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TV This Week, May 4 - 10: ‘24: Live Another Day’ on Fox

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This week’s TV Movies

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SUNDAYAll in all, Homer is just another brick in the wall on a LEGO-styled episode of “The Simpsons.” 8 p.m. Fox

“Everest Avalanche Tragedy” revisits the recent high-altitude calamity that claimed the lives of 13 Sherpa guides in Nepal. 9 p.m. Discovery Channel

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, which is also the path to the wallets of “Hungry Investors” in this restaurant-themed series. 10 p.m. Spike

Snarky is as snarky does in the stand-up special “David Spade: My Fake Problems.” 10 p.m. Comedy Central

MONDAY

See if “Dance Moms’” Abby Lee Miller can make the contestants cry when she serves as a guest judge on “Dancing With the Stars.” 8 p.m. ABC

Jack Bauer is once again the man of the hour — make that “hours” — in the rebooted Kiefer Sutherland action-drama “24: Live Another Day.” 8 p.m. Fox

Some news wasn’t fit to print, as reported in “A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at the New York Times” on “Independent Lens.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! After 19 months without any new episodes, Louis C.K.’s “Louie” finally returns for a fourth season. 10 and 10:30 p.m. FX

TUESDAY

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“30 for 30” tells the tragic tale of a Brazilian goalkeeper whose late-in-the-game gaffe cost his team the 1950 World Cup. 4 p.m. ESPN, 5 p.m. ESPN2

“30 Rock’s” Tina Fey, et al., explain the business of funny on the season finale of “Pioneers of Television.” 8 p.m. KOCE

Goodnight, ladies! “New Girl” and “The Mindy Project” wrap their seasons. 9 and 9:30 p.m. Fox

One of the so-called Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, are recalled on a new “Secrets of the Dead.” 9 p.m. KOCE

“Freakshow” is back with back-to-back episodes, followed by the return of “Small Town Security.” 10, 10:30 and 11 p.m. AMC

WEDNESDAY

They feel the need, the need for beating the current land-speed record, in “Breaking Barriers.” 8 p.m. National Geographic

Who will be America’s next top … whoops, we mean “The Face” on this modeling competition’s second-season finale? 8 p.m. Oxygen

Geraldo Rivera and Ann Curry guest star as himself and herself, respectively, on a new “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” 9 p.m. NBC

“Nova” examines “Why Sharks Attack” in this new episode. Our theory is they’re just responding to that ominous cello music. 9 p.m. KOCE

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First lady in the house! Michelle Obama guest stars on a new “Nashville.” 10 p.m. ABC

The development and deployment of the Messerschmitt 262, the world’s first fighter jet, are detailed on a new “Nazi Mega Weapons.” 10 p.m. KOCE

Chef Robert Irvine’s “Restaurant: Impossible” hits the 100-episode mark. That’s one heck of a lot of bad restaurants. 10 p.m. Food Network

THURSDAY

Wil Wheaton is back as Wil Wheaton — the role he was born to play — on a new episode of the comedy “The Big Bang Theory.” 8 p.m. CBS

The 2013 rock-doc “Broadway Idiot: Green Day on Broadway” charts the creation of a musical based on the band’s 2004 Grammy winner “American Idiot.” 8 p.m. Showtime

Louis C.K., Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart and Amy Schumer walk into a bar … but first, they’re up for honors at the “American Comedy Awards.” 9 p.m. NBC

Marc Maron is back with new episodes of “Maron” and the aforementioned Patton Oswalt joins the gang on the return of “Comedy Bang! Bang!” 10 and 10:30 p.m. IFC

FRIDAY

Have cello, will travel: “The Silk Road Ensemble With Yo-Yo Ma: Live From Tanglewood” marks the 15th anniversary of the world-music collective. 9 p.m. KOCE

Wo Fat (Mark Dascascos) rears his ugly head on the season finale of “Hawaii Five-0” and Tom Selleck his handsome one on the season finale of “Blue Bloods.” 9 and 10 p.m. CBS

It’s like Christmas in December in the 2013 comedy “All Is Bright.” Paul Rudd and Paul Giamatti star. 9 p.m. Starz

SATURDAY

A stay-at-home mom doesn’t in the made-for-cable comedy “Mother’s Day Away.” With Bonnie Somerville and James Tupper. 8 p.m. Hallmark

Little girls lost: Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal star in the gripping 2013 drama “Prisoners.” Viola Davis, Maria Bello and Paul Dano also star. 8 p.m. HBO

Sonya Walger plays “The Good Sister” — and the bad one too — in this new thriller about an unhappily married woman and her long-lost twin. 8 p.m. Lifetime

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Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan vamp it up in Neil Jordan’s 2012 thriller “Byzantium.” Jonny Lee Miller (“Elementary”) also stars. 9 p.m. TMC

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