TV Junkie: Tony Bennett on 'Idol'; Vic Mackey's Back on 'The Shield'

tony_bennett_idol.jpg
A Word or 73:
LA, get ready for your dirty underbelly to be nauseatingly exploited as the sixth season of The Shield gets underway tonight. There's a bit more room on the dial after, thank god, the following shows got the ax last week: The Wedding Bells (Fox) which was truly awful, Six Degrees (ABC) another bad one, 7th Heaven (the CW) which I don't even know about and The Black Donnellys which was cheap and cheesy.

NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) New even more suspensful and action filled episodes.

Nova (PBS, 8:00 p.m.) Thank god for cuttlefish.

Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Chris Hensen, supermensch

American Idol (Fox, 8:00 p.m.) Tony Bennett shows up to mentor.

Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll (the CW, 9:00 p.m.) 6 contestants left perform in Vegas.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent/Law & Order: SVU
(NBC, 9-11:00 p.m.) Somebody please voice-of-reason this shit.

Larry King Live (CNN, 9:00 p.m.) Angry frump Lou Dobbs

Frontline (PBS, 9:00 p.m.) A look at a man suffering from ALS/Lou Gehrig's

House (Fox, 9:00 p.m.) Tyson Ritter, some twit from the All American Rejects, guest stars.

The Shield (FX, 10:00 p.m.) Vic's back for a sixth season!

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC, 11:35 p.m.) Gerard Butler, Tim McGraw performs

Jimmy Kimmel LIVE (ABC, 12:05 a.m.) Hilary Swank, the latest "Dancing With the Stars" castoff, Hilary Duff [too many effing Hilllaries]

Late Night With Conan O'Brien (NBC, 12:35 a.m.) Hot chica Rosario Dawson pushing the Tarantino thing, Martina McBride performs

The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (CBS, 12:35 a.m.) Naughty girl Rose McGowan pushing the Tarantino thing, chef Wolfgang Puck, Billy D. Washington performs

Tony Bennett on Idol via AP

Email This Entry


Comments (2) [rss]

OMG, I have lost my fire for AI! allowing
"vote for the worst" and Howard Stern's listeners, who hate AI, to vote Sanjaya through each week! If AI wants to bring their loyal viewers back next year, they will need to create a rule to prevent this from happening again! AI was created to be a singing contest...I mean the BEST singer is supposed to win this contest...right? I am trully bummed about this.

You'd think that these people would have covered their asses on this kind of thing because of what Stern did with People magazine's "Most Beautiful Person of the Year" award in 1998 - when they got Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf as the winner.

Post a comment (Comment Policy)

Tips

About LAist

LAist is a website about Los Angeles. More

Editor: Zach Behrens Co-Editor: Lindsay William-Ross Publisher: Gothamist

Contribute

Latest Tip:

Any ideas why the 110 off/on ramps will be shut down for 1 year starting tomorrow from the hours of
[more]

Latest Photo:

Subscribe

Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from LAist.

All Our RSS

Links