• At 7, USA has more coverage of The U.S. Open.
• At 8, CBS has a new Big Brother.
• FOX has a new Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader at 8, followed by a new Don't Forget The Lyrics.
• TLC has a new American Chopper at 9.
• There's a new Boneyard on Discovery at 9.
• HGTV has a new Divine Design at 9.
• Also at 9: Sci-Fi has a new Who Wants To Be A Superhero?
• At 10, AMC has a new Mad Men.
• Food Network has a new Ace of Cakes at 10.
• Bravo has the series premiere of Tim Gunn's Guide To Style at 10.
• MTV has a new Celebrity Rap Superstar at 10.
• Sundance has a new Live From Abbey Road at 10, with The Killers and Gnarls Barkley.
• At 10:30, VH-1 has a new I Hate My 30s.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 7, USA has coverage of the U.S. Open.
• At 8, CBS has a new Big Brother.
• TLC has a new American Hot Rod at 8, then new episodes of American Chopper and Hard Shine.
• TCM has some Buster Keaton movies starting at 8, including Steamboat Bill, Jr., The General, and College.
• At 9, Sci-Fi has a new Who Wants To Be A Superhero?
• At 10, AMC has a new Mad Men.
• There's a new Ace of Cakes on Food Network at 10.
• MTV has the series premiere of Celebrity Rap Superstar at 10.
• Also at 10: Sundance has a new Live From Abbey Road, with guests Corrine Bailey Rae, Paul Simon, and Primal Scream.
• At 10:30, VH-1 has a new I Hate My 30s.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 7:30, ESPN has coverage of the Little League World Series.
• At 8, FOX has a preseason football game, the Jaguars vs. the Packers.
• ABC has the pilot of Ugly Betty, if you're thinking of getting into the show.
• TLC has a new American Hot Rod at 8.
• There's a new Modern Marvels on History Channel at 8.
• At 9, Sci-Fi has a new Who Wants To Be A Superhero?
• At 10, USA has a new Burn Notice.
• AMC has a new Mad Men at 10.
• Food Network has a new Ace of Cakes at 10.
• Sundance has a new Live From Abbey Road at 10.
• Also at 10: Bravo has a new Welcome to the Parker.
• At 10:30, VH-1 has a new I Hate My 30s.
• At midnight, ESPN2 has a Pilot Pen Tennis quarterfinal.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• At 8, CBS has a new Big Brother.
• FOX has a new Don't Forget The Lyrics at 8, then a new So You Think You Can Dance.
• TLC has a new American Hot Rod at 8, then new episodes of American Chopper and Hard Shine.
• Food Network has a new The Secret Life Of... at 8, featuring "Hollywood Eats."
• Also at 8: BBC America has a new Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
• At 8:30, Bravo has a new Hey Paula.
• At 9, Food Network has the finale of The Next Food Network Star.
• Sci-Fi has the season premiere of Who Wants To Be A Superhero at 9, then the series premiere of Mind Control With Derren Brown.
• CNBC has the new special American Greed at 9.
• At 10, AMC has a new Mad Men.
• There's a new Burn Notice on USA at 10.
• Sundance Channel has a new Live From Abbey Road at 10, with LeeAnn Rimes and Dr. John.

Check your local TV listings for more.

I'm sure Whoheads are already aware, but just in case aliens sucked out some of your memory, let me remind you that a brand new season of Doctor Who kicks off this Friday on Sci Fi at 8:00 p.m.

Eureka, a show I highly recommend, comes back for a new season on July 10. It's a show that even people who hate sci fi might enjoy, offering lighter entertainment than say, Battlestar Galactica, but without being too silly or trite.

Also, the second season of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? starts July 26 at 8:00 p.m. You can watch some of the auditions here.

The Sci Fi Channel has renewed Stan Lee's quirky reality series Who Wants to Be a Superhero? for a second season, ordering ten new hour-long episodes set to air next summer. Lee says the new season will be even more insane than the last, and I'll have to take his word for it because I didn't watch the first season. I must say, however, that just the idea of a reality series about people pretending to be someone they're not exposes the fundamental flaw in all reality programming, which is that once the cameras are on, reality ceases to exist. At any rate, if you're a fan of the show, consider this good news.

(S01E01) Uhm, yea.

Look, I admire Stan Lee. Back in the early 1960's he took Marvel Comics, which was in its death throes at the time, and turned it completely around by introducing a whole new group of superheroes, including such mainstays as Spider-man, The Hulk, The X-Men, and The Fantastic Four. These people didn't just have abilities beyond those of mortal men: they had feelings and hearts and realized that their powers came with a price. As Uncle Ben said to Peter Parker 'With great power comes great responsibility'. So, Mr. Lee had every right to become the icon that he is today.

But Stan . . . Stan, Stan, Stan. What the heck were you thinking when you created Who Wants to be a Superhero? Don't get me wrong, the concept is good: enlist normal people to dress up as original comic book heroes (with self-made costumes) and compete in an elimination tournament where the winner would get their own comic book and an original movie on the Sci-Fi Channel. However, the outcome that premiered was, well, not very good at all.

• On the cover: a sci-fi "preview," with covers featuring the original Star Trek, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, and Lost. The Trek preview is about J.J. Abrams big screen movie, but I think it's just another excuse to put the show (and Lost) on the damn cover, and have yet another multi-cover issue.
• Matt Roush reviews the summer shows Work Out, Life on Mars, Inspector Lewis, Who Wants To Be A Superhero, and Walter Cronkite: Witness To History. He likes them all except one. Can you guess which one?
• An interview with Brotherhood's Jason Isaacs.
• In the print edition: a Q & A with Matt Dallas from Kyle XY; a guest column from comic book legend Stan Lee; behind the scenes of the CMA Music Festival; and find out what would have happened if Threshold hadn't been canceled!

We've been reporting on-and-off for several months now about Spider-Man creator Stan Lee's new series called Who Wants to be a Superhero, which will be appearing on the Sci-Fi Channel. Well, the premiere of the series is a mere two weeks away and the 11 superheroes that will be competing for a chance to appear in their own comic book and a Sci-Fi Channel movie have been chosen.

You can see the chosen heroes at Sci-Fi Channel's website. Some of the contestants take their hero personas seriously. For example, Matthew Atherton's alter ego, Feedback, absorbs powers and abilities from video games that he plays. That's a pretty decent concept. On the other hand, Chelsea Weld's Cell Phone Girl doesn't seem to be taking to whole thing seriously (well, seriously enough for a contest involving real life superheroes).

Maybe it's the name Cell Phone Girl that causes problems. I mean, would you really pick up an issue of Cell Phone Girl number one hundred, or watch a movie entitled The Further Adventures of Cell Phone Girl? Maybe the producers of Superhero will ask her to change her name to something like Free Minutes, or Roaming.

• Who wants to be a Superhero?, a reality series that follows Stan Lee as he puts contestants through challenges to help them find their super strength;
• Medium at Large, a reality series that features psychic Char Margolis;
• The Gift, reality series that follows people in boot camp for intuitives;
• The Bridge, a comedy-drama about a group of cynical souls trapped in purgatory and the good deeds they must do to get out.