It’s Saint Patty’s Day, but one IDOL contestant won’t feel so lucky.  Tonight is the end of the road for him or her.  Last night I predicted that Andrew Garcia (pictured) was going home.  You’ll have to keep reading to find out if I’m right.  A great show ahead…David Cook, Orianthi and Ke$ha perform.  PLENTY OF SPOILERS after the jump so quit reading now if you don’t want the results revealed.  Now then, on with the show…

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When ABC’s FlashForward returns tomorrow [8/7], it comes with a much quicker pace and some staggering revelations – hence the episode title, Revelation Zero. After a surprisingly brief recap, things almost explode as we learn, in short order, why Lloyd [Jack Davenport] was kidnapped; how Mark [Joseph Fiennes] manages to remember the fuzzy parts of his flashforward, and even who the mysterious figure was who was moving about that baseball stadium after the flashforward happened [which, naturally enough, ties into an even larger mystery…].

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Tom Selleck is fortunate enough to have played two once-in-a-lifetime characters in Thomas Magnum and Jesse Stone – the latter over the course of five original TV movies for CBS. Now word comes, from The Hollywood Reporter, that Selleck is about to sign on the dotted line to star in an untitled drama pilot for the network.

The multi-generational untitled pilot would star Selleck as Michael, the handsome, confident chief of police for the NYPD – who lives with his father, Patrick [Len Cariou], a former NYPD police chief – who struggles to balance the political demands of his job with doing right by his fellow cops. Michael’s son, Brian [Donnie Wahlberg] is also a detective

In the popular, critically acclaimed Jesse Stone TV-movies, Selleck plays an alcoholic big city detective who takes on the job of police chief in the small New England town of Paradise.

AMC is getting a reputation for taking their time and getting it right when they greenlight an original series. It was true for Mad Men and it was true for Breaking Bad – each of which has won multiple Emmys. Now, AMC is announcing that production will begin on its third original series, Rubicon, in New York City, on March 29^th. Rubicon, which stars James Badge Dale [The Pacific, The Departed] is described as being a conspiracy thriller. Details from the press release follow the jump.

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It’s time for the Top 12.  THIS is where the competition really begins.  Man versus woman.  One group and there is no room for mistakes.  This is also the first time the contestants get to use a professional stylist who will help them pull their look together.  Prior to tonight, they were on their own.  Looks are important, but nothing is more important than song choice.  Tonight’s theme is The Rolling Stones and the contestants must choose something from the iconic group’s arsenal.  What will the contestant’s choose?  Be prepared to blown away by 17-year-old Siobhan Magnus (pictured) and one contestant sings with laryngitis (but you would never know it).  I will say now that I am not a fan of this theme b/c I am not a Stones fan, but so be it.  Let’s begin with…

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Tonight’s premiere of Justified [FX, Tuesdays, 10/9C] will not be the first time that Elmore Leonard’s work has been beautifully adapted for television – but it might well be the most successful one. While previous efforts – Maximum Bob and Karen Cisco – may have been somewhat hamstrung by network Standards & Practices divisions, Justified is on FX, the home of Rescue Me and Archer. And it shows.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Raylen Givens [Timothy Olyphant] is expelled from Miami and exiled to Lexington, Kentucky after giving a very bad man twenty-four to leave or be shot dead. He didn’t and, after he pulled first [as Givens puts it], found himself dead by givens’ hand. If Givens wasn’t something of a maverick – in his Stetson and cowboy boots – and had he not issued the twenty-four warning, things might not be so bad. But he did and it is.

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On Battlestar Galactica, James Callis played a self-serving, opportunistic, conniving genius. This summer, on Syfy’s hit series Eureka, Callis will play Dr. Grant – a former resident of the town whose unexpected return is cause for serious alarm and – considering his romantic interest in Allison Blake (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) – significant friction with Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson).

Once again this season series stars Colin Ferguson and Joe Morton (“Henry Deacon”) will direct episodes and also making her directorial debut is female lead Salli Richardson-Whitfield. Also, special guest stars returning this season include Jaime Ray Newman (“Dr. Tess Fontana”) and Matt Frewer (“Taggart”).

Eureka seems like any other cozy, Pacific Northwest town, but is actually a secret community of geniuses assembled by the government to conduct top-secret research. What they’ve unwittingly created is a place where anything imaginable can happen… and does.  In addition to Ferguson, Richardson-Whitfield, Morton, and now Callis, the series also stars, Erica Cerra (“Jo Lupo”), Neil Grayston (“Douglas Fargo”), Niall Matter (“Zane Donovan”) and features Jordon Hinson (“Zoe Carter”).

Actor Peter Graves was found dead in his home earlier today. According to law enforcement sources he died of natural causes.

Though best known for playing Mission: Impossible boss Jim Phelps on television – and a turncoat version of the same character in the first Mission: Impossible movie, Graves was almost as well known for playing Captain Clarence Oveur in the Airplane movies that gave Leslie Nielsen a new career as a comic actor.

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FlashFoward is one of those high concept shows that I was initially excited for, but then let me down. I tried watching the first few episodes when they originally aired but could not get into it. The pacing was too slow, it took forever to establish the characters and it’s way too serious. I decided to give it another chance now that the first 10 episodes are on DVD. This is one of those series that’s made for the DVD medium, the show works surprisingly well when you can sit back and soak it all in and let it wash over you. It still requires a LOT of patience.

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On April 1^st, A&E’s Fugitive Chronicles [Thursdays, 10/9C] gives true crime television something different – cinematic reconstructions of some of the most compelling recent fugitive captures. In a composite of gritty reconstructions, archival footage, fugitive narrative recreated from real testimony and exclusive taped interviews with law enforcement officials, each one-hour episode dramatically brings each infamous manhunt to life. Details from the press release follow the jump.

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