The new Melrose Place will air after the new 90210. It’s like the 90s. The Beautiful Life and Vampire Diaries are new series. Smallville will be moving to Fridays.
Sunday
Local Affiliate Programming
Monday
8-9 Gossip Girl
9-10 One Tree Hill
Tuesday
8-9 90210
9-10 Melrose Place
Wednesday
8-9 America’s Next Top Model
9-10 The Beautiful Life
Thursday
8-9 Vampire Diaries
9-10 Supernatural
Friday
8-9 Smallville
9-10 America’s Next Top Model repeats
Saturday
Local Affiliate Programming
It’s not entirely clear what Smallville, one of The CW’s most popular shows, did to deserve this punishment. Nonetheless, it is moving to the network’s currently barren Friday night, which is being rebuilt again since The Game and Everybody Hates Chris were cancelled (the year after WWE was sent away to the now rapidly growing MyNetwork TV). It’s unlikely Smallville will be able to survive past season 9 with this move.
In Smallville’s current time slot, new series Vampire Diaries will air.
The final two, Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, each performed three songs in American Idol 8 Episode 39. Tonight, one of them will be crowned the American Idol Season 8 winner based on America’s votes.
Tonight’s show will run long. On purpose. The producers know it, and they have just two words for anyone who’s recording the show hoping to see who wins: tough noogies.
Now here comes the two hours of filler. It’ll be interesting to see whether anything actually worthwhile happens in the meantime. Outlook not good.
After the record vote of nearly 100 million (closing in on the number of votes for a Presidential election), Kris Allen is the American Idol Season 8 winner.
As always, American Idol ranked as the #1 show on television by far this year, so it will obviously be returning next January for season 9.
Chuck will be taking over Heroes’ time slot at midseason. The Biggest Loser will be truncated to 90 minutes to make way for new show 100 Questions (they’re probably better off just keeping Loser at two hours). New shows Day One, Mercy, and The Marriage Ref will premiere. A new edition of The Celebrity Apprentice will air, and let’s just hope this one isn’t rigged so some raving lunatic wins again. The schedule will be preempted from February 12-28 for the Winter Olympics.
Sunday
7-8 Dateline NBC
8-9 The Marriage Ref
9-11 The Celebrity Apprentice
Monday
8-9 Chuck
9-10 Day One
10-11 Jay Leno
Tuesday
8-9:30 The Biggest Loser
9:30-10 100 Questions
10-11 Jay Leno
Wednesday
8-9 Mercy
9-10 Law & Order: SVU
10-11 Jay Leno
Thursday
8-8:30 Community
8:30-9 Parks and Recreation
9-9:30 The Office
9:30-10 30 Rock
10-11 Jay Leno
Friday
8-9 Law & Order
9-10 Soutland
10-11 Jay Leno
Saturday
8-9 Dateline NBC
9-10 Southland Encores
10-11 Law & Order: SVU Encores
The big change in NBC’s lineup is Jay Leno 5 times a week in primetime. New shows include Parenthood, Community, and Trauma. Heroes moves (back) to 8:00. Southland moves to Friday (did it really perform that badly), along with aging Law & Order.
Sunday
7-8:20 Football Night in America
8:20-11 Sunday Night Football
Monday
8-9 Heroes
9-10 Trauma
10-11 Jay Leno
Tuesday
8-10 The Biggest Loser
10-11 Jay Leno
Wednesday
8-9 Parenthood
9-10 Law & Order: SVU
10-11 Jay Leno
Thursday
8-8:30 SNL Weekend Update Thursday
8:30-9 Parks and Recreation
9-9:30 The Office
9:30-10 Community
10-11 Jay Leno
Thursday (after SNL multi-episode run)
8-8:30 Community
8:30-9 Parks and Recreation
9-9:30 The Office
9:30-10 30 Rock
10-11 Jay Leno
Friday
8-9 Law & Order
9-10 Southland
10-11 Jay Leno
Saturday
8-9 Dateline NBC
9-10 Trauma encores
10-11 Law & Order: SVU encores
American Idol and 24 will be returning for midseason. Past Life and Human Target will premiere.
Sunday
7-7:30 Animation Domination Encores
7:30-8 American Dad
8-8:30 The Simpsons
8:30-9 Sons of Tuscon
9-9:30 Family Guy
9:30-10 The Cleveland Show
Monday
8-9 House
9-10 24
Tuesday
8-9 American Idol
9-10 Past Life
Wednesday
8-9 American Idol
9-10 Human Target (January)
9-10 Glee (after Human Target ends)
Thursday
8-9 Bones
9-10 Fringe
Friday
8-8:30 Brothers
8:30-9 ‘Til Death
9-10 Dollhouse
Saturday
8-8:30 Cops
8:30-9 Cops
9-10 America’s Most Wanted
11-12 The Wanda Sykes Show
12-12:30 Animation Domination Encores
So You Think You Can Dance will be getting 20% of Fox’s fall 2009 schedule. Fringe moves to Thursday, while Lie to Me moves to Monday. Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show will join the Sunday night animation block. Glee, which premiered after American Idol, will air on Wednesdays after SYTYCD.
Sunday
7-8 The OT
8-8:30 The Simpsons
8:30-9 The Cleveland Show
9-9:30 Family Guy
9:30-10 American Dad
Monday
8-9 House
9-10 Lie to Me
Tuesday
8-10 So You Think You Can Dance
Wednesday
8-9 So You Think You Can Dance
9-10 Glee
Thursday
8-9 Bones
9-10 Fringe
Friday
8-8:30 Brothers
8:30-9 ‘Til Death
9-10 Dollhouse
Saturday
8-8:30 Cops
8:30-9 Cops
9-10 America’s Most Wanted
11-12 The Wanda Sykes Show
12-12:30 Animation Domination Encores
CBS’ strong lineup won’t see a lot of changes. The Monday night comedy lineup will be shuffled to make room for new show Accidentally on Purpose, the NCIS spinoff will air on Tuesdays followed by The Good Wife, The Mentalist moves to Thursday, Medium moves over from NBC, and Three Rivers is a new drama.
Sunday
7-8 60 Minutes
8-9 The Amazing Race
9-10 Three Rivers
10-11 Cold Case
Monday
8-8:30 How I Met Your Mother
8:30-9 Accidentally on Purpose
9-9:30 Two and a Half Men
9:30-10 The Big Bang Theory
10-11 CSI: Miami
Tuesday
8-9 NCIS
9-10 NCIS: Los Angeles
10-11 The Good Wife
Wednesday
8-8:30 The New Adventures of Old Christine
8:30-9 Gary Unmarried
9-10 Criminal Minds
10-11 CSI: NY
Thursday
8-9 Survivor
9-10 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
10-11 The Mentalist
Friday
8-9 Ghost Whisperer
9-10 Medium
10-11 Numb3rs
Saturday
8-9 Drama Repeats
9-10 Drama Repeats
10-11 48 Hours Investigations