All times Eastern.

• 6PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Firefighter helmets; nautical compasses; packaging tubes; hand saws.
• 6PM, Science Channel – Mummies of Taklamakan: Franco-Chinese team spends ten years excavating Taklamakan desert in search of buried cities.
• 6PM, Discovery Times – Conspiracy Files: CIA Mind Control. Some people believe the CIA has used the drug LSD as a mind-control agent.
• 6PM, MTV – Exposed: People choose dates based on lie detector results.
• 6:30PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Winter jackets; animation; mushrooms; gold rings.
• 6:30PM, G4 – Ninja Warrior!
• 7PM, Food Network – Good Eats: Flap Jack Do It Again. Pancakes.
• 7PM, Science Channel – Seven Wonders of Ancient Egypt: Boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labor transform rock into incredible monuments.
• 7PM, Military Channel – Creating the X-Craft: The U.S. Navy models and tests a radical new warship.
• 7PM, Speed – Chop Cut Rebuild: End in Sight. Supervan gets shag carpet and a wall unit; Ranger hits the streets of Las Vegas; the Suburban gets sealant and a suspension.
• 7PM, Discovery Health – Impact: Stories of Survival: Snowboard Plunge. A parachute jumper’s lines become entangled; speed boat legend suffers a neck injury; snowboarder injures his leg on a rock.

8PM and on after the jump!

• 8PM, Discovery Channel – Oil, Sweat and Rigs: Oklahoma 2. Rebel Bo tries to use new techniques to drill deeper, faster and more efficiently.
• 8PM, National Geographic – Explorer: World’s Most Dangerous Gang. The rapid spread of the violent gang MS-13.
• 8PM, Science Channel – Egypt’s New Tomb Revealed: An investigation into the most significant antiquities find in nearly a century, the Egyptian tomb known as KV63.
• 8PM, Discovery HD – Risk Takers: Coast Guard
• 9PM, History Channel – Cities of the Underworld: London’s Lost Cities. The subterranean secrets below London’s most famous landmarks; Winston Churchill’s hidden war-rooms; host Eric Geller.
• 9PM, National Geographic – Explorer: World’s Most Dangerous Drug. Methamphetamine addiction is one of the hardest to quit.
• 9PM, Discovery Health – Medical Incredible: Progeria. A boy lives after an internal decapitation; a woman suddenly acquires a foreign accent; a boy suffers from rapid aging.
• 9PM, Travel Channel – Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern: The Philippines.
• 9PM, Speed – Back in the Day: 1974 Rebel 500 at Darlington.
• 10PM, G4 – G4’s Free Stuff: Reviewing gadgets, games, music, movies and books while viewers are rewarded on the air.
• 10PM, Military Channel – Weaponology: Booby Traps. Battlefield traps cause both physical and psychological damage to the enemy.
• 10PM, Discovery HD – Drift: The Sideways Craze: Professional drifters Samuel Hubinette and Ken Gushi prepare for the D1 Grand Prix.
• 10PM, Travel Channel – Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: Peru. Tony dines in Lima and meets members of a Peruvian Eseeja tribe in the jungle.
• 10PM, Discovery Channel – Dirty Jobs: Poo Pot Maker. Mike makes gardening pots out of cow manure.
• 11PM, Science Channel – Egypt’s New Tomb Revealed: An investigation into the most significant antiquities find in nearly a century, the Egyptian tomb known as KV63.
• 11PM, Comedy Central – Daily Show: David Steinberg, comedian and author of The Book of David
• 11PM, Discovery Channel – MythBusters: Seasickness: Kill or Cure. Curing seasickness; the economic benefits of driving a truck with the tailgate down.
• 11:30PM, Comedy Central – The Colbert Report: Dr. Michael D. Gershon, Professor at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons