Critic's corner

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2005 | by Robert Bianco

*NBC hopes to rescue E-Ring (tonight, 8 ET/PT) by moving it to an earlier slot. What the network really needs is an earlier decade, when the show's gung-ho, retro, rah-rah approach to the Pentagon still played.

*The proceedings at the judges' panel are certainly more polite these days on America's Next Top Model (UPN, 8 p.m. ET/PT) now that Janice Dickinson and Nole Marin aren't there to snipe at each other. Not as interesting, perhaps, but at least more civil.

*While Model is just beginning, another reality show is coming to an end. A dancer is crowned tonight on

So You Think You Can Dance (Fox, 8 ET/PT) and will win the chance to go to New York and look for a job. There is, of course, a cash prize as well, which should make the job search a little more...