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News & Notes & Other Stuff

I’m just giving you some info and the grid, plus late night talk show listings today. Not much new on and I need to take a break from the usual grind. It’s a good night to catch up with shows you’ve recorded or to go to a movie or watch a DVD or something.

Lotsa reruns instead of regular episodes tonight, expect lots of reruns for the next couple of weeks. Wondering when you’ll be seeing new episodes of your Thursday night faves? Here’s a list of Thursday network shows with probable dates for their next new episodes:
30 Rock – January 8th
CSI – January 15th
Eleventh Hour – January 15th
ER – January 8th
Grey’s Anatomy – January 8th
Kath & Kim – January 8th
My Name Is Earl – January 8th
The Office – January 15th
Private Practice – January 8th
Smallville – January 15th
Supernatural – January 15th
Ugly Betty – January 8th

Survivor has finished their latest season, a new one will start up again in February.

Life on Mars is moving to Wednesday nights and won’t be back with new episodes ’til January 28th.

Today is the last day to purchase stuff at Amazon using “standard shipping” in order for items to arrive by Christmas. Thanks, once again, to everyone who has done their shopping at Amazon (and other retailers) via the links on this site.

Amazon.com Gift Cards are a great gift when you aren’t sure what someone wants as Amazon carries just about everything you can think of. They can send you physical gift cards or you can send gift certificates via email. Buy ‘em via my link here and you help support this site.

There’s a special deal on Amazon Prime right now as part of a promo with The Ellen DeGeneres Show. From now through December 30th, you can sign up for a year of Prime for $59, a $20 discount on the regular price. The price for subsequent years will be the regular $79 price. It’s a great deal if you shop at Amazon a lot and aren’t yet a Amazon Prime member/subscriber.

Daytime

Rerun of the “How to Have the Thriftiest Holiday Ever!” episode of Oprah (syndicated, check your local listings). It was this year’s “Favorite Things” episode, which had to be a disappointment to audience members who were hoping to go home with lots of free big ticket items.

Primetime Grid

Primetime

Regis Philbin hosts the winter premiere of Million Dollar Password (CBS, 7pm). Celebrities for this episode are William Shatner and Aisha Tyler.

Late Night

Rerun of this year’s new Christmas episode of Psych (USA, 10pm).

Two new episodes of Testees (FX, 10pm and 11pm, 10:30pm and 11:30pm). The latter episode is the season finale.

No Daily Show or Colbert tonight.

Will Smith, Of Montreal on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 10:35pm).

Adam Sandler, Zooey Deschanel, Los Lonely Boys on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC, 10:35pm).

Matthew Broderick, Paul F. Tompkins, Little Big Town on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:37pm).

Michael Connelly on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 11:37pm).

Russell Brand, Thomas Kretschmann, All American Rejects on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC, check your local listings).

will.i.am, the Cure on Last Call with Carson Daly (NBC, check your local listings).