This is the worst best night of TV. Too much good stuff on, VCRs and DVRs will be working overtime tonight.

Prime Picks

Smallville (WB): The season premiere tonight. This is supposed to be the season we have been waiting for and it all starts off with tonight’s episode titled the Arrival. We get to see the Fortress of Solitude and more.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS): TV’s most watched show is back with more strange cases to solve. Tonight is a bad case of room service where a movie star whose fame was on the rise is found in his hotel room dead. Of course this was after a night of carousing with a few groupies.

Without a Trace (CBS): Tonight’s season premiere starts us where we left off last season with an ambush that severely wounds Martin and kills the person he and Danny were transporting.

Solid Selections

Alias (ABC): On tonight’s season premiere Sydney learns that Vaughn may be a double agent. She vows to find out the truth while questioning her relationship.

Everwood (WB): Tonight is the season premiere. With Smallville and Everwood moving to Thursday night The WB is definitely trying to compete with the big boys.

ER (NBC): The second best choice in the third hour of primetime tonight.

Other Options

Everybody Hates Chris (UPN): The first episode last week was very funny.
Will & Grace (NBC): Tonight’s season premiere is supposed to be done live. So if they screw up you get to see it. Could be fun.

Reunion (Fox): It is already 1988 and we know of two of them that aren’t the dead one. Who could it be?

Primetime (ABC): Actor George Clooney talks about his upcoming film about journalist Edward R. Murrow.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Tonight in this repeat it is Bam versus Spam, where Emeril gets a visit from Sam Choy.

Mad Money (CNBC): What Jim Cramer give investing advice like no other. The lighting round is great to watch.

Dirty Jobs (Discovery Channel): Learn about sewer inspectors, now that is a dirty job.

Notes

The series premiere of Night Stalker is tonight on ABC in the second hour of primetime but with the competition on this night, who will be watching?
Check your local listing for Cable Choices for the appropriate times.