Heads up, faithful starved ‘Til Death fans. The Brad Garrett and Joely Fisher sitcom is back on Fox tonight (July 5) at 7pm ET, although only in repeats and without dearly departed next-door neighbors Jeff and Steph Woodcock.

First on the schedule during the summer run leading up to the comedy’s September 18 fourth-season premiere is “Joy Ride,” the second episode of the third season.

Joy decides to flirt with her co-worker when she assumes that Eddie’s snazzy new red convertible is competition and the result of a mid-life crisis. However, Eddie won’t be feeling too grand when Kenny completely tricks Eddie’s old car out after buying it.

Exactly nine months and three days have passed since the last fresh episode — or any episode — of ‘Til Death aired, so enjoy the series now that it’s back.

Any ‘Til Death fans out there? If so, have I got some wonderful news for you and you alone.

The Futon Critic reports the sitcom is returning to Fox for a summer run. Sure, the episodes will only be repeats, but that’s much better than the nothing fans have received since way back on October 8, 2008, when Brad Garrett and his co-stars Joely Fisher and J.B. Smoove were suddenly and swiftly yanked from the network’s lineup. Ratings may have had a little something to do with that.

So, if you’ve been missing the Starks and their new friend Kenny, mark your calendar for the encore return date Sunday, July 5. The series will air at 7pm ET at least throughout August, unless something else changes between now and then, which you never know when it comes to this show.

Season Four of ‘Til Death arrives this fall, where the show will air on Fridays at 8:30pm ET, immediately before — wait for it! — the science-fiction drama Dollhouse. Really.

I’m at a loss for words to sum up how unbelievably incompatible that matchup is, but at least the sitcom will be preceded by another comedy at 8pm, the newcomer Brothers.

Thank you!

Variety reports that ABC has wisely pulled the unbelievably unfunny new Bob Saget “sitcom” Surviving Suburbia from its former Monday-night, post-Dancing with the Stars time slot, effective right now.

Although the series achieved better than decent ratings of 10 million viewers and above — due more than anything to the hit reality competition that served as its auspicious lead-in — it was causing the ratings for its far superior and infinitely more entertaining lead-out, Nathan Fillion’s rookie crime dramedy Castle, to tank like you would not believe.

So, thanks to somebody at ABC, viewers will now be able to enjoy Castle’s May 11th first-season finale, “A Death in the Family,” immediately after a two-hour Dancing instead of being bored away by 30 minutes of Suburbia first. The network will reportedly air the remaining episodes of the Saget series “sometime during the summer,” which hopefully really means never.

FYI: If you haven’t already, consider checking out Castle this Monday. Now that NBC has unwisely canceled Life, it’s the only broadcast-network dramedy left that makes me smile nonstop from the beginning to the end of each episode.

Sci Fi Channel’s Eureka finally has a return date for its current third season to resume. The network announced on Friday, April 24, that the science-fiction dramedy will take over the Fridays at 9pm ET time slot beginning on July 10. There are ten more episodes left in the 18-episode junior season.

While I personally prefer catching up with my favorite Eureka citizens before the weekend, it’s good to have them back whenever they’re allowed to hang out on the tube. Fingers crossed the new air date doesn’t lead to a decrease in ratings.

After conducting a few logical analyses of upcoming programming details, the Futon Critic has determined that Samantha Who? fans will be left out in the cold until at least the end of March.

The 2009 premiere of Christina Applegate’s entertaining sitcom has already been delayed three times as ABC continually bumped episodes originally scheduled to air on January 12, January 19, and January 26.

Now, with the reality series The Bachelor airing extended two-hour episodes and Dancing with the Stars expected to do the same when it returns in March, there’s no room for Samantha Who? on ABC’s Monday-night roster during the next couple of months.

Consequently, unless the network changes the show’s air date, Samantha fans will have to wait all the way until March 30, at the earliest, to get their next fresh Christina fix. A time swap could happen, of course, but I definitely wouldn’t hold my breath.

And here I was thinking it would never happen.

The announcement landed today: effective this fall season, MyNetworkTV is mercifully and wisely removing the abominable Flavor Flav “sitcom” Under One Roof from its lineup.

More welcome TV news has never been reported. Let us all be thankful the small screen will now be invaded by that many fewer stupid, stereotypical, useless characters and plotlines.

Fewer people are watching television these days, which isn’t translating to good Nielsen numbers for one of my favorite shows in recent seasons, NBC’s always entertaining Damian Lewis and Sarah Shahi police procedural Life.

Thank goodness, then, that instead of bailing out, the network is demonstrating its support by moving the cop show from its current dreadful Friday-night time slot to Wednesdays at 9pm EST during an all-new “crime night.”

As a result, Life will air after Knight Rider, starting on November 5, the same night that the long-running staple Law & Order opens its impressive 19th season.

Moving into Life’s old home is the dramedy Lipstick Jungle, which is also struggling and will probably do so even more after the change. Two new episodes of Lipstick are currently slated to air this week: one in the old time slot of Wednesdays at 10pm EST and one at the new Friday time.

If you’re a Charlie Crews fan, make sure to mark your calendar now, and also note the series is not on the schedule for Friday, October 31.

If you watch all or part of NBC’s Thursday-night sitcom lineup each week, keep in mind that the network recently exchanged the time slots of two comedies, namely 30 Rock and Scrubs.

As a result, starting the week of April 21, 30 Rock will move from its former 8:30pm EST period following My Name Is Earl to immediately after The Office at 9:31pm. Scrubs will then come on at 8:30pm to wrap up its final season on NBC (the show will likely move to ABC to begin an eighth season after the current seventh season is over).

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• Second half of first season (12 episodes) premieres on March 24
• Complete first season will have 22 episodes
• RENEWED for a 12-episode second season on February 14

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