Wednesday's TV Highlights: Wentworth Miller guest stars on 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.'
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SERIES
The New Adventures of Old Christine: Barb (Wanda Sykes) is being held in a Caribbean jail after being arrested on immigration charges at Richard and new Christine's (Clark Gregg, Emily Rutherfurd) wedding debacle, so Christine and Matthew (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hamish Linklater) fly to the Bahamas to try to get her an illegal visa on the season premiere (8 p.m. CBS).
Mercy: Taylor Schilling, Jaime Lee Kirchner and Michelle Trachtenberg play three nurses at the heart of this new hospital-based series (8 p.m. NBC).
Dancing With the Stars: The results episode features a tribute to the late Patrick Swayze and performances from the cast of Broadway's "The Lion King" and Sean Kingston (8 p.m. ABC).
Gary Unmarried: Gary (Jay Mohr) tries to set a good example for his slacker son (Ryan Malgarini) by pursuing his personal dream of becoming a radio sportscaster. Keegan-Michael Key and Brooke D'Orsay join the cast in the season premiere (8:30 p.m. CBS).
Criminal Minds: In the season premiere, the team is called back together to profile a killer who has a lethal personal vendetta against an emergency room doctor. With Joe Mantegna and Thomas Gibson. C. Thomas Howell guest stars (9 p.m. CBS).
Modern Family: Incorporating the same faux-documentary style as "The Office," this new sitcom stars Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (9 p.m. ABC).
Man vs. Wild: The crew discusses how they produce the survival series and what it feels like to follow Bear throughout the world (9 p.m. Discovery).
Cougar Town: Courteney Cox returns to comedy as a recently divorced real estate agent and mom in her 40s who decides to dabble in a dating pool of younger men (9:30 p.m. ABC).
CSI: NY: Sarah Carter guest stars in the season premiere with Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo and Hill Harper (10 p.m. CBS).
Eastwick: This new TV series, adapted from the John Updike novel and 1987 movie "The Witches of Eastwick," stars Lindsay Price, Rebecca Romijn and Jaime Ray Newman as three women in a New England village who are drawn together by a handsome newcomer (Paul Gross) who unleashes unique powers in them. Sara Rue, Veronica Cartwright and Johann Urb costar (10 p.m. ABC).
SPECIALS
Wallace Stegner: Peter Coyote narrates this documentary about the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and conservationist (10 p.m. KCET).
MOVIES
The Adventures of Robin Hood: Errol Flynn is perfectly cast in the title role of this 1938 adventure (5 p.m. TCM).
Weather Girl: A little rain falls in the life of a Seattle morning-show weather forecaster in this 2009 TV movie starring Tricia O'Kelley and Patrick J. Adams (9 p.m. Lifetime).
SPORTS
Baseball: The Yankees visit the Angels (12:30 p.m. FSN); the Dodgers visit the Washington Nationals (4 p.m. FS Prime).
WNBA basketball: Eastern Conference Final Game 1 (5 p.m. ESPN2); Western Conference Final Game 1 (7 p.m. ESPN2).
