First or second rule of reality TV: There's always room for a retrospective.
8:30 p.m., Channel 7
Warming us up for Shannon's debut in the NBC sitcom "Kath & Kim" next fall?
Show us some passion, Jason Castro! Or else be utterly true to yourself, and fall asleep in the middle of your song.
As opposed to, you know, women in peril.
10:02 p.m., Channel 5
This show is so formulaic on the face of it - "Sex and the City" girls unite to fight crime - that I really want to hate it. But I don't. Maybe it's Angie Harmon (left) who saves it for me; "Law and Order" was never the same without her.
Gene does "research" for a book on women's prostitution. I'm sure the guy's a dedicated journalist.
"Shawshank Redemption" writer-director Frank Darabont goes back to prison with Stephen King and scores again with an involving story about supernatural happenings shaking up the grisly routine on a Louisiana prison death row in 1935. Tom Hanks's humane guard reacts with increasing awe to Michael Clarke Duncan's saintly giant, whom Hanks just can't believe is a killer. (R; runs through May 12) 
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