Bones is back on FOX tonight with a new episode. The Los Angeles auditions for American Idol follow. The Knights of Prosperity has been moved up a half hour to get it out of the way of Idol. I don’t think that is going to help much. What do you think? In Case of Emergency must have not left a number to call as they are still stuck in the same timeslot it has been in and will have to deal with the Idol juggernaut. Sci Fi Channel has four episodes of Heroes tonight. What will you be watching?

Prime Picks

Friday Night Lights (NBC): New. The team is getting ready for their first playoff game while Coach is dealing with the Smash situation. Tyra and Julie start being friendly and Matt gets himself in a bit of hot water.

American Idol (FOX): New. See what happened at the Los Angeles auditions.

Medium (NBC): New. Allison is spooked by a boy’s doll and Joe is worrying about his health.

Solid Selections

Bones (FOX): New. Serial Killer Howard Epps is on the loose and the team could be his next target.

Criminal Minds (CBS): Repeat. J.J. helps out coming up with the profile when three college athletes disappear before the big game.

CSI: NY (CBS): Repeat. This is an episode from the end of last season that Kid Rock making an appearance as himself in.

Cable Choices

Heroes (Sci Fi): Repeats. The four episodes leading up to this past Monday’s new episode replays tonight. Monday’s episode replays on Friday night.

Other Options

• Dinner: Impossible (Food Network): New. A dinner for a big fundraiser must be completed.
• Good Eats (Food Network): New. Get wrapped up in tortillas again.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has college basketball with Miami at North Carolina followed by the San Antonio Spurs at the Utah Jazz in NBA action.
• ESPN2 has a college basketball doubleheader.

A few repeat shows pepper the nights landscape but House is back with a new episode as well as Veronica Mars. I wish the two shows weren’t on at the same time but that’s what a VCR or a TiVo is for. I will be watching House and recording Veronica Mars. What will you be doing? On another note, it kind of shocked me to see that this was going to be post #700 here at TVaholic. Can you believe it? Well, I hope you find the site as helpful for you as I find preparing it each day is for me. And now back to our regular posting…

Prime Picks

American Idol (FOX): New. Auditions from Alabama where they have found some great talent before.

House (FOX): New. All right, House is finally back with a new episode and it promises to be good from the promos they have been playing. We have Cuddy coming to collect from House and a case of a woman who says she was recently raped and has an STD.

Boston Legal (ABC): New. An animal rights group attacks Bella and Denny takes her case while Bethany is the lawyer for the other side. Meanwhile Brad thinks he isn’t the only benefiting from a friendship with Denise.

Solid Selections

Gilmore Girls (The CW): New. Luke and Anna face off in a hearing to decide custody while Lorelai makes Jackson tell her why Sookie has been acting so strange lately.

Veronica Mars (The CW): New. Veronica finds out that a girl is not who she says she is. Keith takes a deeper look into the Dean’s suicide.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): Repeat. The detectives track down the person who has been raping the same women multiple times.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Repeat. Get some new ideas for preparing a hot dog.

Dirty Jobs (Discovery Channel): New. Mike tries being a well digger in Tennessee.

The Closer (TNT): Repeat. Priority Homicide looks into the claim of a distraught mother after her son dies in surgery at a local hospital.

Other Options

• Dirt (FX): New. Some photos are published. People are pissed off. Runs 65 minutes and plays twice.
• Lincoln Heights (FX): Repeat. Monday’s episode replays.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has a college basketball doubleheader.
• ESPN2 has a college basketball game.

Well, I heard a couple of great lines last week that really made me laugh. So, I thought it was time to get back to posting funny quotes and lines here at TVaholic. During the week of January 21st we had Seth on The O.C. delivering a line like only he can and Mac making a funny reference on Veronica Mars.

Funny Line of the Week

Show: The O.C. (FOX)
Episode: The Ground Hog Day (Season 4)
The Setup: It is Kirsten’s 40th Birthday and the guys are talking about her and the upcoming event after getting in the car on the way to the movies.
Ryan: You don’t think she knows about the party?
Sandy: What? No! Are you kidding me? Nobody plans a surprise party like Sandy Cohen. I could’ve been with the C.I.A.
Seth: (Leaning in from the back seat) I hear their known for their birthday parties.

Another Funny Line

Show: Veronica Mars (The CW)
Episode: Show Me the Monkey (Season 3)
The Setup: Mac has been called to the science building to provide computer tech support. She walks into a lab that has cages strewn about and papers everywhere.
Mac: Wow, this is one trashed lab. All that’s missing is a big hole in the wall shaped like the Hulk.

Did you hear something funny last week?

CBS is all about the repeat tonight while most everything else on the networks is new. If you are one of the many who sit down and watch CBS most of the night on Monday’s then you have already seen all of these episodes. Now it is time to give something else a shot like Studio 60 or What About Brian instead of CSI: Miami, both of which could use some viewers and deservedly so.

Prime Picks

Prison Break (FOX): New. The guys try to get a message out to Sara while Bellick gets a surprise visit in the infirmary and Haywire is back.

Heroes (NBC): New. George Takei (Star Trek) guest stars as Hiro’s father while Isaac is dedicating himself to stopping New York from exploding and the invisible man may be of some help. Runs 61 minutes.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC): New. The staff is attending the dinner for Harriet while her and Matt’s relationship maybe deteriorating for good and Danny is stuck on the roof of the theater with Jordan.

Solid Selections

How I Met Your Mother (CBS): Repeat. This was a great episode where Barney tries to show Ted the being an architect can be a good way to pick up the ladies.
The Class (CBS): Repeat. Ethan is pretending to be Dan so he can date the woman that is married to Adam on What About Brian.

24 (FOX): New. Wow, Jack has one screwed up family.

What About Brian (ABC): New. Adam tries to figure out who he wants to be with, his wife or the back in L.A. Marjorie while Brian has the whole gang out to his dad’s lake house.

Cable Choices

Wildfire (ABC Family): New. Tonight is all about “Love vs. Work.” Plays again later and a new episode of Lincoln Heights plays right before.

Unwrapped (Food Network): New. Snacks from the Lone Star state are profiled.
Unwrapped (Food Network): Repeat. Snacks from the South are looked at.

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel Channel): New. Russia is visited.

Other Options

• The 2007 Miss America Pageant (CMT): New. Hosted by Mario Lopez.
• Emeril Live (Food Network): Repeat. Emeril tries to help you get ready for the big game.
• Nora Roberts’ Angel Falls (Lifetime): Released 2007. Heather Locklear (Spin City, Melrose Place) stars in this Lifetime original movie based on the novel of the same name. Runs two hours.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has a college basketball doubleheader.
• ESPN has San Diego at Gonzaga in college basketball action late.
• NBA TV has the New Jersey Nets at the Utah Jazz.
• Versus has NHL action with the New York Rangers at the Boston Bruins.