9pm, My Own Worst Enemy, Sci-Fi & HD
NEW SERIES Christian Slater gets his first big telly role as a mild-mannered family man who is horrified to discover he’s got a government-implanted micro-chip in his brain that means he turns into a violent superspy when his controllers flick a switch, and his life gets exceedingly complicated as his two worlds collide.
• catch it again Saturday, 8pm
9pm & 10pm, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hallmark
Hallmark are speeding things up with their new Thursday night double-bills of the show. Goren tries to win brownie points with an undercover op at a prison psychiatric ward where his nephew’s an inmate; and Logan and Falacci investigate the execution-style murder of three young college freshmen.
• catch them again tomorrow night, 8pm & 9pm
9pm, The Mentalist, Five
Jane’s sceptical when a local witch is suspected of being responsible for the murder of a local teenager who had terrorised her cat, but the normally cynical Cho gets caught up in her spellbinding ways.
• catch it again, Sunday, 7pm on Five US
9pm, My Name Is Earl, E4
Earl tries to make amends with a man he once bullied at school, but it turns out little Wally is now a muscle-clad bodybuilder… Meanwhile, Randy injects some shark adrenaline to help him stand up to Joy.
• catch it again at on E4+1, 10pm/Saturday, 7pm
10pm, Lie to Me, Sky1 & Sky HD
A notorious gang leader claims to have turned his back on a life of crime, and wants to be freed from jail, but Torres finds it hard to keep her emotions at bay as they interrogate him since he’s responsible for so many ruined lives in her community.
• catch it again on Sunday, 11pm
10pm, Californication, Fiver
Hank decides to do some digging on Ashby, so he tries to find his lost love, Janie Jones, and Charlie comes up with the genius idea of turning his home into the set of his movie, becoming a part of the film.
• catch it again on Wednesday, 10pm
10pm, Grey’s Anatomy, Living
It’s not so much ‘bring your parent to work’ day at Seattle Grace, more ‘find a way to get your parent to leave again’ as Meredith’s dad turns up begging for forgiveness, and Izzie’s mum (guest star Sharon Lawrence) makes an unscheduled stop at her sick bed.
• catch it again on Living+1, 11pm/Living+2, 12m’t/Wednesday, 8pm
10pm, Brothers & Sisters, More4
Holly and Sarah lock horns dring Ojai’s so-called unity party, and as Kitty continues to toy with the idea of having an affair, she’s haunted by memories of her philandering father.
• catch it again on More4+1, 11pm
…you didn’t mention that My Own Worst Enemy got cancelled after 9 episodes, with a cliffhanger and no plot resolutions…
Best not to focus on the bad stuff, ChuckZed! Nowadays I’m not convinced something getting cancelled means it was that bad – just means some daft executive got a bit obsessed about the decimal points…