American Idol

Dolly Parton sings “Jesus & Gravity” and the Clark Brothers, the first-season winners of “Next Great American Band,” perform. Later, one of the nine remaining finalists is voted off.  Ramiele, Kristy and Brooke are in the bottom three, with Ramiele being eliminated.

Big Brother 9

Joshuah is evicted from the house.  Adam is the new HOH.

Real Housewives of New York City

Careful, She Bites – Bethenny serves up healthy culinary pointers to Alex, but events turn sour when romantic problems are disclosed. Elsewhere, Alex basks in a birthday bash on a yacht; and Ramona’s daughter preps for a school dance.

CSI: Miami

All In – (Part 2 of “Ambush”)After seeing her exploited on the website “Solve a crime with Calleigh” two young guys abduct her and force her to use her CSI expertise to cover up a murder they just committed after a poker game gone wrong. Initially, Horatio thinks Ron Saris (lead suspect in the Kathleen Newberry’s murder) had something to do with Calleigh’s abduction, but bullet evidence left in her Hummer leads them to Paul Evett, an addicted gambler down on his luck thinking Calleigh’s empty Hummer belonging to our victim. Calleigh leaves traces of evidence of her being at the crime scene to help the team track her down. While cleaning up the crime scene she discovers that her abductors may not have killed their victim after all. It turns our Paul Evett poisoned our victim to throw him off his game and in doing so killed him. Calleigh’s final clue she leaves for the team ultimately saves her life.

Gene Simmons Family Jewels

Swing Gene – Gene is still stranded in the desert, and he calls Carrot Top to come and rescue him; he makes it to Las Vegas for his first solo performance; and the women search for KISS collectibles to replace the ones destroyed in the flood.

Bad Girls Club

Disorderly Conduct – Household tension and cliquish abuse push Andrea to the breaking point. Elsewhere, Tanisha throws a slumber party in hopes of uniting the women.  We also find out Cordelia has been in X-rated movies under the name “Nikki Carlisle”.

Hell’s Kitchen

Chef Gordon Ramsay returns for a fourth season of culinary torture, and this time it promises to be more personal than ever before: The winner from among the 15 chefs will get a job in an L.A restaurant owned by Ramsay himself. In the premiere, the 15 are divided into teams (men vs. women), but first they must prepare their “signature dishes.” One offering makes Ramsay retch, but he does like several of the others. At the first dinner service, however, he doesn’t like much of anything.  Domenic is elimiated.

Big Brother 9

The Power of Veto competition is held.  James won POV and removed himself from the block.  Natalie had to put up another houseguest (Sharon) to go against Joshuah in the eviction ceremony.