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Summer 2009

Network Primetime Schedules

This page last updated 01 May 2009.

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Mondays
8:00p	The Bachelorette Reality	The Big Bang Theory Comedy	Gossip Girl Drama	House Drama	I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Reality
8:30p		How I Met Your Mother Comedy
9:00p		Two And A Half Men Comedy	One Tree Hill Drama	Lie To Me Drama	America's Got Talent Reality
9:30p		Rules of Engagement Comedy
10:00p	Here Comes the Newlyweds Reality*	CSI: Miami Drama			Law & Order: SVU Drama
10:30p

MONDAY NOTES:
*  Dating in the Dark premieres July 20th.

Tuesdays
8:00p	Opportunity Knocks Reality*	NCIS Drama	Reaper Drama	American Idol Reality	The Biggest Loser Reality
8:30p
9:00p	Dancing With The Stars Reality	The Mentalist Drama	90210 Drama	Fringe
9:30p
10:00p	Cupid Drama **	Without A Trace Drama			Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Drama
10:30p

TUESDAY NOTES:
*  The Superstars premieres June 23rd
** Primetime: Family Secrets premieres June 23rd

Wednesdays
8:00p	Scrubs Comedy	The New Adventures of Old Christine Comedy	America's Next Top Model Reality	Lie To Me Drama	Law & Order: Criminal Intent Drama (repeats)
8:30p	Better Off Ted Comedy	Gary Unmarried Comedy
9:00p	Lost Drama	Criminal Minds Drama	90210 (repeats) Drama	American Idol Reality	Law & Order: SUV (repeats) Drama
9:30p
10:00p	The Unusuals Drama	CSI: New York Drama			Law & Order Drama
10:30p

WEDNESDAY NOTES:

Thursdays
8:00p	In the Motherhood Comedy	Survivor Reality	Smallville Drama	Bones Drama	My Name is Earl Comedy
8:30p	Samantha Who? Comedy				Parks & Recreation Comedy
9:00p	Grey's Anatomy Drama	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Drama	Supernatural Drama	Hell's Kitchen Reality	The Office Comedy
9:30p					30 Rock Comedy
10:00p	Private Practice Drama	TBA			Southland Drama
10:30p

THURSDAY NOTES:
* 

Fridays
8:00p	Wife Swap Reality	Ghost Whisperer Drama	WWE Smackdown Sports	Prison Break Drama	Howie Do It Reality
8:30p
9:00p	Supernanny Reality	Flashpoint Drama		Dollhouse Drama	Friday Night Lights Drama
9:30p
10:00p	20/20 News	Numb3rs Drama			Dateline News
10:30p

FRIDAY NOTES:

*

Saturdays
8:00p	Saturday Night Movie	(various repeats)		Cops Reality	Kings Drama
8:30p				Cops (repeats) Reality
9:00p		Harper's Island Drama		America's Most Wanted Reality	(various repeats)
9:30p
10:00p	Repeats	48 Hours Mystery News
10:30p

Sundays
7:00p	America's Funniest Home Videos Comedy/Reality	60 Minutes News	Repeats	Repeats	Dateline News
7:30p			Repeats	King of the Hill Comedy
8:00p	Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Reality	The Amazing Race Reality	Repeats	The Simpsons Comedy
8:30p				Sit Down, Shut Up Comedy
9:00p	Desperate Housewives Comedy/Drama	Cold Case Drama	Repeats	Family Guy  Comedy	The Apprentice Reality
9:30p				American Dad Comedy
10:00p	Brothers & Sisters Drama	The Unit Drama
10:30p

SUNDAY NOTES:

Cable Highlights for the 2009 Season

	Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead The first episode in High Definition  features Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman) as the mysterious Lady Christina.
	Torchwood: Children of Earth Each episode of the five part third season ends with a cliffhanger before reaching the intense conclusion on Friday.
	Primeval Jason Flemying joins the team on the third season of the show
	The Apprentice No Donald in this British version, it's Alan Sugar as the boss
	Top Chef Masters The spin-off has Gael Green, James Oseland and Jay Raynard judging some of the best chefs in the world
	The Fashion Show Isaac Mizrahi and Kelly Rowland hosts this Project Runway wannabe
	True Blood Sookie & Bill become more involved in vampire politics with Eric
	Hung A high school teacher reaches his low point financially and emotionally before deciding to use his biggest asset to help change his life
	Project Runway The delayed seventh season begins on it new home - Lifetime
	Sci-fi changes its name to syfy - no it's not a spelling mistake
	Warehouse 13 Secret Service agents work in the secret Warehouse 13.
	Eureka The second half of the third season begins
	Nurse Jackie Edie Falco is a no nonesense New York ER nurse

Looking Ahead To The Fall

On ABC
Returning dramas include Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Lost. Reality shows continue with new cycles of The Bachelor, Dancing With The Stars, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Super Nanny, Wife Swap and the long-running America's Funniest Videos.

On CBS
Much of CBS' schedule stays intact, with How I Met Your Mother, Two And a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, The New Adventure fo Old Christine, Gary Unmarried, Crimnal Minds, The Mentalist, Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, NCIS, CSI (plus the NY and Miami versions), Cold Case, Survivor, Big Brother, and The Amazing Race all set to return. A NCIS spinoff is in the works for the fall and the network grabs Medium from NBC.

On NBC 
Jay Leno hosts a 10:00p talk show as the late night talk show lineup shuffles at the Peacock network. Conan takes over the Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon continues from his spring debut on Later. Heroes, The Biggest Loser, Law & Order: SVU, The Office, 30 Rock, Parks And Recreation, Southland and the original Law & Order return.

On Fox
Fox previewed its fall musical show Glee in the summer season, and a new cycle of So You Think You Can Dance? set to hit the stage in the fall. Along with new seasons of Bones, House, Lie To Me, Fringe, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad

On CW
Look for a new Melrose Place to follow 90210, with Gossip Girl, Smallville, Supernatural, One Tree Hill and America's Next Top Model to return as well.