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ABC: Dancing With The Stars — Let’s see if Kim Kardashian has actually picked up some dancing skills during the past week. Musical taste, too. “Baby Got Back” was just painful.
Boston Legal — A close call with Denny and prescription drugs inspires Alan to go after a pharmaceutical company for some dicey advertising. Calling Don Draper!
CBS: The Big Bang Theory — Penny gets a new man, and Leonard hooks up with Leslie (Sara Gilbert) to retaliate. And we wonder how we get the ideas to screw with our crushes in real life?
How I Met Your Mother — Marshall begins a …read more

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Today is the official first day of the season for the Big 3 nets. Finally!
NBC: Heroes — The third season opener begins with a special that reviews important plot points (so new folks won’t be completely confused, I assume) and a list of possible suspects in Nate’s shooting. On the show itself, they reveal who the shooter is while Hiro and Ando guard a family secret and Sylar visits Claire.
ABC: Dancing With the Stars — The new season begins and we will learn if Warren Sapp has the moves.
Boston Legal — This is the beginning of its final season. *sniff* …read more

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ABC: Batman Begins – If you never saw the first film where Christian Bale played Bruce Wayne and his crusading counterpart, this will show you all you need to know to finally go see “The Dark Knight”.
CBS: How I Met Your Mother - Ted (Josh Radnor) has an accident and reevaluates his relationship with Stella (Sarah Chalke). Could he finally have met his kids’ mother? See this before you find out next week.
Two and A Half Men – A CSI crew (led by George Eads) investigates a death at Charlie’s house. This episode was actually written by two “CSI” scribes, so …read more

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Does the weakness of a network show’s summer reruns say anything about how the show may be losing some of their rabid fanbases?

There are a few shows that do great during summer repeats. CBS has to be thrilled at their two hours of comedy in their Tuesday night lineup: The Big Bang Theory (Viewers: #2, 5.55 million; A18-49: #2t, 1.7 rating/6 share), How I Met Your Mother (Viewers: #3, 5.29 million; A18-49: #3, 1.7/ 5), Two and a Half Men (Viewers: #1, 9.15 million; A18-49: #1, 2.9/ 8), The New Adventures of Old Christine (Viewers: #2, 7.46 million; A18-49: #2. …read more

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