Tuesday's Highlights - Los Angeles Times

Tuesday's Highlights - Los Angeles Times

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SERIES _Last Restaurant Standing: _Nine couples each try to run their own dining establishments in this latest edition of the reality series (6, 9 and 11 p.m. BBC America). _NCIS: _While


probing a Navy pilot’s death, the team must battle a no-nonsense attorney (guest star Rena Sofer) who is nursing a grudge against Gibbs (Mark Harmon) in this new episode of the action-drama


(8 p.m. CBS). _The Biggest Loser: _ The heaviest cast in the show’s history tries to shed all those extra pounds in the season premiere of this reality competition (8 p.m. NBC). _Nova: _The


science series revisits WWII in the new episode “Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor” (8 p.m. KCET). _This Emotional Life: _This new three-part series continues with an examination of negative


emotions such as fear, anger, anxiety and despair (9 p.m. KCET). _Wild Recon: _Host Donald Schultz examines the adverse effects of the non-native cane toad on Australia’s flora and fauna in


the premiere of this new nature series (9 p.m. Animal Planet). _Maneaters: _This nature series returns for another season with a look at those assassins of the sea -- sharks (10 p.m. Animal


Planet). _Tabitha’s Salon Takeover: _In this new episode, your hostess visits a Covina salon where the partners are barely on speaking terms (10 p.m. Bravo). _Howe & Howe Tech: _The Howe


brothers build an ultra-tough all-terrain vehicle in the premiere episode of this new series (10 p.m. Discovery). SPECIALS _MacHEADS: _Apple’s computers, iPods, iPhones and other must-have


gadgets -- and the tech-savvy people who love them -- are celebrated in this new special (7 and 10 p.m. CNBC). _After Armageddon: _This new special surveys past cataclysmic events that


proved nearly calamitous for the human race (8 p.m. History). MOVIES _Hellboy II: The Golden Army: _Ron Perlman is back as the heavy-handed hero in director Guillermo Del Toro’s 2008


action-fantasy sequelr (7 p.m. HBO). _Gigantic: _Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel star in this quirky 2008 romantic tale (8 p.m. Showtime). _To Die For: _Nicole Kidman stars in director Gus Van


Sant dark 1995 comedy (10 p.m. Showtime). _Black Book: _Carice van Houten stars in director Paul Verhoven’s fact-based 2006 thriller set in Nazi-occupied Holland (10:15 p.m. Sundance).


SPORTS _College basketball: _Minnesota plays Purdue (4 p.m. ESPN) and Texas takes on Arkansas (4 p.m. ESPN2). _College football: _Georgia Tech and Iowa face off in the Orange Bowl in Miami


(5:15 p.m. Fox). _Hockey: _The Ducks welcome the Detroit Red Wings (7 p.m. FS Prime). _Pro basketball: _The Lakers host the Houston Rockets (7:30 p.m. FSN). MORE TO READ