TV critic's picks: Wednesday

June 22, 2010 at 8:37PM
The cast of "Twilight," including Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, will be on Jimmy Kimmel's primetime special tonight.
The cast of "Twilight," including Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, will be on Jimmy Kimmel's primetime special tonight. (Rhonda Prast/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Married to the mob The DeCavalcante family may not be as well known as the Sopranos, but they're worth getting to know, if only because they're real. "Mob Money" (8 p.m., CNBC), a new documentary narrated by Stacy Keach, goes behind the scenes of this deadly clan, which participated in everything from loan sharking to murder before being brought down.

Interview with a vampire Jimmy Kimmel, left, has ventured into prime time in recent months to shill for "Lost" and the NBA. Now he turns his attention to vampires in "Jimmy Kimmel Live: 'Twilight Saga': Total Eclipse of the Heart" (9 p.m., KSTP, Ch. 5), which features the "Twilight" cast. Kimmel should have his hands full since stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart can be as charismatic on talk shows as a couple of corpses.

Everybody loves pie Adrienne Shelly was murdered in 2006, but not before leaving us with the sweet indie film "Waitress" (8 p.m., Lifetime), which she directed and wrote. Keri Russell stars as a pregnant server who hopes to get out of a rut by winning a pie-baking contest. Shelly co-stars, along with Cheryl Hines ("Curb Your Enthusiasm").

NEAL JUSTIN

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Neal Justin

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Neal Justin is the pop-culture critic, covering how Minnesotans spend their entertainment time. He also reviews stand-up comedy. Justin previously served as TV and music critic for the paper. He is the co-founder of JCamp, a non-profit program for high-school journalists, and works on many fronts to further diversity in newsrooms.

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