Tonight on the Tube: Friday Night Lights, House, Veronica Mars and Election Coverage

Today is voting day. The day we get to put democracy in action. It is also the day when the bottom of the screen turns into election results while you are watching your favorite shows. What will be funny is there will be something I TiVo tonight that I won’t get to for a while and when I do I will have to watch them with the election results scrolling across the bottom of the screen. Do you like when your local stations do this? Would you rather just wait until the local news comes on and see who won then? At least we won’t have to watch anymore-political ads for a while. I really am tired of them. I the TVaholic and I approved this post.

Prime Picks

Friday Night Lights (NBC): New. After a two-minute election update catch the latest episode of the show where they are dealing with the possibility of last week’s win being taken away because Voodoo may not have been eligible.

House (FOX): New. House has spent the night in jail after being arrested. The patient this week is a man who weighs 600 pounds and was found unconscious in his apartment.

The third hour of primetime tonight on all three networks is being taken up by either local or national election news coverage. So pick you favorite network and see if your candidates or propositions won.

Solid Selections

NCIS (CBS): New. The team works on the Army Criminal Investigative Service to find who killed a Marine at a country club.

Veronica Mars (The CW): New. Veronica has to clear herself after she is accused of plagiarizing her criminology paper and Wallace has to deal with the aftermath of being caught cheating himself.

The third hour of primetime tonight on all three networks is being taken up by either local or national election news coverage. So pick you favorite network and see if your candidates or propositions won.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): New. Emeril visits the Chelsea Market for some fresh meat selections that he then prepares.

Overhualin’ (TLC): New. A person gets tricked and a car gets tricked out.

Nip/Tuck (FX): New. Merrill Bobolit visits the guys unexpectedly. Runs 65 minutes and plays twice.

Other Options

• Dead Like Me (Sci Fi): Repeat. Watch the “Pilot” episode of this really good show originally on Showtime.
• Eureka (Sci Fi): Repeat. The “Invincible” episode replays.
• Gilmore Girls (The CW): New. Christopher gets Lorelai to visit Rory at Yale for Parents’ Weekend.
• The Hungry Detective (Food Network): New. New York City pizza is had.
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): New. The corpse of a hip-hop producer is found outside his studio and the Captain takes an active role in pursuing the killer.
• Road Tasted (Food Network): New. The Deen boys take on Nashville.
• Standoff (FOX): New. The FBI has a man in custody for taking sniper shots around town but he turns out to be a copycat and they must hunt down the real sniper.
• The Unit (CBS): New. Jonas and Bob go off the books to try and save a girl from a cult but things don’t go as planned.

Sports Notes

• ESPN2 has college football with Toledo at Northern Illinois.
• NBA TV has the Seattle Sonics at the Miami Heat as my hometown Sonics begins a five game road trip.
• Versus has NHL Hockey.