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• At 8, ABC has a new The Next Best Thing, followed by a new American Inventor.
• NBC has a new Most Outrageous Moments at 8, then new episodes of Last Comic Standing and Dateline.
• FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8, then a new Don't Forget The Lyrics.
• Discovery has a new Really Big Things at 8.
• At 9, CNBC has Big Mac: Inside The McDonald's Empire.
• There are two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne on TBS at 9.
• On a new Challenge, cooks try to make the ultimate Simpsons cake. It's on Food Network at 9.
• At 10, PBS has a new American Masters.
• FX has a new Rescue Me at 10.
• Discovery has two new eps of Cash Cab starting at 10.
• Also at 10: HBO repeats Bill Maher's live special from last weekend.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, ABC has a new The Next Best Thing, followed by a new American Inventor and the series finale (?) of Traveler.
• FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance at 8.
• There's a new Most Outrageous Moments special on NBC at 8, then new episodes of Last Comic Standing and Dateline.
• TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne starting at 8.
• Also at 8: Court TV has a new Most Shocking, then new episodes of Forensics Files, L.A. Forensics, Haunting Evidence, and Psychic Detectives.
• At 9, PBS has a new American Masters, profiling David Hockney.
• Sci-Fi has a new Ghost Hunters at 9, then a new Destination Truth.
• BBC America has a new Footballer's Wives at 9.
• At 10, FX has a new Rescue Me.
• Discovery has two new episodes of Cash Cab at 10.
• History Channel has a new Modern Marvels at 10.
• There's a new Top Chef on Bravo at 10 (repeated at 11).
• At 10:30, MTV has a new "Where Are They Now?" episode of Jackass.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• Sci-Fi has a Twilight Zone marathon all day and night, while The History Channel has a marathon of Revolution.
• TCM has Yankee Doodle Dandy at 5:30, followed by The Howards of Virginia and 1776.
• At 8, PBS has A Capitol Fourth, with Tony Danza, Bebe Neuwirth, Elliot Yamin, Yolanda Adams, and Hayden Penttiere from Heroes. Wow, did they just pick names out of a celebrity hat or something?
• The CW has a new Hidden Palms at 8.
• At 9, NBC has the Macy's Fourth of July Spectacular, followed by a new Dateline.
• TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne starting at 9.
• At 10, CBS has the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, ABC has a new The Next Best Thing: Who Is The Greatest Celebrity Impersonator?, followed by the season premiere of American Inventor and a new Traveler.
• NBC has the Senators/Ducks game at 8.
• The CW has a new Hidden Palms at 8, then a new One Tree Hill.
• At 9, FOX has a new So You Think You Can Dance.
• TBS has the series premiere of Tyler Perry's House of Payne at 9, followed by another new episode.
• There's a new Mythbusters on Discovery at 9.
• The Travel Channel has a new World Poker Tour at 9.
• Also at 9: Sci-Fi has the season premiere of Ghost Hunters, then a new Destination Truth.
• At 10, Food Network has a new Good Eats.
• There's a new Top Chef on Bravo at 10, where cast members from the first two seasons compete for charity.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Sister is doing it for herself. When Gilmore wraps and the Studio 60 guest spots dry up, Lauren Graham will be able to fall back on her production chops. Graham has unveiled a slate of shows that she'll be executive producing with Warner Brothers Television under the banner of Good Game Entertainment. Good Game Vice-President Kathy Ebel is a college friend of Graham's, and the Warner Brothers' partnership is good so long as Gilmore Girls is on the air.

What's on the Good Game girls slate so far? First up is an international auction house-set dramedy called Objects of Desire. The show, which has been sold to The CW, is an ensemble show that promises a mix of "juicy workplace soap and behind-the-scenes intrigue" as well as a procedural element that follows an art object's history over the course of the show.

Tyler Perry, the man behind the popular films Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Family Reunion is coming to television with a new syndicated show called House of Payne. Unlike his films, however, Perry won't be appearing on this show, which will focus on a multigenerational family living in the same house. Perry will serve as an executive producer, writer, and director. He might possibly appear in future episodes in a guest role. Perry chose to go the syndication route in order to maintain creative control. The first ten episodes will be available in select markets with national distribution set for 2007.