No more reruns … soon
Are you ready for some new episodes of your favorite TV shows?
The wait won’t be much longer. However, some fans will have to wait until fall to catch new episodes of “24,” “Heroes,” “Pushing Daisies” and a few others.
Shows that may or may not return at all are “Big Shots,” “Bionic Woman,” “Cane,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Journeyman,” “Las Vegas,” “Life Is Wild,” “Prison Break,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and “The Unit.”
Here’s a breakdown by network of when shows will return with new episodes.
ABC: “Boston Legal” (April 8); “Brothers & Sisters” (April 20); “Desperate Housewives” (April 13); “Dirty Sexy Money” (fall); “Grey’s Anatomy” (April 24); “Lost” (April 24); “Men In Trees” (Feb. 27); “Private Practice” (fall); “Pushing Daisies” (fall); “Samantha Who?” (April 7); “Ugly Betty” (April 24); “Women’s Murder Club” (TBA).
NBC: “30 Rock” (April 10); “Chuck” (fall); “ER” (April 10); “Heroes” (fall); “Law & Order” (April 23); “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (April 15); “Life”; “Medium” (currently airing); “My Name Is Earl” (April 3); “The Office” (April 10); “Scrubs” (April 10).
CBS: “The Big Bang Theory” (March 17); “Cold Case” (March 30); “Criminal Minds” (April 2); “CSI” (April 3); “CSI: Miami” (March 24); CSI: NY” (April 2); “Ghost Whisperer” (April 4); “How I Met Your Mother” (March 17); “Moonlight” (April 11); NCIS” (April 8); “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (currently airing); “NUMB3RS” (April 4); “Rules of Engagement” (April 14); “Shark” (TBA); “Two and a Half Men” (March 17); “Without a Trace” (April 3).
Fox: “24” (Jan. 2009); “Back to You” (April 16); “Bones” (April 14); “House” (April 28); “’Til Death” (currently airing).
CW: “Aliens in America” (March 2); “Everybody Hates Chris” (March 2); “The Game” (March 2); “Girlfriends” (one-hour series finale is being discussed); “Gossip Girl” (April 21); “One Tree Hill” (currently airing); “Reaper” (currently airing); “Smallville” (March 13); “Supernatural” (April 24).
Cable: “Army Wives” (June on Lifetime); “Battlestar Galactica” (April 4 on SCI FI); “Burn Notice” (July on USA); “The Closer” (summer on TNT); “Greek” (March 24 on ABC Family); “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (spring on USA); “The Riches” (March 18 on FX).
– Penny Soldan, TV Editor
Maximum Exposure
Of course, there are more television channels out there than are listed in The Oklahoman’s TV Week. The print would be awfully small if room was made for all of them.
TV Week, however, does list programming schedules for 76 channels in the Metro book (distributed in the Oklahoma City area) and 78 channels in the Tulsa/State book (although 15 of them are local affiliates for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and PBS). That’s more channels than most TV books offer.
But still, some good ones are left out. Encore Westerns, WE, SoapNet, ESPNU, TV One, Science Channel, Lifetime Movie Network, Outdoor Life, Toon Disney, Gospel Music Channel, not to mention the digital channels such as OETA-Okla, KTBO’s Church Channel and KOPX’s QUBO Kids.
So in this space, special announcements from the networks not listed in TV Week will be made. We don’t want you to miss anything good.
– Penny Soldan, TV Editor
“Celebrity Says!” 9 p.m. Feb. 25 on TV Guide Network
(4 on Cox Cable, 117 on Dish Network, 237 on Direct TV)
Dave Holmes (MTV’s “Say What Karaoke”) hosts this new game show in which contestants try to finish celebrities’ sentences, guessing everything from stars’ favorite movies to their favorite kind of pie. The winner of the four rounds then competes for the grand prize of $5,000.
“Allure Backstage: Hottest Beauty Trends,” 8 p.m. March 3 on Style Network
(115 on Dish Network, 235 on Direct TV)
“Ultimate Style” host Daisy Fuentes and Allure Magazine’s Linda Wells take viewers backstage at top fashion shows around the world to reveal behind-the-scenes secrets of the newest hair and makeup trends.
“Download: The True Story of the Internet,” 8 p.m. March 3 on Science Channel
(101 on Cox Digital, 193 on Dish Network, 284 on Direct TV)
The founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google and others go on camera and tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how they went from being geeky, computer-obsessed nerds to 21st century visionaries who launched information-sharing and e-commerce companies that took over the world. Four-part series concludes with back-to-back episodes at 8 p.m. March 4.
“High School Confidential,” 9 p.m. March 10 on WE
(128 on Dish Network, 260 on Direct TV)
This new eight-episode documentary series takes an unprecedented four-year look inside the lives of 12 teenage girls to capture the truths behind the real high school experience.
‘Rider’ ready …. almost
NBC will be fine-tuning the new “Knight Rider” movie right up to the airdate.
The modern-day sequel to the 1980’s television series is scheduled to premiere with a 2-hour movie (that will serve as the series pilot) at 8 p.m. Feb. 17.
What with all the special effects involved with creating the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand) car capable of shifting shape and color, it’s understandable that things will need to be tweaked until the last possible second.
But another setback surfaced when Will Arnett (“Arrested Development”), who was to be the new voice of KITT, had to back out because of his verbal endorsement work for General Motors. KITT, after all, is a Ford Mustang.
Arnett had already completed the voice-overs for the movie. But reports surfaced Thursday that Val Kilmer (“Comanche Moon”) will replace Arnett as the voice of KITT.
Also starring in the new “Knight Rider” are Justin Bruening (“All My Children”), Deanna Russo (“The Young and the Restless”), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (“Veronica Mars”) and Bruce Davison (“Close To Home”).
Russo plays Sarah Graimen, who is following in the footsteps of her father, Charles (Davison), who invented KITT. When Charles goes missing, Sarah enlists the help of her best friend, Mike Tracer (Bruening), and an FBI agent (Poitier) to find him and discover who’s behind the attempt to obtain KITT.
Viewers can obtain a KITT-like car of their own by answering questions pertaining to the movie during its broadcast. Go to www.nbc.com/knightrider to answer the questions for a chance to win one of four new high-tech Ford automobiles — the grand prize being a 2008 Ford Shelby GT 500 KR with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $79,995.
— Penny Soldan, TV Editor
