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Our Monday morning roundup of a half dozen things TV Squad readers - and TV fans in general - will be talking about this week.

1. The Battlestar Galactica season finale. I hear Boxey and Muffitt are kidnapped! (Friday at 10 on Sci-Fi Channel.)

2. The Men in Trees series finale. Now all of you fans can send...um, trees or something to ABC to save the show. (Wednesday at 10 on ABC.)

3. The Celtics/Lakers finals. Basketball just shouldn't be played in the middle of baseball season. (On ABC this week.)

4. The first annual TV Squad Awards was last week. What do you think all of the winners?

5. The possibility of another strike. This isn't funny, SAG and AFTRA.

6. Nashville Star moves to NBC. Some of the people reading that sentence are saying "yay, another season!" The rest of you are thinking "what's Nashville Star?" (Starts tonight at 9 on NBC.)

7. Retro Squad starts with Arrested Develoment week.

• At 8, CBS has a new Million Dollar Password.
• ABC has the second Celtics/Lakers NBA Finals Game at 8.
• TCM has 20 Million Miles To Earth at 8, then First Men in the Moon.
• At 9, NBC has a new, two-hour Dateline.
• Lifetime has the season premiere of Army Wives at 9.
• USA has the season premiere of Law and Order: CI at 9, then a new In Plain Sight.
• The season premiere of Ice Road Truckers airs on History Channel at 9.
• Food Network has a new Iron Chef America at 9, followed by a new Next Food Network Star.
• HGTV has a new Design Star at 9.
• Spike has the movie Backwoods at 9.
• At 10, E! has a new Denise Richards: It's Complicated, then a new Living Lohan.
• Showtime has a new This American Life at 10.
• At 11:30, Cartoon Network has a new Venture Brothers, followed by new episodes of Metalocalypse, Squidbillies, and Assy McGee.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, ABC has the first game of the Celtics/Lakers NBA Finals.
• FOX has a new, two hour So You Think You Can Dance at 8.
• HGTV has a new Designed To Sell at 8, then new episodes of Myles of Style and Divine Design.
• At 8:30, NBC has a new Last Comic Standing, then the premiere of Fear Itself.
• Also at 8:30: Cartoon Network has a new Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
• At 9, TV Land has four episodes of I Love Lucy.
• TLC has a new Miami Ink at 10.
• At 10, CBS has the premiere of Swingtown.
• NFLNet has a new NFL Total Access at 10.
• At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Reno 911.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Here are the weekly TV ratings, by number of viewers.

1. America's Got Talent (NBC)
2. So You Think You Can Dance - Thurs (FOX)
3. NBA Finals - Game 4 (ABC)
4. NCIS (CBS)
5. Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader (FOX)
6. CSI (CBS)
7. NBA Finals - Game 3 (ABC)
8. CSI: Miami (CBS)
9. Two and a Half Men (CBS)
10. Cold Case (CBS)
11. So You Think You Can Dance - Weds (FOX)
12. Law and Order: SVU (NBC)
13. Hell's Kitchen (FOX)
14. Without A Trace (CBS)
15. Shark (CBS)
16. The Price Is Right - Primetime special (CBS)
17. Daytime Emmy Awards (CBS)
18. CSI: NY (CBS)
19. Deal Or No Deal - Weds (NBC)
20. 48 Hours Mystery - Tues (CBS)

• At 8, ABC has a new Fast Cars and Superstars, followed by the NBA finals.
• FOX has a new Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader at 8, then a new So You Think You Can Dance.
• CBS has a new Pirate Master at 8.
• TCM has Mr. Lucky at 8, then The Adventures of Robin Hood.
• At 9, TLC has a new American Chopper.
• USA has a new Starter Wife at 9.
• At 10, NBC has a new Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
• Food Network has a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay at 10.
• At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Showbiz Show with David Spade.
• Also at 10: Spike has a new Ultimate Fighter.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Here are the weekly TV ratings, by number of viewers.

1. America's Got Talent (NBC)
2. Two and a Half Men (CBS)
3. So You Think You Can Dance - Weds (FOX)
4. So You Think You Can Dance - Thurs (FOX)
5. Deal Or No Deal - Tues (NBC)
6. CSI (CBS)
7. CSI: Miami (CBS)
8. 60 Minutes (CBS)
9. NCIS (CBS)
10. Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader (FOX)
11. CSI: NY (CBS)
12. NBA Finals - Game 1 (CBS)
13. Shark (CBS)
14. How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
15. NBA Finals - Game 2 (CBS)
16. The Next Best Thing (ABC)
17. Hell's Kitchen (FOX)
18. House (FOX)
19. American Inventor (ABC)
20. Criminal Minds (CBS)

• At 8, FOX has a new On The Lot.
• NBC has a new two-hour America's Got Talent at 8.
• ABC has a new Fast Cars & Superstars at 8, then the NBA finals.
• At 9, Lifetime has the new movie A Family Lost.
• There's a new Dog The Bounty Hunter at 9.
• The History Channel has a new episode of The Universe at 9.
• At 9:30, Food Network has a new Road Tasted, in Philadelphia.
• At 10, Comedy Central has Brian Regan: Standing Up.
• Bravo has a new Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List at 10.
• Sci-Fi has a new ECW at 10.
• Also at 10: TLC has the season premiere of Miami Ink.

Check your local TV listings for more.

I'm a little depressed at how effortless it was to come up with the shows for this list. How can I possibly watch this much television during the Summer?

Then I looked at the TiVo beneath my TV, the Media Center PC and Xbox 360 in the office, and the Slingbox Pro in my living room and laughed for having even asked the question.

All of this TV is feasible because I own devices that are dedicated to helping me ingest the maximum number of programs possible within a 24-hour period. I'm TV obese, and it's a wonder with all the sedentary behavior, I'm not physically obese as well.

That being said (and wholeheartedly ignored), here are 11 shows my toys will help me binge on this Summer.