Notable TV: Wednesday, June 24
TV Gets a New Kind of Humanitarian
So You Think You Can Dance | 8pm
Top 16 Perform: It’s the Round of 16, which means there are just eight couples left!
[Fox, 120 minutes]
America’s Got Talent | 9pm
Audition Show #2: The Wednesday edition premieres for Season Four.
[NBC, 60 minutes]
The Philanthropist | 10pm
Pilot: Rome’s James Purefoy stars as successful billionaire Teddy Rist, who evolves into a “vigilante/philanthropist” after his young son dies and he has a life-changing experience in Nigeria.
[NBC, 60 minutes, Series Premiere, James Purefoy and Tom Fontana Interview]
The Real World | 10pm
Cancun: The 22nd (!!!) season opens with eight roommates living together in Mexico digs.
[MTV, 60 minutes, Season Premiere]
Top Chef Masters | 10pm
Offal Tasty: The chef competitors make offal — technically, inedible parts of butchered animals (Yuk!) — for passersby in Los Angeles. Let’s hope there’s a more appetizing counterpart in the world of cuisine, or that someone at least has the courtesy to tell pedestrians what they’re getting into before they take a bite.
[Bravo, 60 minutes]
Primetime | 10:01pm
Questions for the President: Prescription for America: News anchors Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer moderate as President Barack Obama discusses the future of the healthcare system in the United States from the White House’s East Room. The dialogue with participants continues later on Nightline at 11:35pm.
[ABC, 59 minutes, Special]
All times are Eastern Time
James Purefoy/The Philanthropist photo courtesy of Mitchell Haaseth/NBC
