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Week in Preview: May 3, 2009 - May 9, 2009

by Rebecca Bellotto May 2, 2009 6:00 AM

Sunday, May 3
New time for Sit Down, Shut Up (FOX, 7pm) this week...wait, 7 PM? That can't be good.

Time for the finale of Tough Love (VH1, 10pm) in which the ladies who have not been ejected from the house for acting like incorrigible skanks find true love, or at least get an overnight date with some dude they'll never see again. And perhaps the world will get an answer to the following burning question: just how many of these women are paid actresses? I'm guessing...all.

Tom Skerritt is back (in flashbacks, of course) as the irrepressible William Walker on Brothers & Sisters (ABC, 10pm). And Kitty relives his past indiscretions! Sounds like the healthiest way a daughter can remember her deceased father.

Monday, May 4
Now that Chuck and Heroes have had their season finales, how is NBC going to fill up Mondays? With a Medium (NBC, 9pm) double episode, of course! There's bad news for the 8 PM slot though, and it comes in the form of a bald germophobe with a game show that is far inferior to 30 Rock's "Gold Case."

Ugh I am never going to watch Daisy of Love, ever. But I will absolutely watch New York Goes to Work (VH1, 10pm), because New York is about infinity times more awesome than Daisy and also, I apparently get to pick what jobs she has to do! Maybe I can write in "TWOP blogger"...

Apparently New York Goes to Work is only allowed to be a half-hour, so VH1 is pairing it with the second season of Gotti's Way (VH1, 10:30pm). For a second I thought this was another season of Growing Up Gotti and I got excited, but then I realized that this is the one about the far less interesting non-mobster Gottis. I think we're all sorry.

Tuesday, May 5
Obama went and preempted the finale of Better Off Ted (ABC, 8:30pm) last week, so it's airing tonight. Unless Obama decides to do another press conference, which you know he probably wants to, and then we'd have some kind of Better Off Ted/Obama war, which would not be so good in terms of him, you know, governing. And stuff.

I'm going to go ahead and presume that you're all as obsessed as I am with the nonsensical Kelly/Bethenny fights on The Real Housewives of New York (Bravo, 10pm). The finale is this week, and there's going to be live viewing parties! With Bethenny! And for some reason, Tamra from the OC version! Better get that Pinot Grigio IV started...

Scrubs (ABC, 8pm) is on at a special time this week, and it's the last episode before...

Wednesday, May 6
The Scrubs (ABC, 8pm) finale! Maybe forever! But maybe not, because most of the regulars (including the interns) will be gone, and who really cares about a Zach Braff guest spot? Anyway, it's J.D.'s last day at Sacred Heart -- pretty momentous, even if you grew tired of the show around the 267th J.D./Elliott break-up (which I believe was in Season 2).

Missing Dr. Pratt already? Dry those tears, because Mekhi Pfifer is back on TV with his guest stint as an FBI agent on Lie to Me (FOX, 8pm)! And Daniel Sunjata is also guest starring, apparently as an incarcerated serial rapist, which I find sort of upsetting.

Thursday, May 7
Okay people. This is the Bones (FOX, 8pm) we've all been waiting for: the Stewie Griffin episode! Oh, it's only me who cares about this? Never mind, then.

Woah...Grey's Anatomy (ABC, 9pm) 100th episode? That is a lot of dark twistiness to wrap your mind around. How will we be celebrating this milestone? Why, with the Mer-Der wedding...and probably a return to ghost sex! Epic.

It's the Season 2 finale of The Millionaire Matchmaker! (Bravo, 9pm)! Why is it not in its regular timeslot of 10 PM?, you ask...

Huh, Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (Comedy Central, 10pm) is also ending tonight. It took me a minute to remember what that was.

Friday, May 8
Awww, it's the series finale of Everybody Hates Chris (CW, 8pm), pending some sort of crazy surprise at the CW upfront next week. Some have called this show "the best sitcom nobody watched." I wouldn't know, because I was one of those nobodies.

Also coming to a potentially final close tonight is Dollhouse (FOX, 9pm). The fate of the show is still uncertain, but it the fate of the final episode ("Epitaph One") has been decided -- it will be featured on the DVD, but not aired. Oh well, at least this show got a longer run than Firefly. Though that's really not saying much.

1 Comments

May 3, 2009 4:21 PM
Craig
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If Taylor from Tough Love is a paid actress, I will lost all hope. A world without a real Taylor saying "O-M-G!" and bald-snarking on people is not a world I want to live in.

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