There has been no shortage of Canadian cop show imports all summer, from “Flashpoint” and “Rookie Blue” to “Motive.” Now comes a slightly more solid entry on a slightly more difficult to find channel.
“Cracked” (Reelz, 10 p.m.) is the impolite name for a series on a Toronto based Psych Crimes and Crisis Unit created to specifically work with cases where mental illness is an issue.
David Sutcliffe, who worked in “Gilmore Girls” and “Private Practice” stars as a tough cop working through his own PTSD as he’s paired with a gunless shrink played by Stefanie von Pfettten. Her role is to keep an eye on him (a la “Hannibal”) as much as figure out the cases. And so far, in tonight’s two hour premiere, they don’t seem to have bad chemistry.
Fresh from the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Soledad O’Brien presents her latest report “Black in America” (CNN, 10 p.m.), looking at inequities in public schools.
A family tries to avoid foreclosure on a two hour “Dateline” (NBC, 9 p.m.). And oddly, that’s the plot of a new TV movie as well, with “Foreclosed” (Lifetime Movie Network, 8 p.m.) in which Marlee Matlin and James Denton move into a foreclosed property, only to find a crazed Jamie Kennedy there, refusing to leave. Also in the cast: Paul Sorvino.
Contestants on “America’s Next Top Model” (The CW, 9 p.m.) learn to become fashion correspondents under the tutelage of Perez Hilton (Scrawl bigger over their pictures! Hot pink has more impact as a crayon than red!). Maybe they’d all be better off taking themselves off the runway and quietly going to college.
Yet more manly action in Alaska, but instead of gold diggers and truckers here are welders, who have their own issues on the new “Alaska Steel Men” (Discovery, 10 p.m.).
The Canadian sci-fi cop series “Continuum” (Syfy, 10 p.m.) marks its second season finale; it will return for a third.
A cancer sufferer tries to “Say Yes to the Dress” (TLC, 9 p.m.), while the hosts of “What Not to Wear” (TLC, 10 p.m.) give up trying to help individuals and instead give a general set of rules for everyone about being stylish (in their eyes, of course).
It’s a night of sticking hands down the gullets of catfish with a night of “Hillbilly Handfishin'” (Animal Planet, 8, 9 and 10 p.m.).
Biofilm subjects tonight include Johnny Cash, in “Walk the Line” (Oxygen, 6:30 p.m.) and George W. Bush in “W.” (TMC, 8 p.m.). Richard Dreyfuss plays Dick Cheney in that film, but the much more scary real thing is featured in the documentary “The World According to Dick Cheney” (Showtime, 3 p.m.).
A couple of kids’ animated films are featured in double features. “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (FX, 7 p.m.) is followed by “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel” (FX, 9 p.m.). The original “Shrek” (TBS, 8 p.m.) is followed directly by “Shrek the Third” (TBS, 10 p.m.). Was “Shrek 2” so bad?
Summer of the Stars is about to wind up on Turner Classic Movies. But before it does, they salute Kirk Douglas all day with a dozen films: “Out of the Past” (6 a.m.), “Young Man with a Horn” (8 a.m.), “The Big Trees” (10 a.m.), “Two Weeks in Another Town” (11:30 a.m.), “Town Without Pity” (1:30 p.m.), “The Hook” (3:30 p.m.), “The Way West” (5:30 p.m.), “Paths of Glory” (8 p.m.), “Act of Love” (9:45 p.m.), “Lust for Life” (11:45 p.m.), “The Big Sky” (2 a.m.) and “Along the Great Divide” (4:30 a.m.).
Daytime Talk
Kelly & Michael: Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey (rerun). The View: Susan Lucci, Little Big Town, Margaret Cho (rerun). The Talk: Selena Gomez, Il Volo, Marie Osmond (rerun). Ellen DeGeneres: Mila Kunis, Tegan & Sara (rerun). Wendy Williams: Omarosa, Dr. Gadget (rerun).
Late Talk
David Letterman: Denzel Washington, James McCartney (rerun). Jay Leno: Sen. John McCain, Diablo Cody, Brookyn T. Jones with Mayer Hawthorne. Jimmy Kimmel: Josh Duhamel, Adam Perry Lang, Luke Bryan (rerun). Jimmy Fallon: Bryan Cranston, Common, Miranda Hart, Robin Thicke (rerun). Craig Ferguson: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Julie Chen, Neil Patrick Hanis, Nikki Reed, Drew Brees (rerun). Carson Daly: Pete Wentz, Tift Merrit (rerun). Tavis Smiley: Wayne Shorter. Chelsea Handler: Robie Rogers, Chris Fanjola, Sarah Colonna, Nico Santos (rerun).