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Naturally the matches made on ABC's "The Bachelor" (10 p.m. EDT) rarely pan out -- last year's Bachelor Andy Baldwin and Tessa Horst called off their engagement in August -- but you still might want to tune in Monday night and take a gander at the guy whom everyone's calling the sexiest "Bachelor" ever: Austin, Texas, native Brad Womack. The girl-porn aspect of the show certainly isn't lost on its producers, who offer up so many shots of Womack's bare, meaty chest in the first few minutes of the show -- including one absurd shot of him lathering up in the shower -- that you'll think you flipped over to the Playgirl Channel by accident. (If you doubt us, check out the less-than-subtle promos on the ABC Web site.) Meanwhile, back at the Playgirl Mansion, the ladies are getting sauced and falling all over themselves just to get a second alone with their gentle giant. As sick and wrong as almost every single aspect of this show is, you really have to hand it to ABC for managing to make it more and more ridiculous every season. Send in the clowns!

-- H.H.

Also…

Part 6 of Ken Burns' seven-part documentary series on WWII, "The War," airs at 8 p.m. EDT on PBS (check local listings), and CW's "Everybody Hates Chris" returns for its third season at 8 p.m. "Aliens in America," a charmingly odd comedy about a Pakistani exchange student sent to live in suburban Wisconsin, premieres at 8:30 p.m. EDT on CW.

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