'America's Got Talent': Fiddlers, fever, and inappropriate puppets

You made the right choice, America. You didn't let those British judges push you around and tell you who to vote for. After all, this is America's Got Talent, and we didn't chuck all that tea into Boston Harbor to have Piers and Sharon dictate our final ten.

The good news: Eureka continues to rock like the rockingest rocky thing that ever rocked. This was an episode that could have been schmaltzy -- the mysterious phenomena of Eureka teach Sheriff Jack Carter a very important lesson! -- but a couple of sly touches, some great dialog and Colin Ferguson's usual fabulously deadpan performance slowly turning panicked, then resolute, made it great.

We start with our Big Brother 8 previouslys, as always, to assuage any fears you may have had that you missed something. Nick got kissyface, Dustin became HoH, Amber cried, Dick tried to talk to Daniele, Daniele took a ride in the waaaahmbulance, and in the end Dustin put up Jen and Kail on the elimination block. All caught up!

FOX's On the Lot is down to five filmmakers, one of whom is going to receive a million dollar desk in some dark corner of the DreamWorks office. Shouldn't they be better than this?

Saving Grace continues to walk the line between irreverence and piety, between a sermon and a hell of a good time. Damned if they don't seem to be pulling it off. Credit Holly Hunter, credit the rest of the spot-on cast, credit the writers and directors, or credit divine inspiration -- whatever it is, this show has me hooked.

Does anybody want to put forward an  acceptable scenario in which Bonnie wins on next week's finale of Hell's Kitchen?

After last week's fairly light-hearted vibe, Kyle XY decides to bring the room down a little and get personal. There's a resolution of a long standing issue for one character, two others struggle to deal with the aftermath of last week's final scene and another gets put in a rough situation.

I can't believe I didn't figure out Brenda's mystery illness in last week's episode of The Closer. It clicked for me early this week, but still -- how did I miss it? I felt the same way about this week's mystery -- it's obvious, once you look at it clearly, but it still took me a while to catch up. I like to think Brenda would have cracked it immediately too, if she weren't dealing with things that cannot be named for fear of making them real.

ABC wrapped up Summer Press Tour with a Lost announcement, more gushing about Pushing Daisies, Grey's Anatomy defense and the new shows Cavemen, Women's Murder Club, Big Shots and Cashmere Mafia.

Last week on Age of Love, Jayanna was tragically and unfairly eliminated, and Maria was outed as being totally crazy. This week, we begin with a quote from George Bernard Shaw (whom NBC helpfully identifies as a playwright): "We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." Really? And all this time I thought it was because of the free radicals.