Series finale

Jon & Kate Plus 8

It may have seemed like the season that would never end, but it's finally here. In the series finale, Jon and Kate are reconciling their separate lives yet shared parental roles. And how exactly do they do that? Why with respective visits to a dairy farm and a fire station, of course. Kate and the kids learn about farm life and cattle, while dad and the brood get lessons in fire safety and help raise money for local firefighters. Let's hope it's a worthy sendoff for the show that many grew to love and then loved to hate.

Season premiere

Find My Family

The producers of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have cooked up another tear-jerker series, minus Ty Pennington and any bullhorns. Instead, Find My Family has long-lost relatives and weepy reunions at the show's ''family tree.'' In the 30-minute premiere (future episodes will normally be one hour long and feature two families), Green and Joyner Steinpas are introduced to the daughter they gave up 27 years ago. Cold, stony hearts may scoff at the mushy plot and abundance of hugs in the show (*scoff*), but Makeover fans will likely just dive straight into their tissue boxes and enjoy.