FlashForward (8pm, ABC) - It was meant to be a season finale, but it's really a series finale becuase it's never coming back. In the episode, the world waits to see if their blackout visions come true. Mark also gets information about the next blackout date, but, since there's no next season...

So You Think You Can Dance (8pm, Fox) - The seventh season kicks off with a two-hour show of auditions.

100 Questions (8:30pm, NBC) - A new sitcom about a woman who answers 100 questions on a dating service questionaire, and the first question prompts her to recall a bad dating experience. Every episode centers around one of the questions. There is no way this will be around long enough to get through all 100 questions.

Hollywood Salutes Matt Damon (9pm, ABC) - Really? Matt Damon? We like him and everything but isn't he a little on the young side to be getting a salute show? Jimmy Kimmel hosts.

Mall Cops: Mall of America (10pm, TLC) - The premiere of a new reality series about mall cops who patrol the Mall of America in Minneapolis. The show opens on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year.

I thought the guy's name was familiar. Mark Whitacre, who is played by Matt Damon in the new movie "The Informant!,"
came up on our radar more than 12 years ago when he was running a company in Chapel Hill. I had been business editor for six months.

Here's a story written by David Ranii that I pulled from the archives.