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OPENING WEDNESDAY

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG) -- Although the story supposedly grows darker in the sixth installment of the boy wizard's adventures, this is the first Potter picture to receive a PG rating since 2004's Prisoner of Azkaban, so it can't be that dark. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint return to continue the battle against the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), who gets uglier every time we see him.

OPENING FRIDAY

Adoration (R) -- The always-intriguing Atom Egoyan tries to bounce back from the 2005 debacle of Where the Truth Lies with another fractured narrative (an Egoyan specialty) about a high-school student assigned by his French teacher to translate a news story about a terrorist attack.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

Miami Social (10 p.m. Tuesday, Bravo) -- Oh, my: Another reality show shot on South Beach. Well, you know the drill: Hot parties! Hot Russian chicks! Hot mortgage brokers! Hot real-estate agents! Hot poodles! Hot editors! Oddly, there appear to be no hot nuclear physicists or hot brain surgeons, but I imagine that's coming in Season Two, don't you?

Why Planes Crash (10 p.m. Sunday, MSNBC) -- A little documentary to make you feel better about the fact that you can't afford a vacation this summer.

Entourage (10:30 p.m. Sunday, HBO) -- In their sixth season, these four Brooklyn bad boys taking Hollywood by storm are finally starting to grow up a little bit. They're having romances instead of random sex and embarking on careers instead of hanging out posse-style. But the key words are a little bit: There's still plenty of time for hilarious stupidity, especially now that underrated comediennes Jami Gertz (Still Standing) and Autumn Reeser (The O.C.) are fleshing out the female side of the cast.

Porn: Business of Pleasure (10 p.m. Wednesday, CNBC) -- Oh, man, the economy is even worse than we thought: This documentary says porn DVD sales are down 50 percent. Next thing you know, the feds will be taking over Penthouse and we'll have a national Porn Czar.

Dark Blue (10 p.m. Wednesday, TNT) -- Dylan McDermott (The Practice) heads an undercover team of cops probing the sleazy urban underbelly of -- whew! -- Los Angeles. For a second there, I thought we had another South Beach reality show.

-- GLENN GARVIN

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