SMALL SCREEN

Penn & Teller's Bull- - - -! (10 p.m. Thursday, Showtime) -- America's most hilariously debauched investigative report returns for a sixth season, with erstwhile magicians Penn and Teller screaming insults (well, Penn screams; the silent Teller makes faces) and ruthlessly pranking their interview subjects as they trample on conventional wisdom and sometimes even human decency. (I exaggerate not; they actually trashed Mother Teresa one week.) On the season opener, they bash censorious right-wingers, bluenose feminists and (just because it's easy and fun) boy-toy-turned-moral-crusader Donna Rice as they defend Internet porn. In the next couple weeks, the targets include NASA and the environmental movement. Hey, is anybody still reading this who isn't hopelessly offended? Then move on to the next item. . . .

Weeds (10 p.m. Monday, Showtime) -- Nancy Botwin, the cutest soccer-mom/

narcotrafficker/blackmailer

/accessory-to-murder is reforming: She's no longer a soccer mom. As the blacker-than-black comedy Weeds kicks off its fourth season, Mary-Louise Parker's character has fled the suburbs as a full-blown fugitive from justice, and her family -- such as it is -- is hiding out in a little town near the Mexican border. Do not expect Ozzie, Harriet or the Cleavers to pop in to borrow a cup of sugar.

Psychic Kids: Children Of The Paranormal (10 p.m. Monday, A&E) -- ''I see dead people!'' Shut up and do your homework.

OMG! Sextuplets! (10 p.m. Wednesday, WE) -- This new documentary series follows an Arizona couple as they try to conceive and then overdo it a bit. Kind of unrealistic, though: six babies, and not a single psychic or narcotrafficker in the bunch?

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (10 p.m. Thursday, WPBT-PBS 2) -- In 1977, a 13-year-old girl disappeared on her way home from school in Niigata, Japan. It took her parents 30 years to find out what happened: She had been kidnapped, along with a dozen other Japanese, by North Korean spies. Watching this documentary, airing as part of the PBS Independent Lens series, you may find President Bush's label of North Korea as part of an ''axis of evil'' to be less fanciful than you thought.

-- GLENN GARVIN

Get Smart (PG-13) -- Steve Carell takes over for TV's Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, the bumbling super-spy battling the forces of KAOS. Anne Hathaway, Dwayne ''The Rock'' Johnson and Bill Murray co-star.

The Love Guru (PG-13) -- In his first live-action film since 2003's The Cat in the Hat, Mike Myers unveils his latest character-creation, a spiritual leader who wants to become the world's leading authority on relationship advice. Jessica Alba, Ben Kingsley and Justin Timberlake co-star.

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