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Tonight's Best TV

Wednesday, July 20

By Alynda Wheat
Entertainment Weekly

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(Entertainment Weekly) -- Entertainment Weekly's daily guide to notable shows:

8-9:30PM*
BOB NEWHART: UNBUTTONED (PBS, TV-PG) The dean of deadpan, Bob Newhart was an accountant who lived with his parents in Chicago until he was almost 30, then broke out with his 1960 Grammy-winning debut album. This affectionate recap shows how he shrugged off the edginess of other comics of his era but still earned big laughs from small gestures. -- Thom Geier
*check local listings

EW Grade: B+

Best of the rest

8-10PM
SERIES DEBUT: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (Fox, TV-PG) If you seriously think you can, then knock it out. Just remember your name is Hubris when you get clowned on one of their audition "specials."

9-9:30PM
SERIES DEBUT: INKED (A&E, TV-PG-L) Reality show in a tattoo parlor. Because anyone who writes on their bodies must have -- hey, stop me if you've heard this one before.

9:30-10PM
UNDER INVESTIGATION: MYSTERY IN THE CAPITOL (Court TV) Court TV revisits the Chandra Levy case so you don't have to. Oh, wait.

10-10:30PM
SERIES DEBUT: VENUS & SERENA: FOR REAL (ABC Family, TV-PG) Raise your hand if you liked 'em fake.

10-11PM
SERIES DEBUT: CRISS ANGEL MINDFREAK (A&E, TV-PG-L) This new series opens with a sinister voice intoning, "Warning: Attempting anything you are about to see could result in serious injury or death. Do not try this at home." We then cut to a shot of Criss Angel, the Mindfreak himself -- all Scott Stapp hair and Jesus Christ pose -- who, in a sinister voice, intones, "What I'm about to do, anybody can do ... if you believe." Dammit, now I'm confused. Welcome to what is essentially "Magick Jackass": Tonight, Angel runs around Vegas levitating himself -- and others -- and scaring the hell out of people. It's cool. But Freakboy is getting dropped one full letter grade for all his unnecessary Goth-metal cheesiness/eyeliner and for recording his own theme song. Sorry. -- Whitney Pastorek

EW Grade: C+

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