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Your select viewing guide for Tuesday, Feb. 28

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COMEDY Last Man Standing ABC, CITY-TV, 8 p.m. ET/PT Who could have guessed that Tim Allen would have the last laugh? Despite being ridiculed by Ricky Gervais at last year's Golden Globes – and needled anew on Gervais's new HBO series Life's Too Short – Allen is enjoying a career resurgence in this well-rated sitcom that is practically a lock for second-season renewal. The premise casts Allen as the recently downsized Mike Baxter, who grudgingly agrees to let his wife Vanessa (Nancy Travis) become the bread-winner while he tends to raising their three daughters, one of whom is a single mom. In tonight's show, Mike catches the teenager who keeps pranking his family, but the kid is injured in the process. You can pretty much guess how he handles the prankster's litigious father.

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COMEDY Are You Being Served? Vision, 8:30 p.m.ET; 5.30 p.m. PT For fans of classic British comedy, this British sitcom is appointment viewing. Originally broadcast from 1972 to 1985, the show's premise follows the workday routine in the men's and ladies’ clothing section of Grace Brothers, a fictional department store in downtown London. The cast of terribly English characters ranges from the man-hungry Mrs. Slocombe (Mollie Sugden) to the dim manager Mr. Rumbold (Nicholas Smith). In tonight's show, store management puts the prissy Mr. Humphries (John Inman) in charge of the in-store beauty contest. Although the grand prize is supposed to go to Miss Brahms (Wendy Richard), Mrs. Slocombe will not go gently into that good night.

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DRAMA Parenthood NBC, Global, 10 p.m. ET/PT Wrapping up its third season tonight, this series based on the 1989 feature film focuses on the members of the unsinkable Braverman clan, all of whom, not coincidentally, are in various stages of parenthood. For this current campaign, the show has averaged a paltry 4.4-million U.S. viewers each week, so there's probably not much reason to expect a fourth season. In the finale, youngest Braverman child Julia (Erika Christensen) and Joel (Sam Jaeger) struggle with the emotional rollercoaster of child adoption; eldest son Adam (Peter Krause) has to make a hard decision on the fate of The Luncheonette; and free-spirited Sarah (Lauren Graham) shocks the entire family with a decision on her future. Bye bye, Bravermans.

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MOVIE Lawrence of Arabia TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET; 7:15 p.m. PT Winner of seven Oscars, including best picture and best director, this 1962 British film demands repeat viewing. The movie recounts the eventful life and times of Thomas Edward Lawrence, convincingly played by Peter O'Toole in his greatest screen performance. The story opens with Lawrence's death in an English motorcycle accident at the age of 46 and then works backward to his days as a young English intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916. Ordered to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks during the First World War, Lawrence organizes a makeshift guerrilla army and leads the Arabs in an extended assault against their enemies over a two-year period. Epic in every sense of the word.

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