8:30 p.m. tonight on NBC brings us the season finale of “30 Rock,” featuring, among other things, the fallout from last episode’s quasi-cliffhanger of Jack (Alec Baldwin) leaving GE (and joining the Bush administration) and the return of several supporting characters, like Paul Scheer as Kenneth’s page arch-rival, Dean Winters and Edie Falco. Should be good, even if the USA Today doesn’t think so (note to self: “Snapshots” good, TV criticism, not so hot). It’s already been renewed for next season, so yay.

Also on tonight, on NBC - the “finale” of “Scrubs.” They’re just calling it the “finale” instead of the “series finale” (because that’s not what it is) or the “season finale” (because that would be advertising, kind of, the fact that it’s going to ABC, a competing network, in the fall). While the ABC deal still hasn’t been officially announced yet, it seems to be a done deal - tonight’s episode is actually the last one produced pre-strike, so everything they’ve done since going back to work is for ABC, one would guess. It seems…worrisomely gimmicky (the Sacred Heart gang as if they were in a fairy tale! priceless!), but it could be cute. Yes, that’s Dr. Cox in a suit of armor on the right. The janitor, in a fantasy medieval setting? Who hasn’t wanted to see it!

Starting at 7 tonight, with a new “My Name Is Earl,” that hopefully won’t be quite as atrocious as last week’s hour-long post-strike premiere. Seriously, that episode made me hate everything forever for a good two hours or so afterwards. Jane Lynch’s appearance, in that role, was pretty much the definition of “slumming it.” But yeah, that’s new tonight, and everything else is getting their first new episodes since the strike ended and production picked up again.

“30 Rock” - Here we go. The last new episode aired in January and was brilliant (”I don’t drink hot liquids. That’s the devil’s temperature.” and the “Midnight Train to Georgia” sequence), and this one is called “MILF Island,” so quite naturally, I’m expecting the quality to stay consistent. More Tracy Morgan is always a good thing.

“The Office” - I thought the first part of this “Office” season, which was once one of my very favorite shows, was oddly sort of…bad, other than highlights like Andy singing ABBA with his buddies providing speaker phone backup. Dwight kills a cat, and then we’re supposed to feel bad for him? Even “The Sopranos” wouldn’t have Tony kill a dog. I thought the last episode, the deposition one, was actually rather good, but so bleak and depressing (being said with full understanding that a lot of the appeal of the original “Office” were episodes that were bleak and depressing, that’s not really how the show works here) that it didn’t exactly leave me “wanting for more!” Perfect time for them to greenlight a spinoff without knowing what it’s going to be yet! I’m sure this episode will be plenty funny. I hope they don’t skimp on the Angela/Andy (what’s the clever portmanteau for them? An-gela? An-dy? Doesn’t exactly work) relationship. And Jim and Pam have been so boring as a couple so far that I can’t imagine they would hold off for three years to put them together to have this be “it.”

“Scrubs” - It’s sort of weird watching these episodes now, knowing they were in fact produced before the writer’s strike, and that all the ones being produced now will probably air on ABC next fall. Well, as long as JD and Elliot don’t end up together, I’ll be fine with it.

“ER” -  Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on with “ER.” George Clooney isn’t still on this show, is he?

At this point, we’ve got everything but an official announcement that “Scrubs” will air its final season on ABC in the fall. Kristin from E! seems pretty positive it’ll happen, for instance. Great news to be sure. But that’s not all! Word comes today from TV Guide that “The New Adventures of Old Christine” might be headed to ABC as well, should CBS cancel the show.

This isn’t quite as exciting as the “Scrubs” news, at least not for me, but should make the “Old Christine” fans out there happy (I know you’re out there). I lambasted the show when it first came out (I’m trying to find the link to my review of it, but it’s apparently faded into the online ether), but there have been times recently when I’ve considered anything from “fair” to “pleasant.” It won an Emmy and all that, and it’s really not any worse (and is in fact, better) than a lot of stuff CBS puts on, so this move makes sense.

In a move only somewhat reminiscent of  “Step by Step” moving to CBS for its last season, several reports say there’s a chance “Scrubs” might be going to ABC in the fall for its final 18 episodes.

It’s not quite that simple, though, as NBC may pursue legal action to stop this from happening - even though, reportedly, the whole move to ABC is due to NBC not being as cooperative as showrunner Bill Lawrence would like in letting “Scrubs” get a “proper sendoff.”

As much as I think “Scrubs” has lost recently, it’s still one of my favorite shows, and I do, indeed, want it to get that “proper sendoff.” So let’s hope this happens. Plus, I can’t remember the last time a show changed networks. It may indeed be “Step by Step.” Or when “Sabrina” went to ABC from WB, or when “Sister, Sister” went from ABC to UPN, or when “Family Matters” went from ABC to CBS. Either way, it was probably in the ’90s, and it was probably an ABC sitcom.

This is a little late because I didn’t get around to watching “Earl” until Friday night. I like to savor my Craig T. Nelson time when there’s not much else on.

It’s a little bittersweet, since it’s the last new episodes of “Earl” and “Scrubs” that we’ll get for…well, a really long time. One more “30 Rock” to go (and a few more “Scrubs,” but it’ll be a while before they air.

“My Name Is Earl” - Hey, this was pretty good! After last episode’s “Earl’s getting released!” fake-out, I didn’t think Earl would actually get released so quickly, but I’m sure it was done for a reason and the whole end of episode “why would karma want to reward me” thing will be dealt with soon. Oh wait, it won’t. Well, I’m sure if it would have been, it would have been cool. The “Craig T. Nelson as 80s porno star” revelation was a bona fide LOL moment.

“30 Rock” - Wowzers. It’s terribly cliche, but this show honestly keeps getting better and better. I’m just going to go ahead and list some quotes from this episode that were awesome:

“I call the movie ‘Risky Business’ ‘Risky It’ because ‘it’ means ‘business.’”

“That word bums me out unless it’s between “‘meat’ and ‘pizza.’”

“This corporation has a very strict bros before hos policy.”

“I drag myself out of bed at 4 a.m., go home, get dressed…”

And oh yeah, “Cajun style.” Edie Falco has been great on this show (who knew she would fit in so well on a wacky workplace sitcom?), and it was nice to see the supporting cast more involved in this episode given that much of the season has been solely Tina Fey-centric (nothing wrong with that, though, either). And of course there was that animated Tracy Jordan/Shaq segment. Fantastic episode.

“The Office” - A great repeat - the business school episode from last season directed by Joss Whedon. Michael’s whole speech to Ryan’s business class was amazingly well-executed - from the start with the candy bars and him ripping out pages from the textbook, getting flustered by all the questions and finally revealing that Ryan has never had a sale - great stuff.

“Scrubs” - This episode was rather blah. The only real intriguing element is the Janitor/Lady story; I wonder if they’re eventually going for the moral that sometimes you have to abandon your bizarre eccentricities for people you love, or that you shouldn’t have to change who you are for someone else. I think both have already been morals in the past on “Scrubs.” Probably earlier this season!

“ER” - Yeah right.