Your Phillyist TV Picks: Week of July 24th

It looks like we were a little premature when it came to announcing NBC's new series, The Law Firm. We were just so eager to see if the contestants were as prone to passionate eyebrow-scrunching as Law and Order's Sam Waterston that we announced it a week early. The Law Firm actually premieres this Thursday at 10 pm.

And though it is nearly impossible to find a funny sitcom anymore, this week Bravo is offering us an interesting alternative: a (possibly) funny reality show about sitcom pilots. Situation: Comedy airs this Tuesday at 10 pm. According to Bravo's website:

From Emmy Award winner Sean Hayes (NBC's "Will & Grace") and producing partner Todd Milliner comes "Situation: Comedy," Bravo's new weekly one-hour documentary series which provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the making of a sitcom pilot. Viewers go behind the scenes of national television as neophyte writers earn the opportunity to produce and sell a sitcom, but the eavesdropping audience will give the final thumbs-up by choosing the winning entry that will be broadcast on Bravo.

Although these new shows may not turn out to be especially exciting, we are happy to recommend some more off-beat options. On Monday night at 10, TLC is showing a rebroadcast of "101 Things Removed from the Human Body." Fans of the Mutter Museum might want to check this one out: the objects include nails in a man's stomach, a live hand grenade, and a boat anchor in a man's skull. Equally cringe-worthy yet irresistible is the U.S. Open of Competitive Eating, which is on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm on ESPN. And we all know that watching people eat a thousand hot dogs in two minutes is always fun.

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