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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.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2008

The Scorpion King — 7:00pm ET/PT on USA Network. In ancient Egypt, a muscular mercenary is hired to kill the beautiful sorceress who aids an evil tyrant and end his rule; instead, he frees her from captivity and plots an insurrection to topple the despot from power. The Rock, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, and Bernard Hill.

Greatest American Dog: “Top Dog Model” — 8:00pm ET/PT on CBS. New Timeslot — Back at Canine Academy, jealousy jeopardizes the relationship between two of the owners, at the Dog Bone Competition, some owners are shocked to find out they don’t know their dogs as well as they think they do and, while taking a dip in the pool, Tillman displays his very special technique of water conservation. For the Best In Show Competition, each dog/owner team spends time with a photographer to come up with a shot to impress the judges. The fourth team is expelled from the Canine Academy.

So You Think You Can Dance — 8:00pm ET/PT on Fox. The grueling auditions continue on So You Think You Can Dance, the series that has America on its feet. Dancers must impress the judges with their moves and rigorous routines in order to remain in the competition. See who struts into the producers’ hearts and who trips up.

Jaws of the Pacific — 8:00pm ET/PT on Discovery Channel. Researchers, analyzing data from new satellite technology, have discovered that the great white shark makes incredible long-distance migrations across the Pacific. Transmitters attached to the sharks may soon reveal hidden birthing and mating grounds.

Shark Week on Discovery Channel

The Baby Borrowers: “The Break Up” — 8:00pm ET/PT on NBC. Repeat — After a relaxing brunch out together, the couples return home to find their teens ready and waiting. Always a turbulent couple, Morgan and Daton’s relationship trouble come to a head, leaving Morgan to make a tough decision. Each couple quickly learns some of the challenges teens pose, from a difficult family outing to finding their teens out of bed in the middle of the night. After an interesting three days, the couples get their chance to tell the parents how well their kid behaved and not every parent is ready to hear it.

Ghost Hunters International: “Frankenstein’s Castle” — 8:00pm ET/PT on SCI Fi Channel. Repeat — The Ghost Hunters International team journey into the heart of German folklore as they investigate the grounds of Frankenstein’s Castle in Muhltal, Germany.

Good Eats with Alton Brown: “Tender is the Loin 1″ — 8:00pm ET/PT on Food Network. Repeat — Beef tenderloin is one of the most luxurious cuts of critter known to man, expensive too. Alton investigates where this costly cut comes from, how to buy it and what to do to get your money’s worth out of it.

MonsterQuest: “Bigfoot” — 8:00pm ET/PT on History Channel. Repeat — No other place on the planet has had more Big Foot sightings than Washington State, and an all female scientific research team, armed with digital microscopes, will head there in an attempt to lure the legendary beast out into the open.

Good Eats with Alton Brown: “Tender is the Loin 2″ — 8:30pm ET/PT on Food Network. Repeat — Alton completes his strategy of getting your money’s worth from the luxurious cut of meat known as beef tenderloin. We learn the legends and preparations of Carpaccio, Philly Cheese steak and the perfect Chateaubriand.

MonsterQuest: “Legend of the Hairy Beast” — 9:00pm ET/PT on History Channel. Native American history is full of “Hairy Man” stories and cave art that date back over a thousand years. Did Native Americans know the truth behind the Bigfoot legend? An expedition along the Klamath River into reservation land will use state of the art technology to search for something locals don’t doubt is real. With unprecedented access to Native American stories and recent sightings, MonsterQuest examines this creature that is both feared and revered.

The Baby Borrowers: “A Journey’s End” — 9:00pm ET/PT on NBC. Season Finale — After a relaxing brunch out together, the couples return home to find their teens ready and waiting. Always a turbulent couple, Morgan and Daton’s relationship trouble come to a head, leaving Morgan to make a tough decision. Each couple quickly learns some of the challenges teens pose, from a difficult family outing to finding their teens out of bed in the middle of the night. After an interesting three days, the couples get their chance to tell the parents how well their kid behaved and not every parent is ready to hear it.

Nova ScienceNow: “Phoenix Mars Mission; Brain Trauma; Mammoth Mystery; Judah Folkman Tribute” — 9:00pm ET/PT on PBS. The NASA mission to search for water on Mars; forensic science’s take on the fossilized remains of two mammoths whose tusks were entwined as if in battle; a profile of cancer researcher Judah Folkman (1933-2008), who, despite skepticism from the medical community, proposed the now-accepted idea of cutting off the blood supply to tumors.

Ghost Hunters International: “Shattered Spirit” — 9:00pm ET/PT on SCI Fi Channel. In Bodelwyddan Castle, everyone knows where the bones are buried. In the walls. The team wants to find out about ghosts of soldiers patrolling the tortured halls.

Dog the Bounty Hunter: “Felons Interrupted” — 9:00pm ET/PT on A&E. Today Dog is back in Hawaii confronted with two alleged felons who are in crisis. Family and friends of these bondees are convinced that they are getting into further trouble while awaiting trial, so Dog and the posse have to bring these men back to the relative safety of jail. In both cases addiction has a powerful hold on their targets, and so Dog’s motto of “find ‘em and fix ‘em” is truly at work.

Project Runway — 9:00pm ET/PT on Bravo.

MythBusters: “Shark Week Special 2″ — 9:00pm ET/PT on Discovery Channel. Repeat — Among the myths tackled in this Shark Week special: Do dogs attract sharks? Do the vibrations caused by a flapping injured fish attract sharks? Does chili powder repel sharks?

MythBusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman

Criminal Minds: “Damaged” — 9:00pm ET/PT on CBS. Repeat — When Rossi decides to revisit an unsolved case from his past, the BAU team steps in to help him unravel the circumstances behind the mysterious murder of two young parents nearly 20 years before.

The Mummy Returns — 9:00pm ET/PT on USA Network. When the mummy is resurrected, adventurer Rick and his wife Evelyn travel back to Egypt to save their son and the rest of the world from certain doom. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, and Oded Fehr.

Black Gold: “Episode 7″ — 10:00pm ET/PT on TruTV. Long-burning fuses threaten to explode in the oilfields when last-place driller Justin is reaching his boiling point trying to train his difficult rookie, Derek. Then the young, inexperienced crew of the Longhorn rig must deal with a poisonous gas leak. And just when things start looking good for the high-tech Viking rig, Wayne and his crew face a crisis that could destroy their well.

Mind of Mencia: “Episode 410″ 10:00pm ET/PT on Comedy Central.

Scare Tactics: “When White Noise Attacks” — 10:00pm ET/PT on SCI Fi Channel.

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

American Shark — 10:00pm ET/PT on Discovery Channel. Journey around the coast of the U.S. in search of shark life from the deep ocean, the coral reef, the shallow waters and even favorite beaches. Find out why some species justify visceral fears and discover others that are rarely seen.

Lewis Black’s The Root of All Evil: “Ultimate Fighting vs. Bloggers” — 10:00pm ET/PT on Comedy Central. Season Premiere — Who’s worse, Bloggers or Ultimate Fighters? Opinionated shut-ins running off at the mouth, or human gorillas punching each other in the face? One bores you to sleep; the other kicks you into a coma. To decide, Patton Oswalt and Andy Daly duke it out in the court of the Honorable Judge Lewis Black, the ultimate evaluator or evil.

CSI: NY: “Commuted Sentences” — 10:00pm ET/PT on CBS. Repeat — Mac and the team find a man stabbed to death in Madison Square Park and a woman shot dead on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and they soon realize that the two victims have a criminal past in common.

Law & Order: “Personae Non Grata” — 10:00pm ET/PT on NBC. Repeat — Automobile mechanic Eric Greenwood is found murdered outside of a bar leading Detectives Cyrus Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) and Kevin Bernard (Anthony Anderson) to question the victims boss, Bob Munsen (guest star Barry Del Sherman). Lupo and Cyrus discover Munsen was involved in an online relationship that Greenwood had sabotaged. Munsen profited over $60,000 dollars of stolen money, and laundered the money to his young, online lover, “Jenny Cheponis.” The case takes some strange twists and turns, as “Jenny” turns out to be an older woman, Donna Cheponis (guest star Melissa Leo), with a missing daughter. Greenwood exposed the online relationship between Munsen and Cheponis and ended up dead, but “Jenny” remains missing. The detectives struggle to solve the case of murder and deceit in this online murder mystery case.

Scare Tactics: “Bigfoot Attacks” — 10:30pm ET/PT on SCI Fi Channel.

Late Show with David Letterman — 10:35pm ET/PT on CBS. Guests are Pamela Anderson, James Franco, and Atmosphere.

Late Night with Jay Leno — 10:35pm ET/PT on NBC. Guests are Rainn Wilson, Emeril Lagasse, and Sergio Mendes featuring Ledisi.

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

The Colbert Report — 11:30pm ET/PT on Comedy Central. The guest is Crosby Stills and Nash.

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — 11:35pm ET/PT on CBS. Guests are Michelle Yeoh, Tom Sullivan, and Jakob Dylan.

Late Night with Conan O’Brien — 11:35pm ET/PT on NBC. Guests are Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, and Gogol Bordello.