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This week’s TV picks
Leigh and Leslie Keno on Fox’s “Buried Treasure.”
Monday:
“Monday Night Football” 7 p.m., ESPN: The Bears pre-seasonally take on the Giants in New York. Go, Bears!
“American Ninja Warrior” 8 p.m., NBC: Season 3 concludes tonight in Japan. Go, Ninjas!
“The T.O. Show” 8:30 p.m., VH1: Season 3 opens with ACL surgery. (That’s the ACL located in the knee, not the one held in Zilker Park).
“CIA Confidential: Inside the Drone War” 9 p.m., NatGeo: Unmanned craft battle the Taliban and Al Queda.
“RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope” 10 p.m., PBS: Filmmakers chronicle Robert Kennedy’s 1966 South Africa trip.
Tuesday:
“Ludo Bites America” 8 p.m., Sundance: Ouch! Ludo and Krissy sink their chompers into California as they wrap up Season 1.
“Hard Time” 9 p.m., NatGeo: Season 2 winds up in a Georgia clink.
“POV” 9 p.m., PBS: A series of short films are featured.
Wednesday:
“Buried Treasure” 7 p.m., Fox: Former HGTV personalities assess objects found in homes across America in this series premiere. It’s as if PBS and HGTV put a baby up for adoption and Homer Simpson is raising it.
“Great Performances” 7 p.m., PBS: The Vienna Philharmonic performs classical selections.
“Deadliest Warrior” 8 p.m., Spike: Teddy Roosevelt hypothetically battles Lawrence of Arabia while I hypothetically watch.
“Ghost Hunters” 8 p.m., Syfy: The spirit of an old man haunts a Rhode Island kitchen. He’s probably looking for Boo-Berry.
“Confessions: Animal Hoarding” 9 p.m., Animal Planet: Can’t we just call them pack rats?
“Top Chef Just Desserts” 9 p.m., Bravo: Season 2 premieres.
Thursday:
“High School Football” 7 p.m., KBVO: McCallum takes on Anderson.
“Gamenight Special” 7:30 p.m., NBC: Head coach Mack Brown previews Longhorn football.
“Expedition Impossible” 8 p.m., ABC: The first season wraps up in Marrakesh. All aboard the train!
Friday:
“Karaoke Battle USA” 8 p.m., ABC: The only time the word “champions” should be used in the same sentence with the word “karaoke” is if somebody is singing Queen’s “We Are the Champions,” okay?
Saturday:
“NFL Football Exhibition” 7 p.m., CBS: The Cowboys travel to Minnesota to try and rope the Vikings.
“Doctor Who” 8 p.m., BBC America: The time lord is back, and he’s set his sights on Hitler.
Sunday:
“2011 MTV Video Music Awards” 8 p.m., MTV: You’re rolling in it! Popular songstress Adele is among those performing at the 28th annual ceremony.
“Leverage” 8 p.m., TNT: “Star Trek: The Next Generation’s” Riker (Jonathan Frakes)
directed this 4th season finale, so I guess that makes it number one.
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