Media Scribbler

ABC: Dancing With The Stars — Jessica Simpson performs on the show. Hope that she won’t share the stage with Kim Kardashian, because that’s a lot of hot air and big, um, body parts.
Half Their Size: The People Magazine Weight Loss Challenge — The show chronicles the journey of eight Mississippi residents as they lose weight through nutrition and exercise, not surgery. Good for them! I’ll eat my takeout lo mein on their behalf.
CBS: The Mentalist –  The team looks for a Napa Valley waitress, but Patrick decides to do things his way using a team member as bait. I’m …read more

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ABC: Opportunity Knocks – A family is asked trivia questions about each other to win cash and prizes. If this were Fox, they’d be hooked up to a lie detector, too.
Dancing With the Stars — Ready for two more hours after last night’s premiere? Click here for more.
Fox: House — The team races to figure out why the people who received donor organs from a person who died in an industrial accident months before are dying. In the meantime, House uses a PI to snoop on Wilson and a colleague he’s considering to replace Wilson as his friend. I suspect …read more

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- If you’re sick of “90210″ hype, then I’ve got some really bad news for you — the CW has picked it up for a full-season run. The show, which was originally ordered for 13 episodes, has managed to keep up its ratings enough for the CW to make the leap of faith. Another good sign is the addition of writer-producer Rebecca Kirschner, who worked on “Gilmore Girls” and  “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
- Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Imagine/20th Century Fox TV’s “Lie To Me”, which is slated to star Tim Roth as a human lie detector who can …read more

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