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There’s so much good television on Monday night’s there isn’t even room to fit a portion of it on this front page. I don’t know yet why the networks haven’t realized that shows like Heroes and Chuck would have a much better chance of regaining their audiences if they didn’t have to face off against the likes of Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Dancing With the Stars, Samantha Who? and Two and a Half Men. I know it’s admitting defeat, but NBC has to admit that every week in the ratings anyway, so why not bite the bullet and try to fix it? There are weaker nights competitively.
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- With the series all tied, up the Red Sox and Rays battle it out in the ALCS Game 3 on TBS.
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- Monday nights continue to be overly crowded with good television. The struggle starts right off with CBS’s comedy lineup of The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother. On BBT, Raj gets “famous” due to an article and makes a play for Penny. Then, on HIMYM, Ted forces his friends to stage their engagement intervention, even after they don’t want to.
- Apparently so many people are watching this pairing, that there aren’t enough viewers left for NBC’s Chuck. It’s too bad, because it’s still great, and tonight features the return of Bryce Larkin as Sarah’s ex-lover and partner.
- With Misty May-Treanor dropping out of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars due to injury, contestants got a one-week reprieve. Tonight, it’s back to business! Also back are the Roloffs, returning to TLC with tonight’s two-part premiere of Little People Big World featuring Matt’s visit to Iraq.
- Sports fans don’t even have to worry about it. They’re going to tune in either to FOX for the NLCS Game 3, in which the Dodgers try to even their series up at 2 apiece against the Phillies, or to ESPN at 8:30p/7:30 Central for Monday Night Football featuring the NY Giants at the Cleveland Browns.
- The CW counters all these powerhouses with their own little Gossip Girl, popular in the teen and young adult demos. Tonight virtually everyone goes to Yale in an attempt to get accepted there. Or just watch MyNetwork TV’s Celebrity Expose and see who’s rich in Hollywood. I know, that’s like so much better than any of those other shows.
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- Filmed entirely on-site, HBO’s Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery takes a look at the men and women who’ve fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan from the point of view of the special section of Arlington where they are buried and remembered.
- TLC follows up their “little” family show with their big family shows, starting off with a couple of new Jon & Kate Plus 8 episodes. Meanwhile, MyNetwork TV keeps magicians having to come up with new tricks as they offer up another Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed.
- Lucas begins his new book tour on One Tree Hill on The CW. That sounds really simple compared to all that’s happening right now on NBC’s Heroes. You’ll just have to tune into our review of that as I can’t even get into it here. The question is, can Hayden act?
- If funny is more your style, you can watch America’s favorite raunchy comedy on CBS as Two and a Half Men featuring Charlie making his move on Alan’s secretary. Then at the half hour mark, don’t watch Worst Week as the secret is revealed. Seriously, it’s kind of getting old already.
- Instead, flip over to ABC and catch the series return of Samantha Who? starring the adorable Christina Applegate. Tonight, Sam teams up with her mother for a dance competition in order to beat guest star Cybill Shepherd.
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- Also premiering tonight is Jack Nicholson’s Christian Slater’s new show, My Own Worst Enemy, on NBC. It’s a form of Jekyll & Hyde with Slater playing two distinct and separate personalities in the same body: one an elite operative and the other a middle-class suburbanite. When the suburbanite becomes aware of the operative within, things start to get interesting.
- But who likes new shows when you can stick with old ones? After all, ABC’s Boston Legal is closing in on its finale with another of Alan’s ex-lovers returning in need of legal assistance. Or for even more outlandish courtroom antics, with bad hair, flip over to TNT for a new Raising the Bar. Tonight, Jerry contemplates bench or jury trial in a case where his client is up against a kid with a powerful father.
- Horatio and the team have to take on the Russian mob in tracking a double murder on CBS’s CSI: Miami.
- Unscripted fare rules the hour, though, as TLC’s big family night continues with back-to-back installments of 17 Kids & Counting. Reconstructive surgery takes center stage on a new Dr. 90210 on E!, while MTV offers up two new episodes of The Hills. And The Biography Channel takes a deeper look at those who run from the police in two episodes of Why I Ran.
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- If all of that hasn’t worn you out, settle down with Spike TV and see Bisping v. Leben on UFC 90 Countdown.
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- The best time-slot on television continues for Sci Fi’s Charlie Jade. They seem committed to finishing this New Zealand import’s run, which is commendable, but man, is this a far cry from the Sci Fi Friday prime time slot it had in the beginning.
TOMORROW – New series premieres include Toughest Race on Earth: Iditarod and Sex Change Hospital. Eli Stone returns while The Rachel Zoe Project wraps up its first season.
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