Wednesday’s TV Highlights: Independence Day is celebrated on TV

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

America’s Lost Treasures: Hosts Curt Doussett and Kinga Philipps travel to 10 U.S. cities and invite locals to bring in their artifacts to find out what they’re really worth in this new series (9 and 10 p.m. National Geographic).

Hollywood Heights: In this new episode, Chloe tells Eddie that Tyler has been stalking her (9 p.m. Nickelodeon).

Dallas: With tension mounting between the newly married Christopher and Rebecca (Jesse Metcalfe, Julie Gonzalo), family ties begin to unravel when the deed to Southfork is revealed. Larry Hagman and Brenda Strong also star in this new episode (9 p.m. TNT).

Final Witness: This new episode that ends in tragedy tells the story of a troubled young couple in New Orleans’ French Quarter who fell in love just weeks before Hurricane Katrina (10 p.m. ABC).

SPECIALS

2012 Hot Dog Eating Contest: From Coney Island, N.Y. (Noon and 7 p.m. ESPN; 1 p.m. ESPN2).

MOVIES

Independence Day: Will Smith heads an all-star cast in this 1996 edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller about an alien armada on a mission to invade Earth. Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film also stars Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia and Randy Quaid (8 and 11 p.m. AMC).

SPORTS

Baseball: The Angels visit the Cleveland Indians (1 p.m. FSN); the Texas Rangers visit the Chicago White Sox (4 p.m. ESPN); the Chicago Cubs visit the Atlanta Braves (4 p.m. WGN A); the Cincinnati Reds visit the Dodgers (6 p.m. FS Prime).

Soccer: The Philadelphia Union visits the Galaxy (7:30 p.m. KDOC).

Tennis: Wimbledon: Women’s Semifinals (5 a.m. ESPN).

Tour de France: Stage 5 (5 a.m. NBCSP).