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Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech tonight at the Republican National Convention, and I'm sort of in shock over this.
I can't help but think — this is the guy who, on multiple occasions, sat in front of television critics and both bragged and blithely lied to us. We laughed at him, and now he's the presidential nominee of a major political party.
I guess the laugh's on us TV critics.
Actually, the laugh could be on all of us, right?
CNN, C-SPAN Fox New Channel and MSNBC have coverage pretty much all day long; PBS/Ch. 7 has scheduled three hours from 6-9 p.m.; CBS/Ch. 2, ABC/Ch. 4 and NBC/Ch. 5 each have scheduled an hour from 8-9 p.m.
Elsewhere on TV …
• "Big Brother" (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Another houseguest is evicted.
• "BattleBots" (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): 32 teams advance out of the qualifying round.
• "Bones" (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): The search for the Puppeteer, a serial killer who turns his victims into marionettes, continues. (Season finale)
• "Thirteen" (7 p.m., BBC America): Ivy is forced to face the truth of what happened to her.
• "Greatest Hits" (8 p.m., ABC/Ch/ 4): A look back at 1990-95 features performances by Boyz II Men, En Vogue, Montell Jordan, Seal, Alessia Cara and Little Big Town.
• "Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge" (7 and 9 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): In the season finale, the six best teams return to tackle the toughest course to date. (The two haves of this show are split by an hour of GOP convention coverage.)
• "Home Free" (8 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): The final four contestants can either work together or go it alone.
• "Beauty and the Beast" (8 p.m., CW/Ch. 30): Vincent goes undercover with an operative who turns out to be an assassin.
• "Lip Sync Battle" (8 and 11 p.m., Spike): Siblings — and former Utahns — Derek and Julianne Hough square off
• "Live from Comic Con" (9 p.m., Syfy): Night 1 of coverage of San Diego Comic-Con.
• "Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll" (11 p.m., FX): Flash gets mixed signals from Gigi; Bam and Rehab meet with Campbell Scott.
• "Queen of the South" (11 p.m., USA): Teresa advances her plans after witnessing a horrific incident.