Fall TV Preview 2011: Monday

M: Welcome to day two of our yearly Fall TV preview.  As in past years, we’re going through each night of the week and list what the major networks are putting forth for you, the TV viewer.  We’ll try to hit up on the major shows on the not-so-major networks, too.  If we miss something, please comment and let us know, and we can make sure to include it in the future, and to heap praise or snark on it in our responding comments!  Oh, and in case you haven’t seen our past previews, here’s a quick key:

• Titles in blue are new this season.
• Each * means one Quibbling Sibling will be tuning in.
• For Saturday and Sunday’s preview click here.

So You Think You Can Dance: Grand Finale – The Winner Is Revealed, 8/11/11

E:  I don’t know about you, but that went down exactly as I guessed.  Which is essentially good; we have a really worthy winner, even if it wasn’t the contestant I voted for. Most of my favorite routines were asked back, with a couple surprises and one glaring omission.

So You Think You Can Dance: Top Four Performance Finale, 8/10/11

E: Well, now we know why they don’t normally ask for 4 routines a week.  Or even in the finale.  Because the results are going to be wildly uneven.  We got some absolutely smashing contemporary and jazz routines, and some pretty decent hip hop.  And I can’t say I’m sorry the All Stars are there, because those were by and large the best routines.  Every time the dancers strayed out of their comfort zones, however?  Not so good.  All the choreographers are trying to be tricky, putting out “finale worthy” routines.  You know how when you’re in high school and you have February vacation and all your teachers say “well, since you’re going to be on vacation you can read this 800 page book for me/do a 10 page report on the cotton gin/read Les Mis in the original French and then write a report on it” and you’re all “OMG, I have other classes too!  You can’t all expect this much work!  There’s not that much time in the day!”  And you have so much to do that some of what you do ends up great, and the rest is an epic fail?

Yeah.  It’s totally like that.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 8 Finale Wishlist

E: One of the most delightful parts of my delightful summer favorite So You Think You Can Dance is the finale results show.  Why?  Because the dancers reprise the best routines of the season.  Hurrah!  I just love it.  So here are my thoughts about the routines the judges or producers will ask to see again.  There’s lots to choose from.  It’s been a good season, guys!

So You Think You Can Dance: Results Show, 8/4/11

E:  The tension is mad in the studio tonight.  Who’ll be our finalists?  For once the voters have decided.  Will that mean any disruption in the obvious for the last month trio of Marko, Melanie and Sasha?  Could Caitlynn have saved herself with that terrific jazz routine?  Will Ricky beat Tadd out for the second guy slot?  Cat, resplendent in yellow, wants to know, too.  “So what have you done, America?”

Tonight’s dress was a bit of a departure for Ms.Deeley, and a pretty fantastic one.  It was full length, and featured a strappy top with a bunch of keyholes.  The bottom half had several slits in it – really, more than a continuous piece of fabric, it felt like a bunch of scarves sewn together. But in a really good way.  I was less sure about the bundle of rosettes on her right shoulder, especially since some of them were beige.  It reminded of Lena Lamont’s big corsage from the Dueling Cavalier, there to hide her microphone.