Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Best Bets
New House (FOX, 7pm – 8:01pm)
New NCIS (CBS, 7pm)
New The Mentalist (CBS, 8pm – 9:01pm)
New Eli Stone (ABC, 9pm)
New Without a Trace (CBS, 9:01pm)
New Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm)
News & Notes
The Sci-Fi Channel has ordered 20 hours of the Battlestar Galactica spin-off Caprica. The show is a prequel to Battlestar Galactica which is set 50 years before that series and follows the Adama and Graystone families. The show will debut sometime in 2010. The series is from Ronald D. Moore, David Eick, and Remi Aubuchon. Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, and Polly Walker are set to star in it.
CBS has ordered five more episodes of Eleventh Hour. So they’ve ordered a total of 18 episodes so far for the show’s first season.
Amazon has a new Terrific TV Sale
Amazon’s “TV Holi-Daily Deal” is on Dirty Sexy Money: Season One
The Black Friday TV DVD Sale
When you guys shop at Amazon via the search box or links at TVPicks.net, it really can make a difference. I may just get $1 or less when you buy some items, but it adds up. And someone recently purchased a TV from Amazon which meant a nice chunk of change is coming my way to help keep this site online. Thanks so much to that person and to everyone else who does their shopping via the links here!
And thanks again to those of you who make donations in support of the site or who send me things from my wishlist. Thanks to everyone who links to the site or tells their friends about it. And thanks to those of you who take the time to write to me. Without your efforts, I might have given up on this site years ago.
Daytime
Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings) is a rerun. Episode is: “Forced to Marry at 14: Lisa Ling’s Special Report on Polygamy Continues” which originally aired on May 14th, 2008.
Primetime Grid
| Tue | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town | According to Jim Season premiere | According to Jim | Eli Stone | ||
| CBS | NCIS | The Mentalist | Without a Trace | |||
| NBC | The Biggest Loser: Families | Law & Order: SVU | ||||
| FOX | House | Fringe | Local Programming | |||
| CW | 90210 Rerun | Privileged Rerun | Local Programming | |||
| myTV | 2008 World Music Awards | |||||
Primetime
College basketball on ESPN and ESPN2: Ohio State at Miami (ESPN, 6pm), Clemson at Illinois (ESPN2, 6:30pm), Duke at Purdue (ESPN, 8pm), and Virginia at Minnesota (ESPN2, 8:30pm).
A fitness trainer collapses while shooting an infomercial on House (FOX, 7pm). The team treats her, of course. Thirteen begins participating in a clinical trial, Kutner sets up some sort of clinic, and Cuddy shares an office with House while hers is being repaired. Oh-oh. Guest stars include Brad Grunberg (of Little Britain USA) and Lori Petty. Brad Grunberg is brother of Greg Grunberg (of Heroes, Alias, Felicity). It seems like House is running a little longer than my TiVo thinks it is; if you want to record the full episode, you might want to be sure to pad your recording by a couple of minutes. FOX lists the episode as running from 7pm ’til 8:01pm but in my experience there’s usually a little bit that airs after 8:01pm.
The team investigates the death of a petty officer in a car crash on NCIS (CBS, 7pm). Tracy Scoggins and Antonio Sabato Jr. guest star.
Tyra Banks and Christian Siriano appear on The Biggest Loser: Families (NBC, 7pm) as does Tabatha of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. Competitors appear on The Tyra Banks Show within this episode and on Tyra’s show tomorrow (syndicated, check your local listings).
Rerun of the “Hollywood Forever” episode of 90210 (CW, 7pm). There’s a drug bust and also Silver’s half birthday party at a cemetary in this episode. Was an okay episode. The next new episode doesn’t air until January 6th.
Ryan: “You wanna tell us a little something about yourself, Kimberly?”
Kimberly: “Well, why don’t you just take whatever the old new girl said about herself and just make it better.”
Ryan: “Well, that’s tough, because the old new girl is from Kansas, and it just doesn’t get any better than that.”
Annie: “There’s no place like home.”
from 90210
New Spice Up My Kitchen (HGTV, 7:30pm and 11:30pm).
Three National Guard veterans are killed and Patrick Jane goes undercover to find their killer on The Mentalist (CBS, 8pm).
Some very unusual bank robberies may have ties to Walter on Fringe (FOX, 8:01pm).
Jim gets the older kids to do housework out of guilt in the season premiere of According to Jim (ABC, 8pm) which is followed by a second new episode (ABC, 8:30pm). Jim Belushi and Courtney Thorne-Smith star in this series which is beginning an eighth season.
Laurel is reunited with Miles, Rose is grounded, Megan tries to sort things out with Will about his possible job in Brazil in this rerun of Privileged (CW, 8pm) which debuted last night. Also Charlie is unsure about moving in with his new girlfriend and Charlie’s cousin Luis starts working for Marco. Decent episode I guess, but nothing special.
“Sex in Space” is the topic of a new episode of The Universe (History Channel, 8pm and midnight).
“Maggot Farmer” is the job on a new Dirty Jobs (Discovery, 8pm and midnight).
Eli has visions that he’s trapped inside his father’s body on Nate’s 12th birthday on Eli Stone (ABC, 9pm). Well that’s weird, even for this show.
The team searches for a doctor who goes missing on Without a Trace (CBS, 9pm). David Gallagher is among the guest stars.
A rape case involving a young female Marine stirs up some bad memories for Olivia on Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 9pm). The episode is titled “PTSD” and I imagine this will be one Mariska Hargitay submits for award consideration. Frank Whaley is among the guest stars.
Series premiere of Shatner’s Raw Nerve (Biography, 9pm and 1am) which is followed by a second new episode (Biography, 9:30pm and 1:30am). It’s a new interview show hosted by William Shatner; his first guests are Valerie Bertinelli and Tim Allen. Lots of additional airings this week on the Biography Channel, these episodes will also air on A&E early on Saturday and Sunday morning (A&E, 6am and 6:30am Saturday and Sunday).
The coldest train in the world on a new Extreme Trains (History Channel, 9pm and 1am).
Andrew visits Uganda on a new Bizarre Food with Andrew Zimmern (Travel Channel, 9pm, 10pm, 1am).
Season premiere of The Bad Girls Club (Oxygen, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm).
New Blush: The Search for the Next Great Make-up Artist (Lifetime, 9pm).
New The Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm, 1am).
Reunion episode, finale, and finale aftershow for Paris Hilton’s My New BFF (MTV, 8pm – 10:30pm, the finale and aftershow air again starting at 10:30pm).
Late Night
Calvin Trillin on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central, 10pm and midnight).
Jeffrey Goldberg on The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 10:30pm and 12:30am).
Bruce Willis, Sia on a rerun of The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).
Kathy Griffin, David Frost, Colbie Caillat on The Tonight Show (NBC, 10:35pm).
Drew Carey, Tony Parker, Lady Antebellum on a rerun of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).
Ted Koppel, Emily Mortimer, Steel Train on a rerun of Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).
Debra Messing (of The Starter Wife), Kevin McKidd (of Grey’s Anatomy, Journeyman, Rome), Akon on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, check your local listings).
Dana Gould, Tony Rock on a rerun of Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).
