Do You, William Drayton, Take...

For those of you who saw the preview of the upcoming Flavor of Love 3 reunion special... you saw a clip of Flav getting down on one knee and proposing marriage... to someone, as yet unidentified by VH1.

So... the burning question is: was it Thing 2?

Well, gentle readers: I know the answer to this burning question. However, I won't post a spoiler this big in a public forum such as this one. However, if you REALLY want to know the answer before next week's reunion show, then just drop me an e-mail.

Thank You, CBS

No matter what you think about CBS's fall schedule, you have to agree with me that they did one MAJOR thing right: they renewed the on-the-bubble The New Adventures of Old Christine. And not only did they renew the show... but they renewed it for a full-season of 22 episodes! You may remember that last year at this time, CBS renewed the incredibly-funny Old Christine... but only for 13 episodes.

Sadly, up until just a couple of days ago, this fall renewal was anything but a sure thing. But CBS's hand may have been forced by the word that ABC was waiting in the wings... ready to pounce on Old Christine if CBS either cancelled the series or ordered anything short of a full season's worth of episodes. The downside to the CBS renewal: Old Christine is being shuttled to Wednesdays... better known as the night where CBS sitcoms go to die. I implore you, faithful readers: watch Old Christine on Wednesdays and help to break this 30-year curse!

Speaking of CBS and its fall schedule... here's what the Eye has in store for us:

MONDAY
8:00 The Big Bang Theory
8:30 How I Met Your Mother
9:00 Two & a Half Men
9:30 Worst Week
10:00 CSI: Miami


TUESDAY
8:00 NCIS
9:00 The Mentalist
10:00 Without a Trace


WEDNESDAY
8:00 The New Adventures of Old Christine
8:30 Project Gary
9:00 Criminal Minds
10:00 CSI: NY


THURSDAY
8:00 Survivor
9:00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
10:00 Eleventh Hour


FRIDAY
8:00 Ghost Whisperer
9:00 The Ex List
10:00 Numbers


SATURDAY
8:00 drama repeats
9:00 drama repeats
10:00 48 Hours Mystery


SUNDAY
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 The Amazing Race
9:00 Cold Case
10:00 The Unit


WORST WEEK
Based on a British comedy, this new single-camera sitcom follows the lives of an engaged couple and their families.

THE MENTALIST
A psychic helps a California investigative police unit. Yawn.

PROJECT GARY
CBS's second new sitcom stars Jay Mohr as a newly-divorced father.

ELEVENTH HOUR
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is behind this new hour about a scientist who helps the government fight bad guys. Yes, I'm still yawning.

THE EX LIST
Now THIS one is different: a single woman is told by a psychic that she's already met and dated the her future husband. Now, here's the rub: the psychic tells her that find this man within the next year, she'll remain alone forever. I'm not sure if this one's destined for success... but at least it's different!


The awful Rules of Engagement has been renewed for midseason. Oh, CBS... why would you do this to your viewers?

Saying goodbye to the Eye are Shark, Cane, and Moonlight.

The ABCs of DejaVu

ABC today officially released its 2008-09 prime-time schedule, and the BIG news is that THERE'S NO NEWS. In other words, ABC 2008 fall schedule looks amazingly like its 2007 fall schedule.

The rationale behind the Alphabet's virtual cloning of its 2007 schedule is that its promising '07 schedule was never given a full chance to succeed outright, due to the ill-timed writers' strike. I suppose that there's some justification behind this thinking... but in my humble opinion, there were some missed opportunities to strengthen a promising-yet-not-fully-proven schedule.

But don't just take my word for it; check out ABC's eerily-familiar fall lineup for yourself (new shows in blue):


MONDAY
8:00 Dancing with the Stars
9:30 Samantha Who?
10:00 Boston Legal


TUESDAY
8:00 Opportunity Knocks
9:00 Dancing with the Stars
10:00 Eli Stone


WEDNESDAY
8:00 Pushing Daisies
9:00 Private Practice
10:00 Dirty Sexy Money


THURSDAY
8:00 Ugly Betty
9:00 Grey's Anatomy
10:00 Life on Mars


FRIDAY
8:00 Wife Swap
9:00 Supernanny
10:00 20/20


SATURDAY
8:00 College Football


SUNDAY
7:00 America's Funniest Home Videos
8:00 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
9:00 Desperate Housewives
10:00 Brothers & Sisters


The two new shows on ABC's lineup are:

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
A new reality/game show from Ashton Kutcher (sorry, but he's no Goodson/Todman when it comes to game shows) brings the opportunity to win prizes right to viewers homes... literally.

LIFE ON MARS
There's this police detective from the 21st century, you see... but something happens and he finds himself transported back to 1972. Get it? Fish out of water, sci-fi time-travel style.


Slightly more interesting news comes from ABC's midseason plans... which include (a) Scrubs moving over from NBC and taking over the Tuesday-at-9 slot at the conclusion of Dancing with the Stars, and (b) According to Jim, which has INEXPLICABLY been renewed for another season. Why ABC, why?

Say goodbye to Cavemen, Carpoolers, Women's Murder Club, and Big Shots. No tears will be shed over the loss of this quartet.

Oh, and by the way -- also returning in midseason will be television's best series, Lost, in a time slot yet to be determined. Hopefully by then we'll know if Locke was able to move the island...

Aren't Their Fifteen Minutes Up YET?

Our friends at VH1 continue to be the masters of squeezing out each and every last dime from its reality-show franchises. The latest case-in-point is the network’s latest reality competition I Love Money.

Money assembles several former contestants from VH1 staples Flavor of Love, I Love New York, and Rock of Love, and pits them against one another in a quest for a grand prize of $250,000.00.

While this assemblage of so-called “talent” appears to be of the losing variety, it’s important to note that one of the I Love Money contestants was actually the WINNER of Flavor of Love 1. I guess that in this case, "winner” is a subjective term.

Anyway… without further ado, please meet the contestants of I Love Money:

From Flavor of Love…
Hoopz
Pumkin
Nibblz
Toasteee

From I Love New York…
12 Pack
Mr. Boston
Chance
Real
Whiteboy
The Entertainer
Heat
Midget Mac

And from Rock of Love…
Heather
Brandi C.
Destiney
Megan
Rodeo