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This vampire thing could be getting to the point of oversaturation. Bram Stoker is to blame for inventing the concept. However, vampire fans and those that frequent Hot Topic can rejoice because the CW has ordered a full season of the freshman series The Vampire Diaries. This is opposed to the still-struggling revamp of Melrose Place which has only had five additional episodes requested of it.

Between True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and the ever-immortal Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I still count despite being long off the air), you'd think television has had enough of our fanged friends. Perhaps other series should start involving vampires in order to boost ratings.

• At 7:30, FOX has Baseball Playoffs, the Yankees vs. the Angels.
• At 8, ABC has the season finale of Shark Tank, followed by new episodes of Dancing with the Stars and The Forgotten.
• CBS has a new NCIS at 8, then new episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
• NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, followed by a new Jay Leno Show.
• The CW has new episodes of 90210 and Melrose Place.
• PBS has a new Nova at 8, then a new Frontline.
• TCM has Mr. Sardonicus at 8.
• At 9, Discovery has a new Dirty Jobs, followed by a new Ghost Lab.
• BBC America has a new Dragon's Den at 9.
• IFC has another installment of Monty Python: Almost The Truth (The Lawyer's Cut) at 9.
• At 10, FX has a new Sons of Anarchy.
• Food Network has a new Chopped at 10.
• ESPN has a new World Series of Poker at 10.
• Syfy has a new ECW at 10.
• Bravo has a new Flipping Out at 10.
• Travel Channel has a new Bizarre World at 10.
• Also at 10: MTV has a new episode of The Hills, followed by a new episode of The City.

Check your local TV listings for more.

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• At 8, ABC has a new Shark Tank, followed by new episodes of Dancing with the Stars and The Forgotten.
• CBS has a new NCIS at 8, then new episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
• NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, followed by a new Jay Leno Show.
• FOX has the two-hour season finale of Hell's Kitchen at 8.
• The CW has new episodes of 90210 and Melrose Place.
• PBS has a new Nova at 8, then a new Frontline.
• ESPN has a new 30 For 30 at 8.
• At 9, Syfy has two new episodes of Scare Tactics, then a new ECW.
• Discovery has a new Dirty Jobs at 9, followed by a new Ghost Lab.
• At 10, FX has a new Sons of Anarchy.
• Food Network has a new Chopped at 10.
• A&E has two new episodes of Parking Wars at 10.
• MTV has a new episode of The Hills at 10, followed by a new episode of The City.
• Travel Channel has a new Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World.
• Also at 10: ESPN has a new World Series of Poker at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

• At 8, ABC has a new Shark Tank, followed by new episodes of Dancing with the Stars and The Forgotten.
• CBS has a new NCIS at 8, then new episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
• NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, followed by a new Jay Leno Show.
• There's a new Hell's Kitchen on FOX at 8, then a new So You Think You Can Dance.
• The CW has new episodes of 90210 and Melrose Place.
• PBS has another installment of The National Parks: America's Best Idea at 8.
• Also at 8: ESPN has two new episodes of The World Series of Poker.
• At 8:30, Cartoon Network has a new Total Drama Action.
• At 9, Headline News has the series premiere of The Joy Behar Show.
• At 10, FX has a new Sons of Anarchy.
• Food Network has a new Chopped at 10.
• Bravo has a new Flipping Out at 10.
• MTV has the season premiere of The Hills at 10, then the season premiere of The City.
• Current has a new InfoMania at 10, followed by a new Rotten Tomatoes Show.
• Travel Channel has a new Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

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The CW already gave up on its lowest performing newcomer, cancelling The Beautiful Life: TBL. That left an empty spot on the schedule and an opportunity. Certainly not wanting to have another quick failure on their schedule, the network has decided to shift repeats of Melrose Place to Wednesdays at 9pm.

While it's been doing better than TBL did, Melrose Place isn't healthy. Premiering with 2.3 million viewers, it slipped below 1.5 million this past week. That's terrible by anyone's reckoning. But The CW has hope, for this has happened before. Long ago, when the original Melrose Place hit the airwaves, it too didn't set the ratings world on fire. Not until Heather Locklear swooped in and made it a sexy guilty pleasure.

The CW's hoping she can do it again, so they're doing what they can to keep the show on life support until she arrives. Maybe they'll find Wednesdays friendlier. No more NCIS: LA or DWTS. Instead it's Modern Family, Cougar Town, Glee, SVU and Criminal Minds. Well, that doesn't look good either.

(S06E11) "E, I've had most of this town, so it was bound to happen that our trees would dabble in the same forest at some point." - Drama

One down and one to go in Entourage's sixth season - a season I should point out that started off incredibly strong and ended up flopping around like a dead fish after those first few stellar eps. However, last week's installment, "Berried Alive," redeemed much of what had been bad and for the most part, "Scared Straight" continued that trend.

With that in mind, there's at least a little excitement going in to next week's finale because we really don't know what's going to happen on a few fronts.

The cancel hammer fell faster this season than I expected. After only two episodes, even The CW's lower ratings expectations couldn't save The Beautiful Life. The real reason The CW canceled The Beautiful Life: TBL is right there in the title. How pretentious do you have to be to put your acronym in your title?

Acronyms are earned. Acronyms like OTH, VD and MP. Those stand for shows that are doing much better for The CW. The network has tossed a full season order to the veteran One Tree Hill. They came a little short of that with The Vampire Diaries, ordering nine more scripts, but a full-season pick-up can't be far behind. While TBL slipped to one million, VD achieved 3.8 million and growing.

As for Melrose Place, it's not doing nearly as well, but The CW is maybe hoping that Heather Locklear can save this iteration the way she did the original. I'm not so sure, but they've got six more scripts to prove their case.

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• At 8, ABC has a new, two-hour Dancing with the Stars, followed by the series premiere of The Forgotten.
• CBS has the season premiere of NCIS at 8, then the series premieres of NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
• NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8, followed by a new Jay Leno Show.
• FOX has a new, two-hour Hell's Kitchen at 8.
• There's a new 90210 on The CW at 8, then a new Melrose Place.
• ESPN has two new episodes of The World Series of Poker at 8.
• Biography has The Star Trek 25th Anniversary at 8, followed by Star Trek: A Captain's Log.
• G4 has a new Web Soup at 8.
• TCM has North By Northwest at 8, then Psycho.
• At 8:30, ABC Family has a new Ruby & The Rockits.
• At 9, Syfy has the season finale of Warehouse 13, then a new ECW.
• At 10, FX has a new Sons of Anarchy.
• Food Network has a new Chopped at 10.
• Bravo has a new Flipping Out at 10.
• Sundance has a new Brick City at 10.
• HBO has a new Joe Buck Live at 10.
• Also at 10: Travel Channel has a new Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World.

Check your local TV listings for more.

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The article says that "details are mum on [Heather] Locklear's role," but I'm going to assume she's going to play...Amanda?

US Magazine is reporting that Locklear is indeed going to join the new CW version of Melrose Place after several months of negotiations. Her first episode will air on November 17. US says that Locklear saw the pilot and was surprised at how much she liked it. I'm also guessing that she saw the contract and was surprised at how much she liked that too (though there's nothing wrong with that).

• At 8, NBC has the two-hour season premiere of The Biggest Loser, then a new Jay Leno Show.
  
• FOX has the two-hour season finale of More To Love.
• The CW has a new 90210 at 8, then a new Melrose Place.
  
• At 9, CBS has the two-hour season finale of Big Brother.
• ABC has a new Shaq Vs. at 9, followed by Barbara Walters: Patrick Swayze.
• Syfy has a new Warehouse 13 at 9, then a new ECW.
• History Channel has a new episode of The Universe at 9.
• BBC America has a new Dragon's Den at 9.
• Also at 9: ESPN has a new World Series of Poker.
• At 10, A&E has a new episode of The Cleaner.
• FX has a new Sons of Anarchy at 10.
• Food Network has a new Chopped at 10.
• There's a new Flipping Out on Bravo at 10.
• Travel Channel has a new Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World at 10.
• HBO has a new Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

Each year, as the new fall season approaches, I go through all the magazine and online sources talking about the various shows to try and figure out which ones I'm going to be excited about, and which I'm going to avoid like the plague.

Inevitably, I wind up sampling plenty of shows from which I should have steered clear. At the same time, a few shows will slip between the cracks, and then I'm bashing my head against the wall because I missed out on the beginning of something special. I hate coming into things late.

This year, I decided to share my top and bottom five selections. I'm sure the rest of the Squadders and you will have differing opinions than mine, but that's what makes America great, right? Chime in with your own lists in the comments.