You know when ABC trots out a 2004 edition of Dick Clark’s “Extreme Bloopers” (7 p.m., ABC) that the calendar year has come to its exhausted conclusion. Yes, it’s time to stick a fork in 2005. It’s done.

In the spirit of the new year, here are some resolutions and words of advice for our friends, the networks.

It’s difficult to give advice to CBS, the ratings colossus. A combination of reality evergreens and roughly 5,000 hours of “CSI” spin-offs have put the Eye network in an enviable position.

All the same, they should resolve to prepare for a time when people get sick of cadavers. But until then, who’s to argue with success?

ABC doesn’t need my advice, either. Two years ago they were the fourth-place network that couldn’t seem to let go of “Drew Carey.” Over the past 15 months, they’ve churned out “Lost,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Commander in Chief.” Not too shabby.

But if I were in charge at ABC, I’d resolve to pull the plug on “The Bachelor.” Enough is enough. Save the world a couple billion flowers and candles.

In many ways, Fox remains the most ambitious and problematic network. Even its failures (“Reunion,” “Arrested Development,” “The Tick”) are interesting. And who can forget “Point Pleasant,” the soap about Satan’s daughter? But Fox’s problem isn’t its myriad ambitious bombs, but its dangerous dependence on a single show. Dear Fox: Resolve to transcend your “American Idol” addiction, or at least develop a new one to tide you through your “Idol”-less hours.

NBC’s problems could fill a whole column, so let’s just focus on the product placements. They’re out of hand. In the past season, they’ve used “The Office” to plug Apple’s iPod, slipped three references to Universal’s “Memoirs of a Geisha” into a “Medium” script and turned Jack Black’s stint on “SNL” into an extended “King Kong” commercial. NBC: Get this under control before people start calling you QVC.

OK. Enough scolding. Let’s raise a glass to 2006. And 365 nights of television to criticize.

Tonight’s highlights

¢ A D.A.’s daughter is kidnapped on “Criminal Minds” (7 p.m., CBS).

¢ Love is blind in the 2001 comedy “Shallow Hal” (7 p.m., Fox), starring Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow.

¢ A comic grows in Brooklyn on “Everybody Hates Chris” (7 p.m., UPN).

¢ Scheduled on a two-hour “Primetime” (ABC): rewinding 2005 (8 p.m.), the legend of Pope Joan (9 p.m.).