NBC Reality Show Cancellations

While NBC’s summer schedule may include I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here, America’s Got Talent, and Great American Road Trip, and the network’s Tuesday night The Biggest Loser is stronger than ever, Futon Critic confirms that much of NBC’s reality lineup has gotten the axe.

Last Comic Standing, Nashville Star, Celebrity Circus, Celebrity Family Feud, The Baby Borrowers, American Gladiators, America’s Toughest Jobs, and Momma’s Boys have all been cancelled.

The massive cancellations come as NBC is preparing to move Jay Leno to 10PM, which will mean the need for 1/3 less programming.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 20 Preview

Heroes Season 3 Episode 20 Cold Snap airs Monday March 23 at 9/8c on NBC.

Monday March 23, 2009
9:00 PM 1.0 HEROES
COLD SNAP

THE IDENTITY OF “REBEL” IS REVEALED WITH CHILLING CONSEQUENCES EMMY AWARD-WINNER ZELJKO IVANEK, BREA GRANT AND SWOOSIE KURTZ GUEST STAR HRG (Jack Coleman) convinces Emile Danko (guest star Zeljko Ivanek), a.k.a. “The Hunter”, to release Tracy (Ali Larter) from “Building 26,” in hopes that she will lead them to “Rebel.” As Angela (Cristine Rose) evades capture, she turns to an old friend (guest star Swoosie Kurtz) for help. In Los Angeles, Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) continue on their latest mission from “Rebel” to protect the newest hero. Greg Grunberg, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Milo Ventimiglia also star. Brea Grant and David H. Lawrence XVII also guest star.

Sneak Peek

Lost Season 5 Finale Nickname

Following in the tradition of the previous seasons, ABC is asking viewers to nickname the final cliffhanger moment of the season 5 finale. Prior nicknames include “Bagel” (Walt being abducted), “Challah” (Penny’s team finding the island), “The Rattlesnake in the Mailbox” (Jack’s flash forward), and “Frozen Donkey Wheel” (Ben moving the island).

Suggestions can be submitted to the producers on ABC’s website, and a choice will be made next week which name to use.

Lost Season 5 Episode 9

Lost Season 5 Episode 8 was all about James Lafleur, the identity Sawyer assumed while waiting for the others to return. During that time, he managed to fall in love with the only available female, Juliet, and after waiting a few years, Jack, Hurley, and the woman Sawyer was completely over (Kate) arrived back on the island.

The co-pilot recognizes Hurley. He tells his pilot, Frank, as if it’s news to him. Might wanna fasten your seatbelt. Despite the less than ideal conditions, they’ve managed to land the plane, but not without some bloodshed. The co-pilot has a branch through himself and looks on the not living side. Frank, however, wakes up. The passengers appear to be okay as well, although Jack, Hurley, and Kate are missing. They’re gone. How would Ben know where?

30 years earlier, Sawyer and Jin are meeting up with the group of old friends. They’re in the Dharma Initiative, and, oh, it’s 1977. As for Jin, his English is awesome. In addition to them, Juliet’s still there, ready to make up some sort of love rhombus.

Jin needs to know if a plane landed on the island. The guy at the station insists it didn’t, but maybe he should check with the other stations.

For some reason, Sun is with the group of survivors rather than her former fellow castaways, as is Ben. He goes wandering off on his own, so she follows him. He’s going back to their island. Does she want to come?

Horace and Amy have settled on a name. They’re going to name him Ethan.

Sawyer wants the others to pretend they were on the incoming sub and act like new recruits.

Jin has not managed to find any planes. However, they do see that a motion sensor was tripped by what they believe to be a hostile. It’s Sayid.

What if they start asking questions Hugo can’t answer like… who was President in 1977?

Sun’s got two choices. Either get in the outrigger and help Ben row, or stay behind. She will be going back to the main island with him because she has to trust him, whether she should or not. Or so she says until he turns his back and she knocks him upside the head with an oar.

Jack is greeted by Peter Chang, the guy from all the films. His file isn’t there. Could they be any more disorganized on the other side? He has been assigned to the shed as a workman. Based on his aptitude test, he’ll be doing janitorial work.

Kate’s name isn’t on the list or the sub manifest. Good thing Juliet is there with a forged new list.

The guy watching Sayid wants to shoot first and ask questions never, but Sawyer would like to talk to him first. He’s going to be taking him back to the barracks.

Sun and Frank have gone to the island as Ben suggested before she whacked him in the head. When they arrive, they find Christian, who wants them to follow him. They have a bit of a journey ahead of them.

Sayid can hang out in the prison cell until they can figure out what to do with him.

Jack goes looking for Sawyer, and he sees Juliet. He’s at the right house. Now Sawyer’s the boss, and he will do things his way, while Jack listens like a good soldier.

Sayid’s been brought a sandwich by little Ben.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Lost Season 5 Episode 10 He’s Our You, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on ABC.

Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 10

Jessi and Kyle fooled Cassidy into believing Jessi was dead in Kyle XY Season 3 Episode 9.

Cassidy has restarted the program that led to Kyle’s birth, thanks to the research done by the students at Latnok. Kyle doesn’t approve, but he will need to go along with it. Either that, or Cassidy will tell everybody what he did to Jessi. If he allows Cassidy to give the technology to Latnok, he’ll be allowed to go free. Now he just has to trust a blackmailer/murderer.

Jessi spots Kyle shirtless and is having difficulty keeping her hands to herself. His arms have grown, and his pectoral muscles are also expanding. Both of her hands feel nice, until he feels a shock.

Nicole doesn’t like this game they’re playing with Cassidy because he’s scary.

Josh wakes up and is all alone, but there’s a letter. He calls Andy’s voicemail and yells at it.

Jessi’s been watching cable, and she plans to find the location of the warehouse containing the formula by accessing the police’s thermal imaging scans, like how they find the people growing the weed.

Amanda comes to Kyle’s window. She thinks he’s right about Nate, who had a bunch of weird research in his dorm room. Why does she always get involved with the lying, cheating jerks? No matter what, though, Kyle’s one of the good guys, or at least he tries to be. Then she kisses him, and he gets butterflies. Now he’s confused.

Nicole volunteers to go to Latnok with Kyle to create a distraction. She visits Cassidy to talk to him about Jessi not coming home. While she does this, Kyle busts in to get data from the hard drives.

Jessi goes into Josh’s room to insult him about his dank, dark room. Based on what’s growing in a cup on his floor, she’s figured out how to stop the formula.

When he gets back home, Kyle burns Adam’s records of his experiments in order to prevent them from being done again, although he’s also burning his only real connection to the man who gave him life. He believes he saw the disc of the formula in the safe, so now he’ll have to go to Cassidy’s apartment as well. Nicole doesn’t like this new Kyle.

She’ll just have to live with it. Declan’s going to be Kyle’s wingman on this mission, and he will be picking the lock. This is bad because it’s breaking and entering, as if just entering was okay.

Kyle recognizes Cassidy’s mother’s name from Adam’s notebook. In addition to his passport, they’ve found the disc, containing the formula for the fluid. To add to that, Jessi has found the location where they are storing the formula by thermal imaging, and they can use bacteria to destroy it. Let’s see what else is on the disc. Previously, they used human embryos for this formula. Now, they’re creating clones. All the pod people are labelled 781227. They’re making clones… of Kyle. Kyle realizes he’s special because the Tragers took him in and treated him like one of their own children.

Leaving Jessi behind because she’s playing dead, Kyle is heading off to try to destroy the experiment by contaminating it. Before he leaves, he acknowledges he has feelings for her, so she kisses him after making sure there is no Nicole to interrupt, blowing out some lights in the process.

Declan has managed to patch up a video link by hacking into Andy’s minivan’s GPS. She couldn’t say goodbye to Josh, and she still can’t. So for now they’ll just say hello with a lot of miles in between them.

As Kyle’s working on contaminating the experiment, Mark comes in.

Amanda knocks on the window again. This time Jessi answers. She’s supposed to be like dead. Because Jessi can’t go anywhere, which she refuses to explain, she wants Amanda to break into Nate’s room and steal his files.

Kyle’s hanging from the ceiling and accidentally drops the syringe containing te contamination. He has to prevent it from falling with his mind.

Once Amanda breaks into Nate’s room, Jessi can hack into it on the other end. They see that there are a lot of things he’s been gathering on Kyle. Just then, Nate walks in. He phones Cassidy to tell him that Amanda and Jessi are going through his stuff.

Cassidy has ordered that everybody get out. As he’s preparing to evacuate, Mark sees a syringe fall on the ground, closely followed by Kyle. He’ll have to trust the guy who just broke in, which he agrees to do. He will buy Kyle enough time to do what he needs to do and get out.

When Kyle returns home, Cassidy is waiting for him.

There’s a reason why Jessi’s not there. She went to kick Nate’s door off the hinges. They find Sarah’s Latnok ring, which Nate stole from Cassidy. Spoiling the mood, Amanda tells her she will tell Kyle she wants him back.

Meanwhile, Kyle’s being tasered by Cassidy, who’s threatening Jessi, Amanda, and his family. So Kyle punches him through a newly created hole in the house. Just as Kyle grabs Cassidy by the throat, he tells him that his mother Grace Kingsley is his mother, too. They’re brothers.

Wait a minute. That’s it? You call that a series finale? Looks more like a cliffhanger to me. Damn ABC Family.