TVSquad

• At 7, ESPN has the Navy/Rutgers football game.
• At 8, PBS has a new NOW, then new episodes of Washington Week, Bill Moyers Journal, and Expose: America.
• The CW has a new Friday Night Smackdown! at 8.
• Noggin has a new South of Nowhere at 8.
• At 8:30, Animal Planet has a new Meerkat Manor.
• At 9, ABC has the special Fashion Rocks.
• USA has new episodes of Monk and Psych starting at 9.
• Discovery has a new Survivorman at 9.
• There's a new Paula's Party at 9 on Food Network.
• Also at 9: Sci-Fi has a new Flash Gordon, followed by a new Painkiller Jane.
• At 10, ABC's 20/20 investigates Dateline's "To Catch A Predator" series.
• TV Land is showing Twilight Zone: The Movie at 10.
• At 11, HBO has a new Real Time with Bill Maher, with guests Ralph Nader, Cornell West, Mos Def, and Rep. Rahm Emanuel

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 7, USA has coverage of the U.S. Open.
• At 8, ABC has a new Set For Life.
• The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• Noggin has a new South of Nowhere at 8.
• At 8:30, Animal Planet has a new Meerkat Manor.
• Also at 8:30: Cartoon Network has a new My Gym Partner's A Monkey.
• At 9, NBC has a new Dateline.
• There's a new Survivorman on Discovery at 9.
• At 10, ABC has a new 20/20.
• Sci-Fi has a new Painkiller Jane at 10.
• Nicktoons has a new Nicktoons Film Festival at 10.
• E! has a new episode of The Soup at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Well, that didn't last long: the Sci-Fi Channel has canceled Painkiller Jane.

The show about a DEA agent with special powers who tracks down others with special powers will finish its first and only season on September 21 (it's still strange to me that a show's season can end in September). That means that the show will have completed 22 episodes total. I predict that fans will be able to buy the show in a "Complete Series" DVD set late this year or early next year.

• At 8, PBS has a new NOW, followed by new episodes of Washington Week and Bill Moyers Journal.
• The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• CBS has a Jericho recap special at 8, then a regular episode.
• At 9, FOX has a new Standoff.
• USA has the season premiere of Monk at 9, then the season premiere of Psych.
• Discovery has a new Man vs. Wild at 9.
• There's a new Paula's Party on Food Network at 9.
• At 10, ABC has a new 20/20.
• Sci-Fi has a new Painkiller Jane at 10.
• At 10:30, BBC America has a new Hollyoaks.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, PBS has a new NOW, followed by new episodes of Washington Week and Bill Moyers Journal.
• The CW has a new, two-hour Smackdown! at 8.
• ESPN has Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at 8, while ESPN2 has the Busch Winn-Dixie 250 race.
• Fox Movie Channel has the original M*A*S*H movie at 8.
• At 9, CBS starts rerunning episodes of Jericho.
• FOX has a new Standoff at 9.
• Discovery has a new Man vs. Wild at 9.
• IFC has the little-seen Ripley's Game at 9, with John Malkovich.
• At 10, Sci-Fi has a new Painkiller Jane.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, PBS has a new NOW, followed by a new Washington Week and a new Bill Moyers Journal.
• The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• Emeril has an "Army/Navy Cook-Off" at 8 on Food Network.
• TCM has Witness For The Prosecution at 8, then Murder on the Orient Express.
• At 9, FOX has a new episode of Standoff.
• ABC repeats the latest episode of Kyle XY at 9, followed by a new 20/20.
• Discover has a new Man vs. Wild at 9.
• There's a new Painkiller Jane on Sci-Fi at 9.
• Also at 9: WE has a new Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter.

Check your local TV listings for more.

(S01E01) So, you watched the premiere episode of Painkiller Jane, didn't you? Curiosity struck you even after reading my less-than-glowing review of the show, didn't it? Well, good for you! Just because I wasn't enamored with the program doesn't mean my opinion is gospel. Everyone has free will in this society and should be able to decide whether a show is good or not.

So, did you dislike Painkiller Jane as much as I did? No? Well, you must be from another planet to like something like that! How dare you not think what I think! Oh, wait, that rant voids what I said in the first paragraph. Um, never mind.

Seriously, I didn't like the show just because the acting was bad and the writing the was poor (even though the writing was poor and the acting was bad). What turned me off to this show as soon as the first scene showed up on my television screen was that this type of show has been done over, and over, and over. Let's see if this sounds familiar to you: tough-as-nails law enforcement agent obtains remarkable powers and laments over the freak that she is rather than using those powers to fight evil. Let's count on our fingers how many times that's been done. You may need your toes, too, because this has been done a lot.

What can I say about The Sci-Fi Channel's new show Painkiller Jane? Well, it certainly isn't well-written, well-acted, attention-getting, on par with Battlestar Galactica, or a fine replacement for Stargate SG-1. None of those phrases would describe this show. However, these would: bad acting, bad writing, extremely boring (both my wife an I fell asleep) and not a very good addition to the Sci-Fi Friday schedule. Now, I could be jaded here since the preview DVD I was sent showed rough cuts of the show. Nah, who am I kidding? The show is just bad!

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Thank God You're Here (Mon., 9PM ET, NBC) series premiere
Confession: I miss Whose Line Is It Anyway? What can I say, I like improv. That's why I'm excited for the premiere of this new improv show, hosted by David Alan Grier. Four celebs don costumes and play out scenes they know nothing about. In the first episode, Wayne Knight is a medical quack, Bryan Cranston a randy rock star, Joel McHale a clueless archaelogist and Jennifer Coolidge a ditzy pageant queen. Then, judge Dave Foley crowns one the best performer of the night.

Dog the Bounty Hunter (Tue., 9PM ET, A&E) 4th season premiere
Much happened to Duane "Dog" Chapman in 2006. Last May, he married business partner Beth a day after daughter Barbara died in a car crash. In September, he was arrested for bounty hunting in Mexico, where it is illegal. His request not to be extradited was denied, so he too will have his day in court. Despite all of this, Dog is back and better than ever. In the premiere, he personally takes on the case of a female fugitive after learning she shares the same birthdate as his late daughter.

Painkiller Jane, SciFi's new series based on the comic by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada, will premiere April 13 at 10:00 p.m. The series will focus on the titular character (played by Kristanna Loken) a woman who can regenerate from any injury, but still feels pain. She hunts Neuros, humans with super-mental powers, for a secret agency.