Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (CBS) — Series premiere. Forest Whitaker stars as the lazy-eyed head of an elite FBI team. Whoa whoa whoa! Hold the phone. A crime procedural spin-off? On CBS?!? Who could have foreseen such a development?
Survivor: Redemption Island (CBS) — Season premiere. I haven’t watched “Survivor” since the first season, so I don’t know anything about it now except that someone named “Russell” appears in every news story about the show. Anyway, the twist this season is that people who gets banished go to “Redemption Island” where they can compete to get back to main competition. Think of it as a losers’ bracket.
The Approval Matrix (Bravo) — Series premiere*. Based on New York Magazine’s excellent Approval Matrix infographic, this standalone show isn’t yet a series: Bravo’s going to see how it performs before it commits to more episodes. And seeing as how it’s not mentioned anywhere on Bravo’s website, that can’t be good news.
Modern Family/Mr. Sunshine (ABC) — Matt Dillon guest stars as Claire’s old boyfriend on “Family”; Matthew Perry’s “Sunshine” is already a hit, pulling in better ratings than “Cougar Town” in the same time slot.
Justified (FX) — Last week’s premiere did three separate things well: It provided a seamless transition from last season to this one, it introduced a new (and scary) batch of villains for Raylan Givens to battle this season, and it still served as a perfectly satisfying one-off episode with the sex offender plot. Props to the “Justified” writers for that one.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Brian Williams on “The Daily Show” always provides a hilarious give-and-take with Jon Stewart; Martin Lawrence/Fred Armisen/Reggie Watts on Conan; Charles Barkley and JWoww on Leno; Javier Bardem and Flavor Flav on Kimmel.
(full listings at TV Squad)
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Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
“I ain’t never heard of no city called ‘Suspect Behavior.’ Must be up North.” – CBS Viewer
Crime procedural shows have long ago jumped the shark, but I actually kind of like Criminal Minds and Forest Whitaker is the bee’s knees. So I might actually check that out tonight even though I fully expect it to suck balls.
I’m surprised they didn’t get Fred Armisen to play the African American head of the fbi team…
Man you forgot ODDFUTURE is performing on Jimmy Fallon tonight…check out this video [www.youtube.com]
Is that a screen shot from “Phone Booth?”
Just about to finish up watching the Shield. Can’t ever look at Whitaker the same way again. I guess that’s credit to the Shield’s writers for making me hate him so much.
“Sir, yes, I’m black. But I guarantee you, I *am* a cop.”
Wednesday: a.k.a. the night I can catch up on my DVR shows without missing anything.
Has CBS ever had anything good in primetime? At all? I don’t think I’ve ever watched anything other than Letterman and Ferguson on CBS.
Oh, and the Approval Matrix is great, but a show based on it? Sounds kind of like Best Week Ever for smarty pants.
I didn’t realize how much I missed Justified until I watched the Season 2 premiere. So glad it’s back.
I’d like to append “and more Natalie Zea eye candy” to the list of things the Justified premier did right. They had me worried all episode but then right at the end: BAM–Ex-sex. Awesome.
I want to see Dickie do his awesome gun pointing move again. Especially if he tries it on Raylan.
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The other thing Justified did well? Shirtless Olyphant.
Well I see we’ve gone and addressed the Olyphant in the room.
/Wokka Wokka
“Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior” is such an unwieldy title, especially with “Suspicious Minds” just sitting there, waiting to be crapped on like Elvis’s solid gold toilet with the “TCB” logo on the side.
Top Chef is getting down to the strongest cheftestants. Mr. Sunshine wasn’t that great, but Chandler was good. Hope it gets better.
When was Justified on?
Whoa, avatar mix up.
I was kind of hating on Cougar Town when it first came out because the name was horrible and Courtney Cox’s face scares me. But after giving it a shot I found it is not bad. I am still on the fence about Mr. Sunshine.
I consider myself pretty up-to-date on new shows, etc. but I had no clue there was ANOTHER Criminal Minds coming out. I don’t care either.
Somebody needs to tell Forest Whitaker that FBI agents aren’t allowed to have beards. It’s a gas mask issue.