Tonight's Picks
Desperate Housewives9:00 PM, ABC
Susan (Teri Hatcher) thinks Katherine (Dana Delany) may be the one who attacked Julie (Andrea Bowen), but Lynette (Felicity Huffman) has her own suspicions. Angie (Drea de Matteo) invites Bree and Orson (Marcia Cross, Kyle MacLachlan) to dinner. Gaby (Eva Longoria Parker) struggles to home-school Juanita (Madison de la Garza). Angie confronts Nick (Jeffrey Nordling) about a secret in the new episode "Careful the Things You Say."
 
Mad Men10:00 PM, AMC
Why, yes, it does seem as if season three just started, and here we are wrapping it up. As Don (Jon Hamm) has a meeting with Connie (Chelcie Ross), Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) has a chat with his clients, and Betty (January Jones) receives an interesting piece of advice. Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks also star in the season finale, "Shut the Door. Have a Seat."
 
Cold Case10:00 PM, CBS
And they're off! After his body is found in a mass grave for horses, Lilly (Kathryn Morris) and her team investigate the death of an accomplished 45-year-old jockey who disappeared within hours of losing a race that he had planned to be his last before retiring in the new episode "Dead Heat." Danny Pino, John Finn and Jeremy Ratchford co-star; Jacob Vargas ("Traffic") guest stars as an apprentice to the slain jockey. The music of Santana is featured.
 
NASCAR Racing3:15 PM, ABC
Fuel economy -- it's what we're all conscious of these days, and so was Carl Edwards last year at Texas Motor Speedway in the Dickies 500. He managed to squeeze 69 laps on the 1.5-mile oval out of his last tank of fuel to coast across the finish line 8.31 seconds ahead of Jeff Gordon for a win that pulled him to within 106 points of Chase leader Jimmie Johnson. Johnson again leads the standings in '09, but Edwards is nowhere to be seen in the championship picture.
 
Hotel for Dogs6:30 PM, HBOE
Stray canines get a place to stay, thanks to orphaned siblings (Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin) who make an abandoned hotel an expanded shelter for as many homeless dogs as they can house there, in this family-oriented comedy based on a Lois Duncan book. When some Animal Control workers find out what's going on, the children are challenged to maintain their operation. Don Cheadle, Kyla Pratt and Lisa Kudrow also appoear.
 
Chapter 276:30 PM, TMC
There's probably an absorbing movie to be made about John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman. This is so not that movie. Hunky Jared Leto packed on roughly 70 pounds to play Chapman, but he can't find a way to make the character more than a doughy, blank zero who is obsessed with "Catcher in the Rye." Wow. Fresh. Lindsay Lohan and Judah Friedlander ("30 Rock") co-star.
 
The Prince & Me 3: Holiday Honeymoon8:00 PM, ABCF
Die-hard romantics who helped make this swoony movie franchise a reality probably will thrill to this new entry, which finds King Edvard (Chris Geere) rerouting his honeymoon flight with Queen Paige (Kam Heskin) to Belavia, a snowy, poor Danish protectorate where "Eddie" is stunned to discover the Danish prime minister (Todd Jensen) has launched a plot against the monarchy. Joshua Rubin and Adam Croasdell co-star.
 
Nature8:00 PM, PBS
The black mamba hasn't been studied in the wild much -- because most people who encounter this large, deadly snake kill it on sight. And you can't blame them; the mamba's venom contains three kinds of toxins 10 times more deadly than it needs to dispatch an adult human. But in this new episode, a team of snake handlers in Swaziland braves the danger to conduct a six-week study of the deadly reptile, which some call the world's most misunderstood snake.
 
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition8:00 PM, ABC
Kellie Pickler is the celebrity volunteer for a moving episode that finds Ty Pennington and his team traveling to Beavercreek, Ohio, to rebuild the home of James Terpenning, a wheelchair sports champion and mentor to disabled veterans of the war in Iraq. Terpenning is championed by his friends for his boundless generosity and positive spirit, despite his polio-related disability and being abandoned by his American GI father in Vietnam.
 
NFL Football8:15 PM, NBC
If either the Philadelphia Eagles or Dallas Cowboys can come away with a statement-making win in their game at Philly tonight, then perhaps the victor can still make a run at the New York Giants in the NFC East. Through six weeks, however, neither team has put together a compelling case: The pass-dependent Eagles lost to the dreadful Raiders in Week 6, while the red zone-challenged Cowboys were relieved to escape with an overtime win at Kansas City in Week 5.
 
Hoot9:00 PM, DISN
More owls would've helped. The novel by Carl Hiaasen that inspired this limp 2006 kid flick won a Newbery Award, but something got lost in the transition from page to screen. Logan Lerman, Brie Larson and Cody Linley play, respectively, the new kid, the school soccer star and the local wild child, who team up to stop an Evil Developer from bulldozing the habitat of an endangered owl species. Luke Wilson provides some not-very-comic relief as a bumbling cop.
 
Three Rivers9:00 PM, CBS
Lisa (Amber Clayton) becomes very attached to an 8-year-old boy she witnessed being crushed by a ride at the fair. David and Andy (Daniel Henney, Alex O'Loughlin) try to get a ventricular assist device for one of their patients in the new episode "Where We Lie." Katherine Moennig, Alfre Woodard and Christopher J. Hanke also star; Kristen Bauer and Josh Randall guest star.
 
Bored to Death9:30 PM, HBOE
George, Jonathan and Ray (Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis) accept a challenge from George's publishing rival, Richard (Oliver Platt), and agree to a tripleheader boxing match -- the guys from Edition against the GQ crew. The women in their lives have something to say about this undertaking, however, causing the guys to question whether winning is everything in the season finale, "Take a Dive."
 
Brothers & Sisters10:01 PM, ABC
An already stressed-out Kitty (Calista Flockhart) is forced to face the visible -- and devastating -- ramifications of her cancer treatment. Nora (Sally Field) makes a surprising friend with benefits. Scotty (Luke Macfarlane) is forced to reassess things after his father (Michael O'Keefe) delivers shocking news about his marriage in the new episode "The Wig Party."
 
-- Zap2it.com

(Times are ET/PT unless otherwise noted)

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Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 2009 (in millions)
1.
NCIS (CBS)
20.18
2.
15.29
3.
Dancing With the Stars Results (ABC)
15.05
4.
V (ABC)
14.3
5.
12.74
6.
9.11
7.
7.27
9.
5.96
10.
Hannity (FNC)
4.22
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