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• At 8, PBS has a new NOW, then a new Washington Week.
• FOX has the two-hour special TV's Funniest Moments at 8.
• The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• Also at 8: Sci-Fi has a new Stargate SG-1, then new episodes of Stargate Atlantis and Painkiller Jane.
• At 9, ABC has a new National Bingo Night.
• TLC has a new What Not To Wear at 9.
• Food Network has a new Paula's Party at 9.
• WE has a new Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter at 9.
• There's a new thriller on Hallmark at 9, Pandemic, with Vincent Spano and Tiffany Thiessen as a sexy epidemiologist.
• At 10, A&E has a new Intervention.

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• At 8, CBS has a new Ghost Whisperer, a new Close To Home (both season finales) and a new Numb3rs.
• NBC has a new, two-hour Dateline at 8, then a new Law and Order.
• There's a new Smackdown! on The CW at 8.
• PBS has a new NOW at 8, then new episodes of Washington Week and Bill Moyers Journal.
• TLC has a new Trading Spaces at 8.
• Also at 8: Sci-Fi has new episodes of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Painkiller Jane.
• At 9, ABC has a new, two-hour 20/20.
• At 11, IFC has a new Henry Rollins Show, with guests Luke and Andrew Wilson and Chris Cornell.
• HBO has a new Real Time with Bill Maher, with guests Paula Poundstone, Arianna Huffington, Frank Luntz, and David Talbot.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, CBS has a new Ghost Whisperer, then new episodes of Close To Home and Numb3rs.
• NBC has a new, two-hour Dateline at 8, then a new Law and Order.
• PBS has a new NOW at 8, followed by new episodes of Washington Week and Bill Moyers Journal.
• The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• ESPN has an NBA Playoff game at 8.
• Also at 8: Sci-Fi has a new Stargate SG-1, then new eps of Stargate Atlantis and Painkiller Jane.
• At 9 on CNN, Bill Maher hosts an all-star tribute to Larry King.
• AMC has Enter The Dragon at 8, then Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story.
• At 10, ABC has a new 20/20.
• At 11, HBO has a new Real Time With Bill Maher, with guests Sean Penn, Tommy Thompson, and Harold Ford, Jr.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, CBS has a new Ghost Whisperer, then new episodes of Close To Home and Numb3rs.
• NBC has a new Identity at 8, followed by new episodes of Raines and Law & Order.
• PBS has new episodes of NOW, Washington Week, and Bill Moyer's Journal (with Jon Stewart).
• There's a new Smackdown! on The CW at 8.
• Food Network has a new Emeril Live at 8, then Paula's Party features "Sandwich Stories."
• Also at 8: Sci-Fi has a new Stargate SG-1.
• At 9, TLC has a new What Not To Wear.
• Bravo has Out of Sight at 9.
• At 10, Sci-Fi has a new Painkiller Jane.
• At 11, HBO has a new Real Time With Bill Maher, with guests Richard Belzer, Representative Dennis Kucinich, Christopher Buckley, and Laura Schiffrin.
• IFC has a new Henry Rollins Show at 11, with guests John Waters and Mars Volta.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, NBC has a new Identity, followed by a new Raines.
• The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• PBS has a new NOW at 8, then a new Washington Week.
• Sci-Fi has new episodes of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Painkiller Jane.
• Also at 8: CMT has a new episode of Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search.
• At 9, TLC has a new What Not To Wear.
• At 10, ABC has a new 20/20.
• Food Network has a new Paula's Party at 10.
• At 11, HBO has a new Real Time with Bill Maher, with guests Bill Moyers, Governor Brian Schweitzer, journalist John O'Sullivan and political anaylst Amy Holmes.

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(S01E01) So, you watched the premiere episode of Painkiller Jane, didn't you? Curiosity struck you even after reading my less-than-glowing review of the show, didn't it? Well, good for you! Just because I wasn't enamored with the program doesn't mean my opinion is gospel. Everyone has free will in this society and should be able to decide whether a show is good or not.

So, did you dislike Painkiller Jane as much as I did? No? Well, you must be from another planet to like something like that! How dare you not think what I think! Oh, wait, that rant voids what I said in the first paragraph. Um, never mind.

Seriously, I didn't like the show just because the acting was bad and the writing the was poor (even though the writing was poor and the acting was bad). What turned me off to this show as soon as the first scene showed up on my television screen was that this type of show has been done over, and over, and over. Let's see if this sounds familiar to you: tough-as-nails law enforcement agent obtains remarkable powers and laments over the freak that she is rather than using those powers to fight evil. Let's count on our fingers how many times that's been done. You may need your toes, too, because this has been done a lot.

• At 8, NBC has a new Identity, then a new episode of Raines.
• The CW has an ew Smackdown! at 8.
• PBS has a new NOW at 8, followed by a new Washington Week.
• TLC has two new episodes of What Not To Wear starting at 8.
• Also at 8: Sci-Fi has a new Stargate SG-1, then new episodes of Stargate: Atlantis and Painkiller Jane.
• At 8:30, Disney has a new Cory in the House.
• At 9:30, Food Network has a new Giada's Weekend Getaways (in L.A.), then a new Paula's Party.
• At 10, Comedy Central has the special The Amazing Jonathan: Wrong On Every Level.
• At 11, HBO has a new Real Time With Bill Maher, with guests Bill Bradley, Sheryl Crow, Scott McClellan, and Laurie David.
• Also at 11: IFC has the second season premiere of The Henry Rollins Show.

Check your local TV listings for more.

What can I say about The Sci-Fi Channel's new show Painkiller Jane? Well, it certainly isn't well-written, well-acted, attention-getting, on par with Battlestar Galactica, or a fine replacement for Stargate SG-1. None of those phrases would describe this show. However, these would: bad acting, bad writing, extremely boring (both my wife an I fell asleep) and not a very good addition to the Sci-Fi Friday schedule. Now, I could be jaded here since the preview DVD I was sent showed rough cuts of the show. Nah, who am I kidding? The show is just bad!

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Thank God You're Here (Mon., 9PM ET, NBC) series premiere
Confession: I miss Whose Line Is It Anyway? What can I say, I like improv. That's why I'm excited for the premiere of this new improv show, hosted by David Alan Grier. Four celebs don costumes and play out scenes they know nothing about. In the first episode, Wayne Knight is a medical quack, Bryan Cranston a randy rock star, Joel McHale a clueless archaelogist and Jennifer Coolidge a ditzy pageant queen. Then, judge Dave Foley crowns one the best performer of the night.

Dog the Bounty Hunter (Tue., 9PM ET, A&E) 4th season premiere
Much happened to Duane "Dog" Chapman in 2006. Last May, he married business partner Beth a day after daughter Barbara died in a car crash. In September, he was arrested for bounty hunting in Mexico, where it is illegal. His request not to be extradited was denied, so he too will have his day in court. Despite all of this, Dog is back and better than ever. In the premiere, he personally takes on the case of a female fugitive after learning she shares the same birthdate as his late daughter.

Painkiller Jane, SciFi's new series based on the comic by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada, will premiere April 13 at 10:00 p.m. The series will focus on the titular character (played by Kristanna Loken) a woman who can regenerate from any injury, but still feels pain. She hunts Neuros, humans with super-mental powers, for a secret agency.