Hello everyone. My name is Will Wilkins, and I love comi…um, I mean, television.

Now that we are easily over the hump of the summer slow-down it is nice to see that cable still has a few new choices for us to sample. This week, however, the main choices are on channels you may not usually peruse.

Tuesday night marks the return of Eureka on the Sci-Fi Channel. This is Eureka’s third season and the show is one I would refer as good and quirky fun. If you aren’t familiar with the premise, I can break it down for you pretty well. A Federal Marshall (played by Colin Ferguson) ends up getting assigned duty as the Chief of Police for the small and hardly known town of Eureka. This town is actually the home of a massive government program to nurture the best minds of the country (and partially subsidized by questionable corporation Global Dynamics) so what you wind up with is a scientifically advanced micro-society that every week offers up a new type of mystery or problem for the Chief and the rest of the cast to solve.

Sunday night people will have to choose who they prefer more, Tommy Lee or Pamela Anderson with the premiere of both of their new shows at 10 PM. Tommy Lee will be facing off against rapper Ludacris to see who can affect he most change to going green on Planet Green’s Battleground Earth (not to be confused with the John Travolta flop Battlefield Earth). Pamela Anderson will be starring on the E! channel with her own reality show Pam: Girl on the Loose. I’m sure both channels are equally hard to find so good luck in making your pick in this face off of the former sex tape Titans.

Now let’s take a look at what else the week has to offer.

MONDAY

SCIFI – 9:00 PM: Star Trek: The Next Generation goes time tripping in the early days of San Francisco in Time’s Arrow, with both parts 1 and 2 airing tonight. I’m always a sucker for time travel stories, and this one was particularly interesting since it kicks off with Data’s head being found in caves under the city. You also can’t resist a story that brings in none other than Samuel Clemens (or Mark Twain as he’s more commonly known).

HIST – 9:00 PM: Prehistoric Monsters Unleashed using CGI, location footage and scientific input to bring us some of the lesser known dino’s. One of them is the anomalocarus, which resembles a shrimp but is seven feet long. The closest thing I’ve seen to a shrimp that size was at the buffet at the Bellagio.

TUESDAY

CW – 9:00 PM: Tonight’s repeat of Reaper is one of my personal favorites from last season. Sam’s gay demon neighbors want to exploit his relationship with the Devil to try to trap the Father of Lies. Seeing as how with no Devil there’s no show, you can imagine how this might end up.

AMC – 8:00 PM: One of the few tolerable Jean-Claude Van Damme movies airs tonight. Timecop was a good idea that was well executed and stays entertaining from beginning to end.

HIST – 9:00 PM: Paleontologists bring us a look at a prehistoric cannibalistic predator from the island of Madagascar on the series premiere of Jurassic Fight Club. Now there is a show with a name that can really grab ya!

SCIFI – 9:00 PM: As mentioned above, it’s the season premiere of Eureka. The show returns with the hunt for a drone that is on the loose (not to be confused with Pamela Anderson’s Girl on the Loose).

WEDNESDAY

NBC – 9:00 PM: Baby Borrowers ends its run tonight with the teen parents now caring for the elderly. This one is bound to tug at your heart strings.

A&E – 10:00 PM: Although his stuff is not my cup of tea, Criss Angel’s Mind Freak has its first ever live show where Criss is trying to escape from locks and chains in a building set to implode. I’m not sure who to root for.

THURSDAY

FX – 8:00 PM: If you have been living under a rock or you’ve just awoke from a coma and need to get caught up on all the hype you can watch Batman Begins tonight and then see The Dark Knight at your local mega-plex tomorrow.

FRIDAY

USA – 9:00 PM: Monk is sunk as he investigates a murder aboard a submarine. It’s claustraphobitastic!

SCIFI – 8:30 PM: In the much hyped season finale of Doctor Who we find out what happens to the injured and much loved Time Lord as he had begun to regenerate in the last episode. US fan’s have had to wait a month to see this, as it already aired in the UK on July 5^th, so enjoy.

SATURDAY

I’ve been looking at the schedule for the past hour. After all that time I can only come up with one recommendation…

STARZ – 9:00 PM: Gone Baby Gone is the directorial debut of Ben Affleck. It also just happens to be a stellar film with outstanding performances given by the entire cast. If you have Starz I highly recommend that you watch this film.

SUNDAY

VH1 – 10:00 PM: You knew it would happen sooner than later. Hulk Hogan accompanies his daughter to Spring Break on a very special Brooke Knows Best.

Planet Green – 10:00 PM: As mentioned above, it’s Tommy Lee vs. Ludacris as they try to make the world a greener place in Battleground Earth.

E! – 10:00 PM: Also mentioned above, Pamela Anderson is once again in front of the lens with her reality show Pam: Girl on the Loose.

– Will Wilkins needs to learn that you can’t keep making something sound better by making it end in –tastic!

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