The Great American Dream Vote settles into its regular timeslot tonight on ABC in the first hour of primetime. Over on cable the British version of What Not to Wear, also known as the original version, kicks off a new season with a couple of new hosts on BBC America. Also, Gwen Stefani performs on American Idol with Akon. What will you be watching tonight?

Prime Picks

Friday Night Lights (NBC): New. Cash is appearing in players’ lockers and an accident might ruin the chances of the team having home field advantage for the game that would send them to the state championships.

Crossing Jordan (NBC): New. Jordan and Woody are working the case of a murdered woman and her missing fetus, but Jordan may have screwed up along the way.

Lost (ABC): New. Hurley thinks that Sawyer may be part of an island mystery, while Sun finds out about her attempted kidnapping by the Others and what really went on. What did you think of the magic box from last week?

Solid Selections

Jericho (CBS): New. April has gone into labor early and needs an operation and the only one who can is Kenchy, who is still dealing with what happened at his hospital by those Ravenwood guys.

American Idol (FOX): New. Gwen Stefani performs with Akon. Someone is told, “your journey ends here tonight.” Who do you think it should be?
‘Til Death (FOX): New. I actually watched most of last week’s show and laughed a couple of times. You could always flip over to ABC and watch In Case of Emergency while you are waiting for Lost to start.

Medium (NBC): New. Allison has another disturbing dream that could help solve a case.

Cable Choices

That’s Gotta Hurt (TLC): New. Do you like to see people fall down, get kicked, crash into things and the like? Then this is the show for you.

MythBusters (Discovery Channel): Repeat. The guys try and blow the feathers off a chicken. Now that certainly sounds entertaining.

Good Eats (Food Network): Repeat. What can you do with cube steak? Well, Alton will give you a few ideas.
Dinner: Impossible (Food Network): Repeat. The tailgating challenge is replayed.

Other Options

• Bones (FOX): New. A water main breaks and floods a cemetery next to a church. Brennan is supposed to identify the remains and get them reburied properly, but it looks like there may be an extra one or something in the mix.
• Criminal Minds (CBS): Repeat. A young man reaches out to Dr. Reid and the team tries to help him. He thinks he may be a potential serial killer in the making. This was a very good episode of this show.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has the 2007 McDonald’s All-American Game followed by some NBA action with Houston Rockets at the Los Angeles Clippers.

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Well, will this be the week? Or, will the faux hawk keep Sanjaya in the competition for another week?

This week, Gwen Stefani helped the 10 remaining contestants on Season 6 of American Idol along. She provided the list of songs they could choose from. Of course this included songs from No Doubt, as well as songs, groups and singers that inspired her.

So, what did they sing and how did the do?

American Idol Season 6 – Top 10 Performance Rankings:

1. Melinda Doolittle – The fabulous Melinda gave us yet another outstanding performance. She looks like she is becoming more comfortable as being the lead singer she should be, as opposed to the backup singer she used to be. She performs seventh on the night and sings, “Heaven Knows” by Donna Summer. Randy said it was “da bomb.” Paula said, “I love when people tell stories when they sing” and she does a great job connecting with the songs she sings. Simon thought it was “vocally outstanding” and it was.
2. Gina Glocksen – She was the third to hit the stage and sang “I’ll Stand By You” from The Pretenders. It is really great. You can understand the words and everything. Randy and Paula both thought it was one of her best performances so far. Simon took issue with that and said it wasn’t one of her best, but was “her best performance.” I thought she really showed something last night. This was definitely her best singing performance so far.
3. LaKisha Jones – Was the first to go and sang Donna Summer’s “Last Dance” and gave another great performance. Randy said she was a “true fly diva” and that her performance was “hot.” Paula thought she did Donna Summer proud and Simon said that she was back to being “the LaKisha that I love.” Still leaves a little bit to be desired after bursting out of the gate with an outstanding take charge performance in the first week of the competition where the public could vote.
4. Blake Lewis – No beat boxing, just straight ahead vocals tonight, as he occupied the eighth spot in the singing order. He sang “Love Song” by The Cure and sounded really good. He really needed to showcase his voice again, so people don’t forget he can sing as well as perform. Randy wasn’t really that high on it, but thought he “made the most of it.” Paula said she “loved what you did with the song” and that he might be the “dark horse” in the competition. Simon thinks he is the “strongest guy in the competition.” With Chris Sligh falling off each week, I would have to agree.
5. Jordin Sparks – She was next to last to perform. Randy thinks she “can literally sing anything” and Simon thinks she is the “most improved” over the “last few weeks.” She can sing, but she did seem at times to be just going through the motions of the song, which was No Doubt’s “Hey Baby.” I think the thing with her is that she doesn’t connect emotionally with the material, whatever it is, each week. Yet, she can really sing. This was the perfect type of song for someone her age to connect with and it did seem at times “a bit copycat-ish,” as Simon pointed out.
6. Phil Stacey – He sang sixth and this was definitely his best so far. It started of sounding like he was just trying to mimic Sting, but when he hit the chorus, it wasn’t quite “magic” like Paula said, but it was really good. He sang “Every Breath You Take” by The Police. Randy thought it was a “really solid performance.” Simon thought it was “very good” and a “great choice of song.”
7. Chris Richardson – He went last and took on No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” and did pretty well. It was kind of a boring performance for me, but vocally it was good. Randy thought it “was good.” Paula just kept repeating “your good” over and over. Simon thought it was a” much better choice of song,” but that he “struggled in the middle.”
8. Chris Sligh – Came out second and tried to sing “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by The Police. He too sounded like he was trying to impersonate Sting at the beginning of the song, but Sting would have been able to sing in rhythm with the song, as Chris did not. Randy thought it was a “good song choice,” but he was “way ahead of the rhythm” through the whole song. Paula thought that “vocally it was nice,” while Simon thought “it was a mess” and “all over the place.” It was definitely not his best.
9. Haley Scarnato – Was the fifth to take the stage and looked great, but once again that was about it. She was too quiet with the song and you couldn’t tell what she was even singing most of the time, which was “True Colors” by Cindi Lauper. Randy thinks it “started out rough” and ended up being “just ah-ight.” Paula comments on how she looks, which means she didn’t have anything good to say about the singing. Simon thought it was “sweet, but forgettable.”
10. Sanjaya Malakar – Each week makes me more and more sure that he is just fulfilling a bet, which he lost. This week, the faux hawk hairdo. It is so time for him to go. The local FOX affiliate’s news promos throughout the show up here in Seattle, from which Sanjaya is from, kept plugging a story coming up on the news where they interviewed his hometown stylist. This is the dumbest thing I have heard from our local news in a while. He went fourth and attempted to sing No Doubt’s “Bathwater,” which has a line that goes: “I know I’m diving into my own destruction.” All I could think at that point while watching was, damn, I sure hope so.

Will it be his destruction or will someone else have taken the plunge this week? Once again, if it were up to me, Sanjaya and his hair would have been gone already. Seeing how he made the Top 10 though, he will get to butcher songs all summer on the American Idol Season 6 Tour.

Anyway, this week the bottom two could be comprised of any of the bottom four from above. That would mean Sanjaya, Haley, Chris R. and Chris S. Chris R. was in the bottom two last week and I don’t think this week was enough to push him much higher. So, I will say that he gets the boot this week and Sanjaya makes it for at least another week, although his time is definitely running short.

Who do you think should go? Who do you think will go? Leave your thought in the comments.

Dancing With the Stars takes a page out of the How To Milk It Handbook from American Idol tonight. ABC will be airing an hour-long recap episode of the first two weeks up against Idol and then in the second hour of primetime they will have an hour-long results show. That will be followed by the premiere of The Great American Dream Vote, which is hosted by Donny Osmond. In this show, eight people will tell of their dream and then the studio audience will pick their favorite two. Those two will be voted on by anybody who wants to at ABC.com. The show moves to its regular timeslot in the first hour of primetime tomorrow.

Prime Picks

American Idol (FOX): New. The theme of the week is pop music and the remaining 10 get a little help from Gwen Stefani on their performances. Runs 67 minutes.

House (FOX): New. House has a new patient, an ex-Marine that he finds intriguing. Runs 60 minutes, so that means it will run seven minutes into the final hour of primetime or in this case delay your local FOX affiliate’s news broadcast.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): New. Tim Daly (The Nine, Wings) plays a preacher that the detectives suspect of murder.

Solid Selections

NCIS (CBS): Repeat. When a Marine colonel is found dead at a golf course the team ends up working with the Army Criminal Investigative Unit on a suspected terrorist attack.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): New. When the son of a judge is found dead, the detectives start with the friends and family of a young rapper who was handed a tough sentence by the father.

Shark (CBS): Repeat. Stark is prosecuting a case that seems very similar to a case he lost 15 years earlier when he was a defense attorney. He hopes that the verdict here could get an innocent man out of jail.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Repeat. Emeril cooks with soul.

Ace of Cakes (Food Network): Repeat. The ski slope cake episode replays.
Throwdown With Bobby Flay (Food Network): Repeat. Bobby competes in a Mac & Cheese battle.

Dirt (FX): Season Finale. Jennifer Anniston (Friends) guests as Tina Harrod, who has been a rival of Lucy’s for a while. Lucy hears of a rumor about Tina being up for her job. Runs 66 minutes and plays twice.

Other Options

• Taste of America With Mark DeCarlo (Travel Channel): New. Check out some tasty bagels in New York and a dude that cooks entire meals with Coke as a main ingredient. A repeat episode plays right after.
• The Unit (CBS): Repeat. Pretty good episode where Bob and his translator crash land in a helicopter and must survive without any of their gear.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has a couple of Women’s NCAA Tournament games.
• ESPN2 has a couple of NIT college basketball games.
• NBA TV has the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Indiana Pacers.

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It is season finale time for What About Brian on ABC and Wildfire on ABC Family. What About Brian is considered to be on the bubble for making it another season. Would you like to see it return next fall? It is not the best show, but it is certainly a lot better than ABC’s new October Road, which is aimed at the same audience demographic. The 30ish crowd; give or take a couple of years.

Prime Picks

Prison Break (FOX): New. Michael wants to take down T-Bag for good. Lincoln and Mahone get into it. Sara has to face the music in court and Kellerman has decided what will become of him.

24 (FOX): New. Jack and Doyle have to head out on another mission while they might try to take the president out of his coma to try and stave of a nuclear retaliation by the VP.

What About Brian (ABC): Season Finale. Dave and Deena are trying to get away for a secret renewal of their wedding vows while Nicole is being overwhelmed by business at the cupcake shop. Brian and Adam are baby-sitting when Natasha interrupts them.

Solid Selections

How I Met Your Mother (CBS): Repeat. The one with Jane Seymour as Marshall’s older, but hot law professor.
The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS): Repeat. Christine gets stuck having to have lunch duty at Ritchie’s school with Stan, played by Andy Richter.

Heroes (NBC): Repeat. The “Company Man” episode where Matt and Ted take H.R.G. and his family hostage while trying to find out answers to what has happened to them. This was a really good episode.

CSI: Miami (CBS): Repeat. A Marine recruiter is killed and the team investigates.

Cable Choices

Wildfire (ABC Family): Season Finale. Kris and Matt are thinking about selling to Sheik Omar for a couple million even though it might not be quite legally possible to do so. Plays again later. A new Lincoln Heights plays right before this episode.

Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern (Travel Channel): New. See some truly interesting eats from the U.S. Gulf Coast region.

The Riches (FX): New. Wayne goes in for his first day of work and his first task is to fire the guy that he is replacing. Dahlia tries to work out a plan to get the kids into a private school. This is a very interesting show and well worth giving a look. I have been watching the late night Saturday repeats and find the show quite good. Runs 68 minutes and plays twice.

Other Options

• Friends (TBS): Repeats. Four episodes play, but the first of the four is one of my favorites with guest star Rebecca Romijn (Ugly Betty, Pepper Dennis) as the dirty living paleontologist that Ross is dating.
• Rules of Engagement (CBS): Repeat. “The Birthday Deal” episode replays.
• Two and a Half Men (CBS): Repeat. Charlie tries to help Berta confront the guy who knocked up her daughter.

Sport Notes

• ESPN has a couple of Women’s NCAA Tournament games tonight.
• ESPN2 has an Arena Football game.
• NBA TV has the Denver Nuggets at the Detroit Pistons.
• Versus has the Anaheim Ducks at the Detroit Red Wings in NHL action.

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