My Fair Brady: We're Getting Married: Episode 2

Hogan Knows Best: Nick's Growing Pains

Eureka 7: Glorious Brilliance

Everwood: Foreverwood Pt. 1, Foreverwood Pt. 2 (Series Finale)

A very satisfying finale. Damn you, Berlanti! I even got a little teary there.

Monster Garage: On the Road: Baja Trophy Truck 1, On the Road: Baja Trophy Truck 2

Everwood: Reckoning; Goodbye, Love

As they so often said on TWoP, "Damn you, Berlanti!"

Top Gear: S08E04

American Hot Rod: '61 Bubbletop Impala 4

Eureka 7: Absolute Defeat

Everwood: Enjoy the Ride

Well, the networks have their "upfronts" this week, where they lay out next season and let us know what's staying and what's going. Now, I'm only going to report on shows that I watch or have some sort of interest in. In the fall I'll report on all the new shows. 

For more complete details, click on the network to get TVSquad's full coverage.

ABC

Canceled:
Sons and Daughters
Invasion
Less Than Perfect
Commander In Chief
Alias
Crumbs
Emily's Reasons Why Not
Jake in Progress

Renewed:
What About Brian
Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
Lost
American Inventor

CBS

Canceled:
Courting Alex
Love Monkey
Out of Practice
Threshold

Renewed:
The New Adventures of Old Christine
How I Met Your Mother
Numb3rs

FOX

Canceled:
Malcolm in the Middle
That 70's Show
Arrested Development
Skating With Celebrities
Stacked
Free Ride

Renewed:
24
American Dad
Bones
Family Guy
The Loop
The O.C.
The Simpsons

NBC

Canceled:
Teachers No big surprise.
Surface Again, not a huge surprise. I thought it was only OK.
Conviction
Joey
Four Kings (remaining episodes to be shown this summer)
Heist

Renewed:
Scrubs (But will start in the winter like this year)
Crossing Jordan
My Name Is Earl
The Office
Medium

CW

Canceled:
The Bedford Diaries
Everwood (This one hurts…)
Modern Men
Pepper Dennis
Related
Twins
What I Like About You
Charmed

Renewed:
7th Heaven (ugh)
Gilmore Girls
Smallville (double ugh)
Supernatural
Veronica Mars
Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Jail (alternate title: Everybody Hates Dreamgirls)

Everwood: Truth…

Bones: The Man in the Morgue

Love Monkey: The One Who Got Away

Everwood: The Land of Confusion

Medium: Knowing Her

24: Day 5: 1:00AM-2:00AM

How I Met Your Mother: Mary the Paralegal 

"Lawyered!" 

Eureka 7: Blue Sky Fish

The Surreal Life: Tawny Takes on Flo 2

Hogan Knows Best: Anniversary Surprise

So NoTORIous: Jealous

Mythbusters: Bullets Fired Up

Desperate Housewives: Don't Look at Me

What About Brian: Pilot

Malcolm in the Middle: MORP

The Simpsons: The Wettest Stories Ever Told

Family Guy: Peterotica

Everwood: Across the Line

American Dad: Roger N' Me

How I Met Your Mother: Nothing Good Happens After 2AM

24: Day 5: 11:00PM-12:00AM

Dude? What was with the James Bond music during the last sequence of this episode? Weird.

Everwood: An Ounce of Prevention

Monster Garage: Battery Powered Dragster

American Hot Rod: '56 Chevy Convertible 2

So NoTORIous: Plucky, Whole

Monster Garage: Monster on Ice

Everwood: You're a Good Man, Andy Brown

24: Day 5: 10:00PM-11:00PM

American Hot Rod: '55 Chevy Convertible 1

Monty Python's Personal Best: Terry Jones' Personal Best

Everwood: Ghosts, Lost and Found

24: Day 5: 9:00PM-10:00PM

American Hot Rod: '54 Corvette and '55 Chevy Part 3

Well, here’s the midseason grades for returning shows.

First semester grades

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South Park: Bloody Mary

Stans dad gets arrested for drunk driving and then goes to AA. Much mockery of AA as a Christian fronted cult.

“Dude, I know a cult when I see one. I was the leader of one” -Stan

The O.C.: The Disconnect

Johnny likes Marissa. Marissa is too helpful to Johnny. Ryan get a lap dance when he’s supposed to be interning at the Newport Group, but it’s the fault of Matt who’s been dumped by his girlfriend. Summer is smart, like book smart, on the SATs and now wants to go to Brown. Seth fears this competition and dresses like a pirate while Summer breaks out the Tuba. Julie and Kirsten start a party planning company and when all it does is get a date for Julie, they decide to start a dating service. Sandy fires Matt because Matt is unprepared for an investor meeting (re:strippers above), but being the king of second (and third, and fourth) chances, lets Matt stay. Marissa finds out about Johnny like liking her, and decides to see less of him, and Summer and Seth decide they both can go to Brown. And next week is Chrismakkuh (which Summer saved last year as we were reminded several times).

Don’t have much to say in way of a review, as most of the time The O.C. is just ok, but never really good enough to provoke much of a reaction.

Everwood: Getting To Know You

Good episode. Ephram and Amy do it. Bright finds a way to make Hannah less self-conscious of her body. Rose wants to make the world a better place and adopt a kid. Andy gets lots of internet hits on his dating profile and snoops in Delia’s email. Oh, and Jake fucks up, falling off the wagon and finally confessing his pill-popping ways to Nina.

Joey: Joey and the High School Friend

Smallville: Lex-mas (which BTW, is the lamest, gayest episode title ever)

I don’t know why they didn’t just call it “It’s a Wonderful Lex”, although that would have violated their One-Word-Title rule. So, Lex had a chance to be happy, and chose not to. Clark had a total gay time with Santa. All in all, a weird episode.

Let’s consider this their 1st semester grades. It’s a good thing I’m grading on a curve…

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