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BEST BETS FOR THURSDAY, MAR. 18, 2010

NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

CBS, noon & 7 p.m. ET

Daytime coverage begins shortly after noon ET, with Villanova vs. Robert Morris the early game featuring the highest seed (the Wildcats are seeded second in its bracket). The No. 1 seeds to play today are Kentucky (vs. E. Tennessee State, at 7:15 p.m. ET) and Kansas (vs. Lehigh, at 9:30). All the day’s games are streamed, in their entirety, at the CBS website.

FLASHFORWARD

ABC, 8 p.m. ET

SERIES RETURN: After a long time on the bench, this series returns with a two-hour installment, and hopes that viewers will return for more after ABC opted to rest the show for months. Yeah, because that tactic worked so well for, say, Pushing Daisies.

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE

TCM, 8 p.m. ET

This is a fun doubleheader – two classic Westerns, each centered on Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. It starts with this 1946 John Ford masterwork, in which Victor Mature plays the ailing Doc, while Henry Fonda plays Earp, and also demonstrates a playful balancing act with a chair. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, comes John Sturges’ 1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in which Burt Lancaster plays Earp, and Kirk Douglas plays Doc Holliday.

30 ROCK

NBC, 9:30 p.m. ET

Michael Sheen has been so good in dramas – The Queen, Frost/Nixon – that it’s easy to overlook how much at ease he is at comedy as well. Yet here, as Liz’s latest male interest and/or adversary, he ought to prove it effortlessly.

ARCHER

FX, 10 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Sexual harassment in the workplace comes front and center in this show’s first-season finale. And at this politically incorrect spy agency, working the sexual angle isn’t necessarily seen as a bad thing to have on your resume.

PROECT RUNWAY

Lifetime, 10 p.m. ET

This show has been creative with its creative challenges the past two weeks, sending contestants to a hardware store, or to consider the four elements, for inspiration. Tonight, the tough assignments continue, as the remaining contestants are paired up for a team task – and “works well with others” isn’t a line to found on many of THESE resumes.

   
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