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BEST BETS FOR WEDNESDAY, MAR. 10, 2010

HUMAN TARGET

Fox, 8 p.m. ET

Tonight’s return episode of this series, after a few weeks off to avoid NBC’s Olympics, features Mark Valley at his playful best. He reunites with an old lover, who still bears a grudge – so much so that she’s disgusted when his head touches her shoulder. “What are you, eight?” he complains. Very funny.

AMERICAN IDOL

Fox, 9 p.m. ET

Tonight, it’s time for the young to do what the women did last night: sing, once again, for their survival. Eight of them sing tonight. Six of them survive after tomorrow’s latest cut.

MODERN FAMILY

ABC, 9 p.m. ET

Judy Greer guest stars in tonight’s episode, playing an old girlfriend of Ty Burrell’s Phil who resurfaces (clearly a perennially popular TV plot). But there’s other stuff afoot, as always, including a manufactured “crime scene” involving a family pet.

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT

NBC, 9 & 10 p.m. ET

Among the guest stars in tonight’s doubleheader: Lena Olin, who usually stars in movies, and who hasn’t done much TV since cutting such a fine, scary figure on ABC’s Alias.

TOP HAT

TCM, 10 p.m. ET

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in this most stylish of black-and-white romantic musicals. Made in 1935, it’s still clever, still sexually playful, and, with its display of talent and stardom, about as sparkly and impressive as it gets.

PSYCH

USA, 10 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Alfred Hitchcock fans will get a particular kick out of tonight’s episode. A killer sets out to murder Shawn and his colleagues, but in a stylized way that borrows its methods from old Hitchcock movies. Wow. The guy must be a real Psycho. Or, in this case, a real Psych-O.

   
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