Back in the USA (Network): Psych Returns Tonight, Burn Notice Tomorrow

Neither show may be Emmy material, but Psych and Burn Notice are the televisionic equivalent of comfort food: they're simple, filling, and rarely let you down. And thank God they're coming back.
 
Psych returns tonight, Wednesday 11/10, with the reappearance of an increasingly puffy Carey Elwes as a not-terribly-talented dashing cat burglar who still has enough on the ball to outwit Shawn (like who doesn't?). Tomorrow, 11/11, Michael Weston reappears with the whole crew intact (go, Bruce Campbell, Go, Sharon Gless!), including Coby Bell, the surly-gorgeous Jesse who showed up last year and looked like a no-show for Season 4 right up 'til the Michael-gets-shot finale. (Coby, by the way, was a regular on The Game [didn't see it], Half and Half [didn't see it], and Third Watch [didn't care], so even if he isn't a vet like BC or SG, or even Gabrielle Anwar, face it: the man has paid his dues.)

The mini-nets seem to be settling into roles not unlike the old, old days whe CBS was the Tiffany Network, ABC was the Family Network, and NBC was the Innovator (as much as any of those titles really meant anything). HBO's doing the weird-ass gritty stuff; AMC is doing the best dramas on TV; CW -- like its predecessors -- can't seem to find its ass with both hands and a road map, and USA just keeps pounding away with well-produced, unchallenging but not-bad comfort food, like these two and Blue Collar and Covert Affairs. (Maybe if The Good Guys had shown up here, it would make it to a second season.)

Hey, in this day and age, you take what you can get. Get the chips and dip, Marge: USA's on!