Tonight Friday is back to being mostly a useless wasteland of TV. Not much to get excited about tonight. No Las Vegas or Conviction because of the Miss USA 2006 competition being shown tonight. Drew Lachey has parlayed his Dancing With the Stars win into co-hosting the show with Nancy O’Dell. What will you be watching tonight?
Prime Picks
Deal or No Deal (NBC): Celebrity Cooking Showdown has been canceled and a repeat episode of Deal or No Deal will air tonight in place of it. If you really want to see the final two episodes as NBC did not air last night’s episode either, according to their website they are showing both of them tomorrow night back to back.
Reba (WB): Reba finds out she has high blood pressure. Who wouldn’t in her situation?
Modern Men (WB): Tim tries to get back together with his first love only to find out she is married.
NUMB3RS (CBS): Don takes a hard look at his life as he investigates the death of an ex-girlfriend who died of under weird circumstances.
Solid Selections
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (FOX): Two commercially interrupted hours of the funniest of the franchise. Yeah Baby!
No solid third hour selection.
Other Options
Ghost Whisperer (CBS): Repeat where Melinda comes in contact with the very first ghost she ever saw.
Miss USA 2006 (NBC): 51 women compete for the crown. Hosted by Nancy O’Dell and Drew Lachey. Runs two hours.
Cable Choices
Emeril Live (Food Network): Emeril cooks with noodles in this repeat.
What Not to Wear (TLC): Mother of five is overhauled.
Monk (USA): Monk goes to the wine country to celebrate his anniversary and ends up solving a murder in this repeat.
Sports Notes
ESPN2 has Friday Night Fights.