8:00p/7:00 Central
- Cuddy moves in with House on FOX?! It’s not like that; her house is just being worked on; but you know it’s like that. Oh, and someone’s dying and only House can save them. But you knew that.
- The investigation into a petty officer’s death leads CBS’s NCIS team into the world of underground street fighting. It’s domestic squabbling on Lifetime’s Rita Rocks at the half hour.
- Tyra Banks is on hand for the big “makeover” installment of NBC’s The Biggest Loser. MyNetwork TV has the 2008 World Music Awards, while BBC America is offering up a “Winter Olympics” special edition of Top Gear, followed by Gavin & Stacey at 8:40p/7:40 Central.
9:00p/8:00 Central
- Mike Rowe gets to see what life is like as a maggot farmer on Discovery’s Dirty Jobs. History takes a look at “Sex in Space” on The Universe. With “Sex” in the title, it’ll probably be the highest-rated episode of the entire series so far. And ECW is new on Sci Fi.
- Jane goes undercover on CBS’s The Mentalist to see if a National Guard unit member is killing the rest of his unit. A crook who winds up embedded in a vault wall turns out to be after something of Walter’s on FOX’s Fringe.
- But none of that really matters because tonight is the one hour season premiere of According to Jim on ABC. Oh how we’ve missed you, Jim Belushi. Tonight, a Christmas blankie goes missing, as does Cheryl’s best friend. It’s up to Jim to save the day!
10:00p/9:00 Central
- The name of TruTV’s Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel just seems an oxymoron to me. There’s so much reality this hour it’s not funny … it’s reality. Like the third season premiere of The Bad Girls Club on Oxygen, now expanded to a full hour and promising a whole new crew of women with bad habits that are hindering their lives.
- How about BET’s Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is? Or do you prefer Health’s Deliver Me? There’s also Lifetime’s Blush: The Search for the Next Great Make-Up Artist, Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County, A&E’s The Rookies: Tampa, Animal Planet’s Living With the Wolfman season finale, History’s Extreme Trains, and BET’s Brothers to Brutha at the half hour.
- It’s the season finale of Paris Hilton’s My New BFF on MTV. Find out which person she picks to be her new best friend for as long as the cameras are still running. I’m sure she’s already bored. Maybe she’ll put them on Sci Fi’s Cha$e, and send her henchmen after them to kill them for her amusement.
- Just for fun, the Discovery Channel has put together a show extrapolating what could happen should a massive earthquake hit the nation’s most populous city on Sci-Trek: New York Earthquake. Just for fun!
- William Shatner has his own talk show. The man just keeps on going! Now, I love me some Shat, so expect this to be pretty damned entertaining. In tonight’s back-to-back premiere he sits down with Valerie Bertinelli and Tim Allen on Biography’s Shatner’s Raw Nerve.
- NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit looks at a rape case. I know, right?! Still, this case stirs up memories from Det. Benson’s past. It’s just a missing doctor on CBS’s Without a Trace. Not nearly as dramatic.
- Eli Stone’s visions have him in his father’s body on his brother’s birthday, but it all ties into his case. He’s trying to help a sixteen-year old boy emancipate himself from his powerful and intimidating father on ABC’s visionary, musical and probably canceled (they didn’t pick up the back-half order) show.
11:00p/10:00 Central
- You know what I want to see on MTV’s Paris Hilton’s My New BFF reunion special? I want them to trot out the winner and have Paris say, “Who are you?”
- A&E is back with an hour of The Rookies: Jefferson because they were feeling slighted after an hour of Tampa. And WE looks at Cosmetic Surgery from Hell, and believe you me there’s been some nasty looking results out there. Have you seen “the cat lady?”
- TBS has a new Frank TV as well. I really want that show to be better than it is because I like Frank Calliendo. He’s great at impressions and he seems like a really nice guy. Maybe he just needs some better writers. It has its moments, but not enough of them.
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