Nitely TV Tidbits: QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.” (Unknown Author)

TODAY IS: GREAT AMERICAN POT PIE DAY + HUG A VEGETARIAN DAY + FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN/AUTUMNAL EQUINOX + LIBRA BEGINS + NATIVE AMERICAN DAY + NAT'L. CHECKERS DAY + NAT'L. DOGS IN POLITICS DAY + CELEBRATE BISEXUALITY DAY + BILLY THE KID ARRESTED FOR 1ST TIME (1875)

CELEB/FAMOUS B-DAYS: JASON ALEXANDER + BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN + JULIO IGLESIAS + RAY CHARLES + JOHN COLTRANE + MICKEY ROONEY + MARY KAY PLACE + DWIGHT YOAKAM

NEW STUFF AT A GLANCE:
A Gifted Man (series premiere), CSI: NY (season premiere), Blue Bloods (season premiere), Dateline NBC, Kitchen Nightmares (season premiere), Fringe (season premiere), 20/20, Nikita (season premiere), Supernatural (season premiere), Washington Week w/Gwen Ifill & Nat'l. Journal, Need to Know, Great Performances: Placido Domingo:My Favorite Roles, Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta, Four Weddings, Man Woman Wild (x2), PrankStars, A.N.T. Farm, Fish Hooks, Kick Buttowski Suburban Daredevil, Nirvana: Live at the Paramount, American Restoration, SpongeBob SquarePants, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures, The Soup, Fashion Police, Haven, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Jurassic CSI, Twisted, Majors & Minors, Top 20 Country Countdown, Iron Man, Wolverine, Whisker Wars, Unleashed by Garo, Quirky, Ghost Adventures (season premiere), The Dead Files (series premiere), Real Time w/Bill Maher, Strike Back, Chemistry, Skin to the Max

NEW SPORTS STUFF:
MLBaseball: Red Sox/Yankees + Phillies/Mets, NHL Hockey Exhibition: Rangers/Devils, WWE SmackDown, Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction, Strikeforce Challengers: Larkin-Rossborough (light heavyweights)

*CBS is NEW with the series premiere of A Gifted Man the 8th season premiere of CSI: NY and the 2nd season premiere of Blue Bloods

*NBC has repeats of Up All Night and Whitney and is NEW with Dateline NBC

*FOX is NEW with the 4th season premiere of Kitchen Nightmares and the 4th season premiere of Fringe

*ABC has repeats of Modern Family and Revenge and is NEW with 20/20

*WWOR has repeats of Monk

*CW is NEW with the 2nd season premiere of Nikita and the 7th season premiere of Supernatural

*PBS is NEW with Washington Week w/Gwen Ifill & Nat'l. Journal, Need to Know and Great Performances: Placido Domingo: My Favorite Roles

*OWN has Thelma & Louise

*TLC is NEW with Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta and Four Weddings

*Discovery is NEW with Man Woman Wild (x2)

*TNT has The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and V for Vendetta

*FX has Death Race and Transporter 2

*Disney is NEW with PrankStars, A.N.T. Farm, Fish Hooks and Kick Buttowski Suburban Daredevil

*MTV has Jackass 3.5

*VH1 is NEW with Nirvana: Live at the Paramount

*TBS has Sahara

*History is NEW with American Restoration

*NIK is NEW with SpongeBob SquarePants and Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures

*E! is NEW with The Soup and Fashion Police

*Bravo has National Treasure

*Syfy is NEW with WWE SmackDown and Haven

*BET has Notorious and Lockdown

*Cartoon Ntwrk is NEW with Star Wars: The Clone Wars

*YES is NEW with MLBaseball: Red Sox/Yankees

*Speed is NEW with Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction

*AMC has The Village and The Exorcism of Emily Rose

*SNY is NEW with MLBaseball: Phillies/Mets

*MSG is NEW with NHL Hockey Exhibition: Rangers/Devils

*MSG+ is NEW with NHL Hockey Exhibition: Rangers/Devils

*NatGeo is NEW with Jurassic CSI

*ID is NEW with Twisted

*BBC has Die Another Day

*Lifetime Movies has Pick-A-Flicks

*Oxygen has Mrs. Doubtfire and Freaky Friday

*HUB is NEW with Pt. 1 of the 2-pt. series Majors & Minors

*CMT has Son-in-Law

*GAC is NEW with Top 20 Country Countdown (Taylor Swift Tour)

*Fuse has Menace II Society

*Encore has Death at a Funeral, Law Abiding Citizen and Undercover Brother

*Reelz has Escape from New York and Derailed

*G4 is NEW with Iron Man and Wolverine

*IFC has Religulous, is NEW with Whisker Wars and has Black Sheep

*Sundance is NEW with Unleashed by Garo and Quirky

*Indie has Relative Values, Coffee & Cigarettes and Men of Respect

*Retro has The Boston Strangler and Lenny

*TCM has King Solomon's Mines and Boy on a Dolphin

*FLix has Existenz, Tron and The Blair Witch Project

*Travel is NEW with the 5th season premiere of Ghost Adventures and the series premiere of The Dead Files

*GMC has The Karate Kid Part II + III

*HBO has Megamind and is NEW with Real Time with Bill Maher

*Cinemax has Men in Black and is NEW with Strike Back, Chemistry and Skin to the Max

*Showtime has The Other Woman and is NEW with Strikeforce Challengers: Larkin-Rossborough (light heavyweights)

*Starz has The Green Hornet

*Late Nite Highlites: Nathan Fillion on Late Show w/David Letterman (NEW); Gerard Butler and Kat Dennings on Late Late Show w/Craig Ferguson (NEW); Hugh Jackman and Maya Rudolph on Tonight Show w/Jay Leno (NEW); Taylor Lautner and Florence Henderson on Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon (NEW); Jimmy Kimmel Live (repeat)