Tuesday, February 27, 2007

What's on: Tuesday (a newsy ABC)

While I'm not happy that it takes Boston Legal off the table for the week, It's admirable that ABC can devote the lion's share of their Tuesday prime time to real issues and not just entertainment. First, there's PRIMETIME: THE OUTSIDERS (ABC/9 p.m.) which will revisit the story they did in Newark a few months ago -- a look at children being raised by their grandparents -- this time in in Delaware.

It's followed by veteran newsman Bob Woodruff's TO IRAQ AND BACK: BOB WOODRUFF REPORTS (10 p.m.), what ABC is billing as "his first on-air reporting since being severely injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq last January." He'll talk about his injury and recovery; servicemen and the news crew that was there, as well as Woodruff's wife also will discuss the incident and what's happened since.

Premiering tonight is Fox's ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER (9:30 p.m.), the Jeff Foxworthy-hosted game show.

Also new: An hour and a half of American Idol (still no House); CBS' NCIS and The Unit; Dateline and Law Order: CI and SVU on NBC; Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars on CW; Dirt on FX; Real Housewives of Orange County on BRAVO; Road Rules on MTV; and Miami Ink on TLC; Dirty Jobs and two episodes of Survive This on Discovery; The Agency on VH1.

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