At 8, ABC has a new Wipeout, followed by new episodes of I Survived A Japanese Game Show and Primetime: Family Secrets.
FOX has baseball’s All-Star Game at 8.
NBC has a new Celebrity Family Feud at 8, thereupon a new America’s Got Talent.
At 9, G4 has the premiere of Hurl!
PBS has a n…

This one belongs in the “You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me” file.

This weekend, TV Land has an event devoted to movies (Footloose, Flashdance, Say Anything, etc) and trivia from the 1980s. They were going to shout it “OhMyGod, That’s So 80s,” but after a protest from the American Family organizatio…

Aint It Cool posted an interview with Kenneth Johnson, the creator and writer of the V television mini-series from 1983. He has recently released a sequel book called V: The moment Generation (available on Amazon here).

The most interesting facts to come out of the conversation with Johnson i…

Cynopsis reports that now that the writers’ strike is by — hallelujah! — Lifetime Television will soon start production on the moment season of Army Wives with episodes scheduled to air in early summer. that is great news for fans of the Lifetime original drama series that was a ratings juggerna…

Mike Judge has not created a new lively series since 1997. I guess 10-plus years is enlarged abundant considering he’s entered a deal with ABC to create a new series called The Goode Family.

The series has a 13 episode order and is being produced by indie studio Media Rights Capital. It is the af…

The season premiere of Big Brother 9 in its first non-summer season (thank you, WGA strike) is just around the corner. The big night is February 12 and I believe we can expect cast announcements sometime that week — most likely before mid-week.

Even without the cast knowledge, some details are b…

I’m not into football, but I do watch the Super Bowl every loner year. I watch it for the new expensive commercials (which we’ll be covering here at TV Squad). But whether you’re the type of person who doesn’t like the game or the commercials, here’s what you can watch instead on Sunday (not jus…

Do you like American Gladiators? How about a version that has kids competing instead of adults?

That was a concept of Gladiators 2000, a spinoff of the original version of American Gladiators. It aired for a couple of years in the mid-1990s (which is odd, considering it had “2000″ in the ti…

I’m not certain whether Bravo has brought back their “West Wing Mondays” for good or whether that is just an election year thing, but nowadays the network is airing a marathon from 9am to 5pm.

And it’s not just any season they’re doing. The first episode is the fourth season opener, which means t…

This seems to be NBC Announcement Week. A day after we reported that the Peacock network was going to scrap their upfront presentation that year comes that news: they’re getting rid of pilot episodes too!

Jeff Zucker says that pilots are too expensive and often aren’t even a good indication o…

We cover the network upfronts (that week in may when ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX unveil their new shows) pretty extensively here at TV Squad. But that’s a May tradition that might have seen its final days.
NBC head Jeff Zucker says that considering of the writers strike, NBC might not do an upfront at…

At 8, CBS has a new Ghost Whisperer, followed by new episodes of Moonlight and Numb3rs.
NBC has a new 1 vs. 100 at 8, soon after new episodes of Friday Night Lights and Las Vegas.
The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
PBS has a new NOW at 8, followed by new episodes of Washington Week and Bill…

We told you the other day about the studios ending the contracts of several writers and producers. And since it’s tough to keep track of who is and and who is out when it comes to their TV deals, The Futon Critic has the scoop on which citizens still have deals at the networks, along with updates …

JJ Abrams, of Lost, Alias, and Felicity fame, has another TV show coming up, that day on FOX.

Fringe will star Kirk Acevedo and Tomas Arana and is about a young female FBI agent who teams up with a scientist to investigate odd phenomena and other sci-fi happenings. Wait, is that X-Files 2?
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Don’t nag, all you fans out there who throw Oscar night parties and love the 8 hour faraway red carpet specials: the show is a go.
For a while there, it looked like the Oscars might be in danger of going the route of the Golden Globes (ugh), particularly since the Writers Guild of America wasn’t …

Here are the weekly TV ratings, by number of viewers.
Wow, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is really making an affect, eh? The first episode got by 18 million viewers! I don’t know whether that’s considering public were really excited about seeing what the pilot was like or considering it…

Here’s who’s on the late night shows tonight.

Charlie Rose: Alex Ross and Marin Alsop
The Daily Show: TBA
The Colbert Report: TBA
The Late Show with David Letterman: Denzel Washington and Don Rickles
Jay Leno: TBA
Jimmy Kimmel Live: TBA
Tavis Smiley: Hal Holbrook
Late Night with C…

MTV is capitalizing on the popularity of its ridiculous, yet incredibly addictive reality show, My Super Sweet 16. The network is sending some of its stars out in the real world to rough it a bit. MTV has produced eight episodes of Exiled!, which features some of the spoiled 16 divas living with ind…

You know, I could say something smarmy about auditions for FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance and how it is part of the ever-growing list of reality shows that are gracing the networks. But, since so many folks take it seriously, and reality television will be status quo for the day being, and the pub…