Wednesday 5.07.08:

ABC:
8:00pm Wife Swap
9:00pm Supernanny
10:00pm Audition: Barbara Walters' Journey [special]

CBS:
8:00pm The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular
9:00pm Criminal Minds
10:00pm CSI: NY

NBC:
8:00pm Deal or No Deal
10:00pm Law & Order

Fox:
8:00pm 'Til Death
8:30pm Back to You
9:00pm American Idol

The CW:
8:00pm America's Next Top Model
9:00pm Farmer Wants a Wife

MNT:
8:00pm Under One Roof
8:30pm In Living Color (R)
9:00pm Breaking the Magician's Code 3 (R)

Live:
Boston Legal Woops forgot about the chimp sweeps plans!

Later:
Til Death
Back to You

LIVE:
8:00 - 'Til Death
8:30 - Back to You
9:00 - Criminal Minds
10:00 - Law and Order

DVR:
8:00 - Under One Roof
9:00 - Farmer Wants a Wife

Back to You

and Criminal Minds, for the first time in a few years. Reason being, star Joe Mantegna is coming to my cousin's house this week to remodel it out of volunteer work, so I will repay him by tunning into his show for once.

Under One Roof
American Idol
Farmer Wants A Wife
Law and Order

DVR
'Til Death
Back to You
American Idol
Criminal Minds

Live:
10 - L&O (NBC)

Dumont Prime Choices

MY WEDNESDAY PRIME:

LIVE:

8:00 pm Mama's Family (ION) -> What a treat it has been to watch Mama this past week, a double-header every night. And what a disappointment to learn that ION didn't include her show going forward in their fall 2008 upfront earlier this week.

9:00 pm Quantum Leap (ION) -> I haven't seen this above-average scifi series in a long time, and it's a delight to watch it again.

10:00 pm Audition: Barbara Walters' Journey [special](ABC) -> There have been so many promos and clips for this across the ABC network, I already feel I know all the major revelations, but I will watch anyway because Miss Barbara Walters has been the defining newspeople for ABC News over the past four decades.

LATER:

Wednesdays are Funny and Magical on MyNetworkTV

8:00 pm Under One Roof (MNT) -> Even though I'm not bowled over with laughter, this series has moments that make me smile.

8:30 pm The Very Best of In Living Color (MyNetworkTV) -> In a recent interview around the MNT upfront, President Mr. Greg Meidel articulated a desire to build Wednesday into a comedy night with sitcoms and skit comedy shows. Maybe this summer, MNT could encore a couple of brilliant past skit comedy shows...wouldn't "The Tracey Ullman Show" encores (79 episodes), "The Dana Carvey Show" encores (8 episodes), and "The Kids in the Hall" (103 episodes) all make excellent shows to lead out of "The Best of In Living Color"?

9:00 pm Breaking the Magician's Code 3(MNT) -> MNT has ordered up fresh Breaking Magicians Code episodes for this fall...they are a fascinating look behind the scenes at how magicians and illusionists actually do those tricks we've seen time and again.

'Til Death
Back 2 You - still waiting for a funny episode post-strike.

Top Chef (BRAVO)

Top Chef

7PM (CDT) - ANTM (my wife watches it)
8PM - Video games or food network
9PM - Top Chef

The CW:
8:00pm America's Next Top Model

More proof that this show is looking to move Paulina Porizkova into the lead role and move Tyra Banks on to her next show? Paulina becomes the model for tonight's photo shoot.

American Idol

quote:

Originally posted by dumont:
8:00 pm Under One Roof (MNT) -> Even though I'm not bowled over with laughter, this series has moments that make me smile.

Dumont, this show makes anything ABC's debuted including that horrendous Cavemen look good. Full of stereotypes and unfunny moments. The fact that 1.2 million people are still wanting to come back to it is an abomination in itself and I'm usually all for watch what you want, but please, you must be joking. You claim to love quality programming. This... is not. Check out Til Death and B2Y on mother net Fox. While Back to You is still getting its groove, Til Death has been nothing short of hysterical this spring. Should Fox cancel this, ABC and NBC should quickly snatch it up and place it behind a heavy hitter and see if it sticks. The main problem has been incompatibility with other Fox shows.