- ABC has repeats of America's Funniest Home Videos and 20/20 starting at 9
- CBS has it's Fall Preview starting at 9, followed by a repeat of The New Adventures of Old Christine and the finale of Swingtown
- NBC has NFL Kickoff Special and Dateline
- Fox has the 2 hour season premiere of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader at 8
- CW has WWE Friday Night Smackdown
- A&E had repeats of CSI: Miami and The Cleaner
- BBCA has Monty Python's Flying Circus and a new Star Stories at 9:30 on Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas
- CMTV has a new Gone Country at 8 followed by a new Outsider's Inn and Country Fried Home Videos.
- E! has a new The Soup at 10
- FAM has it's 2 hour series premiere of Samurai Girl starting at 8
- G4 has a new X-play with more coverage of the Penny Arcade Expo, followed by a repeat of X-play and new The Peter Serafinowicz Show and Freaky, both BBC new transplants.
- HBO has repeats of Entourage starting at 9:50
- MTV has new FNMTV Premieres (the VMA edition) followed by repeats of Making the Band 4 and Exiled
- NatGeo has a repeat of The Dog Whisperer followed by DogTown, a show about saving the Michael Vick dogs.
- SciFi has a new Stargate Atlantis at 10, preceded by repeats of the show.
- TLC has an all new What Not to Wear at 9
- USA has an all new Monk at 9 followed by a new Pysch at 10
- TRAV has a new Most Haunted at 10
- Stand Up To Cancer starts at 8 on ABC, CBS, NBC and E!
All times are Eastern



