If you were planning on catching the next installment of Kidnapped on NBC tonight you will have to go online to see it. NBC has decided to stop airing the remaining episodes on Saturday night in lieu of Law & Order: Criminal Intent repeats. The show had not performed well on Saturday nights the last couple weeks. They are in the process of finishing up filming of the thirteenth and final episode. They will all be online for your viewing pleasure. They decided to take it off the air and not just for the next two weeks, which is the sweeps period where advertising rates are set, but for good. New episodes will be available each Friday at the NBC Kidnapped website. I am not sure why they couldn’t play them out on one of their cable properties but if you want to know what happened this looks like your only chance unless NBC decides to put it out on DVD at some point. I find this to be very disappointing but at least there is a conclusion to the mystery and a way to see it, although not a very good one.
Prime Picks
CSI: Miami (CBS): Repeat. A new technology is used to figure out who the rapist was in a cold case but he gets killed before he can go to trial.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): Repeat. This past Tuesday’s episode, “Masquerade,†replays where Liza Minelli guest stars. This is the timeslot that Kidnapped was being shown until this week.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): Repeat. This past Tuesday’s episode, “Infiltrated,†replays where Det. Benson is called by ADA Novak even though she is still undercover.
Solid Selections
Dateline NBC (NBC): New. More predators are gone after.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS): Repeat. The team investigates when a body is found in the chimney of a previous suspect.
48 Hours Mystery (CBS): New. The case of a mother telling the police her son did it.
Cable Choices
Robo Sapien: the secret (r)evolution (Discovery Channel): New. See stories about scientist trying to design an interface to connect the human mind to a computer directly.
Monarch Cove (Lifetime): Series Premiere. A woman gets released from prison after
DNA evidence exonerates her. She then moves back to Monarch Cove to find who it was that really killed her father. Two episodes play tonight and run two hours.
Other Options
Trading Spaces (TLC): New. Doug tries to fix a kitchen while Laurie fixes up a basement into an entertainment room.
Sports Notes
- ABC has college football followed by the third round of the Tour Championship golf tournament and then later Saturday Night Football with UCLA at California in the west and Virginia Tech out east.
- CBS has college football with LSU at Tennessee.
- ESPN has the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championship from Church Hill Downs followed later by Arkansas at South Carolina in college football action.
- ESPN2 has three college football games with Maryland at Clemson followed by Ohio at Illinois and then capping the night off with Boston College at Wake Forest.
- FOX Sports has college football games all day.
- NBC has North Carolina at Notre Dame in college football action.
- TBS has the college football game I will be watching, Washington at Oregon, followed by Oklahoma State at Kansas.
- TNT has NASCAR Racing with the O’Reilly Challenge from Texas.
- Versus has Texas Christian at UNLV in college football play.
Late Night
- MADtv (FOX): New. The show includes a take on Project Runway and a musical performance by Nelly Furtado.
- Saturday Night Live (NBC): New. See “The Best of Darrell Hammond†tonight.
- Talkshow with Spike Feresten (FOX): New. Tonight Jason Alexander is his guest. I guess Spike is attempting to interview the entire cast of Seinfeld.
