Billy the Exterminator (A&E) — Season premiere. Never mind the snakes and the roaches crawling out of his mouth: the most disgusting aspect of this show is Billy’s personal aesthetic. It’s like Keith Urban meets Kid Rock meets Criss Angel meets Bret Michaels meets Billy Idol. None of that is a compliment.
Picker Sisters (Lifetime) — Series premiere. Two of the women from “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (inset) collect junk and turn it into nice crap for their home furnishing business.
Take the Money and Run (ABC) — Series premiere. As much as I’m inclined to dislike anything named after a Steve Miller Band song, I have to admit that this sounds kinda cool. “A pair of contestants is given a briefcase containing $100,000 and an hour to hide it anywhere in their hometown. Then they’re taken into custody and interrogated while local detectives try to track down the briefcase. If the detectives find it, they get the money; if they don’t, the contestants keep the cash.” (Yahoo)
Killer Sharks (Discovery) — This one’s about shark attacks off the coast of South Africa — not Australia — so you have a chance of surviving the Shark Week drinking game.
19 Kids and Counting (TLC) — Summer finale. The Duggars go to New York, where the subway system poses a threat to their legion of retarded spawn.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Ricky Gervais and Cat Deeley on Letterman; Katie Holmes and Novak Djokovic on Leno; Hank Azaria on Kimmel; Danny McBride and Diana Agron on Fallon; Jason Bateman on “The Daily Show”; Shaquille O’Neal on Conan; and Kristen Bell, Eddie Izzard, and Jean Reno on Ferguson, which is taping from Paris this week. Oh la la!
