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May is the time of year when comedies and dramas get grand send-offs full of
guest stars, life-altering decisions and cliffhangers galore. Some will just be
gone for the summer, while others will never return. Some we know the fates of,
others won't be announced until the network "upfronts" come mid-May.
Of
course, faithful fans already know two series that are ending forever: The
Scooby gang will slay no more as Buffy the Vampire
Slayer concludes, and the saga of Dawson Leery and friends comes to a
close with the finale of Dawson's Creek.
In between mourning the foregone loss of Andy Richter Controls the
Universe and Miracles, as well as wondering if Ed and
Angel have a snowball's chance in hell of making it to see season four,
we've compiled a handy guide so you don't miss your favorite show's last
original episode (whether it's for a few months, or forever).
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ABC
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
Finale: Monday, May 13 and Monday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET
Cate's
divorcing sister comes for a visit leading to renewed sibling rivalry. Kerry and
Kyle begin dating and Bridget's popularity plumments when she disses her friends
for a guy. To top things off, Paul is upset when he finds and empty home
pregnancy test.
Guest Stars: Cybill
Shepherd
Will It Return: Yes
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Jim
Finale: Tuesday, May 20 at 8:30 p.m. ET
Special one-hour
finale. Cheryl secretly plans to reunite Jim with his estranged sister on a
family trip to Las Vegas.
Guest Stars: Jennifer Coolidge, Wayne
Newton
Will It Return: Yes
Alias
The spy
thriller ended its sophomore season May 4 with two back-to-back episodes,
which found Will suspected of being a double and arrested for
espionage; Sydney confronting her mother, and Irina revealing her true
motivation; and Sloane getting the ball rolling on his grand plan.
Will
It Return: Yes
The Bachelor
3
Finale: Sunday, May 18 at 9 p.m. ET
Millionaire bachelor
Andrew Firestone bestows the final rose.
Will It Return: Yes
Dragnet
Finale: Sunday, May 11 at 10 p.m. ET
Joe kills
one of the notorious Sanchez brothers while trying to protect an innocent gang
member, putting his career in jeopardy.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
My Wife and Kids
Finale: Wednesday, May 21 at 8 p.m.
ET
One-hour season finale. As Jr. graduates from high school, Michael
pressures him to go to college he wanted to attend, while Jay is worried that
he'll marry Vanessa if he doesn't.
Will It Return: Yes
NYPD
Blue
Finale: Tuesday, May 20 at 10 p.m. ET
Sipowicz and Clark
investigate what appears to be a series of racially motivated murders.
Meanwhile, a departmental rule puts a kink in Sipowicz and McDowell's wedding
plans.
Will It Return: Yes
The Practice
The May 5 finale -- two back-to-back
episodes -- saw Bobby tell Lindsay about his affair with Sarah and Eugene
and Jamie fall for each other while working a case together; Bobby then
resigned from the firm while Jimmy and Rebecca defended a man accused of killing
his sister-in-law.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
In addition: It isn't
looking good for midseason dramas Miracles and Veritas. Expect
them to be added to the junk heap that already includes Dinotopia, MDs,
Push, Nevada and That Was Then. Bonnie Hunt's Life With
Bonnie, which had its finale March 25, and Less Than Perfect
have been renewed for next season.
CBS
The Agency
Finale: Saturday, May 17 at 10 p.m. ET
Stiles puts both his and Terri's lives in danger when he becomes to
determined to rescue her from North Korea.
Will It Return: To Be
Decided
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Finale: Thursday,
May 15 at 9 p.m. ET
The team loses one of its own after a bank robbery and
gun battle that carries over into the streets of Las Vegas.
Will It Return:
Yes
CSI: Miami
Finale: Monday, May 19 at 9:45 p.m.
ET
Description: A special 75-minute season finale. The team tracks two
fugitives who break out of prison via helicopter and then set out on a course of
chaos and havoc through Miami.
Will It Return: Yes
The District
Finale: Saturday, May 17 at 9 p.m. ET
New
evidence from an unsolved crime and a special person from the past arrive just
in time to help Mannion decide what to do next after losing Ella and his job
with the police department.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
Everybody Loves Raymond
Finale: Monday, May 19 at
9 p.m. ET
A special 45-minute season finale. Robert (Brad Garrett) and Amy
finally walk down the aisle, but a family feud between the future in-laws is
brewing right along.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
The Guardian
Finale: Tuesday, May 13 at 8 p.m.
ET
Nick is ordered into therapy by the court, while Lulu is offered a job in
California. Plus, Sarah's father returns looking for custody of his
daughter.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
Hack
The two-part finale, April 25 and May 2, found
Marcellus' informant murdered in a connection with trading drugs for
information. Marcellus swears he was framed, but Mike's not sure he trusts him
and considers implicating his old friend in order to avoid potential jail time
himself.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
JAG
Finale: Tuesday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET
Description:
Harm puts everyone's life in danger when he quits JAG, defies orders and heads
to Paraguay to rescue Mac and recover the Stinger missiles.
Will It Return:
To Be Decided
Judging Amy
Finale: Tuesday, May 13 at 9 p.m. ET
Stu
proposes to Amy, and an overworked public defender reaches his breaking point
and starts firing a gun in Amy's courtroom.
Guest Stars: Tim
Daly
Will It Return: To Be Decided
The King of Queens
Finale: Monday, May 19 at 8 p.m.
ET
Doug and Carrie break their bed and have to borrow a set of twin beds from
Deacon's kids while they wait for their new one.
Will It Return: To Be
Decided
Still Standing
Finale: Monday, May 12 at 9:30 p.m.
ET
Bill and Addy worry that their kids will spend their high school years the
same way they did -- partying. So much so, that they end up leaving an AC/DC
concert in order to track down them down at an unchaperoned party.
Will It
Return: To Be Decided
Survivor:
The Amazon
Finale: Sunday, May 11 at 8 p.m. ET
Special
three-hour event. The first two hours will waste some time, whittle the final
three down to the final two, waste some more time and then "seamlessly" segue
into the live reunion show in New York City. Host Jeff Probst did such a bang-up
job with Survivor: Thailand he's scored the gig again. After all, who
knows these 16 people better at this point?
Will It Return: To Be Decided,
but what do you think?
Touched by an Angel
The series concluded for good with a
special two-part episode April 26-27, in which Monica found herself up for
career review and a possible promotion as she makes her way to the town of
Ascension (hey, this show never claimed to be subtle), where she must help a
mysterious drifter who is put on trial by the suspicious community who recognize
him as being present the previous year when an accident killed almost all of the
town's children.
Will It Return: No
Without a Trace
Finale: Thursday, May 8 and
Thursday, May 15 at 10 p.m. ET
Samantha is shot during a hostage crisis
situation that results when the team investigates a woman who disappeared from
her office building.
Will It Return: Yes
Yes, Dear
Finale: Monday, May 19 at 8:30 p.m. ET
Jimmy
remembers his role in getting Kim and Greg together after he has an argument
with Greg over years of unreciprocated favors.
Guest Stars: Christopher
Titus
Will It Return: To Be Decided
In addition: The eye network has been keeping pretty mum about what it's
going to be bringing back this fall, but we do know that Bram and Alice,
Presidio Med, Queens Supreme and Robbery Homicide Division are not
part of the big (or even the little) picture. No word yet on whether the
midseason newcomer My Big Fat Greek Life will return,
either. Star Search will crown the winners in four categories
in its finale on Wednesday, May 14.
FOX
24
Finale: Tuesday, May 20 at 9 p.m.
ET
Details are being kept under wraps, but you can expect it to involve CTU
agent Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) last-ditch efforts to find information
that will keep the United States from going to war.
Will It Return: Yes
American
Idol
Finale Date: Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21 at 8
p.m. ET
On Tuesday, Clay and Ruben have a showdown with them each singing the
same two songs. America votes one last time and then on Wednesday FOX manages to
stretch "And the winner is ..." into two hours of singing, dancing,
costume-changing bliss. By the way, that Clay and Ruben thing is just wishful
thinking on our part, so save your emails.
Will It Return: Yep, but if FOX
insists on doing it more than once a year, judge Simon Cowell says he's out of
here.
The Bernie Mac Show
Finale: Wednesday, May 14 at 9:30
p.m. ET
Bernie gets competitive when he finds out another kid has a birthday
party planned for the same day as Jordan's.
Will It Return: To Be Decided. If
so, it will be with a new showrunner.
Boston Public
Finale: Monday, May 12 at 8 p.m.
ET
Fellow students at faculty are shocked when a student writes to a
celebrity and asks if she'll be his prom date, and she accepts. Harper comes up
with a radical solution to save teachers who are about to be laid off due to
budget-tightening, Danny asks Claire's dad for permission to marry her.
Guest
Stars: American Idol alum Tamyra Gray makes a final appearance.
Will
It Return: To Be Decided
Friday-night dramas Fastlane and John
Doe wrapped up their debut seasons April 25. The network hasn't decided
whether "Fastlane's" undercover cops and the mysterious know-it-all "John
Doe" will return for another season.
King of the Hill
Finale: Sunday, May 18 at 7 p.m.
ET
Two episodes, including the show's 150th, wrap up the season. First, Kahn
is angry when his mother begins working as a maid for the Hills. In the second
episode, Bobby buys a deck of tarot cards and makes friends with a group of kids
who are into black magic.
Guest Stars: David Cross
Will It Return:
Yes
MAD TV
Finale: Saturday, May 17 at 11 p.m. ET
Guest
Stars: Nicole Sullivan
Will It Return: Yes
Malcolm in the Middle
Finale: Sunday, May 18 at 9
p.m. ET
In the first episode of a two-part finale, Lois (Jane
Kaczmarek) finally has her baby. The family brings him or her home in part
two, while Lois and Hal (Bryan
Cranston) try to come up with a solution to finding day care for the new
addition.
Will It Return: Yes
Oliver Beene
Finale: Sunday, May 11 at 8:30 p.m.
ET
Andrew is embarrassed that Jerry throws like a girl when they play in a
father/son baseball game. Meanwhile, Oliver and his pals fight with a transient
who's taken up residence in their treehouse.
Will It Return: To Be
Decided
The Pitts
Finale: Sunday, May 11 at 9:30 p.m. ET
Bob
decides to fight a parking ticket. Unfortunately, he accidentally boards a bus
filled with convicts headed to the Big House.
Will It Return: To Be
Decided
The Simpsons
Finale: Sunday, May 18 at 8 p.m.
ET
Two-episode finale. In the first, Marge and Homer's decision to enroll
Bart in an after-school club backfires when gang warfare breaks out between Bart
and Milhouse's rival clubs. In the second episode, Maggie takes a shine to a
most unlikely figure -- Moe.
Guest Stars: Joe
Mantegna as Fat Tony.
Will It Return: Yes
That '70s Show
Finale: Wednesday, May 14 at 8 p.m. ET
As the gang prepares to for their high-school graduation, Fez (Wilmer
Valderrama) faces deportation to his home country, wherever that is. Meanwhile,
Red (Kurtwood Smith) looks forward to finally having an empty nest.
Guest
Stars: Joe Theismann
Will It Return: Yes
Wanda at Large
In the April 30 finale of this new
comedy, Wanda and Keith's friendship becomes strained when they react
differently to being given honorary doctorates from their alma mater.
Will It
Return: To Be Decided
In addition: Futurama will take a four-week hiatus during May
sweeps, but will return with new episodes in June.
NBC
Boomtown
The critically acclaimed new series
ended its season April 20, with McNorris making a dramatic life decision,
and Internal Affairs using Tom to go after Joel (Donnie Wahlberg)
while investigating the death of his baby daughter. But the show's
fate hasn't been decided.
"Ed" ended its season April 11 as the triangle
between Ed, Carol and Frankie came to a head, but there no word yet on whether
that episode was the last or the series will return next season. Freshman
series "Good Morning Miami" and medical sitcom
"Scrubs" both ended their seasons April 17 but have not yet
been renewed for next year.
UPN
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Finale: Tuesday, May 20
at 8 p.m. ET
The cult hit about a perky young woman burdened with
the responsibility of killing vampires ends after seven years. The final
episodes will feature returns of bad-girl slayer Faith and Buffy's first love,
Angel. And creator Joss
Whedon is talking about a spin-off...
Will It Return: No
Spotlight: Buffy's farewell
Girlfriends
Finale: Monday, May 19 at 9 p.m.
ET
Special one-hour episode. Toni freaks out on her wedding day as she
contends with her flaky maid of honor, a bridesmaid with an overly active libido
and a mother who wants control.
Guest Stars: Isaac
Hayes, Russell Hornsby and Jenifer Lewis
Will It Return: To Be
Decided
Enterprise
Finale: Tuesday, May 21 at 8 p.m. ET
The
Enterprise crew gets set on a new course when they encounter a deadly force from
a mysterious corner of the universe.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
Platinum
Finale: Tuesday, May 13 at 9 p.m.
ET
Jackson and Grady sign new acts in an attempt to retain the family's
independent hip-hop label.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
The WB
7th Heaven
Finale: Monday, May 12 and Monday, May 19 at 8
p.m. ET
Eric tries to convince Chandler's dying father to reconcile with his
son, ultimately resorting to trickery; Mary has a secret; Matt's wife is
pregnant; Lucy isn't; Ruthie gets her period; Simon gets turned down by a
potential prom date.
Guest Stars: Dan
Lauria, Tara Lipinski, Laraine Newman
Will It Return: Yes
Angel
Finale: Wednesday, May 7 at 9 p.m. ET
Angel,
Inc. is made an offer they can't refuse when they take over Wolfram & Hart
and all the secrets the demonic law firm contains.
Will It Return: To Be
Decided
Charmed
Finale: Sunday, May 11 at 8 p.m. ET
Two-hour
finale. The Halliwell sisters are turned into Greek Goddesses by a mysterious
Whitelighter.
Will It Return: Yes
Dawson's Creek
Finale: Wednesday, May 14 at 8
p.m. ET
Two-hour finale. Five years in the future, the group gathers together
in Capeside for a wedding, but learns that one of them has been keeping a
secret. Dawson is still living in Los Angeles, producing an autobiographical TV
series; Joey is a book editor living in New York with her boyfriend; Pacey is
the owner of the new Ice House and still has a penchant for older women; Jen is
a single mom living with Grams in SoHo and managing an art gallery; and Jack is
a high-school teacher in love with a man who's still in the closet.
Guest
Stars: Virginia Madsen and Jeremy Sisto
Will It Return: No
Everwood
Finale: Monday, May 19 at 9 p.m. ET
Andy
takes Delia and Ephram on a road trip to visit his old mentor as he prepares to
operate on Colin for a second time. In their absence, Colin kidnaps Amy and
Bright to surprise them with a trip down memory lane.
Will It Return: Yes
Gilmore Girls
Finale: Tuesday, May 20 at 8 p.m.
ET
Rory graduates high school as valedictorian as she and Lorelai prepare for
their backpacking trip across Europe.
Will It Return: Yes
Grounded for Life
Finale: Friday, May 9 at 9:30 p.m.
ET
Lily turns 16 and decides she's ready to take her relationship with Dean
to the next level, until his lack of sensitivity makes her give Brad a second
look.
Will It Return: To Be Decided
Reba
Finale: Friday, May 9 at 9 p.m. ET
Reba is
devastated when she finds out that Kyra is thinking of moving in with Brock and
Barbra Jean, while Cheyenne and Van immediately start making plans to change her
room into a nursery.
Will It Return: Yes
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Finale: Thursday, April 24 at
8 p.m. ET
Sabrina ended her series -- for good -- with a one-hour finale
April 24, first losing her powers on a bachelorette cruise in the Bermuda
Triangle, then getting cold feet on her wedding day.
Will It Return:
No
Smallville
Finale: Tuesday, May 13 and Tuesday, May 20 at
9 p.m. ET
Lana and Clark draw closer, leading a jilted Chloe to consider and
interesting proposition from Lionel. Clark must decide if he's going to pursue
his fate of ruling Earth, and Dr. Walden comes out of his coma and tells Lex and
Lionel that Clark is an alien who must be killed.
Will It Return: Yes
What I Like About You
Finale: Friday, May 9 at 8 p.m.
ET
Val's run in with Jeff and his date leads to unexpected romance, while a
misheard conversation leads her to have "the talk" with little sister
Holly.
Guest Stars: "American Idol's" Ryan Starr
Will It Return: To Be
Decided
