Wednesday’s TV Highlights: Reading is fun on ‘South Park’
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Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 21 - 27 in PDF format This week’s TV Movies
AVID READERS: The kids are allowed to read a book that had been banned in a new episode of the animated series ‘South Park’ at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central. SERIES
‘America’s Next Top Model’: The contestants take part in a dance-inspired photo shoot that challenges them to pose while simulating dance. Scott Patterson joins the judging panel and Season 3 contestant Toccara Jones tests the contestants’ fashion knowledge. (8 p.m. KTLA).
‘Great Performances’: The new episode ‘Dance in America: NY Export: Opus Jazz,’ features 16 city kids portraying the New York youth experience, based on Jerome Robbins’ ‘ballet in sneakers’ (8 p.m. KCET).
‘Fly Girls’: In the premiere of this unscripted series, two flight attendants go to a party with a guy they met on a flight (9 p.m. KTLA).
‘American Idol’: One contestant is eliminated in this new episode (9 p.m. Fox).
‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’: When a disabled woman is beaten and raped, her condition leaves her unable to speak, and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) think someone close to her is responsible (10 p.m. NBC).
‘Ugly Betty’: After being knocked unconscious at a photo shoot, Betty has a dream in which her orthodontist (Kathy Najimy) shows her how her life would have been had she never worn braces in this new episode (10 p.m. ABC).
MOVIES
‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’: This 2000 fable from Joel and Ethan Coen was loosely inspired by Homer’s classic ‘The Odyssey.’ It puts three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) on the run from pursuers while they seek a hidden treasure (7:30 p.m. ABC Family).
SPORTS
Exhibition baseball: The Kansas City Royals visit the Angels (1 p.m. FSN).
Pro basketball: The Lakers visit the San Antonio Spurs (6:30 p.m. KCAL and ESPN).
College basketball: NIT Tournament quarterfinal (4 p.m. and 6 p.m. ESPN2).
Hockey: The Kings visit the Colorado Avalanche (6 p.m. FSN); the Ducks visit the Vancouver Canucks (7 p.m. FS Prime).