Doctor Who (Sci Fi Channel, 8 p.m. ET)
U.S. Season Premiere. The third season of the BBC's contemporary continuation of the classic franchise Doctor Who (which has retained its narrative continuity throughout all of its
revivals over a period of more than 40 years) begins with a 90-minute episode titled The Runaway Bride in which The Doctor discovers a mysterious woman dressed in a fluffy wedding frock on board the TARDIS. This episode was actually a Christmas special that ran on the BBC between seasons of the show. The first official episode of the third season follows at 9:30 p.m., in which The Doctor meets his new traveling companion, pretty medical student Martha Jones, after the hospital Martha works in is transported to the Moon! David Tennant and Freema Agyeman star.
Stage Left with Keith Urban (GAC, 8 p.m. ET)
Premiere. GAC host Nan Kelley
talks with international superstar Keith Urban as he kicks off the North American leg of his Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy World tour.
Jericho (CBS, 9 p.m. ET)
CBS tonight begins its effort to appease fans who were so outraged by the network's cancellation of Jericho in May. As you know, the furious ones organized a grassroots campaign to send
thousands of bags of peanuts to the programming executives behind the dastardly decision -- and it worked. Jericho lives! The series pilot will be repeated tonight, followed next week by reruns of Return to Jericho, a special that recapped the first 11 episodes of the show after its extended winter hiatus, and episode 12, titled The Day Before. (That's the one about the last day of normalcy in the title town before all those nuclear bombs began
going off across North America and elsewhere.) The remaining summer telecasts will be reruns of episodes 13-22, and then fans will have to endure another prolonged hiatus until Jericho returns in midseason with seven new episodes. Skeet Ulrich, Gerald McRaney, Pamela Reed, Ashley Scott and Brad Beyer star.
Science of Summer (National Geographic Channel, 9 p.m. ET)
Premiere. How does your body react to sunlight? How can you make a fast recovery from an ice-cream induced brain freeze? What
does a mosquito inject into you while it drinks your blood? How many people are killed by lightning strikes every year? Who were the first people to begin surfing and how long ago did they do so? For the answer to these and other seasonal questions catch this informative, fast-paced special.
