We're going to miss the mile-high gang from MTV's “The Real World: Denver” (the “reunion show” is at 10 p.m. Wednesday), particularly the tawdry trio of kvetchy Brooke, promiscuous Colie and tipsy Jenn. Add the “aren't I fabulous” Alex to a not-so-magnificent seven and, well, it's time, at last, for this “World” to come to an end. Still can't get enough? On May 30 at 9 p.m., there's something called “The Real World (expletive) They Should Have Shown,” a potpourri of clips that didn't make it on the air. Tell us, if they didn't make it then, why are they making it now?

CLASS ACT

Khandi Alexander (above), sensitive chief medical examiner Alexx Woods on CBS's “CSI: Miami,” hovers over the bodies, chatting with the deceased victims. “Honey,” she'll say to a young girl found in a shallow, wooded grave, “what are you doing here? You should be at the prom.” To a pushy, young investigator, she'll snap, “Hey, CSI, mitts off, honey; body parts are mine.” And so is this show whenever her too-brief presence graces it, honey.

'LIGHTS' ON

Best news of the new fall lineups, NBC's finely written, beautifully acted “Friday Night Lights,” set at a small-town Texas high school, is returning for a second season, appropriately enough, on Friday nights. Touchdown, Peacock network!

'GREY'S' AREA

The strong “Grey's Anatomy” season finale – can the Lizzie (Katherine Heigl) and George (T.R. Knight) relationship get any more tantalizing? – proved again how weak the spinoff subplot was in the strained two-hour episode May3. In it, Dr. Addison Shepherd (Kate Walsh) was offered a position at a high-end practice run by an old L.A. friend. Who wants a show with retreads like Amy Brenneman (“Judging Amy”), Tim Daly (veteran of failed series, most recently “The Nine”) and even Taye Diggs (a long way from “Ally McBeal”). The strength of “Grey's Anatomy” is the fresh talent from Walsh herself to Sandra Oh (pictured at left) who took a tremendous turn last week as the wary, identity-stricken bride-to-be.

WORD PLAY

“I was (expletive) prostate with grief,” James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano to his therapist on the death of troublesome nephew Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), HBO's “The Sopranos”; “Ah, the new issue of Smothering Mother magazine,” Marge Simpson checking the mail, Fox's “The Simpsons.”

'SHIELD' PROTECTOR

During an episode of FX's sexually graphic and violent “The Shield” this month came a commercial for Larry Flynt's hard-core Hustler Club in San Diego. That spot was followed by a G-rated pitch for the Girl Scouts. Nice ad scheduling, FX-rated.

WRITE TURN

From Mike Gilker, Bernardo Springs: A point that didn't get mentioned about the SpongeBob NoPants Burger King ad (“Ad Space,” April 30) is that when the guy stands up in the tub, it's in front of a double window on the ground floor so that his neighbors get a free view of his soapy behind! Don't the ad producers know what curtains are for?

 lee.grant@uniontrib.com