Tonight is the season finale of Set for Life. Doctor Who and Flash Gordon are not on tonight, but will both be back with new episodes next Friday, September 7th on Sci Fi Channel. You also won’t find new episodes of Monk and Psych tonight on USA Network, because of U.S. Open tennis coverage. They will both be back, as well, on September 7th. USA will also have a 12 episode alternating Monk/Psych marathon that day, with six episodes of each, from this season, replaying.

Prime Picks

Set for Life (ABC): Season Finale. A tour guide from Boston and a grandmother from Anaheim try to win big monthly checks for life.

Jericho (CBS): Repeat. Eric hasn’t returned from New Bern with the rest of the guys and Jake thinks that something is definitely wrong. There are only three more episodes left and this episode is where things really start to pick up action wise.

Numb3rs (CBS): Repeat. The team is investigating the crash of a small plane and Charlie uses the flight data recorder to figure out why the plane went down.

Solid Selections

13 Going on 30 (FOX): Released 2004. Jennifer Garner plays a 13 year old that wakes up in a 30 year old body after she makes a wish at her birthday party. Runs two hours.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): Repeat. The detectives are on the trail of a child pornographer after an envelope with pictures shows up in the squad room.

Cable Choices

Good Eats (Food Network): Repeat. Alton makes some tasty jerky. Plays again later.
Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): Repeat. Places that the local population loves. Plays again later.

World’s Best Places to Pig Out (Travel Channel): Repeat. The roster of eateries includes Beth’s Café up her in Seattle, home of the 12-egg omelet over a pile of hash browns.

Painkiller Jane (Sci Fi): New. Jane is on the hunt for a group of Neuros overseas. Plays again later.

Other Options

• The Murder of Princess Diana (Lifetime): Released 2007. Based on the theories presented in the Noel Botham book of the same name, a fictional reporter gets caught up in the investigation of the crash that killed Princess Diana. If you like grassy knoll type conspiracies, then you might like this movie. Read Review. Runs two hours.
• World’s Funniest Commercials 2007 (TBS): New. Hosted by Kevin Nealon (Weeds). Funny commercials from around the world are shown. Plays again Saturday.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has college football with my Washington Huskies at the Syracuse Orange.
• ESPN2 has WNBA action with Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals followed by Friday Night Fights.
• USA has more action from the men’s third round and the women’s second round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

Late Night

• Rescue Me (FX): Repeat. Wednesday’s episode, “Cycle,” replays.
• Side Order of Life (Lifetime): Repeat. Sunday’s episode, “Try to Remember,” replays.

TV Marathons

MTV2 has six hours of MTV Cribs tonight.
Sci Fi has seven episodes of Stargate Atlantis early then last Friday’s Flash Gordon, “Infestation,” followed by six episodes of Stargate SG-1.
Spike has five episodes of Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol today.

Tonight is the season finale of Welcome to the Parker on Bravo and the series premiere of Celebrity Rap Star on MTV.

Are you a fan of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Well, then you may be interested to know that there will be a celebrity edition, with the likes of Clay Aiken and Kellie Pickler from American Idol, Regis Philbin, Billy Bush, Tony Hawk and Miss America Lauren Nelson. Who would you have liked to have seen go up against the fifth graders?

Burn Notice is not on tonight because of USA’s coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. It will be back with a new episode on September 13th in its regular timeslot and a marathon of previous episodes during the day.

Prime Picks

My Name Is Earl (NBC): Repeat. Little Chubby returns to town to take over his father’s business.
30 Rock (NBC): Repeat. Jack is planning a wedding while Liz is thinking about relocating to the Midwest.

The Office (NBC): Repeat. Phyllis gets flashed and the rest of the office is outraged. Runs 31 minutes. Check out a new promo for the upcoming fourth season and see what your favorite office workers did over the summer.
Scrubs (NBC): Repeat. Eliot is planning her wedding and J.D. is questioning his true feelings.

Men in Trees (ABC): Repeat. Marin helps out at the Elmo rummage sale while trying to work through her writer’s block.

Solid Selections

Smallville (The CW): Repeat. A woman who wants to know what happened to her husband takes Lex hostage and Clark attempts a rescue.

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC): Repeat. Bailey decides that the hospital should open up a free clinic and Izzie might just have a way to fund it.

Without a Trace (CBS): Repeat. Sam is searching for her sister that is missing with just the help of local law enforcement.

Cable Choices

Good Eats (Food Network): Repeat. Alton cooks with olives. Plays again later.
Throwdown With Bobby Flay (Food Network): Repeat. A crab cake battle is waged. Plays again later.

Who Wants to Be a Superhero? (Sci Fi): New. A secret code must be found and the remaining heroes must outwit a class of fourth graders to find it. Plays again later.

Mad Men (AMC): New. Roger and Don are not seeing eye-to-eye, while Pete is having a bit of trouble on the home front. Plays twice and again later.

Other Options

• Ace of Cakes (Food Network): New. Duff and the gang build a zombie cake and a stadium themed cake. Plays again later.
• American Chopper (TLC): New. The guys start on a Silver State Chopper. Plays again later.
• Mega Snake (Sci Fi): Released 2007. Plays in the two hours leading up to a new Who Wants to Be a Superhero? and has about a three minute scene with last season’s winner of the show, Feedback, near the end of the flick. Read review.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has college football with LSU at Mississippi State.
• ESPN2 has college football with Tulsa at Louisiana-Monroe followed by game 1 of a WNBA conference final.
• USA has second round coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tournament most of the day.

Late Night

• Painkiller Jane (Sci Fi): Repeat. The “Jane 113” episode replays.
• Saving Grace (TNT): Repeat. Monday’s episode, “And You Wonder Why I Lie,” replays.

TV Marathons

Bravo has five episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Nickelodeon has 15 episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air late.
Oxygen has 14 episodes of Snapped tonight.
Sci Fi has eight episodes of BeastMaster early.
Travel Channel has five episodes of Into Alaska With Jeff Corwin today.
VH1 has eight episodes of Britain’s Next Top Model.

The fourth season of The Office premieres on September 27th on NBC. The first four weeks will consist of hour-long episodes. Can’t wait, as this three-minute promo shows why it is one of the TVaholic’s favorite shows. There is more funny stuff in this clip than many comedies have in an entire episode. It also gives you a pretty good idea of what our favorite office workers have been up to since we last saw them and what we can expect this season.

What did you think of this promo clip for the upcoming season of The Office on NBC?

Tonight, Sci Fi has the season final of Mind Control With Darren Brown and BET has the season finale of S.O.B.: Socially Offensive Behavior.

Prime Picks

Power of 10 (CBS): New. Drew Carrey and a bunch of polls questions that people have to guess the right way about.

Criminal Minds (CBS): Repeat. A young man makes contact with Dr. Reid and he thinks that he may be a serial killer in the making.

CSI: NY (CBS): Repeat. Joey Lawrence guests as a serial killer who is let go after his arresting officer gets sent to jail.

Solid Selections

According to Jim (ABC): Repeats. Two episodes play. In the first, Jim goes to anger management. In the second, Andy finds Jim’s missing wedding ring with a metal detector. Or, you could watch the equally bad ‘Til Death reruns on FOX. Man, I can’t wait for the new season to start.

Bones (FOX): Repeat. Brennan heads to Florida alone after Booth gets his gun taken away for shooting an ice cream truck clown.

Dateline NBC (NBC): New. Well, it is this or Primetime. Did I mention, how much I can’t wait for the fall season to start?

Cable Choices

Feasting on Asphalt 2 (Food Network): Repeat. Last Saturday’s episode with Alton and the gang leaving their bikes behind for a trip on the mighty Mississippi River. Plays again later.

MythBusters (Discovery Channel): New. The guys put some superheroes from Marvel Comics to the test. Plays again later.

Rescue Me (FX): New. Tommy and Beth go on a date and Tommy’s dad tells him about his childhood. Runs 62 minutes and plays twice.

Other Options

• Dinner: Impossible (Food Network): New. A menu for a high-end fashion show needs to be created and delivered on time. Plays again later.
• The Kill Point (Spike): Repeat. The two hour finale replays, which didn’t come to as satisfying and ending as I would have hoped, but it was still a pretty good eight hours overall.
• Last Comic Standing (NBC): New. The final four perform after one is sent home.
• Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (TBS): New. Part one and two of a two-part episode play.

Sports Notes

• ESPN2 has Wednesday Night Baseball with the Boston Red Sox at the New York Yankees followed later by second round action from the FIBA Americas Championship.
• USA has more action form the first and second rounds of the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

Late Night

• Flash Gordon (Sci Fi): Repeat. Last Friday’s episode, “Infestation,” replays.
• Mad Men (AMC): Repeat. Last Thursday’s episode, “Babylon,” replays.

TV Marathons

Bravo has 14 episodes of Top Chef.
Nickelodeon has 15 episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air late.
VH1 has 16 episodes of Hogan Knows Best.