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TV This Week March 23 - 29: ‘Psych’ on USA

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This week’s TV Movies

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SUNDAY

“American Dream Builders” are tasked with innovating while renovating assorted fixer-uppers in this new reality competition. 8 p.m. NBC

“Ron White: Salute to the Troops 2014” features the whiskey-sippin’ comic and pothers paying tribute to the men and women serving in America’s armed forces. 9 p.m. CMT

There’s still life in the old girl yet as “Drop Dead Diva” launches its sixth and final season with a double episode. Brooke Elliott stars. 9 p.m. Lifetime

MONDAY

Andrew Zimmern will be in Alaska on the return of “Bizarre Foods America.” Try the mousse, by which we mean “moose.” 9 p.m. Travel Channel

Wuh uh oh! All the “Single Ladies” say goodbye as this comedy-drama wraps its three-season run. With LisaRaye McCoy and D.B. Woodside. 9 p.m. VH1

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Just the stats, ma’am: Data scientist Jake Porway explains it all for you in the new series “The Numbers Game.” 9:30 p.m. National Geographic Channel

Obese women opt for weight-loss surgery in “All of Me: A Story of Love, Loss, and Last Resorts” on a new “Independent Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Kvetch much? Veteran comics Richard Lewis and Gilbert Gottfried are featured on a new “Inside Comedy.” 11 p.m. Showtime

TUESDAY

Scott Bakula guest stars on “NCIS.” But don’t be surprised to see him heading up yet another spinoff of the hit drama sometime soon. Seriously, don’t be. 8 p.m. CBS

The five-part series “The Story of the Jews With Simon Schama” is based on the British author’s detailed survey of 3,000-plus years of Jewish history. 8 and 9 p.m. KOCE

Vietnam veterans and their service and sacrifices are saluted in the special “Brothers in War” narrated by “Platoon’s” Charlie Sheen. 8 p.m. National Geographic Channel

That’s “Life.” Noted naturalist David Attenborough narrates this new 10-part nature series. 9 p.m. BBC America

“Andrew Zimmern’s Big Departure” has the aforementioned foodie spending a week or so in a specific locale to find out if there’s any there there. 9 p.m. Travel Channel

“Frontline” explores the danger to public health posed by newer, drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in “TB Silent Killer.” 10 p.m. KOCE

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The return of “Wild Things With Dominic Monaghan” finds the former “Lost”

star getting up close and personal with a giant spitting cobra. 10 p.m. BBC America

They’ll be making all manner of movie-ready monsters and other crazy critters in the new reality competition “Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge.” 10 p.m. Syfy

WEDNESDAY

Vegas, baby! That’s where the “Modern Family” clan is headed in this new episode. Patton Oswalt, Stephen Merchant and “Portlandia’s” Fred Armisen guest star. 9 p.m. ABC

Pso long, “Psych.” The mystery-comedy starring James Roday and Dule Hill ends after seven seasons, followed by the new special “Psych After Pshow.” 9 and 10:07 p.m.

Dr. Livingstone, we presume: The noted 19th-century missionary and explorer is remembered on a new “Secrets of the Dead.” 10 p.m. KOCE

“Hot in Cleveland” and “The Soul Man” will be going live, although tape-delayed on the West Coast, for their respective season premieres. 10 and 10:30 p.m. TV Land

THURSDAY

The cast of the nearly departed sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” does a pre-finale victory lap on “Inside the Actors Studio.” 8 p.m. Bravo

Dad on duty: “Law & Order: SVU’s” Christopher Meloni plays a put-upon paterfamilias in the new 1990s-set sitcom “Surviving Jack.” 9:30 p.m. Fox

FRIDAY

Drought? Superstorms? Polar vortices? “Worst Weather Ever?” Climate scientists investigate in this special. 8 and 11 p.m. National Geographic Channel

Broadway baby: Patina Miller, a Tony winner for the recent revival of “Pippin,” belts out show tunes, standards and more on a new “Live From Lincoln Center.” 9 p.m. KOCE

The teens are angelic, rather than vampiric, in the 2013 fantasy-drama “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.” With Lily Collins. 9 p.m. Starz

SATURDAY

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If you can’t stand “The Heat” then get out of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy’s way this hit 2013 action-comedy. 2013. 8 p.m. HBO

A teen mom’s baby is kidnapped in the new TV movie “Zoe Gone.” With Jean Louisa Kelly and Andrea Bowen. 8 p.m. Lifetime

Noted fortysomething Mark Wahlberg hosts “Nickelodeon’s 27th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards.” Aloe Blacc and American Authors perform. 8 p.m. Nickelodeon

We don’t usually bother to mention who’s hosting “Saturday Night Live.” But we’re making an exception for a return engagement by Louis C.K.. 11:29 p.m. NBC

The standup special “Hannibal Buress Live From Chicago” features that funny fellow waxing comedic in the Windy City. Midnight Comedy Central

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