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Thursday: Watch the has-beens duke it out on "Celebrity Apprentice." Plus: What did you think of "Peter and the Wolf " on Wednesday?

Mar 27, 2008 |

Prime Pick

Sure, we stuck up our noses at "Celebrity Apprentice" (9 p.m. EDT on NBC) when it premiered, not knowing that this would be the most entertaining season of "The Apprentice" by far. How could it have been otherwise, with so many oversize, threatened egos in play? Stephen Baldwin alternated between deviant and holier than thou, Vincent Pastore played the spy and then got booted, Gene Simmons was smooth and demented and left all too soon. The dramatic moments were too plentiful to mention, but the big ones had to be Omarosa casting aspersions on Piers Morgan's soundness as a father, and Piers pledging to bring Omarosa down (and then succeeding at it). Tonight, just Piers and Trace Adkins are left to battle it out. While Piers has the Duchess of York on his side, Trace is left fetching wheat grass for the Backstreet Boys. Yes, only a gaggle of has-beens could be that demanding -- which is a fitting moral for the whole "Celebrity Apprentice" experience, don't you think?

-- H.H.

Also…

"Letters From Iwo Jima" airs at 8 p.m. on AMC, but then what will it be, the second-to-last episode of "In Treatment" (9:30 p.m. EDT on HBO) or the second-to-last episode of "Make Me a Supermodel" (10 p.m. on Bravo)? The first part of a four-part series on inequality in the healthcare system, "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" airs at 10 p.m. on PBS (check listings), or you could skip the heavy stuff for a new episode of "South Park" ( 10 p.m. on Comedy Central). Later, the finale of "Pros vs. Joes, Last Joe Standing" airs at 11 p.m. on Spike.

Last night

What did you think of "Peter and the Wolf " on Wednesday? Go here to discuss.

On the talk shows

Regis and Kelly ABC, 9 a.m. EDT	Couples from "Dancing With the Stars," finalists from "Celebrity Apprentice," guest co-host Bernadette Peters
The View ABC, 11 a.m. EDT	Lisa Ling
Ellen DeGeneres Syndicated, check local listings	Ryan Phillippe, Suze Orman, Colin Cowie
Oprah Winfrey Syndicated, check local listings	Superstar couples
Charlie Rose PBS, check local listings	Sen. Chuck Hagel, Vitaly Churkin
Larry King CNN, 9 p.m. EDT	Vince McMahon, Triple H, John Cena, Chris Jericho, Floyd Mayweather, Big Show
Jon Stewart Comedy Central, 11 p.m. EDT	Sen. Arlen Specter (Repeat)
Stephen Colbert Comedy Central, 11:30 p.m. EDT	Samantha Power (Repeat)
David Letterman CBS, 11:30 p.m. EDT	Stupid Human Tricks, Eva Longoria, Colbie Caillat (Repeat)
Jay Leno NBC, 11:35 p.m. EDT	Conan O'Brien, Anderson Cooper, Allison Moorer
Tavis Smiley PBS, check local listings	Parag Khanna, Van Jones
Jimmy Kimmel ABC, 12:05 a.m. EDT	Don Rickles, Jim Sturgess, Black Tide
Conan O'Brien NBC, 12:35 a.m. EDT	Jake Gyllenhaal, Ghostland Observatory (Repeat)
Craig Ferguson CBS, 12:35 a.m. EDT	Susan Sarandon, Bonnie Somerville (Repeat)

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

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