It’s finale time again! No, really.
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 (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.
Matt Roloff found not guilty of DUI
Matt Roloff, patriarch to the Roloff family of the very popular TLC reality show Little People, Big World, was found not guilty of Driving Under the Influence by a Washington County, Oregon judge. He made this decision even though it was a jury trial. You see, a few of the jury members got into a bit of trouble. But first, more about Matt.
Back on June 19th of last year the 46-year-old Roloff was pulled over after a sheriff’s deputy saw his van leaving a bar and weaving over lane lines. During testimony last week Roloff mentioned that he was only dropping off a friend at the bar and never left his car. He also testified that he was tired from a cross-country RV trip he took with his family and that the pedal extensions on the van he was driving (it was his wife Amy’s van) were different than what he was used to.
The verdict was given by Circuit Judge Donald R. Letourneau rather than the jurors because a few members did not heed instructions to not look up any information about the case. Two of the jurors looked up definitions of “implied consent” and “beyond a reasonable doubt” on the Internet. In addition, one of those two looked up information about the eye test that deputies say Roloff failed twice the night he was pulled over. After chastising the jury about disobeying the law, Judge Letourneau dismissed the panel and gave the verdict on his own.
Despite Roloff’s acquittal, he still isn’t scott free. Under Oregon’s “implied consent” law, Matt’s driver’s license was suspended for three years because he refused to take a breath test after his June arrest and had gone through a previous drunken-driving diversion program within the past five years. At this point in time, he cannot get his license back any sooner.
On the Roloff Farms website, Matt thanked his fans for their support and encouragement over the last few months and that his top priority is to spend time with his family. He also says that in the coming months he’ll be able to share more about what happened during the arrest as well as everything leading up to the trial.