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• At 8, CBS has a new Ghost Whisperer, then new episodes of Moonlight and Numb3rs.
• NBC has a new Deal Or No Deal at 8, followed by the season premiere of Friday Night Lights and a new Las Vegas.
• There's a new Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader on FOX at 8.
• PBS has a new NOW at 8, then new episodes of Washington Week, Bill Moyers Journal, and Expose.
• The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8.
• At 8:30, TBS has the Red Sox/Angels game.
• At 9, Lifetime has the new TV movie How I Married My High School Crush.
• Sci-Fi has a new Flash Gordon at 9, then a new Stargate Atlantis.
• At 10, ABC has a new 20/20.
• E! has a new ep of The Soup at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Here are the weekly TV ratings, by number of viewers.

1. The Singing Bee (NBC)
2. All-Star Game (FOX)
3. America's Got Talent (NBC)
4. NCIS (CBS)
5. So You Think You Can Dance - Thurs (FOX)
6. CSI (CBS)
7. CSI: NY (CBS)
8. Law and Order: SVU (NBC)
9. All-Star Pre-Game Show (FOX)
10. Two and a Half Men (CBS)
11. Don't Forget The Lyrics - Thurs (FOX)
12. Shark (CBS)
13. CSI: Miami (CBS)
14. Don't Forget The Lyrics - Weds (FOX)
15. 60 Minutes (CBS)
16. So You Think You Can Dance - Weds (FOX)
17. America's Got Talent - Special (NBC)
18. Cold Case (CBS)
19. Hell's Kitchen (FOX)
20. Criminal Minds (CBS)

• At 8, FOX has the baseball All-Star Game.
• NBC has a new, two-hour America's Got Talent at 8, then the premiere of The Singing Bee.
• PBS has a new Nova at 8, followed by a new Wide Angle.
• The 2007 World Series Of Poker starts on ESPN at 8 with two episodes.
• At 9, History Channel has a new episode of The Universe.
• Eureka returns to Sci-Fi at 9.
• Discovery has a new Dirty Jobs at 9, then a new Build It Bigger.
• BBC America has a new MI-5 at 9.
• At 10, CBS has a new Pirate Master.
• A&E has a new Criss Angel: Mindfreak at 10.
• Sci-Fi has a new ECW at 10.
• Also at 10: Bravo has a new Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.
• At 10:30, BBC America has a new Hollyoaks.

Check your local TV listings for more.

If you haven't yet tried Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream ice cream from Ben and Jerry's, you should. It is the most "just okay" ice cream you'll ever taste. Your tastebuds will be bombarded with a cavalcade of average, middle-of-the-road flavor.

Okay, so AmeriCone Dream never did much for me. I'm more of a Phish Food man, what can you do? However, on July 7, Colbert will be doing something Phish has never done: he'll throw the first pitch at a RiverDogs baseball game in Charleston, South Carolina (his hometown). He won't be throwing a ball, however, he'll be throwing a pint of AmeriCone Dream. I'd like to see the entire game played with a pint of ice cream, but that probably won't happen. Jerry Greenfield, the "Jerry" in "Ben and Jerry's" will catch the pint. Let's hope he does, because I'm pretty sure getting conked in the head by a pint of frozen ice cream is kind of painful, especially if one of those waffle cone shards get wedged in your eye.

In addition to tossing his ice cream, Colbert will also sit in on the radio broadcast during the game.

[via CC Insider]

There are many swears that have started to make their way on to television, and I don't mean just HBO and Showtime. I've heard "shit" and "asshole" sprinkled here and there.

But there's still one word that's a no-no, and that's the famous four letter word that begins with the letter "F." It's banned on network television, and I think even on cable you can only get away with it so many times during one show. In the movies there are limits to the number of times it is used and the context (exclamation or verb?).

After the jump are the top ten videos of the word being used on live television. This Digg post lists the Richard Simmons clip as number one, but that's not accurate because they're outtakes, not live segments. Still funny though!

(S18E18) Well, what do you know, Mickey Mantle did used to do commercials for Maypo. Thanks, Rich Texan!

In general, I liked this episode. At least, it had a lot more laugh-out-loud moments for me than last week's episode. I don't think the town has turned on Bart so savagely since that time he cut the head off the Jebediah Springfield statue. I thought the absurdity of everyone getting upset over children's sport made it even funnier. I also loved how, in the end, a picket sign that reads "Bart Sucks" lowers and then raises again with the phrase "We're Sorry."

This is the third installment of my two-part series in which I turn to that great teaching tool known as television in order to enlighten both myself and my readers on various subjects.

Today, we look at baseball, which I know absolutely nothing about. In fact, here's a true exchange that took place on my first day of summer youth baseball:

Coach: Adam, you take right field.

Me: What's right field?

Here's just a small sample of what I've learned about this great sport, thanks to TV:

(S02E18) This wasn't the funniest episode of Everybody Hates Chris, but I did like how it explored the dynamic between Chris and his father.

Kurt Vonnegut once told McSweeneys that a male writer should never write about his father: "you learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again, and your father is always in your head when that stuff happens."

Most of you have probably heard about the tragic bus accident that took the lives of six people last Friday: a bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team to Florida crashed over a guard rail near Atlanta and crashed onto the highway thirty feet below. Six people were killed in the accident.

Remember that episode of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy that had the Fab Five making over Johnny Damon, Kevin Millar, and other members of the team? The creators of the show are about to start looking for contestants to be in another reality show that will involve the team, entitled Sox Appeal.

Here's the pitch: a woman will be paired up with a date for two innings of a game, then another date for another two innings. Then, in the 7th inning stretch, she'll decide which one she wants to stay with for the rest of the game (and maybe beyond). Not sure how they'll film a TV show during regular season games. That could be a pain in the ass for the players.

The article says that there will probably be a lot of use of the terms "scoring" and "strike out" during the series, and I predict they'll also use the terms "balls," "pine tar" and "hitting the showers."