TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: “Being Human,”
9 p.m., BBC America.
Last week's excellent season-opener
(rerunning at 8) found a changed world for the three roommates.
Annie, a ghost, could finally be seen
and heard by mortals. George had accidentally turned his girlfriend
into a werewolf, like him. Mitchell, the vampire, was attracted to a
doctor he works with.
Now this second episode is even better.
Annie – delighted with her newly visible status – is falling for
a handsome chap at a bar. Mitchell's doctor friend shows him a body
he quickly recognizes.
TONIGHT'S RELUCTANTLY SEE: “Cold
Case,” 8 p.m., CBS.
Sure, it's good to see “Cold Case”
reruns scattered around the weekend this summer. Tonight, the show –
which won't be back next season – has tentatively scheduled an
episode involving the 1986 murder of a dock worker; also, Valens may
be closer to finding his mother's rapist.
Still, this is a blow against scripted
summer shows. CBS had scheduled “The Bridge,” a solid, Canadian
police drama. Then – with little warning, last week – it pulled
the show. Reruns return.
TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: “Jack Hunter
and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit,” 9-11 p.m., Syfy.
Imagine an Indiana Jones, only even
more macho. Ivan Sergei – whose usual roles (“Jack & Jill,”
“Santa Baby”) have very few fistfights – is quite good as a
treasure-hunter who sometimes takes the short cut, stealing. He also
hits and kicks quite frequently.
Joanne Kelly plays a Syrian official
who disapproves of him, despite the fact that they're both quite
attractive. This show isn't nearly as good as Kelly's splendid
“Warehouse 13,” but it has lots of action in exotic settings.
Other choices include:
– “Flightplan” (2005), 8-10 p.m.,
ABC. A widow (Jodie Foster) insists that her daughter has disappeared
in the middle of a flight; the flight attendants say there's no
record the girl was ever there. That chilling notion launches a story
that's quite involving, despite its far-fetched explanation.
– “Persons Unknown,” 8 p.m., NBC.
Waking up strapped to a table, Joe is told he must be “re-educated”
before he can be back with the others; dreams, hallucinations and
flashbacks follow. Meanwhile, reporters are in South America, to find
the only person who has ever escaped this set-up.
– “Law & Order: Criminal
Intent,” 9 and 10 p.m., NBC. In the first hour, the discovery of a
headless body launches a probe that leads to big-time financiers and
high-priced call girls. In the second, the murder of a food-truck
owner leads to a prominent politcal family.
– “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,”
9 p.m., CBS. This rerun (Laurence Fishburne) offers the first time
Ray Langston had to use deadly force. The case involves the poker
chips from a now-closed casino.
– “Rookie Blue,” 10 p.m., ABC.
One story in this rerun involves a traffic death that may not have
been an accident. The other involves Andy's romance with Detective
Callaghan, now shaky after she sees his treatment of a witness.
– “Saturday Night Live,” 11:29
p.m., NBC. Ashton Kutcher hosts this rerun, with music from Them
Crooked Vultures.