The weekend has a few notable reruns, although I’m sure you’d rather be watching your Dollhouse DVD, and catching the new episode, “Epitaph One.” Maybe you’ll follow along with Bob and watch some Veronica Mars, season two. Or….

Friday

• At 8:00 on CBS, The Ghost Whisperer episode titled “Body of Water” repeats, as well as an episode of Privileged on The CW.
• At 9 PM you can catch an episode of According to Jim on ABC, the “Everybody Hates Lasagna” episode of Everybody Hates Chris on The CW or Flashpoint on CBS.
• At 9:30 on ABC, the series finale of According to Jim is re-airing, and boy, do we have the review for you. Grab a beer and enjoy, although we have it on good authority that the show doesn’t get much funnier.

Saturday

• On ABC at 9:00, you can catch Aldis Hodge in a guest spot on Castle’s “Always Buy Retail.”
• At 11:30 NBC is repeating the awesome Tracy Morgan / Kelly Clarkson episode of SNL from last season.

Sunday

• In case you missed the BBCA premiere of Being Human from Saturday, it’s airing again at 9:15.
• At 10 PM you can catch an episode from season five of Desperate Housewives on ABC or head over to CBS to watch a repeat of Without a Trace.

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I don’t understand anyone who’s light on stuff to watch during the summer. We’re loaded with new shows, plus, summer’s a great opportunity for the networks to bombard us with reruns, must watch and not. I spent twenty minutes last night, searching for later showings of movies that I’ve recorded, so I can free up some space on my TiVo. And I have 100 hours available to me.

• Friday night is usually a loser on TV. You can catch two episodes of According to Jim (my point exactly) on ABC (9–10 PM), moan over the loss of Privileged and Everybody Hates Chris on the CW, or lose yourself in CSI:NY on TNT, at 8. Or, you could check out DirecTV’s re-broadcasting of Smith, The Nine, and Oz … not too shabby, for those of you paying for the dish. Don’t got it? USA’s airing The 40-Year-Old Virgin … could be a perfect match, if you’re home to see it. I kid because I love!
• Saturday night’s even more of a dog, unless you’ve got the movie channels, in which case it’s premiere night for Mamma Mia! (HBO), Death Race (Cinemax), and Swing Vote (Starz), amongst others. If not? USA has House, TNT has HawthoRNe, and ABC’s re-showing Castle’s ‘A Chill Goes Through Her Veins’, at 9. And stay on that station for the ritual purging of Dirty Sexy Money.
• Sunday brings us back to Nickelodeon’s syndication run of Malcolm in the Middle; for some reason, they’re not exactly showing them in order, but two “new” episodes air every Sunday – Thursday night, 8 to 9 (actually, on Sunday it’s now at midnight. Oops.) There’re a bunch of shows on all over the dials, new and old, but, for my money, I’d watch Old School, TBS at 8. There’s nary a movie better. Meanwhile, I’ll be busy trying to watch new episodes of Army Wives, In Plain Sight, Hung, and Entourage, all of which air at roughly the same time. Please … what lack of new programming?

I can’t imagine getting drunk enough to find out. But Jeff Love, one of CliqueClack Food’s staff writers did.

Last week, Jeff reviewed the series finale of According to Jim here on CliqueClack TV. Consensus? The show’s not funny. Pretty much what viewers all around the country have been saying for years.

I wonder what he thought after a six-pack of Land Shark Lager … you’ll have to go to CliqueClack Food to find out if Jim and his antics bore any resemblance to humor when three sheets to the wind. Jeff’s review is over there — did you get that part? Go read it….

It’s Tuesday. Only three more months till the fall TV season begins. Yes, that sound you heard was the collective sigh of depressed television viewers everywhere.

• It’s Crimetime Tuesday on CBS (though, isn’t every night on CBS Crimetime?) with repeats of NCIS, The Mentalist, and 48 Hours Mystery. Antonio Sabato Jr. and Traci Scoggins guest star on NCIS.
• It’s House and Prefab House (also known as Mental) on FOX. This week’s repeat of House begins the ‘Cuddy Wants a Baby’ epic.
• Comedy returns to the ABC schedule tonight with repeats of According to Jim, Scrubs and Better off Ted. One of these shows (According to Jim) is not like the others as both Scrubs and Ted are returning in 2010.
• It’s Crimetime Tuesday on NBC with two episodes of Law & Order:SVU and a new I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, which is a crime to viewers sense of good taste.
• I’d mention the Tuesday night schedule for The CW, but the site I’m using isn’t even listing it. That says something about the network, doesn’t it?

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Food writer Jeff Love starts a journey with a tale that’s best to begin here, with its conclusion to come later on CliqueClack Food in his always awesome Redneck Cooking column.

I got an email the other day from Keith. He asked me to do him a favor. I asked what the favor was. He said, “I need you to drink a six-pack of beer.”

Now that is the kind of favor I like my friends to ask me for. I quickly agreed to do the favor. I asked, “what kind of beer do I have to drink?” He said a six-pack of the Land Shark Lager he reviewed recently in his brew review column. After reading the review, it didn’t sound too bad, so I still was willing to do Keith the favor. In the back of my mind I kept thinking, “Keith has never been this nice to me before, so what’s he got up his sleeve?” Has Keith finally became a saint?

After several emails back and forth I was feeling pretty good about this “favor” Keith wanted. In his last email, he showed that he was not a saint, but more a sadistic bastard. Keith did not want me to do a review of the beer; instead he wanted me to watch an episode of According to Jim after drinking a six-pack of beer to see if the show was funnier.

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Yes, the boys over at USA earned the headline this week. There just really wasn’t that much to talk about where the networks were concerned. For example, CBS was the most watched network on three different nights, with a combination of repeats and one episode of Million Dollar Password.  It was much more interesting seeing the press release from USA that revealed Burn Notice had 6 million viewers for the season premiere. Royal Pains was right on pace with 5.6 million. It will be interesting to see if Royal Pains can stay that close as the weeks progress. After the jump, it’s the NBA vs the NHL, So You Think You Can Dance vs Wipeout, and I’m A Celebrity vs the basic common sense of viewers. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s a Tuesday in June. So, don’t expect much when it comes to original network programming. Unless, of course, you’re interested in I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! And, if you’re watching that show, then you are obviously more bored than you first thought. Go outside and get some fresh air, man!

• It’s another installment of Crimetime Tuesday on CBS, with repeats of  NCIS, and The Mentalist, and 48 Hours Mystery. Out of the three Mentalist sounds like the more interesting one as it rebroadcasts the episode where Jane goes blind.
• On FOX’s Tuesday edition of House (as opposed to USA Network’s Tuesday edition of House), Hope and Crosby (House and Wilson, for the too young) take a road trip to attend the funeral of House’s father. That’s followed by a new episode of Mental,which is really House in the mental health world.
• There are no repeats on ABC tonight. But, considering there are two new episodes of According to Jim instead, perhaps there should be repeats.
• No new repeats on NBC, either. Just another episode of I’m a Celebrity and a White House special. So, when is NBC actually going off the air? Actually, it’s also the season finale of Law & Order:SVU. Enjoy it’s last installment in this time slot.