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Transamerican Love Story (10 p.m. Monday, Logo) -- Five years ago, if you heard the word ''transsexual'' on television, it was nearly always followed by ''hooker'' or ''drug addict'' or both. But the times, they are a changin'. Now transsexuals -- or, to use the new term of art, transgenders -- are even getting their own dating reality show. This new series stars Calpernia Addams, whose real-life romance with a soldier ended in his 1999 murder at the hands of angry squad mates and did much to create public awareness of the vicious hostility that transgenders face every day.

Jericho (10 p.m. Tuesday, CBS) -- In a strike-ravaged TV landscape littered with reruns and reality shows, a mushroom cloud is a site for sore eyes. Jericho, a drama about life in a Kansas town after a nuclear war, returns for a quickie seven-episode season, picking up right where it left off last year: in the middle of a thunderous gun battle between survivors in the peaceful farm village of Jericho and marauders from the evil industrial town of New Bern. Kind of like the Kansas version of Homestead vs. Hialeah, but the thought of South Florida city councils armed with nukes is too horrifying to contemplate.

Love with the Proper Stranger (10:30 a.m. Thursday, Turner Classic Movies) -- If you don't have a reservation for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner, TiVo this comedy-drama and order a pizza. Steve McQueen is cynical and funny as a musician who's horrified to discover his one-night-stand has resulted in a pregnancy, and Natalie Wood is touchingly vulnerable (and drop-dead gorgeous) as the unlucky girl. An astonishingly provocative film when it was released in 1962, it has lost its shock value but is as engrossing and affecting as ever.

-- GLENN GARVIN

Jumper (PG-13) -- A young man (Hayden Christensen) has a genetic condition that allows him to jump through time. I wonder if that means he can skip over work days? Jamie Bell, Samuel L. Jackson and The O.C.'s Rachel Bilson co-star.

The Spiderwick Chronicles (PG) -- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'sFreddie Highmore has twice the fun as he plays a pair of twins who find themselves pulled into a magical world when they move to a run-down estate.

In Bruges (R) -- Two hitmen (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) are hiding out in the still-in-medieval-times-and-proud-of-it town of Bruges, Belgium. The tagline on the movie's posters: ''Shoot first. Sightsee later.'' Hmm.

Definitely, Maybe (PG-13) -- A sort of How I Met Your Mother for the big screen, the story here focuses on a precocious child (Abigail Breslin, who you just know will be full of witty insights) quizzing her father (Ryan Reynolds), who's in the middle of a divorce, about his life before he got married.

Step Up 2 the Streets (PG-13) -- Sparks fly between rival students at a dance school in this sequel. From what we remember, the original focused on the hot guys (well, at least one hot guy) in the world of step-dancing, so we're hoping the casting agents upped the ante for round two.

-- SARA FREDERICK