News & Notes
Over on cable, ABC Family has the season three premiere of Kyle XY and VH1 has the first season finale of Real Chance of Love.
Prime Picks
24 (FOX): New. The next two hours continues with Jack Bauer helping in the investigation and how his former friend and colleague Tony Almeida is connected to it.
CSI: Miami (CBS): New. The team hooks a guy with no memory of what happened to him up to something that is supposed to help jog his memory.
Solid Selections
The Big Bang Theory (CBS): New. Penny makes a comment about Wolowitz’s personal life and it sends him into a depression that makes him useless as a teammate for a robot building competition.
How I Met Your Mother (CBS): New. Robin and Ted try the roommates with benefits things and Marshall is having a little magazine problem.
Two and a Half Men (CBS): New. Charlie and Jake are competing for the affections of a waitress. Alan is attracted to his receptionist.
Worst Week (CBS): New. Sam does something that goes wrong.
The third hour network selections are pretty weak and not even worth mentioning here.
Cable Choices
The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family): New. Amy and Ben realize that their marriage isn’t really legal. Anne and George reconcile briefly. Tom wants to get married. Plays again later twice.
Kyle XY (ABC Family): Season Premiere. Kyle is trying to find Amanda after she was abducted after the prom. The rest of the gang is dealing with prom aftermath. Plays again later night tomorrow. Nine episodes from the end of last season replay leading up to The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Glad to see this show back, it has been quite a long wait since March ’08 to find out what happened.
Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (Food Network): New. Places with “Something From Everywhere” on the menu are visited. A repeat episode follows. Both play again later.
Other Options
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel Channel): New. Tony visits “Venice.” Plays again later.
- Gossip Girl (The CW): New. Everyone learns what Bart’s will says. Rufus continues to look for his son. Dan deals with knowing Lily and Rufus’ secret.
- One Tree Hill (The CW): New. The news of Peyton’s condition begins to spread. Mouth and Millie try to remain together. Nathan and Haley have a night out.
Sports Notes
- ESPN has doubleheader college basketball action with Notre Dame at Louisville followed by Texas at Oklahoma.
- ESPN2 has women’s college basketball action with Maryland at Duke.
- NBA TV has the Toronto Raptors at the Boston Celtics.
- Versus has NHL action.
Late Night
- Monk (USA): Repeat. Last Friday’s episode, “Mr. Monk and the Other Brother,” replays.
- Psych (USA): Repeat. Last Friday’s episode, “Six Feet Under the Sea,” replays.
TV Marathons
ABC Family has nine season two episodes of Kyle XY.
Oxygen has 22 episodes of Living Single.
Sci Fi has eight episodes of The Outer Limits early.
