Critic's corner

0 Comments | USA TODAY, November, 2007 | by Robert Bianco

*NBC's schedule tonight consists of the season finale of Phenomenon (8 ET/PT) and a two-hour Thanksgiving-themed version of Deal or No Deal (9 ET/PT). We'd all better hope those strike negotiations go well next week, or lineups like this will be the rule rather than the exception.

*On the other hand, it's hard to be hard on Deal when the best ABC can offer in competition is Private Practice (ABC, 9 ET/PT), a show that reached such startling levels of stupidity last week, you wonder whether the network should scrap tonight's episode in favor of an hour-long apology. A therapist who doesn't realize the co-worker she has chosen for a friends-with-benefits sexual relationship has an incredibly obvious crush on her? A doctor on a house call (yeah, they make house calls) who...