Welcome back to TV or Not TV where I am very glad (and sad) that the FRAK is BACK.
In June 2008 we were given a view of something I didn’t think we we would see half way through the final season of Battlestar Galactica: the fleet found Earth. Since this is the dark and dirty world of BSG we didn’t, however, have a happy ending at that point. If you’ve seen the show you know what I mean. If you haven’t you will be in for a nice surprise when you get caught up.
So here we are, seven months later, and we’ll be starting a 10 episode journey to the end of this amazing series on Friday, January 16th. There are plenty of questions for them to still answer. If that was Earth they found, now what? What’s with the Final Four cylons, and how did they get here? Is Starbuck really the harbinger of destruction? Has all of this happened before? Will all of this happen again?
The big question I think everyone who watches the show is eager for an answer on is “Who is the Fifth Cyclon?” I have to admit that in light of the last episode we saw this question isn’t so big for me. The Fifth isn’t really that important anymore. In Razor we found out the the Fifth cylon is “still in shadow” and “clawing toward redemption.” This ominous sounding bit of foreshadowing describes about 99.9999% of the characters on BSG so they’ve got a hatfull of names they can just pull out, right? I only hope this question gets answered for us on the season premiere so we can all focus on what else is actually going on in the remainder of the series.
Battlestar isn’t the only show returning this week. ABC Family will have it’s original series Kyle XY returning on Monday night, which is up against night 2 of the return of 24. Ratings behemoth American Idol returns on FOX Tuesday night. Smallville will be coming back Thursday night to The CW and Bones switches to it’s new night on FOX. The HBO original series Big Love returns for it’s third season Sunday night. Lots and lots of shows out there to enjoy.
That all being said, let’s just get to what’s coming up.
MONDAY
FOX – 8:00 PM: It’s Jack Bauer against Tony Almeda in the second night of 24.
NBC – 8:00 PM: Is Superstars of Dance the next big thing that I’m missing a second weke in a row? Yup.
ABC Family – 9:00 PM: As mentioned above, Kyle XY is up against the second hour of 24, but since the two shows don’t share a core audience I’m sure it will do fine with it’s lead in ofThe Secret Life of the American Teenager (if it can hold those viewers).
TUESDAY
NBC – 8:00 PM: Wow, did The Biggest Loser throw me for a loop last week. Even though season title is Couples they sent 1/2 of 9 of the couples home last week. If their counterpart is still on the Ranch 30 days from then they get to come back. Talk about pressure.
FOX – 8:00 PM: Whether you like it or not American Idol is back. This year they promise more competition in Hollywood and less of the disaster auditions. Do they realize why people watch this show for the first three weeks? Now we’re going to miss out on the next William Hung.
ABC – 9:00 PM: I know it is petty of me to complain that the lighting just looks wrong on Scrubs and I should judge the show on the actual content. I just can’t get past that with the new network it looks like someone is trying to save money on the electric bill.
FOOD – 10:00 PM: If you like food competitions and seeing people get cut from the running than you may enjoy Chopped. Four chefs are put to the cooking tasks with the show winner taking home a clean cut $10,000. By the way, don’t watch this after The Biggest Loser, it’s counter-productive.
WEDNESDAY
FOX – 8:00 PM: Night 2 of American Idol and I will probalby tune in to see if there is a cat fight between Paula Abdul and that other new lady judge.
NBC – 8:00 PM: OK, check this out… so Michael and KITT have this bomb in the truck that will explode if they go less than 100 miles per hour. Sorry, Sandra Bullock is nowhere to be found in this episode.
ABC – 8:00 PM: The Alphabet Network is hoping you won’t notice the lack of Pushing Daisies on tonight by re-airing all three hours of LOST‘s season 4 finale to get you caught up before next week’s premiere.
PBS – 8:00 PM: Billy Crystal hosts the six-part hour long series Make ’em Laugh: The Funny Business in America. Amy Sedaris also joins in to narrate this examinition of over 100 years of comedy in the US of A.
THURSDAY
FOX – 8:00 PM: Brennan and Booth go undercover as a husband and wife knife throwing act to infiltrate the circus (really?) on tonight’s return of Bones.
TheCW – 8:00 PM: The Legion of Super-Heroes travel back in time to try to help Clark lay the smack down on Braniac for the nasty gift he sent to Chloe’s wedding. There’s also this guy called The Persuader who shows up with an ax that can split atoms. OK Persuader, you’ve got my attention.
CBS – 9:00 PM: As one of the few Americans who doesn’t watch CSI I feel is should still let you know that if you don’t watch tonight you’ll miss seeing Grissom leave the show.
NBC – 9:00 PM: If you didn’t see Darnell‘s witness protection being blown on My Name is Earl than I hope you are at least watching the show down that occurs when Andy learns that fiance Angela has been getting the Schrute from Dwight on the side.
FRIDAY
USA – 9:00 PM: Detective Lassiter may hate Shawn and Gus but tonight he’s in the hot seat and he’ll be calling our favorite psychic detective agency tonight on Psych.
FX – 8:00 PM: I was shocked to learn that The Devil Wears Prada wasn’t completely a chick flick, and it’s safe for guys to watch.
SCI-FI – 9:00 PM: Friday nights finally got a little less sucky with the return of Battlestar Galactica.
SATURDAY
TVLAND – 3:30 PM: With so few quality choices today how about five and a half hours of 3rd Rock from the Sun ?
NBC – 8:00 PM: It’s the next to last episode of Crusoe. Yeah, I know… I didn’t watch it either.
TBS- 9:00 PM: I can give you no logical reason why I enjoy You, Me and Dupree but for some reason I do… and it’s on again tonight… and it doesn’t suck as much as some of the other choices out there… and I needed to fill this spot with something.
SUNDAY
NBC – 9:00 PM: No, Sherman didn’t set the Wayback Machine… since we are almost to the inauguration of our President-Elect NBC is retreading this special from pre-election night.
ABC – 9:00 PM:Beau Bridges‘ eyebrows (and the rest of him) guest star as the neighborhood handyman who passes away on tonight’s 100th episode of Desperate Housewives.
HBO – 9:00 PM: OK, last season was very unbalanced for me but I’m still going to give Big Love another chance.
– Will Wilkins doesn’t know what the frak is going on… but can’t wait to find out.
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