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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Saturday, October 25, 2008

Tube Notes

By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service

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Actor Jon Hamm hosts a new episode of “Saturday Night Live” tonight on NBC.

MARK LENNIHAN | Associated Press

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TONIGHT'S ODDITY

"Saturday Night Live," 8 and 10:29 p.m., NBC. "Saturday Night Live" has thrived lately, with political sketches fueling high ratings. Now NBC doubles up. First, it reruns an episode hosted by Anne Hathaway, with music by The Killers. (Yes, plans call for stretching a 90-minute episode over a two-hour period.) The political parts are clever; the others are OK. Then Jon Hamm ("Mad Men") hosts a new episode, with music by Coldplay.

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE:

"America's Toughest Job" finale, 7 p.m., NBC. The final four contestants revisit this show's toughest jobs — logging, crab-fishing and working on an oil rig. Two men and two women remain. There are two Texans (Steven Hopper, 22, a recent college grad, and Sandy Gabriel, 26, a teacher) and two Bostonians (Ben Coleman, 28, a carpenter, and Michaela Clemency, 23, a job recruiter).

OF NOTE

Baseball, 2 p.m., Fox. Now the action is in Philadelphia. The Phillies host the Tampa Bay Rays in the third game of the best-of-seven series.

Football, 2 p.m., ABC. Ohio State hosts Penn State in a battle of Big Ten powers.

"NCIS," 7 p.m., CBS. Gibbs is working with Lt. Mann on a murder case. Complicating things: One of Gibbs' ex-wives is a witness.

"Without a Trace," 8 p.m., CBS. A man and his teen daughter disappear. This may involve his job, cleaning crime scenes.

"Sex and Lies in Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal," 6 p.m., Lifetime. This true story violates many TV rules. It has a foggy ending — you have to guess who did what — and no nice people to root for. Still, it offers the fun of bizarre characters, lust, Las Vegas and $7 million in silver. Mena Suvari and Marcia Gay Harden do a good job as the antagonists.

"Generation Gap," 6 p.m., Hallmark Channel. Here, by comparison, is a film overrun by niceness. A troubled teen moves in with his hard-nosed grandfather (Ed Asner), instantly assimilating all the small-town values. It's all predictable, but pleasant.