• 6PM, History Channel – Modern Marvels: Axes, Swords and Knives. Blade implements are a part of civilization since the Paleolithic Age.
• 6PM, Science Channel – Men of Iron: Isambard Kingdom Brunel designs the steamship Great Western.
• 6PM, G4 – Ninja Warrior: Sasuke 14: Part 2
• 6PM, Discovery Health – Code Blue: Out of the Darkness. Shooting victims; drunk driver; fall injuries; collapsed lung; gout.
• 6:30PM, G4 – Ninja Warrior: Sasuke 14: Part 3
• 7PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Ceramic tiles; nuts; steel forgings; skateboards.
• 7PM, Military Channel – Weaponology: Vertical Take Off. Tracing the development of helicopters and other vertical take-off aircraft.
• 7PM, Speed – Chop Cut Rebuild: Nostalgia. Things seem to come together for the Camaro and Ford.
• 7PM, Discovery Health – Impact: Stories of Survival: Canyon Crash. Water-skiing accident; teenager drives his truck off a cliff.
• 7:30PM, Discovery Channel – How It’s Made: Suits of armor; street light poles.
• 8PM, Discovery Channel – Really Big Things: Bellagio Fountains. The fountains of Bellagio Las Vegas hotel and casino; molten glass; mulch.
• 8PM, PBS (NY 21) – Wild Chronicles: Sudan’s great antelope migration; emperor penguins; preserving China’s panda population; Hawaiian bird mystery.
• 8PM, Animal Planet – Planet Earth: Jungles. Cameras capture unprecedented views of the animal species that live on the dark jungle floor.
• 8PM, Discovery Times – The Year Without Summer: The catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia has devastating effects.

9PM and on after the jump.

• 9PM, Discovery Channel – MythBusters: Anti-Gravity Device. Christmas comes more than once a year for Adam and Jamie.
• 9PM, G4 – Code Monkeys: Super Prison Breakout. The GameAVision staff is sent to prison for a “scared straight” weekend after someone is caught stealing.
• 9PM, Discovery HD – Digging Up the Trenches: Archaeologists conduct a historic dig in Belgium’s Flanders Fields to learn more about the vast trench networks of World War I.
• 9PM, National Geographic Channel – Miami Drug Cartel: South American and Cuban mobsters battle for control of the cocaine industry in southern Florida in the 1980s.
• 9:30PM, Bravo – Top Chef: Watch What Happens. Past and present contestants discuss their experiences.
• 10PM, FX – Rescue Me: Balance
• 10PM, History Channel – Modern Marvels: Aluminum. Rolling mills; the creation of aluminum foil; aluminum bats.
• 10PM, Comedy Central – South Park: Make Love, Not Warcraft. The boys must stop a renegade player who threatens to destroy “World of Warcraft.”
• 10PM, National Geographic Channel – Locked Up Abroad: Peru
• 11PM, Comedy Central – Daily Show: Rob Gifford, author of China Road
• 11PM, Science Channel – Survivorman: Boreal Forest. Les must survive with only a handful of cashews and beef jerky, one match and a multi-tool.
• 11:30PM, Cartoon Network – Family Guy: Don’t Make Me Over. When Meg is rejected by a cute boy at school, she is devastated until Lois takes her to the mall for a makeover.
• 11:30PM, Comedy Central – Colbert Report: Charles Kaiser, author, The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History Of Gay Life In America