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If World Wrestling Entertainment produced a greatest hits video package for Colin Delaney, he would be on the receiving end of all of them.
Delaney was grappling's version of a Timex watch during his eight-month stint in WWE's Extreme Championship Wrestling (10 p.m. Eastern, Tuesdays, SciFi Network). He took a licking and kept on ticking.

Jesse James started to aimlessly walk around when the thought sprang to mind.
"Am I still on fire?" he asked himself.
Yep. He was on fire all right.

When Conan O'Brien takes over as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" this week, he'll be under a microscope among Jay Leno fans, TV critics and NBC executives, who will be crossing their fingers that he'll strike ratings gold.
But the real pressure won't kick in until fall when "The Jay Leno Show" begins airing at 10 five nights a week.

ABC's 2003 attempt to make an American hit out of the international reality format "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!" failed, but that won't stop NBC from giving it another go.

After its huge success with "Planet Earth" two years ago, it's no surprise that Discovery Channel would attempt more natural-science epics. "Nature's Most Amazing Events" promises to be another high-definition, eye-popping extravaganza.

If ever there were a season to watch "Jon & Kate Plus 8," this is it.
After all, who hasn't heard about the drama of Jon and Kate Gosselin over the recent months? The facade of this perfectly happy TV family has been shattered by headlines that he's fooling around, she's fooling around and, basically, no one is happy.

If ever there were a season to watch "Jon & Kate Plus 8," this is it.
After all, who hasn't heard about the drama of Jon and Kate Gosselin over the recent months? The facade of this perfectly happy TV family has been shattered by headlines that he's fooling around, she's fooling around and, basically, no one is happy.

If you're bereft without new episodes of "House" this summer and willing to settle for a pale imitation, there's always Fox's "Mental" (9 p.m. EDT Tuesday.

A smiling Ryan Murphy has a spring in his step these days -- and folks who work with him are wondering what that's all about.
"People are saying, 'We don't recognize you. You seem a lot more smiley. What's happening?' " he deadpans.

It's the music that makes "Glee" a gleeful delight.
Without the song-and-dance production numbers, this Fox pilot would be just another high-school-set comedy-drama, albeit one with a tonal mishmash that careens from dark humor to earnest drama.