Fan favorites in MLB All-Star game
Tonight’s must-see
MLB All-Star game, 5 p.m. Fox.
Yankee Stadium has seen some of baseball’s great moments and great players. Now — with a new stadium being finished — it gets one final All-Star game.
These games bring lots of emotion and ceremony (especially tonight), plus a tad of importance: The winning league gets home-field advantage (and its rules, with or without a designated hitter) in four of the seven World Series games.
Lately, that’s been easy to predict: The National League hasn’t won since 1996; it did, however, manage one tie.
Tonight’s alternative
“Must Love Kids,” 9 p.m., TLC.
Here’s a dating show with a difference: We meet three single moms, each sifting through several guys.
Kristin has three children, Vanessa has two. Tracy has only one, but she’s a blur of a 5-year-old redhead who seems like a dozen.
Each mom is in her 30s, with a day job (patent agent, massage therapist, etc.) that keeps her busy. Each seems to have a playful approach to kids. Now each begins a search for the right guy.
Other choices include
“NCIS,” 8 p.m., CBS. When a crypt is opened, a variety of body parts are discovered. Now the team searches for a serial killer.
“Celebrity Family Feud,” 8 p.m., NBC. Two guys from the “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” – Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy – bring their families for a face-off. Also, it’s Vivica Fox against Mo’Nique.
“Secret Life of the American Teenager,” 8 p.m., ABC Family. Amy still hasn’t told her parents she’s pregnant. Tonight, however, she tells her sister. She also grows closer to Ben, a sweet guy who isn’t the father.
“America’s Got Talent” (NBC) and “Big Brother” (CBS), both 9 p.m. Two popular summer shows collide — on All-Star night, no less.
“Earth: The Biography” conclusion, 10 p.m., Tuesday. National Geographic Channel. This is a terrific, five-hour series. (For proof of that, check the reruns on ice at 8 p.m. and volcanoes at 9.) Now comes a finale that takes a fresh approach: “Rare Planet” suggests that the Earth might really be unique in the universe. It views all the remarkable forces that worked just right to let complex creatures live here.
“POV: The Last Conquistador,” 10 p.m., KUID. The idea seemed bold and ambitious: To celebrate its Hispanic roots, El Paso, Texas, hired sculptor John Houser to create an epic statue of Juan de Onate. Then came the protests: This man and his Spanish soldiers had charged through the native villages. They killed most of the people, enslaved others. In a gesture toward “leniency,” de Onate ordered that some merely have one foot chopped off. This would be a statue to a terrorist, American Indians complained. This even-handed documentary finds sympathy for both sides and shows a human dilemma that allows no happy ending.
“The Cleaner” debut, 10 p.m., A&E. Give this show credit for intense drama, strong actors, high-energy camerawork – everything except variety. Benjamin Bratt plays a former drug addict, now heading a team that snatches people and pushes them into rehab. All of his staffers are former addicts. There’s a darkly morose tone here that works powerfully in spurts but needs some variety of look and tone.