Two Tivos To Paradise 05.05.11: TV's Most Memorable Mothers

Posted by Al Norton on 05.06.2011

The 25 Most Memorable Moms in TV History, Glee coming to the big screen, will Katie Couric cause General Hospital to get cancelled?, the first look at AMC's new Hell on Wheels, tons of news & notes and more, all in the latest edition of Al Norton's Two Tivos To Paradise.



Hello friends. Hope this Friday morning finds you and yours well and healthy. Sorry for the generic cold open but there isn't that much to talk about. Well, other than me now being 70% of the way to my weight loss goal, that is!!!

We've had a great reaction to the announcement about our upcoming 250th edition of TTTP; so far I can tell you we've got a former Idol judge, a star of the new season of Torchwood, and one half of Jeffster confirmed as attending the festivities! Each week we'll update you on the latest to come celebrate our anniversary.

AMC is on quite the quality role and the new Hell on Wheels shows me nothing to think it's not going to continue…





A quick reminder that while TTTP runs every Friday here at 411mania, you can get news as-it-happens on our Facebook page, plus you'll get some exclusive content as well the chance to interact with your fellow TV fans. Come on, click like, you know you want to!

This is kind of cool – got a press release yesterday from the lovely folks over at The Morris + King Company letting me know that PBJ, a new cable channel focused on kids programming from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's, would launch later this year. Luken Communications and Classic Media are behind the new station and their catalog of programming includes Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, Mr. Magoo, Gumby, The Lone Ranger, and The Archies. I am keeping my fingers crossed they get the rights to the Mr. T cartoon.

And then while I'm away I'll write home every day and I'll send all my loving to news.

No I Would Not Give You False Hope, No, On This Strange And Mournful Day
Sunday being Mother's Day seemed like a great occasion to create a list of TV's 25 Most Memorable Moms. These aren't necessarily the best Moms but they are ones who made the biggest impression over the years…

Lois, Malcolm in the Middle
Debra Barrone, Everybody Loves Raymond
Abby Bradford, Eight is Enough
Carol Brady, The Brady Bunch
Peg Bundy, Married with Children
Edith Bunker, All in the Family
June Cleaver, Leave it to Beaver
Rosanne Connor, Rosanne
Estelle Costanza, Seinfeld
Florida Evans, Good Times
Ruth Fisher, Six Feet Under
Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
Lois Griffin, Family Guy
Thelma Crowley Harper, Mama's Family
Claire Huxtable, The Cosby Show
Marion Cunningham, Happy Days
Ida Morgenstern, Rhoda
Rochelle Rock, Everybody Hates Chris
Ann Romano, One Day at a Time
Shirley Partridge, The Partridge Family
Marge Simpson, The Simpsons
Livia Soprano, The Sopranos
Joyce Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tami Taylor, Friday Night Lights
Olivia Walton, The Waltons

Obviously this is a subjective list and I look forward to reading your, "how could you leave off XX" comments below. The toughest to leave off were Reba Hart (Reba), Harriet Winslow (Family Matters) and Esther Clavin (Cheers) . I do find some folks tend to think TV began in the mid 80's so please understand that my list tried to encompass as many different eras of television as possible.

This would also be a good place for me to wish a Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms in the house. My Mom has been gone 16 years now but I miss her more every day. Mrs. Tivo gets a shout out here for what a wonderful job she does with the twins, and M-I-L Tivo is also pretty amazing.

I'm Going Where The Sun Keeps Shining Through The Pouring Rain, Going Where The Weather Suits My Clothes
PeopleMagazine.com is reporting that Katie Couric has reached a preliminary agreement on a 4 year, $20 million deal with ABC where she would host a syndicated daily talk show as well as play a role in the network's news department. The talk show, which would launch in September of 2012, would air at 3pm, a timeslot currently held by General Hospital, meaning that long running and award winning soap would be cancelled. The show would be syndicated but the affiliates in the ABC system would all get first crack and could fill the hour with other programming if they chose. Couric would host specials under the 20/20 and ABC News banners as well as fill in on occasion on ABC Nightly News.

Couric's current deal with CBS give the network the right to match any deal that is offered to her this month, so it's possible they decide to go that route. Couric's talks with the network also included a daily talk show but were rumored to have fallen apart over how large her presence would be in the news division, including election coverage and 60 Minutes.

To me the cancellation of General Hospital is a much larger (potential) story than Couric switching networks and getting into the talk show business. This would be ABC would be soap free, leaving a total of three left (Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS and Days of Our Lives on NBC). If CBS were to match the deal than it's very possible B &B would get the ax since the local affiliates need to have a certain amount of time for them to program on their own, plus the costs of that many daytime shows (two hour long game shows, two hour long talk shows, and an hour and a half of scripted drama) is the very definition of cost prohibitive.

While other shows have won more awards and critical acclaim, no daytime series has ever come close to capturing the pop culture zeitgeist than GH did with Luke and Laura in the late 70's/early 80's. It may hard to imagine now but the wedding of two soap characters made the cover of Newsweek magazine. And while ratings are not what they once were, there are millions of people who spent their high school and college years visiting Port Charles on a daily basis, people who will be saddened if this comes to fruition.

Obviously this is a developing story so we will more next week. To stay on top of the story you can visit our Facebook page and get updates as they happen.

Perhaps I Was Blind To The Facts, Stabbed In The Back, I Couldn't Trust My Own Homies, Just A Bunch Of Dirty Rats
Judy Sheindlin has signed a new deal to keep Judge Judy on the air through 2015. JJ, which is currently in its 15th season, is the number one show on daytime TV, with an average of 10 million US viewers every weekday. While no salary information was released, it was reported she made $25 million a year in 2005, before her show was # 1. The series has been nominated for 13 Daytime Emmys although it has never won.

A news story about Judge Judy? Hey, if you're number one in your timeslot, and your timeslot is actually a 9 hour window, I think you warrant a column inch or two. Seriously, do you realize how many courtroom shows there are?!?!

Judge Alex, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Judge Joe Brown, Judge Karen's Court, Judge Mathis, Swift Justice with Nancy Grace, Divorce Court, and The People's Court.

Wow, I think there may be more Judge shows than talk shows, which says something about the current tastes of the daytime audience. The success of these series reminds me of the success of the various nighttime reality shows like The Real Housewives of… and The Jersey Shore; the audiences are different but the entertainment is derived from watching and feeling better about yourself and your life. I don't get it but clearly a large segment of the American public enjoys watching real people behave quite stupidly. This may be a bit of why the daytime soap audience has dropped a bit over the years as viewers have grown to enjoy watching everyday folks look foolish more than the over-the-top fictional antics of the rich and sexy.

Some Fools Think Of Happiness, Blissfulness, Togetherness, Some Fools Fool Themselves I Guess, They're Not Foolin' Me
NBC has given Love Bites the Thursdays at 10pm timeslot as of June 2nd. At one point one of the focal points of the 2010-2011 schedule – it was set to premiere last fall in that same Thursdays at 10pm slot – the anthology style romantic comedy has been sitting on the shelf with delays caused by the pregnancy of star Becki Newton as well as the departures of showrunner Cindy Chupack and Newton's co-star Jordana Spiro. The order of 13 episodes was cut to 9 and while all of them may run, the chances of the show coming back are nonexistent.

Here is the original trailer that premiered last spring at NBC's up front presentation…





A year ago at this time Love Bites was a pretty hot show; Chupack had an impressive resume (writing and producing on Sex and the City and Everybody Loves Raymond) Newton was coming off of a scene stealing role on Ugly Betty, Spiro had proved her rom-com chops on My Boys, and the anthology style of the series had the potential to make for some great weekly basis star power to hype the episodes around. Throw in Grunberg, one of my favorite TV actors (and not just because he'd be the favorite to play the lead if we ever made Two Tivo To Paradise into a series), and you've got some serious potential. And then it all went wrong. Newton's shifted the show to mid-season and by that point the main creative force and half of the duo the show was to be built around were gone.

I think it's great for NBC to run these episodes –I mean, they made them, so why not show them – but they also need to give them some sort of hype if they want to avoid a total disaster. Last year a comedy series premiere on Thursday for NBC the week after sweeps ended and there was not a single ad for it on the previous Thursday. Not to take back how I opened this paragraph but if you're not going to bother telling people the show is on, why bother airing them? Hopefully they learned from the terrible job they did introducing the world to The Paul Reiser Show that some sort of consistent and strategic marketing plan is needed, although, to be fair, plenty of shows have them and fail.

On the other hand you have Happy Endings, a comedy that ABC had sitting around for a while; a strong marketing plan with ads during some very big shows later and we're looking at what may be one of the biggest Cinderella stories of the last few years, a second season of Happy Endings. Ahhh, I just reread that last sentence and found where the problem may be; NBC has no big shows to use to promote other shows. Yeah, that can be a problem.

I'm 10 Years Burning Down The Road, Nowhere To Run, Ain't Got Nowhere To Go
USA announced the new shows it has in development this week, with an assortment of comedies and dramadies hoping to make it to series…

Comedies
*On We Go; Nathan Lane stars as a struggling Broadway actor whose career has been stunted by his resemblance to Nathan Lane who returns to his Texas hometown to tend to his ailing Father

*Big in Japan; former boy band reunites after 20 years. Kara DioGuardi serves as a consulting producer.

*We the Jury; jurors sequestered in a celebrity trial

*TGIM (Thank God It's Monday); from Brent Forrester (The Office, King of the Hill), about parents whose weekend stresses make them long to return to work on Monday.

*House of Cards; greeting card writer looks for love.

Dramedies
*Silent Partner; Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) executive produces this show about a Florida attorney whose main partner assists from India.

*Winslow; alcoholic private eye trying to get his life back together. Liman produces this, too.

*The Special; police drama about a cop who has hypomania (sustained euphoria).

*Hard Cover; rogue CIA agent teams with suburban Mom.

*The Exceptions; celebutant gets out of jail and uses her rolodex to help those neglected by the system.

*M. Deity; Doctor in post-Katrina New Orleans who specializes in cutting through red tape.

*Regular Einstein; a cop who is the only non-genius in his family uses his relatives to help him solve cases.

*The Enclave; mini-series from alums of the Mad Men writing staff about a family that moves to a neighborhood where darkness hides beneath the surface.

USA wasn't the only network with programming press releases this week; A&E had news as well, renewing the following shows; Glades, Parking Wars, Hoarders, Intervention, Manhunters, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Storage Wars, The First 48, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Billy the Exterminator, and Beyond Scared Straight.

I Had To Meet You Here Today, There's Just So Many Things To Say
Season Finale Season is upon us; here is a guide to this week's sendoffs…

Tonight
Fringe, 9pm, Fox

Sunday, May 8th
The Amazing Race, 8pm, CBS
Brothers & Sisters, 10pm, ABC
CSI: Miami, 10pm CBS

Monday, May 9th
Stargate Universe (series finale), 9pm, Syfy

Wednesday, May 11th
Better with You, 8:30pm, ABC

Thursday, May 12th
Community, 8pm, NBC
The Vampire Diaries, 8pm, The CW
Nikita, 9pm, The CW
Outsourced, 10:30pm, NBC

Sunny Day, Sweepin' The Clouds Away, On My Way To Where The Air Is Sweet
The Sesame Street video of the week…





But You Were Up To Your Old Tricks In Chapters Four Five And Six
All you need to know about the Nielsen's for the past 7 days…

THURSDAY
The Office was up 20% from last week for Steve Carell's finale, with the show posting their best numbers since January…American Idol topped everything with totals and demos that were pretty much even with last week…The Office rerun that aired at 8:30 was up 65% in the demos from last week's episode of The Paul Resier Show…The Vampire Diaries was up 9%...Grey's was down 26% in the demos from their last episode, although that was the much hyped musical hour…CSI was down 23% in the demos to a new series low. Also at 9:00, Bones was down 12% and Nikita 14%... The 13.3 million people who watched The Mentalist made it the top totals performer for a scripted show but that was tempered by a 15% drop in the demos…Private Practice returned poorly, down 12% in totals and 23% in demos…

FRIDAY
22.7 million watched the Royal Wedding over 11 networks here in the states, easily topping the 17 million who watched Charles and Diana tie the knot in 1981…Blue Bloods was the most watched show of the night as well as the top scripted series in the demos…CBS Royal Wedding recap at 8pm pulled the night's overall best demos…Friday Night Lights was down 33% from last week…Smallville was down 20% in the standard demo (18-49) but up 14% in their target (18 – 34)…Supernatural was up 29% in the target demo…CSI: NY won 9pm in totals and demos…

SUNDAY
56.5 million Americans watched President Obama's speech on Sunday night…CNN was the cable destination of choice for coverage of the death of Osama Bin Laden, with 7.8 million watching from 11pm – midnight. From 12 – 1am it averaged 5.3 million viewers, also far and away the top cable outlet…The 5.1 million who watched the Law & Order: Criminal Intent season premiere was an 43% jump from last season. The demos were up 35% as well…In Plain Sight was up 15% in the demos and that number would have been even higher if the big news of the night hadn't broken with 20 minutes left in the episode…Game of Thrones was up in week three, a pretty rare occurrence for a new show…

MONDAY
Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, and Law & Order: LA all gained 8% in the demos, although the former and the latter still finished last in their time slots…Castle was down from its previous new episode but still won 10pm in totals and demos…Not so good news for House, The Chicago Code, Mike and Molly, and Hawaii 5-0 which all hit new demo lows for the season (for all but House that's also a series low)…Dancing with the Stars was the night's most watched show…

TUESDAY
The Voice topped last week's very strong premiere numbers, up 10% in the demos and 5% in totals, dominating the night in the former…Glee was up 6%...The Good Wife jumped 20% in the demos without a new Parenthood to compete with…NCIS hit a season low in the demos but was the night's most watched show with 17.5 million viewers…Dancing with the Stars dropped 19%...Body of Proof dropped to a demo low in its regular Tuesday timeslot…

WEDNESDAY
American Idol's 20.6 million easily topped the night and the totals and demos were up a tad from this week last year…Survivor matched last week…The Middle (+11%) and Better with You (7%) were up noticeably in the demos while Modern Family and Cougar Town had much smaller gains…After last week's numbers made it seem like a renewal was possible, Happy Endings dropped 20% in demos and even more in totals…Criminal Minds topped the night for scripted series totals but they lost 9% of last week's demos…SVU was up 4% in the demos to win 10:00 while Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior got the hour's total viewer victory…

All The Young Dudes, Carry The News
Industry News, Notes, and Hot Rumors…Glee Live! 3D! will run in theaters for two weeks in mid-August. The film will be a full set list from the show's live tour and will feature behind the scenes footage as well…David Boreanaz used Twitter on Monday night to announce that Fox had picked up a 7th season of Bones, which the network officially confirmed the next morning. No word yet on how/if Emily Deschanel's pregnancy will play a role in the scheduling; a delayed season and/or a less-than-standard 22 episode order are possibilities. There are even rumors her impending Motherhood could be written into the series…Dylan McDermott has landed the male lead in FX's pilot American Horror Story, joining Connie Britton, Jessica Lange, and Denis O'Hare in the cast. The series was created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, who combined to give us Glee and Nip/Tuck…TV legend Ed Asner has been cast as Hank and Evan's Grandfather for the new season of Royal Pains…Megan Good will do multiple episodes on the upcoming season of Californication…Starz is developing an 8 hour mini-series based on the Dean R Koontz bestseller Twilight Eyes…USA is looking to get into the half hour comedy business, with a series executive produced by Kelsey Grammer their first project; The Dicocco Brothers is about a young dotcommer who moves his whole Jersey family with him to Silicon Valley…Law & Order: Criminal Intent has an episode planned based on the Broadway fiasco that is the Spiderman musical, with Emmy winner Cynthia Nixon guesting for that hour…Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) is in talks to co-host Fox's The X Factor with Pussycat Doll's Nicole Scherzinger…USA has picked up a second season of Fairly Legal but it's expected there will be changes to the show, including the adding/subtracting of characters and tinkering with the format…The 3rd season of Teen Mom won't premiere until July but MTV has already ordered a 4th…Comedy Central renewed Workaholics for a second season…ABC has pulled Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution for May Sweeps, scheduling the remaining four episodes to run Fridays at 9pm starting in June…ABC is working on a season of Celebrity Wife Swap, an off shoot of their Wife Swap series that will feature famous women switching families for a week…Sadly, those two stories say more about the current state of non-fiction TV than I could ever snarkily dream of…Congrats to official Friend of TTTP Sally Pressman on Army Wives getting picked up for a 13 episode sixth season by Lifetime…Speaking of Lifetime, they gave first season orders to The Protector (Ally Walker as a homicide detective and suburban mom) and Against The Wall (family of cops gets turned upside down when one of them joins internal affairs)…Season two of Fox's MasterChef premieres June 6th…E! renewed After Lately for a second season…Top Chef started an all-star trend; Project Runway is the latest to plan a season bringing back popular contestants from previous cycles. No word yet on who will return but the season premieres this summer…

Turns Out Not Where But Who You're With That Really Matters
The top thing I watched since the last column went to press aka The Best of What's Around…

While events from later in the weekend served to overshadow Saturday night's Washington Correspondence Dinner, that didn't make President Obama's remarks any less funny. His razor sharp barbs tossed towards Donald Trump were amazing and exposed the latter's fledgling Presidential campaign as the joke that it is…






Seth Myers followed up with a set that was more hit-and-miss but still provided some quality laughter, much of it again at The Donald's expense…






People Say I'm Crazy Doing What I'm Doing. Well, They Give Me All Kinds Of Warnings To Save Me From Ruin
What's flashed before my eyes the last seven days …The first two Friday Night Lights of the season were certainly very good but last Friday's hour was the first truly great episode of the final season, with Michael B Jordan continuing to prove he is one of the best younger actors working in the industry right now. The scene with Vince and Coach talking about trying to be a better man was really quite perfect…While I am happy that Brian Benben finally has his own storyline on Private Practice, Alex Kingston's performance as his love interest is so gosh darn awful that it's hard to watch. That accent is a crime against humanity…I continue to be confused as to why Grey's Anatomy introduced Peter MacNicol's character as essentially evil if they had plans to try to use him as a regular person down the line; at first I was confused as to why they were wasting his talents and now I am just mystified as to why they'd start him off that way knowing what was to come. Also, where the hell was Korev's girlfriend last week - wouldn't she have been a part of a series of surgeries for African kids?...Another barely ok episode of How I Met Your Mother this week as the issue that I continually harp on continues to raise its head, that being why should the audience care at all about Ted and Zoey when we know she is not the women in the title of the show? Marshall ruining Barney's chances of scoring was a pretty fun subplot, thought…30 Rock was a bit too over the top for me this week; the stuff with Avery and Kim Jong Il was really super silly, and not in a good way…Tuesday's Glee proved that in a world where things rarely do, Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album totally lives up to the hype…





It might be because of how much fun The Voice is, it might be because I don't like any of the finalists this season, but I've barely been skimming American Idol the last two weeks, fast forwarding after hearing the first few notes of each performance. It's not the judges, it's the contestants…I continue to give The Daily Show with Jon Stewart huge props in my weight loss as it's what I watch when I ride the exercise bike. There isn't a half hour of TV I look forward to more right now…Had a three episode Raising Hope marathon and came away more charmed than ever by this funny, very sweet show. How odd is it that a comedy about a family that very much cares for each other is such a rarity…Michael Scott's sendoff on last Thursday's episode of The Office was very, very well done, with some great lines ("let me know if this ever airs"), some surprising moments (Michael's level of self awareness at how little Oscar thinks of him was hysterical), and some genuinely moving scenes as well (don't tell me you didn't get a lump in your throat when Dwight was reading his letter of recommendation!)…I couldn't have more praise for this week's Breaking In; is it possible for a comedy to get better than using a sequel to The Goonies as the basis for an episode? Funny start to finish, and the cast has been excellent from the get go...The return of In Plain Sight got a solid B from me, with extra points for the episode not revolving around a murder or a WITSEC member having his old life catch up with him...I really hope most of you are watching The Middle; it may not be edgy or ironic or filled with pop culture references but it's flat out funny and is really dead-on with it's take on family life. It also has middle class characters, something TV seems to be consistantly lacking...

TV Pick Of The Week
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon pays tribute to Bob Marley on the 30th anniversary of his death (and last concert) with a week of high quality music. Monday finds the late singer's son Ziggy appearing as both as guest and a performer, and then he is followed by Chris Cornell (Tuesday), Jennifer Hudson (Wednesday), Jakob Dylan (Thursday), and Lenny Kravitz (Friday), each performing their favorite Marley song.

Yes, there is some commercialism in this; the week is sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, and wouldn't you know that it's UNIVERSAL Music Enterprise that just released a CD of Marley's last concert. But hey, it's always about the money, and in this case we as TV viewers come out ahead, so just sit back and enjoy the tunes.

Don't miss Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, weeknights at 12:35 am on NBC.


Hope You Need My Love, Babe, Just Like I Need You
Here is some other noteworthy programming of the next seven days…

*Flashpoint begins its third season tonight at 8pm on CBS. I can't recall anyone I know ever saying they even know this show exists but here it is, alive and kicking.

*Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour premieres this Saturday at 9pm on HBO. If you're wondering what all the hype is about, this might give you an idea (in both good and bad ways).

*President Obama's first interview since the big announcement last Sunday night airs on 60 Minutes (Sunday, 7pm, CBS) this week.

*Ever find yourself watching The Celebrity Apprentice and thinking, "I like this show but it needs to be longer"? Well, you're in luck as Sunday's episode runs THREE HOURS.

*TTTP fave Bradley Whitford guests on In Plain Sight (Sunday, 10pm, USA), reuniting him with his West Wing co-star Mary McCormack. It would be better if he were appearing as Dan Stark.

*Few actors know how to make as strong an impression in a short amount of time the way Mark Pellegrino does, so his appearance on Breakout Kings (Sunday, 10pm, A&E) is bound to be good.

*Why Not? With Shania Twain is OWN's newest reality series, following the country superstar around as she puts her life back together after dealing with more than a couple of the curveballs life tends to throw at you.

*PBS excellent American Experience (Monday, 9pm) documentary series gives us Soundtrack for a Revolution, a look at the protest songs of the civil rights movement.

*The brilliant Albert Brooks stops by to chat with David Letterman on Monday's edition of The Late Show (11:35pm, CBS).

*Becoming Chaz (Tuesday, 9pm, OWN) is a documentary about how Chastity Bono made the transition to Chaz Bono. The 90 minute movie will be followed by the premiere of The Doc Club with Rosie O'Donnell, finding Rosie chatting with Bono, his fiance Ella, and the filmmakers.

*My Name is Earl alums Ethan Suplee and Jaime Pressly guest on Raising Hope (Tuesday, 9pm, Fox).

*The Voice (8pm, Tuesday, NBC) gets to the battle rounds, where each judge/coach pairs up the 8 members of their team to go head-to-head singing the same song, the winner heading to the final round of 16.

*Wondering how Sarah Silverman would handle a dramatic turn? Tune into Tuesday's episode of The Good Wife (10pm, CBS) to find out.

Two Tivos To Paradise
24 Restaurant Battle, 30 Rock, After the Catch, American Idol, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Antiques Roadshow, Archer, Auction Hunters, The Big C, Big Love, Boardwalk Empire, Being Human, Bones, Bored To Death, Breaking Bad, Breaking In, Brothers & Sisters, Burn Notice, Celebrity Apprentice, Cake Boss, The Chicago Code, Chopped, Chuck, The Closer, Community, Cougar Town, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Deadliest Catch, Desperate Housewives, Destination Truth, The Dish, Entourage, Eureka, Fact or Faked, Fairly Legal, Flipping Out, Food Feuds, Food Network Challenge, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters Academy, Ghost Hunters International, Ghost Lab, Glee, Gossip Girl, Great Food Truck Race, Grey's Anatomy, Happy Endings, The Hard Times of RJ Berger, Hawaii 5-0, Hollywood Treasure, House, How I Met Your Mother, How To Make It In America, Hung, If You Really Knew Me, Iron Chef America, Justified, Kate Plus 8, The Killing, Last Comic Standing, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Law And Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: Los Angeles, Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, Mad Men, Man v. Food, Men of a Certain Age, The Middle, Mike and Molly, Mr. Sunshine, Modern Family, Next Food Network Star, Next Great American Restaurant, Next Iron Chef, The Office, One Tree Hill, Parks & Recreation, Private Practice, Project Runway, Psych, Raising Hope, Real Time With Bill Maher, Rescue Me, Restaurant Impossible, Royal Pains, Rules Of Engagement, Sanctuary, Saturday Night Live, Shear Genius, So You Think You Can Dance?, Sons of Anarchy, The Soup, Spectacle: Elvis Costello with…, Sports Show with Norm McDonald, Supernatural, Table For 12, Top Chef, Top Chef Just Desserts, Top Chef: Masters, Top Design, Torchwood, Traffic Light, True Blood, V, The Vampire Diaries, The Voice, The Walking Dead, Warehouse 13, Web Soup, Worst Cooks In America,

People Love You When They Know You're Leaving Soon
Here ends another Two Tivos To Paradise.





We'll be back next Friday with all the latest in TV headlines, a guide to the week in season finales, and more news on the upcoming anniversary column. See you in 7!

Sources for this week's column include Daily Variety, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, and Hollywood Reporter (plus the web sites for those publications) as well as Aintit.cool.com, TVline.com & Deadline.com.