Tonight's Best
A DAILY GUIDE TO NOTABLE SHOWS by Alynda Wheat
Must Watch of the WeekTwo and a Half Men
In staging a crossover with its top sitcom and CSI, CBS could have just had the Vegas forensics team come investigate good-time Charlie (Charlie Sheen) for a murder and left it at that...yawn. Instead, the network gooses the trite-and-true stunt by swapping the shows' writers, too. Tonight, the procedural's scribes tackle comedy, bringing George Eads along for a cameo. The pens behind Men take over CSI on Thursday at 9 p.m., with a plot about a sitcom star (Katey Sagal) who comes up snake eyes in Vegas. This script flip has the potential to be near genius…or that horrible idea somebody had while in the throes of a Liquid Paper high. And we can't wait to see which.
Gossip Girl
The gay one outs himself, which means Brad and Angelina can finally go get married! That's what the holdup was about, right?
House
House diagnoses his fave soap star (Jason Lewis) by watching the TV. Either the soap stud's truly ill, or House is going way the hell overboard for an autograph.
Series DebutFlying: Confessions of a Free Woman
Jennifer Fox's work sneaks up on you, which is odd, given how frank she is. The fortysomething filmmaker has two lovers (one married), a friend with a brain tumor, and a camera that constantly records the temblors of her life like finding out that she's pregnant. By turns brave, loving, naive, and selfish, Fox embarks on a three-year odyssey, training her lens on far-flung friends to ignite an intimate, yet global, conversation on womanhood. Eavesdropping is rarely this rewarding. A–
American Experience: George H.W. Bush
Two-part doc centers on read-my-lips-lap-barfing-it’s-the-economy-stupid Poppy, not happy-fun-skydiving-gray-fox Poppy. *check local listings
Samantha Who?
Old Sam would've slept with her ex, despite his new girlfriend. New Sam is doing the same thing, but feeling, y'know…conflicted.
The Bachelor: The Women Tell All
Fifteen love-scorned women and one defenseless Brit? Those odds don't sound good.


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