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It's an extraordinary thing when the 16 year-old star of a show on the Disney Channel can pole-dance on national TV, but that's what happened last night on FOX. People aren't happy about it.

Personally, I think if Cyrus wants to dance around a stripper's pole (yeah, "dancer's pole" - uh huh) or wants to date an entire football team or meet sailors down at the dock, fine, I guess that's her right.

I just don't think she should do it on a show called The Teen Choice Awards.

• At 8, ABC has a new Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, followed by a new Dating in the Dark.
• FOX has the 2009 Teen Choice Awards at 8.
• NBC has a new Great American Road Trip at 8.
• At 9, PBS has two new episodes of History Detectives.
• TLC has a new Jon & Kate Plus 8 at 9.
• There's a new episode of The Closer on TNT at 9, then a new Raising the Bar.
• USA has a new Monday Night RAW at 9.
• Also at 9: Travel Channel has Confessions of a Travel Writer, followed by a new Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.
• At 10, NBC has a new Dateline.
• Food Network has a new Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives at 10.
• Showtime has a new Weeds at 10, then a new Nurse Jackie.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

It's Fox day, at the TCAs, and they've started the day by giving us some announcements:

• Guest voices on the 21st season of The Simpsons will include: Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Anne Hathaway, Chris Martin, Sarah Silverman, Angela Bassett, Chuck Liddell, Jackie Mason, Neve Campbell, Eli and Payton Manning, Bob Costas, and the late Eartha Kitt.
• From November 9 through November 15, Fox will hold a Simpsons "scavenger hunt" with clues scattered through their programming.
• Gordon Ramsay will conduct a live one-hour cooking demonstration on December 15 at 9 ET. The show is called Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live.
• Finally, Britney Spears will receive the "Ultimate Choice" award at the Teen Choice Awards.

More stuff to come during the day. Of course, for the latest, follow our Twitter feed.

The Teen Choice Awards will feature a dance battle between two of the toughest, roughest, street-est (not a word, I know) dance crews around. No, Lil C and his crew won't be there crumping. Miley Cyrus and Mandy Jiroux's M&M Cru will battle ACDC, the dance crew featuring Jon M. Chu and Adam Sevani of Step Up 2: The Streets. The two crews are BFFs and they challenged each other back in April. A more heated rivalry has not been seen since TuPac and Biggie. Yeah! Totally street. "Street" is even in the name of the movie.

The Teen Choice Awards have some other performers and appearances lined up too. But they're not "street" so who cares? Shia LaBeouf, David Archuleta, James Marsden, Sophia Bush, Josh Holloway, Scarlett Johansson, Zac Efron, Pink, JoJo, Kristen Bell, and Hayden Panettiere are some of the other names previously announced. Mariah Carey is slated to perform her new single, "I'll Be Lovin' You Long Time."

The Teen Choice Awards will air on August 4th at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.

The 2008 Teen Choice Awards nominees are in and if you're a teen (that's between 13 and 19 years old for the math impaired among us), you can get your vote on once a day over at www.TeenChoiceAwards.com. If you've just put in a turkey to roast and have some time, you can follow the link to the complete list of Teen Choice Awards 2008 nominees, of which I can only say ... damn, that's a lot of categories. Do teens really have that kind of attention span anymore to make it through these categories and vote?

As reported earlier, Miley Cyrus has been signed to host with the show airing Monday, August 4 at 8pm ET. I've dropped in the TV-only categories and nominees after the jump, and there are a ton of categories covering a much wider range of television shows than really any of the major television awards do. There are oodles of reality show categories and more specifically, a category for "looking for love" reality shows. Really? And still only one category for animated shows?

Hey, Brigitte here with TV Squad Daily. I'll be covering the TV stories I find interesting each day, Monday through Friday, in this video blog.

Today on TV Squad Daily:

• Where were bad girls Britney, Paris and Lindsay at the Teen Choice Awards?
  
• Worst idea ever? Kid Nation now has union problems, on top of all their other issues.
  

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• At 8, CBS has a new Big Brother.
• FOX has the Teen Choice Awards at 8.
• NBC has preseason football at 8, the Eagles vs. the Steelers.
• Discovery has two new episodes of Blue Planet at 8.
• Lifetime has a new State of Mind at 8, then new episodes of Side Order of Life and Army Wives.
• At 8:30, Nickelodeon has something called the Let's Just Play Go Healthy Challenge.
• At 9, History Channel has a new Ice Road Truckers.
• HGTV has a new Design Star at 9, then new episodes of Living with Ed and My First Place.
• HBO has a new Big Love at 10, then new episodes of Entourage and Flight of the Conchords.
• At 9:30, A&E has a new Gene Simmons' Family Jewels, followed by a new Two Coreys.
• At 10, CNBC has Against the Tide: The Battle For New Orleans.
• Comedy Central has a new Mind of Mencia at 10.
• MTV has the season finale of Making The Band at 10.
• There's a new Kill Point on Spike at 10.
• Also at 10: Food Network has a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay.
• At 10:15, TCM has Ace in the Hole, with Kirk Douglas.

Check your local TV listings for more.