All times Eastern.

• 6PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Included: personal watercrafts; wine; office furniture; ice skates.
• 6PM, Science Channel – How It’s Made (another!): Kitchen knives; mannequins; socks; hypodermic needles.
• 6PM, National Geographic – Snack Attack: The science and technology behind the creation of famous and popular American snacks are explored. Included: Pepperidge Farm Goldfish; Skippy peanut butter; Snyder’s of Hanover pretzels.
• 6PM, Discovery Health – Code Blue: Long Way Home. Life-threatening head injuries. Included: a teen who was riding a three-wheeler through traffic and was hit by a truck, and a nine-year-old who was hit by the metal frame of a swing set.
• 6PM, Discovery HD – A Kingdom for the Dzanga Gorillas: A visit to a sanctuary for western lowland gorillas created by biologists David Greer and Chloe Cipolletta in the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve in the Congo basin in Africa.
• 6:30PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Golf balls; furniture handles; parking meters; room dividers.
• 6:30, G4 – Ninja Warrior: Human physical ability is tested in each episode, as 100 competitors push their limits through a physically demanding four-stage course.
• 6:30PM, Science Channel – How It’s Made (again!): Electrical panels; kites; eyeglass frames; toothbrushes.

7PM and on after the jump!

• 7PM, Food Network – Good Eats: Pop Culture. Popcorn is examined. Included: a look at its origins; the evolution of the buttery snack.
• 7PM, History Channel – Modern Marvels: Garage Gadgets. A look at garage gadgets, including leaf blowers and lawn mowers.
• 7PM, Discovery Channel – I Shouldn’t Be Alive: Lost at Sea. A fishing trip to Mexico with two fathers and their sons takes a dangerous turn when they must ditch their plane in the sea during a storm.
• 7PM, National Geographic – Coffee: Beans to Buzz: Examining coffee’s social, political and economic impact from its 6th-century origins in Ethiopia to the present day.
• 7PM, Discovery Health – Impact: Stories of Survival: Martial Artist on Fire!!!
• 7:30PM, Food Network – Unwrapped: In the Bun. Meals that fit in your hand are spotlighted.
• 8PM, Discovery Channel – Rouge: Squid. Dave dons a chain-mail wet suit to examine the fearsome Humboldt squid, a 6-foot-long cephalopod with a particularly nasty reputation as an aggressive carnivore that will attack and eat sharks.
• 8PM, Ovation – J.R.R. Tolkien: Profile: J.R.R. Tolkien: Profile
• 8PM, CMTV – Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search: The final auditions are held in Fort Lauderdale. Later, the five pairs travel to San Antonio to begin dance-and-bartending boot camp.
• 8PM, LWOR – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (movie): An oceanographer and his crew seek a killer shark that ate his friend.
• 8PM, BET – Next Friday (movie): This sequel puts an L.A. slacker on the lam from a hulking bully he helped put behind bars in the original.
• 9PM, Science Channel – How It’s Made: Included: deep-cycle batteries; tins; optical lenses.
• 9PM, Spike – Ultimate Fighter: Fighting, duh.
• 9PM, Travel Channel – Bigfootville: Residents of a few small towns in Oklahoma describe their run-ins with a large hairy beast, as tall as nine feet, that they believe to be the mythical Bigfoot; damage they have suffered at the creature’s hands, including murdered cattle, explored.
• 9PM, Discovery HD – Becoming a Man in Africa: Manhood-initiation rituals are examined in Africa, including honey gathering and a bull-jumping ceremony.
• 9:30PM, Comedy Central – South Park: Cartman Joins NAMBLA (a classic!). Cartman seeks online companionship from older users after deciding that Stan, Kenny and Kyle aren’t mature enough.
• 9:30PM, Science Channel – How It’s Made: Featured: horseshoes; dishwashers; graphite fly rods; frozen pizzas.
• 10PM, National Geographic – Man Among Wolves: Profiling wolf-behavior expert Shaun Ellis and his unorthodox approach of researching wolves by living alongside an adopted pack and acting as their leader.
• 10PM, Discovery Health – Skeleton Stories: Foul Play. Two boys find a 9-year-old girl’s body in a creek two years after she had disappeared; an anonymous caller’s tip leads a detective to a human skull, an arm bone and two ribs in a rural field.
• 10PM, Speed – Barrett-Jackson: The Auctions: Highlights from the 2007 classic-car event in Scottsdale, Ariz.
• 10PM, Discovery HD – Fantastic Festivals of the World: Puri India—Rath Yatra Festival. Hindus celebrate the Rath Yatra festival, or chariot pilgrimage. Included: history and origin of the festival, from Jagannath Puri on the east coast of India.
• 10:30, DIY – Classic Car Restoration: 1962 Thunderbird Restoration: Chassis Work. The restoration begins with chassis work, including servicing the rear suspension, upgrading to gas shock absorbers, replacing the rear universal joint and reconditioning the fuel tank.
• 11PM, Discovery Channel – Stunt Junkies: Go Big or Go Home: Semi-Truck Base Jump. Marta Empinotti attempts a BASE jump from a moving semitruck reaching speeds of 60 mph over the side of a bridge.
• 11PM, Spike – Bullrun: Wrecks, Lies and Videotape. Drivers smash their cars through barriers in a timed, quarter-mile race.
• 12AM, G4 – Night of the Tripping Dead (movie): An alternate take on George A. Romero’s horror classic.
• 12AM, HBOC – Richard Pryor—Live in Concert: Record of the comic’s stand-up act, taped in 1978.
• 1AM, Travel Channel – Most Haunted: Mains Hall.