TV: Five shows worth watching tonight: May 24
A select guide to the best shows on Tuesday, May 24
MOVIE Rocky III AMC, 10:30 p.m. Not as stirring as the original Rocky but better than Rocky II, this 1982 feature made a star out of one Laurence Tureaud, better known as Mr. T. The T-man steals the show as the snarling brawler Clubber Lang, who throws Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) a vicious beating and takes his heavyweight title. Rocky is trained by his former ring nemesis Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) for the big-ticket rematch, but can the Italian Stallion last 10 rounds with the brutal Clubber? Eye of the tiger, Rock.
GAME SHOW Repo Games Spike, 8 p.m. Every so often comes a TV show that you simply can't believe you're watching. Launched last month, this new series merges the game-show genre with reality television. The difference: Hosts Josh Lewis and Tom DeTone are real-life repo men, but when they hook up a car on this show, the owner gets one last chance. Filmed in L.A. and Dallas, the show travels right to the repossessee's driveway. The owner is given a chance to win the car back by answering five general trivia questions. All the owner has to do to have the vehicle paid off completely is get three answers right. Of course, that's a significant struggle for most of the people on this show, but it's all in good fun.
REALITY Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best? E!, 9 p.m. Can we talk? Launched a few months back, this new reality series chronicles the rocky relocation of Joan Rivers from New York to Los Angeles. Of course the comedy legend does it for the right reasons ? to bond with daughter Melissa and grandson Cooper ? but she's not exactly the perfect houseguest. In tonight's show, Melissa bridles when Joan reveals personal details on a radio show, which leads to a huge mother-daughter blowout, followed by the arrival of a ?team builder? to begin the healing process. Along with the family feuding, Joan gets in some pretty sharp one-liners.
DRAMA Due South Vision, 10 p.m. Created by Paul Haggis, this series shone brightly for four seasons on Canadian and U.S. television. The series starred Paul Gross as the briskly efficient Constable Benton Fraser, an RCMP officer who goes to Chicago to solve his father's murder and ends up partnered with the dour detective Ray Vecchio, played by David Marciano. The format worked nicely for two seasons, but then Marciano departed and was replaced by Callum Keith Rennie as the no less testy cop Stanley Kowalski. Tonight, Benton and Ray look into the disappearance of a man who always claimed to be a spy. Maybe he really was a spy?Canadian Press/The Canadian Press
REALITY William Shatner's Weird or What? History, 7 p.m. Chalk up the brilliant career of William Shatner to smart casting: The Montreal-born thespian was perfectly cast in the role of Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek and he's equally well-suited to hosting this series that attempts to put a scientific spin on seemingly unexplainable events. Watch Shatner pour on the sincerity tonight as he retells the old fable about the man who was struck six times by lightning and lived, or the baby who was frozen rock-solid in a winter storm and then thawed without injury. That's acting, baby.Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images