"Flashpoint" Premieres on CBS and More TiVoWorthy TV for July 11

FRIDAY, JULY 11

Flashpoint (CBS, 10 p.m. ET) (Pictured)

Series Premiere. Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars) and Amy Jo Johnson (Felicity) star in this Canadian action-drama about an elite team of cops known as the Strategic Response Unit (inspired by Tornoto’s Emergency Task Force). Tonight the SRU team works to save a woman who has been taken hostage by a disturbed man in an office building.

Queen Bees (The N, 9 p.m. ET)

Series Premiere. Call it a meanness intervention. Seven perfectly dreadful, self-centered girls move into a house together under the mistaken impression that they are going to compete to be the biggest diva in the group. But they have actually been nominated by their families, friends and boyfriends for much-needed personality makeovers under the guidance of a relationship expert known as Dr. Michelle. Much self-examination and emotion follows, in part because a grand prize of $25,000 is available to the pain in the behind that changes the most. America’s Next Top ModelSeason 2 winner Yoanna House is the host.

Stargate Atlantis (Sci Fi Channel, 10 p.m. ET)

Season Premiere. International Oversight Committee rep Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) assumes control of the Atlantis expedition and learns to cope with his new responsibilities as Season 5 begins.

The N’s Student Body (The N and Nick at Nite, 10 p.m. ET)

Series Premiere. Laila Ali hosts this new reality series in which 12 out of shape students from rival high schools in Decatur, IL, compete to become physically fit and win a cool $25,000 for their school. Student Body will move to its regular night and time period on Sunday at 8 p.m.

Koppel: The People’s Republic of Capitalism (Discovery Channel, 10 p.m. ET)

Third of Four Parts. Ted Koppel’s look at the people and economy of China continues with The Fast Lane, which looks at the dramatic increase in new vehicles on the roads of China (more than 9 million every year) and the problems they cause, from more traffic to more accidents to more pollution. China is on course to become the world’s largest producer of automobiles as well as the biggest market for new cars. Koppel’s series concludes tomorrow night with It’s the Economy, Stupid, which tells how China lifted 300 million people out of poverty in less than a generation and looks at the downsides of the country’s booming economy, including hellish pollution (China’s primary power source is coal, as its blackening skies indicate) and the corruption that comes with increased investments in infrastructure and new businesses.

Ed Martin

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