Last night's episode where Ryan is kidnapped and forced to compromise an investigation has proved one thing:

The writers and producers of CSI:Miami are a bunch of idiots.

Wolfe withheld evidence and contaminated evidence in the lab. No matter what else was going on, that should have cost him his gun and badge. Instead he gets that proverbial 'pat on the back' by Horatio.

What a joke.

It's near the end of the season for our favorite shows, and that means cliffhangers and death. CSI:NY is apparently no exception.

Usually when a show announces a death, it's not going to be a main character. Take last season's Criminal Minds - they promised a death, and it was the head of the FBI's New York office. NCIS last year had the death of Jenny Shepard - but no one would really call her a main character. And last week Robert McCalister died on Brothers & Sisters - only to come back to life.

Last week I predicted that Grissom's last case on CSI: would get more than 20 million viewers - and I was right! (I think it was over 23 million.) I don't think that the first aftergrissom (AG) episode will do that well, it should at least be respectable.

UPDATE: FOX is having two hours of All-New Bones, so Kitchen Nightmares won't be shown tonight. /UPDATE....... Speaking of respectable, let's look at Kitchen Nightmares on Fox. The second season finale is apparently on tonight (didn't ever really realize it was on) and that will make room for the most censored reality show on network tv - Hell's Kitchen. Expect that show in the coming weeks.

Bones is new - might be the circus episode Fox didn't air last week.

And Grey's Anatomy tries to grow up with it's "Child needs an organ transplant and can get it from a serial killer set to be executed" storyline. Now if they'd just get rid of the Ghost of Denny. Or give him his own show. Something. That way I can watch Grey's for Bailey, the only character worth watching on that show.

Any CSI fans not going to watch tonight's episode - Gil Grissom's final episode as the team leader? (I'm pretty sure it will trounce Grey's in the ratings. 20 million viewers, anyone?)

The fan-boy in me is looking forward to Smallville and the introduction of the Legion of Superheroes in the aptly titled episode "Legion". (I'm not really a Smallville fan, but this show is surprisingly good.) Chloe's still missing and Clark's battling the Persuader when the Legion shows up. Sounds very comic-booky

I don't use the term "Must Watch TV" a lot, but if your a fan of CSI (Original), tonight is it. Laurence Fishburne joins the cast to replace Grissom in a few weeks.

Wednesday is a bittersweet night with the imminent demise of Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. But tonight, Fred Willard guest stars on Daisies, and on Dirty Sexy Money Letitia hits a bicyclist. But what was she doing driving?

CSI:NY has it's 100th episode (most of which are watchable - unlike it's Miami counterpart) - and guest stars Scott Wolf, Chris Daughtry, and Nelly.

Criminal Minds has Jason Alexander.

Bones doesn't have any major guest stars, but they're doing the "Death on a Plane" episode. Didn't House do that a couple seasons back?

Wednesday is a bittersweet night with the imminent demise of Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. But tonight, Fred Willard guest stars on Daisies, and on Dirty Sexy Money Letitia hits a bicyclist. But what was she doing driving?

CSI:NY has it's 100th episode (most of which are watchable - unlike it's Miami counterpart) - and guest stars Scott Wolf, Chris Daughtry, and Nelly.

Criminal Minds has Jason Alexander.

Bones doesn't have any major guest stars, but they're doing the "Death on a Plane" episode. Didn't House do that a couple seasons back?

Mary McDonnell arrives at Seattle Grace!!!! Finally a reason to get excited about this show! Not that Kevin McKidd wasn't a reason to get excited about. But Mary McDonnell!

On CBS at the same time, CSI deals with a death in Koreatown. The promos CBS is airing makes it look sooooo good. Good enough to miss Mary McDonnell? Probably not.

Over on NBC, Dr. Greene shows up in flashbacks. You remember Mark Greene? Back when ER was really, really good and not just a caricature of itself that it is now? (And wasn't Greene the first doctor we saw in the pilot - getting woken up from the on-call room?) Worth seeing.

Over on the CW, Smallville is really good this season, even without Lex and (especially) Lana. And I've finally seen an episode of Supernatural which I also thought was really good.

Fox, however, has Kitchen Nightmares.

My picks are marked with a .

Been getting these questions in my stats, so I thought I'd answer them.

Q: On CSI:Miami, is Horatio dead?
A: No. He'll live. He is the star of the show! The real question is, who shot JR him?

Q: Who Killed Horatio?
A: See above. And I think it was his ex.

Q: Who's leaving NCIS?