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The Lottery (Lifetime, 10 p.m.): In a dystopian future in which dystopian-future scenarios are dangerously sparse, Lifetime enters the fray by asking a very Lifetime question: What if ladies couldn’t have babies anymore? Under the guidance of Timothy J. Sexton (who explored this topic, albeit more artfully, in Children Of Men), this new scripted series details the mad, scientific dash to fertilize some embryos and prevent human kind’s extinction. According to her pre-air thoughts on the show, Genevieve Valentine wouldn’t mind if this concept went extinct.
DID LIFETIME PROVIDE A PRESS SHOT OF THE CONTAINER THAT HOLDS THOSE EMBRYOS?
Funny you should ask. Now don’t go stealing those embryos for your own, plot-complicating, world-saving purposes…
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Endeavour (PBS, 9 p.m.): The Young Inspector Morse Chronicles concludes its second season with three seemingly linked deaths and some missing evidence, all of which Morse could untangle if he was a full inspector—but alas, he’s still but a lowly detective constable.
Aliens On The Moon: The Truth Exposed (Syfy, 9 p.m.): This is the type of thing that would’ve freaked your What’s On Tonight correspondent way, way out when he was a kid—if that kid didn’t notice that it was produced by the same guy responsible for Fox’s bogus 1995 special Alien Autopsy: Fact Or Fiction?
Gunslingers (AHC, 10 p.m.): Facts that are more easily confirmed: The Old West figures profiled in this effort from the newly rechristened American Heroes Channel (formerly the Military Channel) really existed, though their stories have rarely been told with such attention to historical detail (or featured as many Rescue 911-style reenactments).
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