Robert Knepper, who played T-Bag on the now defunct Prison Break, will make his debut on Heroes season 4 according to THR. As villains go, he should make a good one.

Continuing the trend of thumbing their nose at the archaic 65 episode rule that just doesn’t make much business sense, Disney has proven to not be braindead by renewing Hannah Montana for season 4. The series, number 1 in Disney Channel’s core tween demographic, will easily set the record for the most episodes of any show ever on the network, has spawned two movies, and multiple albums from its star Miley Cyrus.

Reaper Season 2 Episode 13 The Devil and Sam Oliver airs Tuesday May 26 at 8/7c on The CW.

TUESDAY, MAY 26

SEASON FINALE

“REAPER” (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET)

“The Devil and Sam Oliver” (TV-14, DL) (HDTV)

SAM TAKES ON THE DEVIL Sam (Bret Harrison) and Andi (Missy Peregrym) try to find Tony (guest star Ken Marino) to help them translate the scroll Nina (Jenny Wade) brought back from Hell. Sam discovers that he can summon The Devil (Ray Wise) with a specific incantation that will trap him into a competition. Sam challenges The Devil to a game of quarters, but they play to a draw and The Devil refuses a rematch, so Andi offers her soul as collateral. Tyler Labine and Rick Gonzalez also star. Kevin Dowling directed the episode written by Michael Daley (#214).

Promo

Showtime’s new series Nurse Jackie begins Monday June 8 at 10:30 ET/PT. You can watch it online at Showtime’s website. When prompted, enter SHIFT HAPPENS as your password.

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.

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 will go all animation.

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