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Tuesday marks the season finale of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood on Oxygen at 10/9c.

Tonight’s Olympic coverage includes: Coverage of men’s BMX cycling. New to the Olympic program, the unpredictable racing event features steeply banked turns, big jumps and huge crashes designed for top-level riders. In gymnastics, it’s the final night of individual event competition (men’s parallel and high bars; women’s balance beam). Track and field gold medal races are held in the women’s 400m, 100m hurdles, and men’s 1500m. In the latter, 2007 world champion Bernard Lagat – a U.S. citizen of Kenyan descent – has a chance to end an Olympic medal drought for his adopted country that dates back to 1968. In diving, historically dominant China is favored for gold in men’s 3m springboard final.

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Monday marks the series premiere of Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein on the Discovery Channel at 10/9c. It’s a thrill ride filled with adventure and mystery, ancient riddles and modern day issues as international explorer Josh Bernstein journeys on an epic quest. Tonight he searches for Noah’s Ark.

Tonight is also the season premiere of The Hills on MTV at 10/9c. Following that is the series premiere of Busted on MTV at 10:30/9:30c. In this action-packed, high stakes, 1/2 hour reality series, MTV will show you what happens when kids take things too far and end up breaking the law. Taking it one step further, viewers will also hear why these rebels thought they could get away with committing these crimes, the cops perspectives and the serious consequences they will have to face now that they are busted!

Finally, tonight’s Olympic coverage includes: Gymnastics coverage includes the women’s trampoline final and night two of individual event competition (men’s rings and vault; women’s uneven bars). On the uneven bars, Moscow-born, Texas-raised gymnast Nastia Liukin is a three-time world championship medalist. Track and field action features men’s 400m hurdles, long jump and women’s pole vaulting. The semifinal-round of the women’s beach volleyball tournament could include Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, who have claimed three straight world titles and the 2004 Olympic crown. Likely challengers are China and traditional beach powerhouse Brazil (LIVE ET/CT). Also: Gymnastics, trampoline and track and field finals.

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Wednesday marks the season premiere of Making the Band 4 on MTV at 9/8c.

Tonight’s Olympic coverage features the men’s springboard diving final and the men’s 200m breaststroke final that features gold medal favorite Kosuke Kitajima of Japan and American medal contender Eric Shanteau, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer prior to the Beijing Games. Also, races for gold in the women’s 200m fly and men’s 100m free. In late-night coverage (starting at 11/10c), the Americans, Natalie Coughlin and Katie Hoff, who set the world record in the women’s 4x200m free relay at the 2007 World Championships will swim for Olympic gold in the event. In gymnastics, the men’s individual all-around title is decided. China’s Yang Wei, the two-time world champion, is favored – especially after 2004 gold medalist Paul Hamm of the U.S. withdrew because of injury.

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Tuesday’s Olympic competition features four swimming finals, and Michael Phelps contends for gold in two of them. First, the 200m fly, then the 4x200m free relay. By the end of the Beijing Games, the 23-year-old Maryland native could become one of the all-time most decorated Olympians. Katie Hoff, a product of the same Baltimore-area pool that produced Phelps, also has medal chances, in the 200m free and 200m IM. In the women’s gymnastics team final, highly talented teenagers Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin lead the reigning world champion U.S. contingent against formidable China, among others.

Also on tonight:

• *Special* – 2008 Summer Olympic Games – NBC @ 7/6c (Night 5 of 17)
• *Special* – Flipping Out – Bravo @ 9/8c (1-Hour Reunion Special)
• *New* – Big Brother – CBS @ 9/8c
• *New* – Eureka – SciFi @ 9/8c
• *New* – Evolve – History Channel @ 10/9c
• *New* – From G’s to Gents – MTV @ 10/9c
• *New* – General Hospital: Night Shift – SoapNet @ 11/10c
• *New* – How to Look Good Naked – Lifetime @ 10/9c
• *New* – Jurassic Fight Club – History Channel @ 9/8c
• *New* – Million Dollar Listing – Bravo @ 10/9c
• *New* – Must Love Kids – TLC @ 9/8c
• *New* – Rescue Me Minisodes – FX @ 10/9c (5-Minute Minisode)
• *New* – Rock the Reception – TLC @ 8:30/7:30c
• *New* – Say Yes to the Dress – TLC @ 8/7c
• *New* – Smash Lab – Discovery @ 10/9c
• *New* – The Secret Life of the American Teenager – ABC Family @ 8/7c
• *New* – Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood – Oxygen @ 10/9c
• *New* – Wanna Bet – ABC @ 9/8c

Wednesday marks the season finale of Black Gold on TruTV at 10/9c. There are also 4 new episodes of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne on TBS from 9/8c through to the season finale at 10:30/9:30c.

It’s also the season premieres of two shows. First up is one of my family’s favorites, Man vs Wild on Discovery at 10/9c. Also at 10/9c is Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Dallas Cowboys on HBO.

Finally, tonight is the 1-hour post-season special for The Baby Borrowers on NBC at 9/8c. All the teen participants, the borrowed infant’s parents, producers and other topical, newsworthy guests will discuss the series and explore the important, challenging social issue of teen pregnancy and all it entails.

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