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It's easy to forget in these troubling times that America isn't the only country that's feeling the tight, constricting pinch from the claw of the economic lobster.

This is a GLOBAL economic meltdown. Everyone is feeling that pinch and looking forward to the day when they can grab that lobster by the antennae, throw it in a boiling pot of water, rip off the tail, sprinkle it with butter, pepper and herbs and serve it in a roll with a side of waffle fries. Damn I'm so broke and hungry.

The British Broadcasting Corporation, however, has an interesting way of dealing with their economic problems. Instead of trimming at the bottom, they are aiming their gardening shears squarely towards the top.

• Food Network has an Iron Chef America marathon all night.
• TruTV has a Speeders marathon all night.
• At 8, FOX has a new Cops.
• Nickelodeon has a new Naked Brothers Band at 8.
• At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
• Sci-Fi has the movie Sea Beast at 9.
• Hallmark has the movie Relative Stranger at 9.
• Also at 9: HBO has Will Ferrell You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush.
• At 10, CBS has a new 48 Hours Mystery.
• BBC America has a new Graham Norton Show at 10.
• At 11, FOX has a new Mad TV, then a new Talk Show with Spike Feresten.
• At 11:30, NBC has a new Saturday Night Live, with Tracy Morgan and Kelly Clarkson.
• At 1am, Cartoon Network has a new Bleach, followed by a new Code Geass.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• Discovery's "Shark Week" continues all night.
• At 8, TLC has a new Property Ladder, then a new Flip That House.
• Food Network has a new Emeril Live at 8, then the season premiere of Feasting on Asphalt.
• ESPN has the Football Hall of Fame Induction at 8, then The X-Games.
• Also at 8: BBC America has Jekyll, then a new Graham Norton Show, with guests Joan Collins and Jason Donovan.
• At 8:30, Disney has a new Hannah Montana.
• At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
• CNBC has a new Suze Orman Show at 9.
• Cartoon Network has a new Naruto at 9.
• At 10, ABC has the premiere of Masters of Science Fiction.
• There's a new Design on a Dime on HGTV at 10.
• CMTV has a new Summerfest at 10.
• Sundance has the movie Half Nelson at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

• WE is running a Kate & Allie marathon all day until 9.
• At 8, FOX has a new Cops.
• CBS has Ocean's 12 at 8, to prepare you for next Friday's opening of Ocean's 13.
• NBC has the Ducks/Senators game at 8.
• TNT has the Pistons/Cavliers game at 8.
• Also at 8: Food Network has a new Emeril Live.
• At 9, FOX has a new America's Most Wanted.
• TBS has Ocean's 11 at 9 (see explanation above).
• TLC has a new Real Estate Pros at 9, followed by a new Backyard Nation.
• At 10, HGTV has a new Design on a Dime.
• Travel Channel has a new 5 Takes at 10, focusing on Latin America.
• BBC America has a new Graham Norton Show at 10, with guests Elijah Wood and Kim Cattrall.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Funnyman Graham Norton will be hosting a new reality pilot for Lifetime.

The new show will serve as a kind of popularity contest in which an audience of women vote off one woman at a time from a group of seven as they answer challenges and tackle different challenges. The Hollywood Reporter article doesn't go into much detail than that, so it's hard to say exactly what the hell the point of the show is supposed to be, other than showing women at their most judgmental and catty. Oh yeah, and the show was originally called Judgment Day, which probably isn't a good sign, either.

Norton will still appear in TV in the UK. The Graham Norton Show, his BBC2 series, hits BBC America on June 2. Previously, he hosted So Graham Norton, a Channel 4 series that was adapted into an American version which ran on Comedy Central for a short time.