Tonight on the tube: Dirty Jobs and Housewives of Atlanta

The CW

8:00p/7:00 Central

• With baseball over until Thursday, all the sports fans will be tuning into ABC’s Dancing With the Stars to see the Rockettes, Jennifer Hudson and Kool and the Gang. Yes, you heard me right: Kool and the Gang! Or maybe some of them could sign up for NBC’s The Biggest Loser. I know it’s hard to believe, but there are a few overweight sports fans.
• With the election a month away, is it any wonder that politics are coming front and center in your favorite shows? On NCIS a prominent senator turns to Gibbs for help after a naval officer is murdered.
• Annie and Ethan hook up for that classic school project where they take care of a baby on The CW’s 90210. Awww! Oh, and Jennie Garth heads off for sunnier pastures.
• For comedy, you have Lincoln Heights on ABC Family, and still have ten minutes to flip over to BBC America at 8:40p/7:40 Central for the second series premiere of Gavin & Stacey with the titular couple returning from their honeymoon.
• Or watch MyNetwork TV’s Street Patrol hitting up LA, Albequerque and Palm Beach tonight.

9:00p/8:00 Central

• Then stick with MyNetwork TV as we follow the adventures of the convicted in Jail, tonight peeking in on Salt Lake City, Tulsa and Austin.
• The candidates head to Nashville for the Second Presidential Debate. As usual, you have your choice of coverage from ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. But if you’d rather watch incredibly rich spoiled brats in a scripted series, The CW says screw the debates and throws up a new Privileged.
• A&E must have heard my pleas about The First 48. While I love the idea of following those crucial first forty-eight hours in a major case, let’s face it. Most crimes take longer to solve and I was always left unsatisfied. Well, tonight is “After the First 48,” following up on prior episodes.
• Reality premieres include the physical filth that Mike Rowe endures as Dirty Jobs returns to the Discovery Channel. Or tune into the psychological and gossipy dirt of new series The Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo. Yes, they just took the same show as Orange County to a new city. How about instead of pampered wives we get The Real Housewives of East Saint Louis or some other economically depressed community. Now that would be something different on television!
• Sci Fi gets its wrestling on with a new ECW, while MTV wraps up the third season of Making the Band 4. Three seasons for the fourth installment? Too … many … numbers!
• And for you college kids, or folks who like shows about college, Casey’s beau Max is put to the test by her sorority sisters on a new Greek on ABC Family.

10:00p/9:00 Central

• It’s fashion and style hour as you get to choose between Bravo’s The Rachel Zoe Project and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency on Oxygen. Meanwhile, someone about whom people care way too much keeps looking for a new friend on MTV’s Paris Hilton’s My New BFF.
• BET’s first original sitcom continues with a new Somebodies. Funny man Tracy Morgan continues his run hosting Sci Fi’s supernatural prank series Scare Tactics.
• You know how I keep mentioning Benjamin Bratt’s The Cleaner on A&E and yet it has no buzz. Did you know that Battlestar Galactica’s Grace Park is in it? She’s hot. Right? Want to give it a try yet? Talk about it?
• Courtesy of commenter David: “BTW, you forgot The Shield at 10pm. Will Dutch pursue his teenaged serial killer? Will Vic give Penzuela his files back? Is Corinne going to jail?” Couldn’t have said it better myself and sorry I missed listing it.

11:00p/10:00 Central

• So late night soap operas apparently works. SoapNet keeps on chugging along with General Hospital: Night Shift. I don’t watch it, but I hope the pace is a little quicker than your typical daytime soap considering it’s only on once a week. In fact, I wonder how similar it is to those soaps at all.

Clacked by Jason Hughes
on Oct 07, 2008 @ 14:58 EST5EDT