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That Girl
The Sarah Silverman Program 10:30 p.m., Comedy Central
She’s just too darn Sarah for some. But she makes me laugh. Tonight, her series returns with the further adventures of her childlike heroine, who gets tangled up with a militant anti-abortion group. Hey, she likes their lemon squares.

Private Practice
9 p.m., Channel 5
Who are you, and what have you done with Addison?

Bionic Woman
9 p.m., Channel 7
She goes into the closet as a slay person.

Back to You
8 p.m., Channel 25
Frasier, without Niles, or smiles.

I WANT THE BLUTH
Dirty Sexy Money
10 p.m., Channel 5
This new series is a soapy drama, as it chronicles the messy problems of the wealthy Darling family and the woes of their idealistic lawyer, played by Peter Krause. But it also has shades of "Arrested Development," since the Darlings are so frenetically nuts. If it stays good, this show could be the season's surprise hit.

Dexter
10 p.m., Showtime
What should he take for his inability to kill? Die-agra.

Wired Science
8 p.m., Channel 2
Magazine series about the Web we weaved.

ON DEMAND
Maria Full of Grace
Comcast
In Joshua Marston's emotionally stressful first film, a 17-year-old (Catalina Sandina Moreno, above, who's excellent) transports little bags of heroin from Colombia to New York in her stomach. As things go nightmarishly wrong, the movie achieves a power that doesn't announce itself until it's over. In Spanish, with subtitles. (R; runs on HBO through Oct. 28) - Wesley Morris

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She's just too darn Sarah for some. But she makes me laugh. Tonight, her series returns with the further adventures of her childlike heroine, who gets tangled up with a militant anti-abortion group. Hey, she likes their lemon squares.

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