transition to college, good thing Little J and that other brother will keep us in school uniform variations.
• Eddie Griffin: Going for Broke (VH1, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who wants more reality?
• The Jay Leno Show (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – So is it the demise of television as we know it, or is it just Jay at a different time?

Tuesday

• The Biggest Loser (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – Heartwarming stories make it too hard for me to make fun, I like my reality a little cheesier.

Wednesday

• Full Color Football (Show, 8pm) Series Premiere – I’m still stuck on black and white football.
• The Beautiful Life (CW, 9pm) Series Premiere – With Mischa Barton fresh off her psychiatric hold, I mean wisdom tooth breakdown, will this show about models be bad enough to be good or just plain bad?
• MysteryQuest (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Some sort of quest for a mystery.
• The Ultimate Fighter (Spike, 10pm) Season Premiere – 16 fighters compete.

Thursday

• Bones (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – What’s the future for Booth and Bones with the brain tumor removal induced amnesia, that’s actually a little soapier than this show normally goes, back to romantic tension and the case of the week.
• SNL/Parks & Recreation/The Office/Community (NBC, 8/8:30/9/9:30pm) Season/Series Premiere – Weekend update Thursday kicks of this night of expected laughs, Parks & Rec still needs to find its footing but worth a watch, and then The Office shows that Jim and Pam together can still be funny, and newcomer Community introducing a washed up dude turned community college professor and his band of misfits tutor group including none other than Chevy Chase.
• Survivor (CBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – This time it’s Samoa for more castaways, more plotting, more torches getting snuffed.
• Extreme Cuisine (Food, 9pm) Series Premiere – Jeff Corwin heads off to Greece.
• Fringe (Fox, 9pm) Season Premiere – I couldn’t quite get on board with this last season.
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Fx, 10pm) Season Premiere – I don’t watch this show regularly and I ask myself why, first the gang tries their hand at the mortgage crisis.

Friday

• Alma Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Eva Longoria Parker and George Lopez host.
• Crash (Starz, 10pm) Season Premiere – Who gets Starz channel anyhow?

Saturday

• Action Sports (NBC, Sat/Sun, 9/11am) – The Dew Tour has the Toyota Challenge hits Salt Lake City.

Sunday

• Emmy Awards (CBS, 8pm) – I still don’t care but this year it’s hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, 9pm) Season Premiere – As I’m sure you’ve heard there’s a Seinfeld reunion coming.
• Bored to Death (HBO, 9:30pm) Series Premiere – Jason Schwartzman is a writer, no wait now he’s a detective.

• Bones (Fox, 9/17) – Booth and Bones and the rest of the squints have just kept up the good chemistry while doing science on the stiffs.
• Castle (ABC, 9/21) – Nathan Fillion finally found a good role where he could work his charms, and be called out by new partner when they border on smarmy, on admittedly not cutting edge crimes.
• Chuck (NBC, 2010) – Sad to see I have to wait even longer for the great mix of comedy, action, and of course romance on this spy show.
• Dexter (Show, 9/27) – I may get mad at Dexter for letting people into his life and jeopardizing his serial killer secrets but I can’t wait to see what mess he’ll get into next.
• Dollhouse (Fox, 9/25) – I would follow creator Joss anywhere but Dollhouse really started hitting its stride last season as Echo takes on new personalities each week while she and others take on the secrets.
• Gossip Girl (CW, 9/14) – Still my favorite trashy pleasure with the gang that gets into tons of drama and tons of great clothes, what will life post high school have in store?
• The Mentalist (CBS, 9/24) – Simon Baker is another favorite, and his role of overly observant tortured crime fighter suits him, though who knew California had a Bureau of Investigations.
• Sons of Anarchy (Fx, 9/8) – The boys are back, with the women who love them, dealing with crime and family, keeping you on the edge of your seat.
• How I Met Your Mother/Big Bang Theory (CBS, 9/21) – These two gangs made me laugh.
• 30 Rock/The Office (NBC, 9/17) – Work can be funny too.

Monday

• Big Bang Theory (CBS, 8pm) Season Finale – The gang is all getting ready to take 3 months off.
• House (Fox, 8pm) Season Finale – I believe there will be a case and they will solve it at the end of the hour.
• Charm School (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – This season they add contestants from other VH! shows as Ricki Lake steps in for Sharon Osborne in trying to class up the ladies.
• Castle (ABC, 10pm) Season Finale – Castle solves a crime, and probably.

Tuesday

• The Biggest Loser (NBC, 8pm) Season Finale – I wish I knew this finale was three hours long before I agreed to go watch it with a friend.
• Fringe (Fox, 9pm) Season Finale – Leonard Nimoy adds to his recent Star Trek public appearances with a guest as founder of Massive Dynamics.
• The Real Housewives of New Jersey (Brav, 11pm) Series Premiere – The latest look at ladies of leisure.

Wednesday

• America’s Next Top Model (CW, 8pm) Season Finale – Commercials and catwalk decide the latest model winner to drop into oblivion.
• Lie to Me (Fox, 8pm) Season Finale – There’s lying and lie detecting.
• Lost (ABC, 8/9pm) Season Finale – Highlights at 8 are followed by the two hour finale, I’m still 12 episodes behind so more to add to the tivo.
• Rules of Engagement/New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS, 8/8:30pm) – Bumped by Barack last week, these two shows try out a new night.

Thursday

• Bones/Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, 8/9pm) Season Finale – Motley Crue joins the crew and then a chef wins.
• Smallville/Supernatural (CW, 8/9pm) Season Finale – The guys fight the villains and demons.
• My Name is Earl/Parks & Recreation/The Office/30 Rock (NBC, 8-10pm) Season Finale - The laughs ensue.
• CSI/CSI: NY (CBS, 9/10pm) Season Finale – The crime scene gets investigated.
• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 9pm) Season Finale – Whose lives will change in the finale and will Izzie be back next season?

Friday

• America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC, 8pm) Season Finale – Two hours of funny videos.
• Don’t Tell the Bride (BBCA, 8pm) Series Premiere – The get money for a wedding but the groom has to plan it.
• The Game (CW, 8pm) Season Finale – This show wraps up with a wedding or does it?
• Ghost Whisperer/Flashpoint/Numb3rs (CBS, 8/9/10pm) Season Finale – Ghosts and crimes and crimes.
• Prison Break (Fox, 8pm) Series Finale – Finally putting this show out of its misery.

Saturday

• Primeval (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – A monstrous crocodile is loose.
• Beverly Hills Groomer (AnPl, 10pm) Series Premiere – We follow someone from Groomer Has It trying to make it.

Sunday

• Extreme Makeover/Desperate Housewives (ABC, 7/9pm) Season Finale – Crazy enthusiasm and then just plain crazies.
• Sit Down, Shut Up/The Simpsons/King of the Hill/Family Guy/American Dad (7, 8-10pm) Season Finales - The animation continues.
• Survivor (CBS, 8/10pm) Season Finale – Two hour finale followed by the reunion show.
• Saturday Night Live (NBC, 9pm) – This special shows the shorts.

Monday

• Belly of the Beast (Disc, 9pm) Series Premiere – Some dude checks out military helicopters in this latest look at stuff.

Tuesday

• Eco Trip/Carbon Cops (Sund, 9/9:30pm) Series Premieres – How do everyday things like chocolate impact the environment and how can you make your life more green.
• Life After People (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Creepy or interesting to hypothesize what the earth would be like if people weren’t alive anymore.
• The Phone (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – I think it’s like the Amazing Race but they get a call.
• The Unusuals (ABC, 10pm) – Special night for these not quite usual detectives along with its regular Wed showing.

Wednesday

• Lost (ABC, 9pm) – The latest Lost special tells the Story of the Oceanic 6, and again I am more than 6 episodes behind so tivo will keep running.

Thursday

• Bones (Fox, 8pm) – They must have some extra eps as they blow through another two of bones, don’t miss Monday’s and its regular slot on tonight.

Friday

• Wild Weddings (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – For those of you looking for a good wacky weddings show.

Saturday

• I Want to Save Your Life (WE, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – It’s an intervention series.

Sunday

• TV Land Awards (TVL, 8pm) – Doogie, I mean Barney, I mean Neil Patrick Harris hosts.
• Daisy of Love (VH1, 9pm) Series Premiere – Brett may or may not have found his rock of love but his season two reject still hasn’t, so let the games begin.