Author: Shane

American Idol Season 8 Winner

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.

NBC Midseason 2010 Schedule

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

NBC Fall 2009 Schedule

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

Fox Midseason 2010 Schedule

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

Fox Fall 2009 Schedule

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 Fall 2009 Schedule

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

ABC 2009 Fall Schedule

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

NCIS: Los Angeles

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.