What will you be watching tonight? Get some picks and ideas of what is worth watching tonight on TV. CSI is new tonight with the first of the final four episodes to close out the season. My Name Is Earl and The Office are back with new episodes tonight as they head down the final stretch for the season. Still can’t believe that the season is almost over. At least there will be some good shows on this summer. The Closer returns on TNT and a new show Saved debuts in June. The 4400 is supposed to be back at some point. Will you be watching?

Prime Picks

Smallville (WB): Clark saves a man’s life in Metropolis and also tries to talk to Lana about her relationship with Lex.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS): All the evidence for a case is stolen leaving it compromised.

Without a Trace (CBS): A teenage ice skater that is an Olympic hopeful disappears and the team investigates.

Solid Selections

Everybody Hates Chris (UPN): Chris finds a Playboy that belongs to his dad and takes it to school where it is taken and eventually ends up with the principal having a meeting with his parents.
My Name Is Earl (NBC): Repeat where Earl returns the hot dog cart only for Ralph to mess things up while working for the competition. This is one of the better episodes of the season.

My Name Is Earl (NBC): Earl attempts to return to a police officer a badge he stole years ago.
The Office (NBC): Dwight goes over the top with his investigation after he finds a half smoked joint in the parking lot.

Commander In Chief (ABC): Mac asks her new Attorney General to look into the urban unrest in nearby Maryland while she continues to try and find the missing missiles.

Other Options

That ‘70s Show (FOX): The real husband of Samantha shows up and Jackie decides to make a list of things she wants in a man.
That ‘70s Show (FOX): Jackie seeks advice from Donna after she realizes she has feelings for Fez. That must have been one wacky list she made.

The O.C. (FOX): Taylor is on a high while Summer falls flat and Marissa gets Volchok to attended the dance where one of the girls is elected queen. Can you say Prom in the O.C.?

ER (NBC): Pratt goes to Africa to help Carter. Abby thinks something is wrong when a woman and her granddaughter are brought into the ER. Runs 61 minutes and starts a minute before the hour.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Emeril whips up some puff pastries in this repeat.

Meet the Parents (USA): Ben Stiller goes to meet his future fiancés’ family at the wedding of her sister. Robert De Niro is great as the father of the bride. Better than the second one.

Sports Notes

Doubleheader NHL Playoff games on OLN. ESPN2 has Thursday Night Baseball. TNT has an NBA Playoff doubleheader with the Miami Heat at the Chicago Bulls and then the Los Angeles Clippers at the Denver Nuggets. NBA TV has the New Jersey Nets at the Indiana Pacers.

Tonight we heard the Idol hopefuls sing love songs. Andrea Bocelli and producer David Foster helped them this week. Mr. Foster pulled no punches and told them exactly what he thought and tried to point them in the right direction. This included getting Chris to sing while lying down so he could see what it was like to sing with his diaphragm. Chris was surprised at how well it worked.

The judges didn’t really like the song choices this week. I thought they were mostly pretty good. This was another week were I thought that Chris might struggle. He didn’t and had one of the best performances of the night.

So how did the performances last night on American Idol rank:

1. Elliott Yamin – Randy said he was “da bomb” while Simon said it was “superb” and it brought Paula to tears. It didn’t make me cry but it was the best vocal of the night. He definitely stepped it up from the last couple of weeks.
2. Chris Daughtry – He sang, “Have You Ever Loved a Woman” and he sounded really good. With the help of Mr. Foster and Mr. Bocelli he found out that he could really sing not just rock. They had him lie down and sing to help him sing more than just with his throat. The judges all loved it.
3. Katharine McPhee – This was interesting. I thought she sounded great singing “I Have Nothing” but the judges didn’t think she measured up to Whitney Houston. Yet in the practice sessions David Foster who wrote the song was helping her and he thought she sounded great. The judges always kill you if you pick a song by a Celine Dion or a Whitney and you don’t out shine them, which is incredibly hard.
4. Taylor Hicks – Started out slow but put it together towards the end. Simon thought he sounded like a “hotel lounge” singer. He wasn’t far off in this case.
5. Paris Bennett – Simon said she was “trying to impersonate an older artist.” This is what I have been saying all along. She has a really powerful voice for such a small package and can sing just about anything but she needs to choose better. Whatever the category of music she needs to find the song that was sung by someone young.
6. Kellie Pickler – She sang “Unchained Melody” and it was not very good. On the replay they showed the only good sounding part of the song. It was a boring performance. Simon said it was “monotonous and bland.” Two sub par performances in a row might mean it is her time to go.

So who will end up in the bottom three? I think it should be Taylor, Paris and Kellie with the Pickler heading back home to find someone to “play pottery” with. As has been shown anyone can be sent packing at anytime on American Idol.

How about you, who do you think will be leaving American Idol Season 5 tonight? Who do you think will make up the bottom three? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Did you know that it is TV Turn-Off Week? I didn’t until I saw it mentioned over at TVSquad in a post. They should really put this like in the middle of July or something. Who out there that watches TV is going to stop watching their favorite shows in the final weeks of the season? Most shows are down to four or less episodes until the season is over. How about some other things we should stop for a week and spend more time outside or with the family. Stop reading the newspaper. Wait a lot of people are already doing that one. How about stop reading books. Have you seen how much time people suck up sitting by themselves reading? Maybe we should stop using our computers or no Xbox or Playstation for a week. I got it, no radio for a week. What movement do you want to start? What should we stop doing for a week? What will you be watching tonight on TV?

Prime Picks

Alias (ABC): Sydney cuts her maternity leave short to rescue Will from Anna Espinosa. Sloan gets a bit closer to getting a cure for Nadia.

Lost (ABC): Clip show alert. Get caught up with the happenings on the island so you will be ready for the last few episodes of the season. Runs 61 minutes.

Invasion (ABC): Russell is on the verge of losing his job. A teacher is teaching something she probably shouldn’t to Rose’s class. Jesse and his schoolmate come to a decision.

Solid Selections

Bones (FOX): The team uncovers a bone smuggling ring while examining a young girls cancer.

American Idol (FOX) Results show with a performance by Andrea Bocelli. Who do you think will be leaving?
Unanimous (FOX): If you watch Idol then what else are you going to watch until the next hour of TV starts?

CSI: NY (CBS): Kid Rock guests as himself and when his limo driver is found dead the team investigates.

Other Options

One Tree Hill (WB): Lucas and Karen return and Haley and Brooke fight about the wedding.

The Bedford Diaries (WB): Owen goes to a lot of trouble to plan a date to impress Natalie. Lee gets hooked on online poker. Sarah comes to some realizations regarding her romantic life.

Law & Order (NBC): Repeat where a journalist looks to have committed suicide but other things point to foul play.

Cable Choices

Hustle (AMC): Repeat of the first episode of this fun show about a group who use the long con to swindle money out of only people they believe deserve it and can afford it.

MythBusters (Discovery Channel): The guys go back and revisit some of the myths they have already looked at like the Confederate rocket and bulletproof water.

Good Eats (Food Network): Repeat where Alton makes homemade ice cream.
Ham on the Street (Food Network): Repeat where ice cream is looked at from an interesting and usually funny perspective.

Sports Notes

ESPN has Wednesday Night Baseball with the Boston Red Sox at the Cleveland Indians. OLN has an NHL Playoff doubleheader. TNT has a NBA Playoff doubleheader with the Memphis Grizzlies at the Dallas Mavericks followed by the Los Angeles Lakers at the Phoenix Suns. NBA TV has the Milwaukee Bucks at the Detroit Pistons.

Every Tuesday a new assortment of TV shows come out on DVD. This week we go-go gadget volume one, not to mention things get a little bizarre and some bad guys are tried by jury. Do any of the TV shows released today on DVD interest you? Check out this week’s Prime Picks for your viewing pleasure.

Prime TV Show DVD Picks

The Best Of Bizarre Vol.3
The Best Of Bizarre Vol.4
John Byner hosted this sketch comedy show that aired on CTV and Showtime back in the 80s. I must have watched it on Showtime. The main thing I remember from the show is Super Dave Osborne. Always trying his latest stunt to no avail. The sketches were some of the most outrageous spoofs you will ever see. Nothing and no one was immune. It was like a live action TV Funhouse from Saturday Night Live. The way they poked fun at race, religion, celebrities and the like. You would be watching it and not believing that they just did that. If you like sketch comedy that is actually funny then check out The Best of Bizarre. Each volume has 10 episodes from the show, uncut and uncensored, on one disc picked by the shows producers Allan Blye and Bob Einstein.

Inspector Gadget: The Original Series
This was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. It was a cross between Mission Impossible and James Bond except Inspector Gadget was a cross between Maxwell Smart and Inspector Clouseau. He bumbled his way through each investigation given to him by Chief Quimby. If it were not for his niece Penny and her trusty dog Brain, he would have never solved the caper and foiled another M.A.D. plot by Dr. Claw. The best part of the show was all the built in gadgets that never seemed to work, as he wanted. Rollerskate shoes, helicopter out of his hat, extendo legs and arms and don’t forget the Gadget Mobile. Q and the Aston Martin had nothing on this vehicle. The DVD set has 22 episodes on four discs that includes a featurette retrospective.

Other TV Show DVD Options

American Dad, Vol. 1
The Avengers ‘62 - Complete Set
Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0
Jacques Cousteau - River Explorations
The Last Detective - Series 1
Law and Order: Trial by Jury - The Complete Series
Mutual of Omaha’s: Wild Kingdom Australia’s Awesome Animals
Mutual of Omaha’s: Wild Kingdom Mammals of North America
Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series
Reba - Season 3
The Rifleman Box Set Collection 5
Tommy Lee Goes to College
A Touch of Frost Season 9 and 10
The Waltons - The Complete Third Season

What will you be adding to your TV shows on DVD collection?