There's a lot of TV options to choose from these days. Too much for any one person to completely monitor, but that doesn't mean we're not going to do our best to sift through all the listings and figure out what you should be watching every week...with all the highlights, lowlights and guilty pleasures you can stand.

 

Tuesday

9:30 p.m. Outer Space Astronauts (SyFy)

 

SyFy may have been responsible for the previously panned Ice Twisters, but we're pretty psyched for their new series Outer Space Astronauts. Sounds like a computer-generated combination of Star Trek and Cartoon Network's Sealab 2021, starring several - you guessed it - astronauts (human heads on crudely animated bodies) who'd rather throw a party than boldly go where no one has gone before.

 

 

Wednesday

9:00 p.m. Caddyshack: The Inside Story (Biography)

 

Caddyshack, starring Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield, is a true classic. The Biography Channel will celebrate the 29-year-old flick with a retrospective looking back at the "making of" with the stars (those still with us, anyway) and director Harold Ramis. If that doesn't satiate your '80s comedy hunger, check out their Biography on Murray, Thursday at 9 p.m.

 

 

Also on Wednesday

10:00, 10:30 p.m. Steven Seagal: Lawman (A&E)

 

Did you know that action "star" Steven Seagal (Hard to Kill, Under Siege, other greatest movies ever made, as if you didn't know who he was) has been a cop for almost 20 years? Hell yeah. And not only has he kept bad guys in check in New Orleans, but now you can watch him do it in half-hour installments on A&E. Kind of makes us want to go commit a misdemeanor in the suburbs of Jefferson Parish just to say we got busted by the dude who made On Deadly Ground.

 

 

Thursday

8:00 p.m. Community (NBC)

 

The funniest new show of this season, Community sounds like it'll take the "situation" up a notch next Thursday, with none other than Anthony Michael Hall guest-starring as the community-college campus bully. If the idea of the geek from The Breakfast Club playing a ruffian isn't enough incentive to check this episode out, then the reunion of National Lampoon's Vacation's original Russ (Hall) and Clark (Chevy Chase) Griswold should do it, you picky bastards.

 

 

Sunday

8:00 p.m. The Simpsons (FOX)

 

You know what's weird? The Simpsons and Gossip Girl both have an episode titled "O Brother, Where Bart Thou." We're sure the Gossip Girl ep had plenty of laughs (many unintentional), but we're hoping that this upcoming Simpsons - guest-starring Kim Cattrall, the Smothers Brothers and the brothers Manning (Peyton, Eli and the other one, a.k.a. Cooper) - will somehow manage to be funnier. (We all know how touch-and-go the show is these days.) The story itself follows Bart as he longs for a brother. Sounds like comedy gold!

 

 

THE SILVER LINING

 

Saturday

9:00 p.m. The Secret Saturdays (Cartoon Network)

 

Past Silver Lining entries have all focused on hot ladies that make the shows our women make us watch go down a bit easier. But this week's kind of light on hotness, so we're aiming this one at dads and other dudes who might have 'toon-watching kids around. Plenty of animated shows out there really suck, but luckily there are series like The Secret Saturdays which brim with plenty of action-packed radness, big, crazy monsters, futuristic technology and sorcery to keep adults entertained, as well. We promise it's better than half the stuff on Adult Swim...

 

 

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

 

Tuesday

9:30 p.m. Better Off Ted (ABC)

 

Last season's sleeper comedy Better Off Ted seemed to disappear, and now it's been resuscitated to air after Scrubs (last week's "Return of the Living Dead" installment). For those who missed it the first season around, Ted (Jay Harrington) works for a giant corporation that tests its new, potentially dangerous and deadly products in-house. He has a creamer-stealing cutie underling (Andrea Anders), and crazy-hot Portia de Rossi is his boss. As a plus, it's also pretty funny.