"Hustle" returns, Larry King marks half a century, and there's some new stuff to watch, too.
All times Central.
TONIGHT
“Drive,” a fast-paced action serial premiering at 7 tonight on Fox 4, strikes me as a souped-up hybrid of “Prison Break” and the 1970s film “The Cannonball Run.” Or maybe the correct tele-gebra is this: “Drive” equals “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” minus the slapstick humor, raised to a factor of “The Fast and the Furious.” Featuring a slew of supercharged cars and drivers speeding to get away from their broken-down private lives in pursuit of a rumored $32 million jackpot, “Drive” reunites the star of the sci-fi cult hit “Firefly,” Nathan Fillion, with “Firefly” executive producer Tim Minear.
MONDAY
As a boy in Montana in the 1970s, I remember listening to a goofy overnight radio host named Herb Jebco. One day, something happened to Herb -- a friend told me he was taking a phone call on the air and just started weeping -- and the next thing you know, there was a new host: Larry King. Already a 20-year veteran interviewer in Miami, the King went nationwide and never looked back. He joined CNN in 1985, and to this day “Larry King Live” (8 p.m., CNN) remains the network's highest-rated talk show, though like everything on CNN, it ain't what it used to be. All week long, King marks his 50th anniversary in broadcasting with special shows.
WEDNESDAY
“Hustle” returns for a new season of six episodes at 9 p.m. on AMC. Yes, I said six whole episodes. So bear that in mind, “Monk” fans, next time you complain about getting “only” eight new episodes at a time. The Brits make USA Network look like spendthrifts. Robert Vaughn heads up the gang of grifters who work over American suckers in Vegas and L.A. Robert Wagner guest stars in this week's episode, a nice little nod to Wagner's role playing both sides of the law on the old TV show “Switch.”
THURSDAY
“Wife, Mom, Bounty Hunter”: What more do I need to say? This new reality series airing at 8 p.m. on the WE channel features blond ex-wrestler Sandra Scott, owner of Old West Bail Bonds, mom of two (including a six-year-old named Ever Skye), Arizona suburbanite and, on the side, a private eye. Meant to be as appealing as A&E's “Dog the Bounty Hunter” is repugnant, WE comes from the same folks who brought us “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
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