BEST BETS FOR TUESDAY, JULY 08, 2008

	AN UNMARRIED WOMAN Fox Movie Channel, 8 p.m. ET Sarah Jessica Parker once said this 1978 movie was like a very early Sex and the City. Maybe, if Carrie had been suddenly and cruelly dumped by Mr. Big, and left alone to fend for herself in big bad New York City. But when this film was released, it served as a feminist manifesto (or womanifesto), paired in spirit with TV’s One Day at a Time, which had premiered three years earlier.
	I SURVIVED A JAPANESE GAME SHOW ABC, 9 p.m. ET It’s been a few years since I had a true guilty pleasure on TV, but I’m afraid this meets all the qualifications. It’s almost indefensible in concept – and yet I find it oddly entertaining, unlike most reality competition shows. The reason, or at least my excuse? The games themselves are weirdly genial – like this week’s challenge, to wear a Velcro suit (remember David Letterman doing that years ago?) and jump onto a big board, trying to contort your body into the appropriate outlines.
	HELL'S KITCHEN Fox, 9 p.m. ET And here’s a reality competition show I love, but with no guilt whatsoever. Tonight’s the season finale, so we’ll learn whether Petrozza or Christina will win the right to be executive chef at Gordon Ramsay’s Los Angeles restaurant named London. (The runner-up, I think, gets to work at a London fast-food joint named Los Angeles.)
	AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: A SALUTE TO WARREN BEATTY USA, 9 p.m. ET Postponed from an earlier date, this celebration of Warren Beatty’s career included salutes by Dustin Hoffman, Bill Clinton and, somewhat tardily, Jack Nicholson.
	P.O.V.: THE BALLAD OF ESEQUIEL HERNANDEZ PBS, 10 p.m. ET (Check local listings) This documentary looks anew at an 11-year-old case, in which a fully camouflaged team of Marines was dispatched to the border town of Redford, Texas to observe patterns of illegal immigration. The Marines ended up shooting and killing an 18-year-old Redford resident, a high-schooler out tending to the family goats. Video of the last moments of Esequiel Hernandez’s life are included in this report, which drags a bit but is undeniably, infuriatingly timely.
	RESCUE ME MINISODE FX, 10 p.m. ET This week’s five-minute minisode is about a local bar – and the hot new employee. For more, see today’s BIANCULLI’S BLOG.