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Wednesday: PBS airs the Oscar-winning stop-motion short "Peter and the Wolf." Plus: What did you think of "Autism: The Musical" on Tuesday?

Mar 26, 2008 |

Prime Pick

Even if you've heard the story a thousand times, you don't want to miss the half-hour animated version of "Peter and the Wolf" appearing on "Great Performances" (8 p.m. EDT on PBS) Wednesday. Director Suzie Templeton's film, which won the Oscar for best animated short, will delight you from start to finish with its sweet touches and its old-fashioned stop-motion charm. There's no dialogue, just Peter and his woodland friends taking on the big, bad wolf!

-- H.H.

Also…

The cheftestants of "Top Chef" (10 p.m. EDT on Bravo) are charged with catering a street fair, but how can we possibly resist a show about fried foods called "Deep Fried Paradise" (9 p.m. on Travel)? Fighting breaks out on "America's Next Top Model" (8 p.m. on the CW) and on "High School Reunion" (10 p.m. on TV Land), but we'd rather throw down with "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil" (10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central), in which Black debates the pros and cons of beer versus pot. (He certainly won't be the first one.)

Last night

What did you think of "Autism: The Musical" on Tuesday? Go here to discuss.

On the talk shows

Regis and Kelly ABC, 9 a.m. EDT	Kate Bosworth, Tom Cavanagh, guest co-host Megan Mullally
The View ABC, 11 a.m. EDT	A day of hot topics
Ellen DeGeneres Syndicated, check local listings	Paris Hilton, Lupe Fiasco, chef Homaro Cantu, New York Giant David Tyree (repeat)
Oprah Winfrey Syndicated, check local listings	"Inside the Lives of Hoarders, Part 2"
Charlie Rose PBS, check local listings	Ed Rendell, Thomas Keller
Larry King CNN, 9 p.m. EDT	TBA
Jon Stewart Comedy Central, 11 p.m. EDT	Brian Fagan (repeat)
Stephen Colbert Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m. EDT	Ethan Nadelmann, Howard Kurtz (repeat)
David Letterman CBS, 11:30 p.m. EDT	Brian Williams, Judy Greer, Langhorne Slim
Jay Leno NBC, 11:35 p.m. EDT	John Krasinski, Joe Torre, José González
Tavis Smiley PBS, check local listings	Sen. Chuck Hagel
Jimmy Kimmel ABC, 12:05 a.m. EDT	John Cusack, Sofia Vergara, the Jonas Brothers
Conan O'Brien NBC, 12:35 a.m. EDT	Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Ed Helms, Björk (repeat)
Craig Ferguson CBS, 12:35 a.m. EDT	Pamela Anderson, Christian Siriano, Judith Smith-Levin

Contributors: Molly Eichel, Heather Havrilesky, Amy Reiter, Charly Wilder

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