On Tonight: Survivor: Redemption Island, American Idol and Breaking In

Wednesday, April 13

Survivor: Redemption Island, 8 p.m., CBS

Last week was the greatest episode in the history of Survivor, and that includes Sue Hawk’s snake speech and the time Rupert stole the other teams’ shoes. The challenge, the finagling, the Mattness of Matt and then the sending of Matt back to Redemption Island. If that kid comes back again, he will no longer be a man of God, I am telling you that. Sheer, absolute, pure genius.

American Idol, 8 p.m., Fox

It’s movie theme night. Of course you remember in the past this has given us greatness in the form of Kris Allen’s "Falling Slowly" and some awfulness in the form of almost everything else. And really, how many Disney princess movies can we take in 90 minutes? Why does no one ever pick a Randy Newman song? Will Lauren Alaina do "I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing?" Will Jacob Lusk do "The Way We Were" (“Your girl is lovely Hubbell.”)?

Breaking In, 9:30 p.m., Fox

This had some good lines. Plus, it is less a Christian Slater show than it is a Bret Harrison show that Christian Slater cavorts through. I mean that in a good way, if you follow me. Harrison is the Slacker Dude who starred in the CW show Reaper, which was quite good but got old fast. This sitcom is about a bunch of wacky characters who break into things to test security systems. It is exactly the same as Leverage except only a half-hour long and with much more clever dialog.