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• ABC: 8/7-Dance Machine, 9/8-Duel, 10/9-20/20
• CBS: 8/7-Ghost Whisperer (encore), 9/8-Numb3rs (encore), 10/9-Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular
• NBC: 8/7-U.S. Olympic Trials: Swimming, 9/8-Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular, 10/9-Dateline NBC
• FOX: 8/7-Daddy Day Care (movie)
• The CW: 8/7-Friday Night Smackdown!
• My Network TV: 8/7-Heroes Among Us: The 2008 Hero Awards (two-hour special)
• E!: 9/8-12 Sexiest Wet ‘n Wild Jobs, 10/9-The Soup
• BBC America: 10/9-Newsnight
• CMT: 9/8-Mobile Home Disaster, 10/9-Trick My Truck (season finale), 10:30/9:30-Mabe in America (series premiere)
• PBS (times may vary in your area): 9:30/8:30-Capital Fourth (90-minute special), 11/10-3, 2, 1 Fireworks
• Animal Planet: 9/8-Meerkat Manor: The Next Generation, 9:30/8:30-Extraordinary Animals, 10/9-Animal Cops: South Africa
• Travel Channel: 9/8-4th of July Live!
• Reelz: 7/6-Secret’s Out…With Leonard Maltin
• VH1: 9/8-Best Week Ever
• Fuse: 6/5-All-American Face-Off (two-hour special)

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• ABC: 8/7-Ugly Betty (encore), 9/8-Grey’s Anatomy (encore), 10/9-Hopkins
• CBS: 8/7-Million Dollar Password (encore) 9/8-CSI (encore), 10/9-Swingtown
• NBC: 8/7-Last Comic Standing (two-hour episode), 10/9-Fear Itself
• FOX: 8/7-Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, 9/8-So You Think You Can Dance
• The CW: 8/7-Smallville (encore), 9/8-Supernatural (encore)
• My Network TV: 8/7-Sherrybaby (movie)
• Comedy Central: 10:30/9:30-Reno 911!, 11/10-The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, 11:30/10:30-The Colbert Report
• Spike TV: 9/8-TNA iMPACT!
• HGTV: 9/8-Rate My Space, 10/9-House Hunters
• Bravo: 10/9-Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
• History: 10:30/9:30-Surviving History
• SoapNET: 11/10-MVP: He Shoots, She Scores
• truTV: 8/7-Speeders, 9/8-Smoking Gun Presents: World’s Dumbest Criminals, 11:30/10:30-Hollywood Heat
• MTV: 10/9-Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew (90 minutes)
• TLC: 10/9-Miami Ink
• TBS: 9/8-The Bill Engvall Show, 9:30/8:30-My Boys
• Cartoon Network: 8/7-Chowder, 8:30/7:30-Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, 9/8-Total Drama Island, 9:30/8:30-Johnny Test
• Style: 8/7-How Do I Look?
• Green: 9/8-Hollywood Green with Maria Menounos
• Showtime: 10/9-Penn & Teller: Bull****
• Sundance: 10/9-Live From Abbey Road
• PBS: 10/9-Soundstage
• Travel Channel: 10/9-Samantha Brown: Passport to Great Weekends (back-to-back new episodes)
• National Geographic: 8/7-Man-Made
• GAC: 8:30/7:30-The Road Hammers
• Showtime2: 9/8-I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single From Portland to Portland (back-to-back new episodes)

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• ABC: 8/7-Wife Swap (encore), 9/8-Supernanny (encore), 10/9-Primetime: Crime
• CBS: 8/7-The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular (encore), 9/8-Criminal Minds (encore), 10/9-CSI: NY (encore)
• NBC: 8/7-The Baby Borrowers (encore), 9/8-The Baby Borrowers, 10/9-Celebrity Circus
• FOX: 8/7-So You Think You Can Dance (two-hour episode)
• The CW: 8/7-America’s Next Top Model (encore), 9/8-Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious
• My Network TV: 8/7-Under One Roof (encore), 8:30/7:30-Whacked Out Videos (encore), 9/8-Twilight Zone (back-to-back encores)
• Comedy Central: 10:30/9:30-Mind of Mencia, 11/10-The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, 11:30/10:30-The Colbert Report
• MTV: 10/9-The Real World
• Bravo: 10/9-Shear Genius
• DIY: 9/8-Deconstruction
• CMT: 8:30/7:30-Chopper Challenge
• Style: 9/8-Clean House (two-hour episode), 11/10-Dress My Nest
• History: 9/8-Monsterquest
• HGTV: 9/8-Deserving Design, 9:30/8:30-Design on a Dime, 11/10-Red Hot and Green, 11:30/10:30-Haulin’ House
• TBS: 10/9-Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (back-to-back new episodes)
• truTV: 10/9-Black Gold
• PBS: 8/7-Great Lodges of the National Parks, 9/8-Nova scienceNow,
• Food Network: 10/9-Dinner: Impossible

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• ABC: 8/7-Wipeout, 9/8-I Survived a Japanese Game Show, 10/9-Primetime: The Outsiders
• CBS: 8/7-NCIS (encore), 9/8-48 Hours Mystery, 10/9-Without a Trace (encore)
• NBC: 8/7-Celebrity Family Feud, 9/8-America’s Got Talent (two-hour episode)
• FOX: 8/7-The Moment of Truth, 9/8-Hell’s Kitchen
• The CW: 8/7-Beauty and the Geek (encore), 9/8-Reaper (encore)
• My Network TV: 8/7-Street Patrol (back-to-back encores), 9/8-Jail (back-to-back encores)
• Comedy Central: 11/10-The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 11:30/10:30-Colbert Report
• Sci Fi: 10/9-ECW
• Oxygen: 10/9-Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood
• MTV: 10/9-A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila
• Bravo: 10/9-Flipping Out
• HGTV: 9:30/8:30-National Open House, 11/10-My House Is Worth What?
• WE: 10/9-The Secret Lives of Women
• Discovery Channel: 9/8-Deadliest Catch, 10/9-Deadliest Catch: After the Catch
• DIY: 9:30/8:30-Rock Solid
• History: 10/9-Mega Disasters
• Speed: 8/7-American Thunder
• FX: 10/9-Rescue Me (five-minute minisode), 10:05/9:05-30 Days
• TV Guide Channel: 8/7-Big Movie Premiere: Hancock
• Animal Planet: 8/7-Killing for a Living
• PBS: 9/8-Wide Angle (season premiere), 10/9-P.O.V.
• Golf Channel: 7:30/6:30-Road Trip: Myrtle Beach, 10/9-Big Break: Ka’anapali, 11/10-Top 10
• VH1: 9/8-I Love Money: Meet the All Stars, 10/9-VH1 News Presents: Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Addiction Special
• Food Network: 9/8-Throwdown with Bobby Flay
• Fuse: 10/9-Rock & Roll Acid Test
• National Geographic: 10/9-Explorer
• ABC Family: 8/7-The Secret Life of the American Teenager (series premiere)
• A&E: 9/8-The First 48 (season premiere)
• ESPN: 8/7-ESPY Nomination Special

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• ABC: 8/7-The Bachelorette, 9/8-The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All, 10/9-The Mole
• CBS: 8/7-The Big Bang Theory (encore), 8:30/7:30-How I Met Your Mother (encore), 9/8-Two and a Half Men (encore), 9:30/8:30-Rules of Engagement (encore), 10/9-CSI: Miami (encore)
• NBC: 8/7-American Gladiators, 9/8-Nashville Star (two-hour episode)
• FOX: 8/7-Bones (encore), 9/8-House (encore)
• The CW: 8/7-Gossip Girl (encore), 9/8-One Tree Hill (encore)
• My Network TV: 8/7-Celebrity Expose (encore), 9/8-Celebrity Expose (encore)
• HGTV: 8/7-Designed to Sell, 9:30/8:30-Hidden Potential
• Comedy Central: 11/10-The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 11:30/10:30-Colbert Report
• USA: 9/8-WWE Raw
• MTV: 10/9-Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods
• TLC: 9/8-Jon & Kate Plus 8 (back-to-back new episodes)
• ABC Family: 10/9-The Middleman (new time)
• Food Network: 7/6-Emeril, 9/8-Unwrapped, 10/9-Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives
• Speed: 9/8-101 Cars You Must Drive, 9:30/8:30-Car Crazy
• Discovery Channel: 10/9-Verminators
• truTV: 8/7-Party Heat
• HBO: 9/8-Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (one-hour special)
• TV Guide Channel: 8/7-TV Watercooler
• A&E: 9/8-Intervention, 10/9-Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal
• Showtime: 10/9-Weeds, 10:30/9:30-Secret Diary of a Call Girl
• Reelz: 7/6-Movie Mob
• Golf Channel: 11/10-Playing Lessons
• VH1: 9/8-46664: A Concert for Nelson Mandela (90-minute special)
• National Geographic: 9/8-Locked Up Abroad
• Bravo: 10/9-Date My Ex: Jo & Slade (one-hour special)
• PBS: 9/8-History Detectives (season premiere), 10/9-The War of the World
• Travel Channel: 9/8-Unfriendly Skies: State of Travel, 11/10-Lawrence of America (back-to-back new episodes)
• DIY: 9/8-Yard Crashers
• E!: 10/9-The Soup Presents
• Military: 10/9-Wounded Warriors

All shows are new unless noted otherwise. First time listed is eastern, second is central.

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• ABC: 7/6-Wipeout (encore), 8/7-Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (two-hour encore), 10/9-Desperate Housewives (encore)
• CBS: 7/6-60 Minutes, 8/7-Million Dollar Password, 9/8-Cold Case (encore), 10/9-Cold Case (encore)
• NBC: 7/6-U.S. Olympic Trials: Track and Field, 8/7-U.S. Olympic Trials: Swimming, 9/8-Dateline NBC (two-hour episode)
• FOX: 7/6-The Lost World: Jurassic Park (movie)
• The CW: 7/6-One Tree Hill (encore), 8/7-Everybody Hates Chris (encore), 8:30/7:30-Aliens in America (encore), 9/8-The Game (encore), 9:30/8:30-Girlfriends (encore)
• E!: 7/6-E! News Weekend, 10/9-Denise Richards: It’s Complicated, 10:30/9:30-Living Lohan
• HGTV: 7/6-My House Is Worth What?, 7:30/6:30-Designed to Sell, 8/7-House Hunters, 9/8-HGTV Design Star, 10/9-Property Virgin, 10:30/9:30-Property Virgin
• History: 9/8-Ice Road Truckers, 10/9-Surviving History
• Adult Swim: 11:30/10:30-Venture Bros., 12/11-Metalocalypse, 12:15/11:15-Fat Guy Stuck in Internet, 12:30/11:30-Assy McGee
• Food Network: 10/9-Next Food Network Star
• Animal Planet: 9/8-Untamed & Uncut
• G4: 10/9-Code Monkeys (new time)
• WE: 9/8-Bridezillas, 10/9-Platinum Weddings
• BBC America: 10/9-The Human Spider (one-hour special)
• USA: 9/8-Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 10/9-In Plain Sight
• Lifetime: 10/9-Army Wives
• A&E: 9/8-Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels (back-to-back new episodes), 10/9-The Two Coreys (back-to-back new episodes)
• Spike: 10/9-Factory (series premiere)
• PBS: 9/8-Masterpiece (90 minutes)
• truTV: 10/9-Crisis Point
• TLC: 8/7-Jon & Kate Plus 8 (one-hour episode), 9/8-The Singing Office (series premiere)
• Green: 8/7-Greensburg, 9/8-Greensburg
• TV Guide Channel: 8/7-TV’s Sexiest Doctors of All Time
• Disney Channel: 8:30/7:30-Wizards of Waverly Place

All shows listed are new unless otherwise noted. First time listed is eastern, second is central.

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• ABC: 8/7-Wonderful World of Disney: The Haunted Mansion (movie), 10/9-Eli Stone (encore)
• CBS: 8/7-CSI: NY (encore), 9/8-The Unit (encore), 10/9-48 Hours Mystery (encore)
• NBC: 8/7-U.S. Olympic Trials: Track & Field (one-hour special), 9/8-Law & Order (encore), 10/9-Law & Order: Criminal Intent (encore), 11:25/10:25-Saturday Night Live (encore)
• FOX: 8/7-Cops (encore), 8:30/7:30-Cops (encore), 9/8-America’s Most Wanted, 11/10-MADtv (encore), 12/11-Talkshow with Spike Feresten (encore)
• My Network TV: 8/7-Say It Isn’t So (movie)
• TLC: 8/7-Family Flip (one-hour special), 9/8-Holmes on Homes (season premiere), 10/9-Date My House (back-to-back new episodes)
• Cartoon Network/Adult Swim: 9/8-Naruto (back-to-back new episodes), 12/11-Bleach, 12:30/11:30-Death Note, 1/2-Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, 1:30/12:30-Shin Chan
• Discovery Kids: 8:30/7:30-Endurance
• Animal Planet: 9/8-Groomer Has It (season finale)
• FOX Reality: 9/8-The Academy
• BBC America: 9/8-Robin Hood, 10/9-The Graham Norton Show
• Biography: 9/8-Mobsters
• Sci Fi: 9/8-Copperhead (original telefilm)
• Lifetime: 9/8-The Tenth Circle (original telefilm)
• Speed: 7:30/6:30-NASCAR Performance, 8/7-Tradin’ Paint

All shows listed are new unless otherwise noted. First time listed is eastern, second is central.

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• ABC: 8/7-Dance Machine (series premiere), 9/8-Duel, 10/9-20/20
• CBS: 8/7-Ghost Whisperer (encore), 9/8-Numb3rs (encore), 10/9-Numb3rs (encore)
• NBC: 8/7-Most Outrageous Moments (back-to-back encores), 9/8-Dateline NBC (two hours)
• FOX: 8/7-XXX: State of the Union (movie)
• The CW: 8/7-Friday Night Smackdown!
• My Network TV: 8/7-Meet My Folks (encore), 9/8-Paradise Hotel 2 (encore)
• E!: 10/9-The Soup
• BBC America: 10/9-Newsnight
• CMT: 9/8-Hillbilly Deluxe, 9:30/8:30-CMT Paid Vacation with Pauly Shore, 10/9-Trick My Truck
• PBS (times may vary in your area): 8/7-Washington Week, 8:30/7:30-Now on PBS, 9/8-Bill Moyers’ Journal
• Sci Fi: 9/8-Doctor Who
• TLC: 9/8-What Not to Wear, 10/9-10 Years Younger (season finale)
• Animal Planet: 9/8-Meerkat Manor: The Next Generation, 9:30/8:30-Extraordinary Animals, 10/9-Animal Cops: South Africa
• TV Guide Channel: 8/7-Reality Chat
• truTV: 10/9-Rich and Reckless
• Green: 8/7-Renovation Nation, 9/8-Renovation Nation
• Travel Channel: 10/9-Ecoluxe
• MTV: 8/7-F’N MTV Premieres…
• Reelz: 7/6-Secret’s Out…With Leonard Maltin
• Bravo: 7/6-The 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards (two-hour special)
• HGTV: 8/7-Designed to Sell
• Hallmark: 8/7-Hallmark Heroes (one-hour special)

All shows listed are new unless otherwise noted. First time listed is eastern, second is central.

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• ABC: 8/7-Ugly Betty (encore), 9/8-Grey’s Anatomy (encore), 10/9-Hopkins (season premiere)
• CBS: 8/7-How I Met Your Mother (encore), 8:30/7:30-Rules of Engagement (encore) 9/8-CSI (encore), 10/9-Swingtown
• NBC: 8/7-Last Comic Standing (two-hour episode), 10/9-Fear Itself
• FOX: 8/7-Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, 9/8-So You Think You Can Dance
• The CW: 8/7-Smallville (encore), 9/8-Supernatural (encore)
• My Network TV: 8/7-A Low Down Dirty Shame (movie)
• Comedy Central: 10:30/9:30-Reno 911!, 11/10-The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, 11:30/10:30-The Colbert Report
• Spike TV: 9/8-TNA iMPACT!
• HGTV: 8/7-Designed to Sell, 9/8-Rate My Space, 10/9-House Hunters
• Bravo: 10/9-Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
• TV Guide Channel: 8/7-Big Movie Premiere: Summer Films
• History: 10/9-Tougher in Alaska
• SoapNET: 11/10-MVP: He Shoots, She Scores
• truTV: 8/7-Speeders (back-to-back new episodes), 11:30/10:30-Hollywood Heat
• MTV: 10/9-Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew (90 minutes)
• TLC: 8/7-Overhaulin’ (season finale), 9/8-American Chopper
• The N: 8/7-Instant Star
• ID: 10/9-Deranged
• TBS: 9/8-The Bill Engvall Show, 9:30/8:30-My Boys
• Cartoon Network: 8/7-Chowder, 8:30/7:30-Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, 9/8-Total Drama Island, 9:30/8:30-Johnny Test
• Style: 8/7-How Do I Look?
• Green: 8/7-Wasted, 9/8-Hollywood Green with Maria Menounos, 10/9-Supper Club with Tom Bergeron
• Showtime: 10/9-Penn & Teller: Bull****
• Sundance: 10/9-Live From Abbey Road
• VH1: 9/8-I Love the New Millennium, Part 7 (one-hour special), 10/9-I Love the New Millennium, Part 8 (one-hour special)
• PBS: 10/9-Soundstage
• Discovery Channel: 10/9-Fight or Die
• CNBC: 10/9-Untold Wealth: The Rise of the Super Rich
• Travel Channel: 10/9-Samantha Brown: Passport to Great Weekends (series premiere, back-to-back new episodes)

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• ABC: 8/7-Wife Swap, 9/8-Supernanny, 10/9-Primetime: Crime (season premiere)
• CBS: 8/7-The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular (encore), 9/8-Criminal Minds (encore), 10/9-CSI: NY (encore)
• NBC: 8/7-Deal or No Deal, 9/8-The Baby Borrowers (series premiere), 10/9-Celebrity Circus
• FOX: 8/7-So You Think You Can Dance (two-hour episode)
• The CW: 8/7-America’s Next Top Model (encore), 9/8-Farmer Wants a Wife (season finale)
• My Network TV: 8/7-Under One Roof (encore), 8:30/7:30-Whacked Out Videos (encore), 9/8-Masters of Illusion: Impossible Magic (encore)
• Comedy Central: 10:30/9:30-Mind of Mencia, 11/10-The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, 11:30/10:30-The Colbert Report
• MTV: 10/9-The Real World
• Bravo: 10/9-Shear Genius (season premiere)
• DIY: 9/8-Indoors Out
• CMT: 8:30/7:30-Chopper Challenge
• Style: 11/10-Dress My Nest
• History: 9/8-Monsterquest
• HGTV: 8/7-Designed to Sell, 9:30/8:30-Design on a Dime
• TV Guide Channel: 8/7-Making News: Savannah Style
• TBS: 10/9-Tyler Perry’s House of Payne (back-to-back new episodes)
• TV Land: 10/9-She’s Got the Look
• truTV: 8/7-Most Shocking, 9/8-Most Daring, 10/9-Black Gold (series premiere)
• PBS: 8/7-Great Lodges of the National Parks, 9/8-Nova scienceNow,
• The N: 8/7-Instant Star
• Green: 7/6-G Word
• USA: 9/8-AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (two-hour special)
• VH1: 9/8-I Love the New Millennium, Part 5 (one-hour special), 10/9-I Love the New Millennium, Part 6 (one-hour special)
• CNBC: 9/8-American Greed: Scams, Scoundrels, and Scandals
• Travel Channel: 8/7-Travel Fact or Fiction (series premiere, back-to-back new episodes)
• ESPN: 10/9-NBA Draft Preview
• National Geographic: 10/9-Devil’s Playground

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