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Updated at 8:08 a.m., Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Tube Notes: 'Lost,' 'America's Top Model'

By Mike Hughes
mikehughes.tv

It's Wednesday night and "Lost" is a must-see, but for those seeking alternatives, television critic Mike Hughes has some eye-catching alternatives.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: "LOST," 7 AND 8 P.M., ABC

This whole time-travel thing gets complicated, once you add flashbacks, flashforwards and a mobile island.

Things start at 8 p.m. with a rerun of last week's episode. It showed what happened when Locke ventured onto the mainland under the name Jeremy Bentham.

Then comes a new hour. Sawyer must perpetuate a lie, in order to avoid mistakes of the past.

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEES

"America's Next Top Model," 7-9 p.m., CW; then "Make Me a Supermodel," 8 p.m., repeats at 8 and 11, Bravo.

It's an all-model night, as two editions begin.

First, we see a field of 34 women trimmed to 13. They do a photo shoot in New York City's Central Park, re-creating childhood games.

Then "Supermodel" starts with 16 contestants, male and female. Moments after arriving in New York, they are told to pose in intimate pairs, in a Plexiglass cube above the street.

This is a big step for one man, who has zero experience as a model. And for another, who describes him self as "especially not gay"; he's paired with an androgynous guy who makes no such claim.

And it's a huge step for a towering beauty named Salome. She says she grew up as a Mennonite -- "sort of Amish with electricity" -- and had no radio, TV or computer. She also says she's been working since she was 4 and now works 70 hours a week in part-time jobs. That's a long way from the Plexiglass world she's entering.

Otherwise, "Supermodel" is fairly derivative. Tyson Beckford hosts woodenly, but is a strong mentor for the men.