The Roommates From Hell: Big Brother Gets Interesting

Summer's here, the time is right, for dancin' in the streets watchin' Big Brother three times a week. This is already the third episode of Big Brother 11, and if you haven't caught the fever yet, you'd better do so tonight because Ronnie, Jessie (from BB 10), Jeff from Chi-town, the girl with all the tats, and ginormous boobs Laura seem like they are about to start doing bad things to each other on purpose. Like any roommate situation, the first few days are great, but as soon as you hear them secretly plotting to evict you, you might not be as respectful of their Nintendo Wii.

Big Brother 11 [9 PM, CBS]

Tonight is the first Power of Veto competition of the season, and with at least two of the cliques aligning (Brains-Athletes, a historic marriage of convenience on par with the Warsaw Pact), there should be a whole lot of whispering and subtitles in tonight's episode. Unlike Survivor or Amazing Race, BB requires no actual talents to succeed, unless you count lying as a talent.

2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game [8 PM, Fox]

Here's something we've never suggested: Sports! The Great American Pastime (baseball) is still pretty great, but it's not all that American these days. The 80th annual matchup takes place in St. Louis, a city that has three things going for it: A ridiculously large arch, the Budweiser brewery, and Chuck Berry's monthly performances at Blueberry Hill bar in The Loop. They also get a bunch of tourist dollars and beauty shots of their skyline tonight.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [10 PM, NBC]

This is a rerun, of course, but one of the better episodes of last season. Carol Burnett gives it all in her role as a former ballerina wistful for her glory days. Actually, this episode is more of a regular Law & Order episode than an SVU joint (no children are raped or sold into slavery by a cult leader), but Burnett should be picking up Emmy kudos this week for her role.

Two Weeks Notice [10:30 PM, USA]

After completing its residency over at AMC (it was on almost every other day during the spring), Two Weeks Notice moves to USA to fill out various double bills with other romantic comedies (tonight USA pairs it with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days). Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant do the dance of boss-subordinate dependence-hatred until they eventually realize they love each other, but there's always been something unreasonable about the arc of Grant's character. The wealthy, cocksure player never settles down with the crusading public defender in real life.