TV Junkie: Stop It With the 3-Hour Finales; Cowell Spills the Lambert

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"Fringe" season finale at 9pm on FOX
This trend of creating multi-hour season finales of TV reality shows has got to stop. Among other finales, Sunday's 3 hour finale of "Celebrity Apprentice" was unnecessarily drawn out with tons of footage that should have been cut, resulting in subjecting the audience to almost 1/2 hour of additional commercials. Tonight's 3 hour finale of "The Biggest Loser" promises more of the same.
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Yesterday on Oprah, Simon Cowell said that Adam Lambert will win "American Idol". Great, now there's officially no reason to watch the rest of that show, and perhaps official recognition that the show is fixed.
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Purged: NBC pulls the plug on "Legally Mad" and FOX yanks "Sit Down, Shut Up"
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The TV Junkie Plan: "Fringe", "Independent Lens", "The Daily Show", Letterman, Ferguson

8:00pm The Biggest Loser NBC - Three-hour season finale

9:00pm Fringe FOX - Season Finale

9:00pm Deadliest Catch Discovery - Empty pots, low bait and long grinds create tension between the skippers and their crews.

9:00pm Frontline: The Madoff Affair PBS/KCET - The world's first global Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard Madoff began in the 1960s

10:00pm The Real Housewives of New York City Bravo - Season Finale

10:00pm Independent Lens - Crips and Bloods: Made in America PBS/KCET - Interviews with former and current members of the Crips and the Bloods

10:00pm Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment Discovery - The team tries to hunt a bear with some outside help.

10:02pm Cupid ABC - Season Finale

11:00pm The Daily Show Comedy Central - Tom Hanks

11:00pm The Real Housewives of New Jersey Bravo - Series Premiere

11:30pm The Colber(t) Repor(t) Comedy Central - Ron Howard

11:35pm Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Actor Alec Baldwin; actress Maya Rudolph; Chrisette Michele performs.

12:35am Late Night With Jimmy Fallon NBC - Internet comic Bo Burnham.

12:35am The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson CBS - Model Paulina Porizkova; author Andy Nulman.

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"resulting in subjecting the audience to almost 1/2 hour of additional commercials."

Umm yeah. Dude, who and what do you think pays the bills in network television???

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