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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Friday, August 25, 2006

Tube Notes

By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE

"Monk" season finale, 9 p.m., USA Network. Adrian Monk dislikes chaos, crowds and commotion. With its usual perverse sense, this show now sends him to a rock concert. That starts when the captain's son skips school to catch the concert. Monk is assigned to find him; he also finds a possible killer. That wraps up the "Monk" season and had some extra demands. The show needed to stage an outdoor rock concert and needed to have a convincing bad-guy rocker. The role went to Brad Hunt, who is both an actor and a rock singer. In the episode, Hunt plays rocker Kris Kedder; his real-life band, Stikysideup, is onstage with him for the song "Peggy's Gone to Memphis."

OF NOTE

"Pulp Fiction" (1994), 5 p.m., Bravo. Here's another chance to see this smart and tangled movie, including an Oscar-winning script from director Quentin Tarantino.

"Men in Black II" (2002), 7 p.m., Fox; and "Enemy of the State" (1998), 5 p.m., AMC. Take your choice of Will Smith movies tonight. Fox has a comedy with Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; it's OK, but no match for the wonderful original. AMC has a drama, with Smith as a lawyer who angers some powerful and scheming people.

"The Cheetah Girls 2," 8 p.m., Disney Channel. The first movie, based on a popular series of books, was a huge ratings hit. I grumbled that the characters seemed too loud, contrived and artificial, but others were happy. Now here's the sequel; the four teens take their pop-music group to Spain.

"Kyle XY," 8 p.m., ABC. This episode leads into the season finale, which will be 8 p.m. Monday on ABC Family. After learning he has super-good hearing, Kyle eavesdrops on Foss' apartment. He learns that the mystery is much bigger than he'd imagined. Meanwhile, someone else is searching for Foss, hoping that will lead to Kyle.

"Las Vegas," 8 p.m., NBC. Danny and Delinda suddenly find their romance reviving. They decide to keep it secret; that won't be easy, because her mother is bringing back the guy, now a doctor, who was Delinda's college sweetheart.

"Law & Order," 9 p.m., NBC. When Fontana takes extreme measures to find a kidnapped girl, it becomes more difficult to get a conviction in the case.

"Psych," 10 p.m., USA Network. Shawn, who pretends to be a psychic, goes to a comic-book convention.