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Fringe (8 p.m. Tuesday, Fox) -- When a jet lands at Boston's Logan Airport with no signs of life, the FBI quickly rules out the most likely cause -- airline food -- and decides there's only one person who can figure out what happened, a scientist known as our generation's Einstein. Unfortunately, he's been locked in the nuthouse for the past 17 years. This new series is as weird and engrossing as Lost,and not coincidentally created by the same executive producer, J.J. Abrams.

True Blood (9 p.m. Sunday, HBO) -- A new series about an America where vampires and mortals co-exist, sort of. Talk about blue states and red states! Full review on 1M.

Entourage (10 p.m. Sunday, HBO) -- Vince, Eric and the boys start their fifth season poor and struggling after their movie Medellín bombed at Cannes. In real life, they'd just buy themselves a Golden Globe, but things aren't that easy in the more just, but unfortunately wholly fictional, Hollywood of Entourage.

Privileged (9 p.m. Tuesday, The CW) -- An innocent new girl in town is horrified by the lascivious ways of rich Southern California teenagers. No, idiot, you did not see this last week -- that was 90210. That was about a new girl from Kansas. This is about a new girl from Connecticut. It's, like, totally different.

-- GLENN GARVIN

Burn After Reading (R) -- After sweeping the Oscars with the most serious and mature film of their career (No Country For Old Men), brothers Joel and Ethan Coen return to the irreverent, wacky turf of The Big Lebowski and The Ladykillers with this comedy about two gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) who try to make money off a computer disc containing the precious secrets of a CIA agent (John Malkovich). George Clooney and Tilda Swinton also figure into the plot somehow.

Righteous Kill (R) -- Unlike their last film pairing in Heat,in which they only appeared together in a couple of scenes, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino spend most of this thriller together onscreen, playing a pair of New York City detectives on the trail of a serial killer. That's the good news. The bad news? The movie is not being screened in advance for critics. Beware.

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (PG-13) -- Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard are the matriarchs of two families -- one uppercrust, the other workingclass -- who become entangled in scandal in the sixth film from the man who brought you Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

The Women (PG-13) -- If you simply can't wait for the Sex and the City movie to hit DVD, this loose remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic should tide you over. Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Eva Mendes and a slew of other actresses (with absolutely no men in sight) run around New York City shopping, getting their nails done, attending fashion shows and lamenting the state of their love lives.

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