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Snippy judges Carrie Ann Inaba (pictured), Bruno Tonioli and Len Goodman will be tallying points for contestants Tucker Carlson, Monique Coleman, Sara Evans, Willa Ford, Vivica A. Fox, Harry Hamlin, Joey Lawrence, Mario Lopez, Shanna Moakler, Emmitt Smith and Jerry Springer.

Tucker Carlson? Jerry Springer? How can you not watch? It’s a train wreck waiting to happen. To be honest, I didn’t watch the first season of this show, but I was totally caught up in it last year.

My problem with this season is the show falls on Tuesday night against “House,” and the CW’s “Gilmore Girls” and “Veronica Mars.” A girl can only TIVO so much.  I may have to wait and catch up with the results show on Wednesdays before “Lost.” Such a dilemma.

So who do I want to see win? What kind of objective journalist would I be if I answered that question? I do believe we are in for some delicious surprises, and I love Sara Evans…

One show I won’t be watching is Showtime’s “The Underground” starring Damon Wayans on Thursday nights. Don’t get me wrong, I like Wayans, but this show sucks. It could have been irreverent, crude and funny, but it’s just disgusting. There wasn’t a single skit that made me smile.

On the other hand the very funny Spike Feresten has a new Saturday night show, “Talkshow with Spike Feresten” on Fox. He begins his first show with a look back at the curse of late night talk shows on Fox. His man on the street bits, including the old man stripping for $20, is a bit mean spirited – but very funny stuff. Oh, and my favorite is Idiot Paparazzi a group of guys with cameras searching for celebs, which are ‘real people.’ When they do see a celeb, they never know who it is. 

So where did this guy come from? Up through the ranks my friends. He was a receptionist for “Saturday Night Live” who used to pass jokes to “Weekend Update’s” Dennis Miller. He ended up with a full-time writing job on “SNL” and then moved to “Late Night with David Letterman,” and later “Seinfeld.” (He wrote the Soup Nazi episode.) The man has the pedigree. Let’s hope the show holds up.