Holy frik! We've only just started to embrace the return of our shows after a shortened strike season. Now, they are almost over. In the next few weeks all of our network favorites will say good-bye for the summer to be replaced with reality shows, reality game shows, reality soap operas, and Regis on primetime (again).
Needless to say, I'm a bit depressed. As I am sure you are as well. But, we will do our duty and press on. Thusly, we here at the sprawling lakefront offices of TV Squad (you choose the lakefront) have compiled list of when your favorite, and not so favorite, shows will be saying good-bye for their summer vacation. As usual, taking the fickleness of the networks, these times and days can change at a moment's notices. We will try to update you of those changes as quickly as our little fingers can type it out.
So, with a leaden heart, here are your season and series finales.
Monday, May 5th
Little People, Big World (TLC) -- 4th season finale
Thursday, May 8th
Scrubs (NBC) -- 7th season finale and last on NBC. Next year it moves to ABC.
30 Rock (NBC) -- 2nd season finale
Sunday, May 11th
Brothers & Sisters (ABC) -- 2nd season finale
Survivor (CBS) -- Two-hour season finale, followed by the one-hour reunion special
Monday, May 12th
Samantha Who? (ABC) -- 1st season finale
The Bachelor: London Calling (ABC)
Medium (NBC) -- 4th season finale
The Hills (MTV) -- 3rd season finale
Tuesday, May 13th
Women's Murder Club (ABC) -- 1st season finale
Beauty and the Geek (CW) -- Heck, I didn't know if it was even on!
Law & Order: SVU (NBC) -- 9th season finale
Wednesday, May 14th
MI-5 (BBC America) -- 3rd season finale
America's Next Top Model (CW)
'Til Death (FOX) -- 2nd season finale. No, I'm not kidding!
Back to You (FOX) -- 1st season finale
The Big 4-0 (TV Land) -- Remember when TV Land showed repeats of classic shows rather than reality programming? Another victim of channel drift.
Thursday, May 15th
CSI (CBS) -- 8th season finale
Without a Trace (CBS) -- 6th season finale
Lil' Bush (Comedy Central) -- 2nd season finale
Smallville (CW) -- 7th season finale
Supernatural (CW) -- 3rd season finale
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader (FOX) -- Spring finale
Don't Forget the Lyrics! (FOX) -- 1st season finale.
My Name is Earl (NBC) -- 3rd season finale. One-hour episode.
The Office (NBC) -- 4th season finale. One-hour episode.
ER (NBC) -- 14th season finale. One-hour episode. Oh wait, ER is already one-hour.
Friday, May 16th
America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC) -- 18th season finale. Two-hour episode.
Ghost Whisperer (CBS) -- 3rd season finale
Moonlight (CBS) -- 1st season finale
Numb3rs (CBS) -- 4th season finale
Saturday, May 17th
MADtv (FOX) -- 13th season finale
Talkshow with Spike Feresten (FOX) -- Technically airs on Sunday the 18th.
Sunday, May 18th
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC) -- 5th season finale. Two-hour episode.
Desperate Housewives (ABC) -- 4th season finale. Two-hour episode
Everybody Hates Chris (CW) -- 3rd season finale
Aliens in America (CW) -- 1st season finale
The Game (CW) -- 2nd season finale
The Simpsons (FOX) -- 19th season finale
King of the Hill (FOX) -- 12th season finale
American Dad (FOX) -- 3rd season finale
Monday, May 19th
The Big Bang Theory (CBS) -- 1st season finale
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) -- 3rd season finale
Two and a Half Men (CBS) -- 5th season finale. This is going to need to be called The Men soon the way that Angus Jones is growing up.
Rules of Engagement (CBS) -- 2nd season finale
CSI: Miami (CBS) -- 6th season finale
Gossip Girl (CW) -- 1st season finale. OMFG!
One Tree Hill (CW) -- 5th season finale
Bones (FOX) -- 3rd season finale. Boo!
House (FOX) -- 4th season finale. Boo again!
Tuesday, May 20th
Dancing With the Stars (ABC) -- Two-hour season finale
NCIS (CBS) -- Two-hour season finale
Shark (CBS) -- 2nd season finale
Reaper (CW) -- 1st season finale, and not too sure if it will be back.
Wednesday, May 21st
Boston Legal (ABC) -- 4th season finale
Criminal Minds (CBS) -- 3rd season finale
CSI: NY (CBS) -- 4th season finale
American Idol (FOX) -- Two-hour season finale. Thank the Lord!
Law & Order (NBC) -- 18th season finale
Thursday, May 22nd
Ugly Betty (ABC) -- 2nd season finale
Grey's Anatomy (ABC) -- 4th season finale. Two-hour episode.
Monday, May 26th
Wildfire (ABC Family) -- series finale
Tuesday, May 27th
According to Jim (ABC) -- 7th season finale. Featuring James Lipton as Satan. No, I'm not drinking!
Thursday, May 29th
Lost (ABC) -- 4th season finale. Two-hour episode that will most likely provide the viewers with 500 new mysteries to ponder over the summer.
Friday, May 30th
The Sarah Jane Adventures (SciFi) -- 1st season finale
Battlestar Galactica (SciFi) -- Spring season finale. The show will return in the beginning of 2009.
Saturday Morning: Speed Racer - VIDEOS
American Idol: My fantasy top ten
Why we need a Veronica Mars movie
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
5-05-2008 @ 4:05PM
Oreo said...
1. Do we even know for sure that BSG will not be back until 2009?
2. I have never watched it, but why is Wildfire ending? Are the ratings that bad or did they just run out of ideas? It seems like the show just started.
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5-05-2008 @ 4:05PM
collin said...
Whoa... BSG is coming back AGAIN?
I thought that the cast had recently completed filming the *final* episode and that Sci-Fi was going to air the whole 4th season in one complete arc.
Is this right? I'm going to lose my damn mind if the producers were forced to cut the series in half because of the damn strike.
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5-05-2008 @ 5:15PM
Jennifer said...
Sci-Fi never had their shit together enough to show all the episodes at once even before the strike.
5-05-2008 @ 5:19PM
Hank said...
BSG final season will be 20 episodes split into two 10 episode ares. the first 10 concludes June 13th not May 30th. I don't believe there is a firm date for the second half of the final season.
5-05-2008 @ 4:26PM
Nathaniel said...
If they already confirmed the not until 2009 thing, then how come TV Squad never officially reported it?
Also, huge shame on SciFi.
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5-05-2008 @ 4:37PM
Midnight13 said...
I believe that before the writer's strike BSG had ten episodes in the can. Meaning the first half of season 4. I could be wrong, but I think they might be back filming the final episodes of the series, BUT Sci-fi Channel decides when to air the episodes. They could air the first ten, and then not air the final 10 in two years if they wanted to. My point being, Sci-fi Channel decides the scheduling of BSG, not its creators.
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5-05-2008 @ 5:28PM
collin said...
Thank you for pointing out that Sci-Fi determines the airdates and schedules instead of the producers (which I incorrectly stated). I stand corrected.
I'm wondering if what I saw was correct, but I swear that I saw a clip that featured the cast after filming the series finale episode. It was a "behind-the-scenes" type of shoot where the cast was asked for their thoughts on completing the last episode, but they still kept specific details quiet.
So if all shooting has completed, it would be a lousy thing for Sci-Fi to split the season up and drag it into 2009. Is there any confirmation of the BSG schedule at the Sci-Fi website?
5-05-2008 @ 4:40PM
Tim said...
8 months of waiting until the final episodes of BSG air?! Oh, that is so evil that even Lex Luthor is saying "Damn Sci-Fi, that's just cruel!"
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5-05-2008 @ 4:43PM
Henry said...
Your day/time are off for LOST. It's a 3 hour special over 3 nights, an hour a night.
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5-05-2008 @ 5:02PM
Ben Belden said...
Actually, they reported a few weeks ago that the finale would only be split into two parts. Part one, the first hour, will be the episode on the 22nd. Part two, hours two and three, will be from 9:00-11:00 PM on the 29th. Part one will repeat at 8:00 PM before part two for three hours total. So technically the finale, the two-hour episode, is on the 29th.
5-05-2008 @ 5:28PM
Jason said...
Actually, the first hour is airing on the 15th, and Grey's Anatomy is having a 2-hour finale on the 22nd (says so right in the article, it follows the Ugly Betty finale). So we have an extra week to be left hanging for the end of the season. Everything else there is right.
5-05-2008 @ 4:49PM
apronk said...
According to thefutoncritic.com, NBC said that the BSG 4.0 finale will air on June 13th, not May 30th. Also the only thing they said about 4.5 was "The 10 remaining episodes will then roll out sometime during the 2008-09 season."
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5-05-2008 @ 5:20PM
bsgfan2003 said...
It's been floating for some time that we would have to wait for the back half of BSG season four.
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5-05-2008 @ 5:28PM
Lucas said...
Do we really need that same one-hour ER episode joke every time The Office is an hour long?
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5-05-2008 @ 8:26PM
David R said...
BSG won't be done shooting the series finale until the end of June.
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5-05-2008 @ 8:34PM
Oreo said...
So we are making up bullshit here? Good to know.
And yes, they had 10-13 episodes finished before the strike, and the finale episode has not been been filmed yet.
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5-06-2008 @ 1:18AM
collin said...
No bullshit, simply my mistake.
5-05-2008 @ 9:55PM
Joe said...
"ER (NBC) -- 14th season finale. One-hour episode. Oh wait, ER is already one-hour."
That joke has been made several times already. Just showing how long I've been here, to be honest.
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5-06-2008 @ 10:14AM
Scott said...
If dedicated TV viewers who read blogs about TV can't figure out just when the last episodes of "Lost" or "BSG" are on, or how long they are, or whether the first of 3 hours is a repeat of last week or not, or whether the "season" is split into two seasons 8 months apart, then
HOW THE HECK ARE AVERAGE TV VIEWERS SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHEN THEIR SHOWS ARE ON?
The networks (cable included) are killing themselves on this. They make it harder & harder for viewers to know when shows are on. Even DVRs can be fooled by these Stupid Network Programming Tricks. And they wonder why their industry is losing so many viewers.
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5-06-2008 @ 10:35AM
chgosaint said...
ER (NBC) -- 14th season finale. One-hour episode. Oh wait, ER is already one-hour.
CRAP! THIS IS STILL ON THE AIR? I think it has somehow managed to last longer than the Daley administrations!
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