Wednesday’s TV Highlights: ‘Nature’ on KOCE

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This week’s TV Movies

SERIES

Whitney: Alex (Chris D’Elia) defends Whitney’s (Whitney Cummings) honor in this new episode when she agrees to meet with a former boyfriend who claims to want to make amends for the past, but he hasn’t broken free of his old habits (8 p.m. NBC).

Arrow: After Thea (Willa Holland) lands on the wrong side of the law for using a drug called Vertigo, Oliver (Stephen Amell) goes looking for the dealer (Seth Gabel) and seeks help from vice cop (Janina Gavankar), who is an old flame (8 p.m. KTLA).

American Idol: Auditions continue (8 p.m. Fox).

Supernatural: In this new episode, a man (Gil McKinney) claiming to be Henry Winchester, Sam and Dean’s (Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles) grandfather, appears, and demands to know where their father is (9 p.m. KTLA).

Nova: The new episode “Who Killed Lindbergh’s Baby?” reopens one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time as a team of expert investigators employs state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques to determine what really happened to little Charles Lindbergh Jr (9 p.m. KOCE).

Chicago Fire: Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker) regrets taking a teenage arsonist (Cody Sullivan) under his wing when the youngster sets a fire in a hardware store that kills a man in this new episode (10 p.m. NBC).

Top Chef: Seattle: In this new episode, the cheftestants are on an ocean cruise and must create something exciting with iceberg lettuce (10 p.m. Bravo).

The Americans: Married KGB spies pose as Americans in Washington, D.C., during he Reagan presidency (10 p.m. FX).

SPECIALS

Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2013: Boomer Esiason and Aisha Tyler host this year’s edition of the special counting down the best commercials from Super Bowls past as determined by votes from viewers (8 p.m. CBS).

SPORTS

College basketball: Villanova at Notre Dame (3 p.m. ESPN2); Texas at Kansas State (5 p.m. ESPN2).

Pro basketball: The Clippers visit the Minnesota Timberwolves (5 p.m. FS Prime); the Lakers visit the Phoenix Suns (7:30 p.m. ESPN and TWSN).