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

There’s a lot of new in ABC’s fall 2009 schedule. Two of the three shows on Tuesday are new, the entire Wednesday night lineup is full of freshmen shows, and Thursday’s lead show is also new.

Sunday
7-8 America’s Funniest Home Videos
8-9 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
9-10 Desperate Housewives
10-11 Brothers & Sisters

Monday
8-10 Dancing with the Stars
10-11 Castle

Tuesday
8-9 Shark Tank
9-10 Dancing with the Stars
10-11 The Forgotten

Wednesday
8-8:30 Hank
8:30-9 The Middle
9-9:30 Modern Family
9:30-10 Cougar Town
10-11 Eastwick

Thursday
8-9 Flash Forward
9-10 Grey’s Anatomy
10-11 Private Practice

Friday
8-9 Supernanny
9-10 Ugly Betty
10-11 20/20

Saturday
8-11 Saturday Night College Football

Today we learned the name of the new NCIS spinoff. NCIS: Los Angeles. Honest.

I know this much for sure. If there’s a NCIS: Norfolk, I’m going to suggest that somebody be slapped.

NCIS will serve as the lead in for the new series, which will air Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

NBC and CBS Studios were unable to come to terms to keep Medium on NBC, so NBC decided to cancel the show. Almost immediately thereafter, CBS Studios moved the show to CBS. Medium Season 6 will premiere on CBS this fall Friday at 9/8c after Ghost Whisperer.

Last year, The CW decided to bid farewell to the WWE, resulting in a scramble to fill what had been its highest rated night. Out of that came the move of Everybody Hates Chris and The Game to Friday nights from their previous Sunday time slot (a night that is now officially in the graveyard for The CW). The move to Friday actually resulted in a nice increase in ratings for both shows over their terrible Sunday performances, but it was not enough, so Everybody Hates Chris and The Game have been cancelled. This leaves just America’s Next Top Model as the sole survivor from UPN.

Reaper’s ratings are in line with 90210, its lead out that has already been renewed (yet would be cancelled on any other network), but it lags in The CW’s young female target demographic audience. With that said, the network has decided to pull the plug on Reaper. Let’s hope next week’s series finale is an appropriate end to the show, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Danny Gokey was sent home in American Idol 8 Episode 38, bringing us down to a final two of Adam Lambert against Kris Allen.

Kris won the coin toss and is chosing to go second. Each guy will sing three songs: their favorite from the season, a song chosen by show creator, and the winning song.

A word of warning for tomorrow. The show will run long. That’s right. If you record it, you will miss the actual result you waited all season to see, only to be greeted by a bunch of completely unrelated filler. Despite the fact that the actual reading of the results will take no more than two whole minutes, these idiots can’t get it done in time.

Adam Lambert (personal choice)
Song: Mad World by Tears for Fears
Randy: A+ for Adam.
Kara: So happy you chose that performance. Rocked it again tonight.
Paula: Proud you are standing on that stage right now.
Simon: A little bit overtheatrical. A little bit Phantom of the Opera.
Numbers: 1-866-IDOLS-01 or 1-866-IDOLS-03 or 1-866-IDOLS-05

Kris Allen (personal choice)
Song: Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers (playing piano)
Randy: One of your best performances ever.
Kara: Creating an intimate bond with everybody in the audience.
Paula: Way of Allenizing songs.
Simon: Wasn’t sure whether America made the right choice, but absolutely take all that back.
Numbers: 1-866-IDOLS-02 or 1-866-IDOLS-04 or 1-866-IDOLS-04

Simon calls round one for Kris.

Adam Lambert (Simon Fuller’s choice)
Song: Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
Randy: You can sing your face off.
Kara: May have been your best performance and interpretation of a song.
Paula: Best I’ve ever heard you sing ever, ever, ever, ever. (Ever?)
Simon: 100% back in the game.

Kris Allen (Simon Fuller’s choice)
Song: What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye (playing guitar)
Randy: Song choice is a little bit light for this point in the competition.
Kara: The kind of artist that can deliver that message and uplift people.
Paula: Tore that song up and made Marvin Gaye proud.
Simon: Like three friends in their bedroom strumming along to Marvin Gaye. Too laid back for a night like this.

Simon calls round two for Adam a million percent.

The first Idol single is called No Boundaries and was co-written by Kara DioGuardi, and that will be the final song of the night for each of the finalists.

Adam Lambert
Randy: You can sing anything. Not one of my favorite Adam performances, though. Just alright. A little pitchy in spots.
Kara: Moved, proud, and thank you.
Paula: Words and/or adjectives can’t express what you brought to this show.
Simon: One of the best, most original contestants over the entire season. Believe we have found a star with you.

Kris Allen
Randy: Amazing competitor. That song kinda fits your voice even better.
Kara: Don’t want you to be judged on that song. Agree the key was too high.
Paula: Amazing job to end up where you are. One of the most compelling finales.
Simon: Your first song was your highlight. Thoroughly deserved to be standing on the stage tonight.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 8 episode 40, where we will find out who the American Idol Season 8 winner is, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

CBS had three dramas on the bubble due to declining ratings and rising costs. Cold Case got lucky, but the other two did not. Without a Trace and The Unit have both been cancelled. Without a Trace actually finished the season in the top 20 shows on TV, but its older skewing demographics ultimately did it in.