Monday, August 31
Monday’s top pick goes to the “CMA Music Festival,” but a close second is the return of “Greek.”
CMA Music Festival
ABC
8:00—11:00 p.m.
ABC recaps the Country Music Association Music Festival held in Nashville in June. Kid Rock, Taylor Swift, and Kenny Chesney are among the featured performances. For the first time in six years, “The Judds” take the stage together.
Greek
ABC Family
9:00—10:00 p.m.
The new season begins “The Day After” the end of the world party with Casey struggling with Cappie’s decision to walk away from their relationship for good. Also this season, we’ll see the girls of ZBZ try to maintain their status on campus as the house starts to slide in sorority rankings.
Weeds
Showtime
10:00—10:30 p.m.
The fifth season comes to a close. Nancy finds out what happened to Esteban while Celia, Doug, Silas, and Shane jockey to be Ren-Mar’s new drug lord.
Tuesday, September 1
“Rescue Me’s” fifth season concludes tonight. The series will be back for two more rounds in 2010 and 2011, with the show concluding its run on the tenth anniversary of September 11th.
Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre World
Travel
10:00—11:00 p.m.
If you haven’t caught this series before, Andrew Zimmern travels the world in search of strange delicacies. This season he’ll tour Belize, South Africa, and Wisconsin. In the season premiere, Andrew visits Cuba where he goes lobster diving and participates in a pig roast.
Rescue Me
Fx
10:00—11:00 p.m.
In the final episode of the season, Uncle Teddy suffers a personal loss and Janet and Shelia’s plan goes disastrously off track.
Wednesday, September 2
The theme for Wednesday night is “burning calories.” See below to learn more.
So You Think You Can Dance
FOX
8:00—9:00 p.m.
Season six starts up September 9th, but in the meantime enjoy this retrospective showcasing the past seasons’ best performances.
Man Vs. Food
Travel
10:00—10:30 p.m.
Adam and his team, including Dhani Jones, take part in an annual Durham, N.C. tradition-- the Doughman race, which combines a triathlon with competitive eating. Teams must eat fried, greasy foods at a local restaurant in between each leg of biking, running, and swimming.
Thursday, September 3
The major networks are airing mostly re-runs tonight, so check out these two cable picks.
Animal Armageddon
Animal Planet
9:00—10:00 p.m.
This show, which premiered earlier in the year, is back with its eye catching computer graphics depicting the Earth and evolution of species. Tonight’s episode focuses on a destructive volcanic eruption over 250 million years ago, which led to the rise of reptiles.
Disaster Lab
NGC
9:00—10:00 p.m.
“Disaster Lab” takes a look at the mechanics of avalanches tonight with help from scientists, engineers, and ski patrollers.
Friday, September 4
Didn’t catch the pilot of one of fall’s most talked about shows—“Glee?” Catch a repeat of it tonight on Fox at 9:00 p.m.
Jockeys
Animal Planet
9:00—10:00 p.m.
It’s a battle of the sexes as the male and female jockeys compete with each other.
Weekend, September 5-6
The last unofficial weekend of the summer is very slow for TV.
48 Hours: Mystery
CBS
9:00—11:00 p.m.
CBS offers two hours of true crime stories featuring love stories gone bad. In the first hour, a husband is seemingly a hero as he tries to stop his wife’s murder.
Sunday, September 6
Masterpiece Theater
PBS
9:00—10:30
Inspector Lewis and Detective Sergeant Hathaway returned last week for seven straight Sundays of this British mystery import. In tonight’s episode, “Music To Die For,” the duo investigate a murder of an Oxford lecturer that’s tied to a boxing student.
