skating with celebrities

• NBC has a new Surface (check out my interview with Carter Jenkins) at 8pm, followed by repeats of Las Vegas and Medium.
• ABC has a new Wife Swap, followed by In Style Celebrity Weddings and a new The Bachelor.
• CBS has a mix of repeats and new: a repeat King of Queens at 8, followed by a repeat How I Met Your Mother, a repeat Two and a Half Men, and then new eps of Courting Alex and CSI: Miami.
• FOX has a new Skating With Celebrities, followed by a new 24.
• 7th Heaven is new on the WB at 8, followed by a new Related.
• Still more repeats from UPN: One on One, All of Us, Girlfriends, and Half & Half.
• Also at 8: a new Wildfire on ABC Family, and AMC has National Lampoon's Animal House. 
• At 9, a new Unwrapped on Food Network, "Fiery Foods."  
• Hallmark has the movie A Simple Twist of Fate, with Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, and Laura Linney. It's on at 9 too. 
• Also at 9: the debut of the A&E movie Flight 93.  
• At 10, Discovery has a new American Chopper, followed by a new Roush Racing: Driver X. 
• Also at 10: HBO2 has Phantom of the Opera.
• Do you miss the short-lived Law and Order spinoff, Trial By Jury? Catch a repeat on Court TV at 11.
• PBS has a new Tavis Smiley, with guest Newt Gingrich. Check local listings.
• At midnight, the Travel Channel has a Winter Olympics special, Torino 2006: The Traveler's Guide.  

Oh, sorry, that's Deborah Gibson.

We've had Dancing With The Stars, then that VH-1 show where famous people sang, and now we're being annoyed by forced to watch infected with entertained by Skating With Celebrites. I think they should keep going with this idea.

• Celebrity Surgery: This one sort of brings those CSI shows together with reality TV. Each celebrity is paired with a world-class surgeon, and the team that gets the best score wins the grand prize, maybe $100,000 to get some plastic surgery for themselves. The judges can be doctors from Cedars-Sinai. If they won't do it, Paris Hilton and Bob Saget.
• Wackiest Celebrity Porn Videos: Celebs team up with a real porn star to make home videos. Videos are judged by the quality of the direction, how grainy the film is, and stamina. Judges? Paris Hilton again. And Tommy Lee, of course.
• Celebrity Charades: Oh wait, this one is real.