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• At 8, NBC has a new Dateline.
• ABC has college football at 8, Notre Dame vs. Michigan.
• FOX has a new Cops at 8, followed by a repeat episode and then a new America's Most Wanted.
• CBS is rerunning the Jericho premiere at 8, followed by the Smith premiere, and then a new 48 Hours Mystery.
• HBO2 has a mini marathon of Entourage starting at 8.
• Also at 8: Cartoon Network has a new Fantastic Four.
• Around 8:20, IFC has Ed Wood, with Johnny Depp and Martin Landau.
• At 9, there's a new Naruto on Cartoon Network, followed by a new Bobobo-bo Bo-Bobo.
• At 10, NBC is rerunning the premiere ep of Kidnapped.
• HGTV has a new Design on a Dime at 10.

Entertainment Weekly's Dalton Ross gives his list for the best and worst pilots he's seen, and he doesn't really like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In fact, he calls it "underwhelming," and he's amazed by the "awfulness" of Amanda Peet.

In other observations, he calls Twenty Good Years "excruciating," Ugly Betty "mindless fun," and The Nine "the best new show."

I don't know, I really liked Studio 60's pilot. Do I think it's at West Wing or Sports Night level yet? No, of course not, it's just a pilot. But it's very good, and with Sorkin behind it and the great cast, I have really high hopes for it.

• Is Rosie going to be in a Nip/Tuck spin-off?
• Mos Def arrested for ad hoc performance outside VMAs.
• Ellen DeGeneres OK after car accident.
• Animator Ed Benedict dies.
• Here's the winner of Who Wants to be a Superhero.
• UK TV movie to portray fake Bush assassination.
• UK Office cast won't appear on US version after all.
• NBC switches slots of 30 Rock and Twenty Good Years.
• Who's the guy who crashed the VMAs?
• Lauren Graham to play herself on Studio 60.
• Trump fires Carolyn, hires daughter.
• GM drops sponsorship of Survivor.
• Joseph Stefano dead at 84.
• Glenn Ford dead at 90.
• Amy Poehler says she's still doing "Weekend Update."
• Has the Rock Star winner been leaked?
• Kyra Phillips of CNN goes to the bathroom with mic still on.
• NBC expresses regret for Emmy plane crash skit.
• Many people didn't like that sketch after Lexington plane crash.
• Jimmy Kimmel Live gets renewed for a fifth season.
• Vieira says The View has become a joke.
• Emmy Award results, tallied live by Bob.

• Who is this celebrity?
• The story of my conference call with Todd Bridges.
• Katie Couric gets electronically slimmed down by CBS.
• Here's a look at the Bones press kit.
• Here's a look at the Happy Hour press kit.
• Anna is ticked that she missed Pirates to watch the Emmys.
• What are the ten most outlandish series concepts?
  

• My review of the Diff'rent Strokes movie.
• Rich takes an early look at Happy Hour.
• Keith takes an early look at Heroes.
• I think Opie & Anthony did OK on Letterman.
• Bob takes an early look at Smith.
• Keith has an early review of BSG season 3.
• Mike C. looks at The Wire season 4.
  

• The Prisoner: "Once Upon a Time"
• Sports Night: "How are Things In Glocca Morra?"
• Seinfeld: "The Letter"
• The Simpsons: "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"
• Angel: "Five by Five"
• Futurama: "Fry and the Slurm Factory"
  

• Big Brother: Two eliminations, a nomination, and a veto
• Project Runway: "High Flying Fashion"
• Blade: "Hunters"
• Rock Star: Supernova: Week 9 Elimination
• Justice: "Pilot"
• Bones: "The Titan on the Tracks"
• Eureka: "Blink"
• Rescue Me: "Beached" (season finale)
• Celebrity Duets: Premiere
• Kyle XY: "Endgame" (season finale)
• The Closer: "No Good Deed"
• Prison Break: "Otis"
• The Dead Zone: "The Hunting Party" (season finale)
• The 4400: "Fifty Fifty" (season finale)
• Entourage: "Sorry, Ari" (season finale)
• Deadwood: "Tell Him Something Pretty" (season finale)

You're rushing through New York City's Grand Central Terminal, on your way to catch the 5:14 Metro North train to Mamaroneck. You only have a few minutes to spare. All of a sudden you catch something out of the corner of your eye: A Bluetooth-powered terminal. You step up to it and see the words 'free download'. It turns out to be a set of 30-second promos for upcoming shows on CBS that you can download to your cell phone. Not one to skip out on anything free, you download the promos, and skip gaily down to the train platform.

Ah, the Internet. With so much television content going over to the World Wide Web these days in the form of downloadable episodes or special features, it isn't surprising that the networks are offering previews of their new fall programming.

While FOX and The CW offer synopses of the new fall entries, CBS, ABC and NBC are offering video clips of all their new programming. Over at CBS, the previews of Jericho and James Woods' Shark look promising (although Jericho seems like Invasion) while Ray Liotta's heist drama Smith seemed to be Heist and Thief combined.