"Burn Notice" (8 p.m. CT Thursday, USA). Only one episode left until the break -- but last season is out on DVD so catch up with what you missed from TV's coolest show under the sun. (Above: Sharon Gless and Jeffrey Donovan work out their mother-son issues in front of a therapist, played by Gerald Owens.)
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann" (7 p.m. CT weeknights, MSNBC). Your kids have Colbert. Your parents have O'Reilly. You, however, have a real news program. With comment. (If you're new to TV Barn, before you email me with your no doubt highly original thoughts about Olbermann, please read this and this and this and this and this. Thank you.)
C-SPAN. Or as we call it around TV Barn headquarters, GBC (God Bless C-Span). The best convention coverage, the nicest hosts, the weirdest callers.
Current TV (digital cable). Hey, you dipped your NPR in my MTV! No, you dipped your MTV in my NPR! Smart, worldlywise and operating at the speed of TV, this cable channel part-owned by Al Gore makes "The Daily Show" seem like "The Wiggles." If there's only one Current show you check out, make it "InfoMania," home to the Sarah Haskins feminine marketing rant "Target: Women."
"Late Show with David Letterman" (10:35 p.m. CT, weeknights, CBS). Fall is Dave's best time of the year, for some reason. By New Year's I'm sick of his same old routines. Still, I hope he doesn't retire in 2010. TV wouldn't be the same.
"Royals Live" (various times, FSN). You may have given up on them. I haven't.
"The Shield" (9 p.m. CT Tuesdays, FX). The web Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) has woven has now trapped Gardocki (David Rees Snell) as well as Shane (Walton Goggins). It might end badly, or not. What we do know is it's ending soon.
The Weather Channel. Though you mostly think of switching here when hurricanes are battering the East Coast, TWC has really stepped up its local infobar, which includes traffic alerts.
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