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This week’s TV picks
Monday:
“The Gayle King Show” 9 a.m., OWN: Oprah’s gal pal gets her own show on O’s OWN network.
“Lie to Me” 7 p.m., Fox: Cal pulls a “House” and investigates a mental hospital.
“Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets” 9 p.m., Discovery: This new show tells true murder tales from the victims’ points of view with creepy fictionalized narration from the deceased.
Tuesday:
“V” 8 p.m., ABC: It’s a scaly smack down as Diana and Anna duke it out on the mother ship.
“Lights Out” 9 p.m., FX: The boxing craze hits the small screen as a washed-up prizefighter returns to the ring to support his wife and three daughters in tonight’s premiere episode.
“Independent Lens” 9 p.m., PBS: The plight of Haiti’s orphans is examined through the tales of three teens in “Children of Haiti.”
Wednesday:
“Modern Family” 8 p.m., ABC: “24’s” Mary Lynn Rajskub guests as Mitchell’s old girlfriend. That’s right, I said “girlfriend,” girlfriend.
“Off the Map” 9 p.m., ABC: Sigh. Another medical drama, this time about disillusioned docs who travel to South America in an attempt to reignite their passion for medicine. I feel their pain: I am trying to reignite my passion for medical dramas.
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” 9 p.m., NBC: I get it, but I still think I’d be more interested if this show fictionalized only crimes involving sport utility vehicles.
Thursday:
“Community” 7 p.m., NBC: Yeah, it’s a repeat, but it’s a repeat of the stellar “dorms in a community college/blanket fort/Professor Professorson” episode, so watch it again.
“Beyond Scared Straight” 9 p.m., A&E: Inmates introduce youths to brutal lock-up reality. Tonight’s premiere is set in a Chowchilla, California women’s prison.
Friday:
“Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star” 8 p.m., OWN: Designer Vera Wang helps Austin’s Zach Anner and his fellow competitors produce makeover segments.
“16th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards” 8 p.m., VH1: Maroon 5 plays the presenters and winners on and off as “Black Swan” takes home a bunch of wins.
Saturday:
“Austin City Limits” 7 p.m., PBS: The National and Band of Horses rock it out.
“Miss America Pageant” 8 p.m., ABC: Chris Harrison co-hosts this year’s pageant from Las Vegas, but I think Chris Hansen would be a better choice because he could keep the predators away.
Sunday:
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” 7 p.m., ABC: Snowboarder Shaun White and chef Paula Deen volunteer tonight in what must be an audition for Sundance channel’s “Iconoclasts.”
“The Simpsons” 7 p.m., Fox: Moe’s bar gets yet another makeover, but this one is “fabulous!”
“Hogs Gone Wild” 9 p.m., Discovery: I know, I thought this show featured pigs in bikinis, too, but the joke’s on us.
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