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ABC: Ugly Betty – Betty finally has to make her choice between Henry and Gio. And Lindsay Lohan is back. Honestly, if her performance is as good as the previews, she might want to consider a full-time sitcom gig.
Grey’s Anatomy – If you’ve seen any of the preview commercials with Grey’s during and after the Emmy’s, you already know what’s going to ruin Derek and Meredith’s morning-after glow. Also, Cristina’s intrigued by a guy who comes in as a trauma patient. It’s about time Sandra Oh gets another love interest!
CBS: Survivor: Gabon – The castaways are stuck in Africa this …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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For the third year, NBC execs are trying to build buzz for their new and returning shows online.
Knight Rider, Kath & Kim, Crusoe and My Own Worst Enemy, along with several second-year shows, will be available on NBC’s Web site, Hulu, iTunes, Amazon Video on Demand, Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Zune, as well as on-demand from TV providers such as Comcast, Cox, Charter, Dish and Verizon Fios. Knight Rider and Lipstick Jungle, due Sept. 24, are available today.
Other networks have dabbled with online premieres in the past, but none have had the success that NBC has had. The Office and …read more

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When you’ve got a hot new show that’s already creating controversy before showing more than a 30-second preview, what’s the best way to deal with it? For several shows this season, that means not sending TV writers a screening DVD of the new show’s pilot before it debuts.
Officials with the CW issued a statement Monday saying that they and CBS Paramount Television would not be screening the first ep of “90210″ before it premieres  Sept. 2. They said the move was not made because they were concerned about critical reviews of the show hurting its ratings, but that they’re “simply …read more

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How do you know that a show has no chance of seeing light again? When your net fields the only original programming of the night besides the Olympics and comes in third.
Obviously, NBC crushed everyone else under the weight of the pure muscle of the U.S. men’s Olympic swimming team, averaging 29.95 million viewers with a 17.6/28 share and a 10.2/27 in the key demo.
The weakest half-hour for the Olympics was at 8, when it was up against a repeat of “The Big Bang Theory” and “High School Musical: Is This Show Over Yet?”. It only had a 24.43 million …read more

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