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Welcome to TV-Reviewed’s Boob Tube Alert, our feature which highlights the evening’s television shows. With our lives becoming all the more busy and the number of television channels ever increasing, it can be difficult to find something good on the old boob tube (television). So let us help you find something worth your time. We include new episodes, repeats, movies, and sports. Everything is organized by timeslot.

TUESDAY, July 08, 2008

Wipeout — 8:00pm ET/PT on ABC. Human cannonballs! Human pinballs! Crashes, smashes and mud splashes! Wipeout features the world’s largest obstacle course, designed to provide the most crashes, face plants and wipeouts ever seen on television. Viewers will laugh out loud at this hilarious, fun-filled hour. Hosted by John Anderson (ESPN’s SportsCenter), John Henson (Talk Soup) and co-hosted by Jill Wagner. Each week 24 new contestants of all ages, shapes and sizes will go head to head through four rounds of grueling and physically demanding obstacles to battle for the title of “Wipeout Champion” and the grand prize of $50,000. Not only do the contestants change every week, so does the course. In the end, only one contestant will win, while everyone else will Wipeout!

The Secret Life of the American Teenager: “You Are My Everything” — 8:00pm ET/PT on ABC Family. Ben is shaken by the rumor about Amy.

Celebrity Family Feud — 8:00pm ET/PT on NBC. This week, four celebrity casts match wits to raise money for their respective charities. The Hickeys (playing for Family Crisis Resources) vs. The Camden County All-Stars (playing for New Hope Housing Alexandria, Virginia). In game two, The Office (playing for Children’s Advocacy Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania) vs. the American Gladiators (playing for The Womans Sports Foundation and USA Cares). The two winning families from each respective game will compete against each other in the final round where one team will compete in the “fast money” round to win up to $50,000 for their charity.

Moment of Truth: “Episode 116″ — 8:00pm ET/PT on Fox.

NCIS: “Friends and Lovers” — 8:00pm ET/PT on CBS. Repeat — Working with the local officials, the NCIS team originally believes that the sailor died of an unintentional drug overdose. But when they uncover a mysterious laminated card, Abby discovers an ominous message written on it in blood that quickly makes the team switch gears to find the sailor’s murderer. Meanwhile, Tony bonds with one of the local detectives working on the case.

Beauty and the Geek: “Super Geek” — 8:00pm ET/PT on The CW. Repeat — Each team battles to create the ultimate comic book hero. On a field trip to the biggest convention for comic book fans, ComiCon, the Geeks must design the perfect costume, while the Beauties invent the hero’s back story. One Geek struggles to adapt to the group, and a strong alliance is formed.

Good Eats with Alton Brown: “Crepe Expectations” — 8:00pm ET/PT on Food Network. Repeat — Crepes are a great wrap with a bad rap. Truth is, crepes are incredibly simple, versatile, and good eats. All you need is science, a good pan, and a limber wrist. Alton performs crepe technique for a live audience.

The Rundown — 8:00pm ET/PT on FX. A retrieval expert is sent to the Amazon to bring back a mob boss’ wayward son and finds himself in a race for a sacred gold idol against the local population and a slave-driving mine operator. The Rock, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson, and Ewen Bremner.

Open Range — 8:00pm ET/PT on AMC. Kevin Costner directed and stars in this elegiac Western about cowboys who run afoul of a brutal land baron. Robert Duvall is impressive as Costner’s partner on the dusty trail. Look for a riveting OK Corral-style gun battle between the cowboys and the landowner’s hired guns. Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, and Michael Jeter.

Good Eats with Alton Brown: “The Pouch Principle” — 8:30pm ET/PT on Food Network. Repeat — Living fast often means getting your food from a bag. Host Alton Brown doesn’t see anything wrong with that as long as the bag comes out of your oven?or microwave. Pouch cookery may have ancient origins but it may just be the key to your future food.

Deadliest Catch: “Changing Tides” — 9:00pm ET/PT on Discovery Channel. Northwestern fights the ice pack. The Wizard sets off with tempers flaring and a new greenhorn. Phil’s future on Cornelia Marie is questionable, so the crew struggles on without their captain. Time Bandit has a near fatal mistake and a tough choice.

I Survived a Japanese Game Show — 9:00pm ET/PT on ABC. Guiding these players through their stay in Japan are host/tour guide Tony Sano (Spring Break in Japan, Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight), an American actor fluent in Japanese; a house mother and resident pot-stirrer, Mamasan; and witty game show host Rome Kanda (Pink Panther, Saturday Night Live), who leads the American contestants through all of the zany games.

America’s Got Talent — 9:00pm ET/PT on NBC.

48 Hours Mystery — 9:00pm ET/PT on CBS.

The First 48: “Last Night Out/Death Do Us Part” — 9:00pm ET/PT on A&E. When a young man is gunned down outside a Cincinnati nightclub, witnesses see another young man running from the scene. Detectives Doug Lindle and Matt Thompson hope one of their witnesses can identify the shooter and help them catch a killer on the run. In Miami, a pair of one-year-old twins cry helplessly in the back of a black SUV — their mother slumped over in the driver’s seat, shot dead. Detectives Manny Castillo and Carlos Castellanos pursue every mysterious lead, hoping to find one that will identify their shooter.

Throwdown with Bobby Flay: “Mussels & Fries” — 9:00pm ET/PT on Food Network. A Washington, D.C. chef is known for his Belgian dish, mussels and fries, or moules frites, so Bobby challenges him to a cooking competition.

Hell’s Kitchen: “Winner Announced” — 9:00pm ET/PT on Fox. Season Finale — The final two chefs are one dinner service away from being crowned the winner of Hell’s Kitchen. The chefs have selected their staff, created the menus and chosen the dcor. After some final words of advice from Chef Ramsay, the doors of Hell’s Kitchen are open. As the orders start coming in, both teams are off to a slow start with the kitchens running out of food and appetizers being served cold. The final two need to slice and dice their way to the top to prove to Chef Ramsay they have what it takes to work in his restaurant on the season finale.

Reaper: “Hungry for Fame” — 9:00pm ET/PT on The CW. Repeat — Sam (Bret Harrison) tries to save an untalented musician (guest star Jamie Kennedy) from selling his soul to the Devil (Ray Wise) to become a rock star. Meanwhile, Sock (Tyler Labine) is stunned when his mother (guest star Marilyn Norry) returns from Las Vegas and announces she got married. He refuses to accept her new husband (guest star Henry Mah), so he moves in with Sam.

Throwdown with Bobby Flay: “Chowder” — 9:30pm ET/PT on Food Network. Repeat — Ben Sargeant likes to call himself the Brooklyn Chowder Surfer. He has been making chowder since the age of seven, and has surfed waves worldwide. Based in Brooklyn, he serves his acclaimed soups at the Hurricane Hopeful Surf Bar. When Ben gathers his friends together in a local park to celebrate his Food Network debut, he has no idea that Bobby Flay will be arriving fashionably late to challenge him to a Throwdown.

Rescue Me: “Minisode #3: Criteria” — 10:00pm ET/PT on FX.

30 Days: “Life on an Indian Reservation” — 10:00pm ET/PT on FX. Season Finale — Morgan Spurlock will live on a reservation with Native Americans near Window Rock, New Mexico, deep in the heart of the Navajo Nation. He will live with an extended Native American family in a traditional Navajo dwelling, seek employment, study the Navajo language and witness the economic hardships that are common to reservation life.

Deadliest Catch: “After the Catch #4: Deckhands” — 10:00pm ET/PT on Discovery Channel. Greenhorn and veteran deckhands share their first crabbing experience, crewing under crazy captains, and their best pranks from the King Crab and Opilio Crab seasons.

Primetime: “Outsiders” — 10:00pm ET/PT on ABC.

Without a Trace: “Res Ipsa” — 10:00pm ET/PT on CBS. Repeat — The team investigates the disappearance of a grieving mother and tries to determine if she went missing while trying to find her son, whom she believed was tortured and possibly killed while doing volunteer work in Guatemala.

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit: “Closet” — 10:00pm ET/PT on NBC. Repeat — When money manager Jeremy Grandon is found murdered in his loft, detectives Benson and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) initially suspect troubled teenager, Freddie Ramirez (guest star David Del Rio). A hidden video camera leads the detectives to the victims secret lover, Lincoln Morse (guest star Bailey Chase), a star-studded pro- football player whose agent, Gary Lesley (guest star Rick Hoffman), may go too far in protecting his clients persona. Morses history of memory loss brings defense attorney Rebecca Balthus (guest star Beverly DAngelo) into the case, while Detective Benson finally finds a boyfriend, Kurt Foss (guest star Bill Pullman), an editor at the Ledger who unfortunately clashes with her detective work.

Ace of Cakes: “The Super Cake” — 10:00pm ET/PT on Food Network. Repeat — Duff is Miami-bound to make a cake for the NFL’s Super Bowl party. Can he and his team pull off the largest cake Charm City has ever seen?

Late Show with David Letterman — 10:35pm ET/PT on CBS. Guests are Mike Myers, BMX rider Kevin Robinson, and Adele.

Late Night with Jay Leno — 10:35pm ET/PT on NBC. Guests are Aaron Eckhart, Swimmer Dara Torres, and Los Lonely Boys.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — 11:00pm ET/PT on Comedy Central. The guest is Ted Koppel.

The Colbert Report — 11:30pm ET/PT on Comedy Central. Guests are Paul Goldberger and Neil Degrasse Tyson

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — 11:35pm ET/PT on CBS. The guest is Jeffrey Tambor.

Late Night with Conan O’Brien — 11:35pm ET/PT on NBC. Guests are Selma Blair, Sig Hansen, and Little Jackie.