Guys Choice Awards’ selection hard to figure
Has the Guys Choice Awards (8 p.m., Spike) matured? This year’s female honorees seem less obvious than past choices. Time was — OK, just last year — they honored Emilia Clarke. She is best known — OK, only known — as Daenerys Targaryen from “Game of Thrones,” a character most memorable for scenes where she hangs out with dragons while wearing a blond wig. Or when she’s wearing only a blond wig.
This year, the Guys Choice honors Sandra Bullock for a “Decade of Hotness.” OK, what decade? And define “hotness.” In my humble opinion, she’s always been more the girl-next-door type than “hot.”
Other celebrities to attend the awards are Matthew McConaughey, Mark Wahlberg, Julia LouisDreyfus and Kevin Hart.
When Sandra Bullock’s breakout movie “Speed” hit movie theaters on June 10, 1994, American media was just about to become besotted, distracted and irrationally obsessed with the O.J. Simpson case.
NBC recalls the murder (June 12, 1994), the white Bronco chase (June 17), the media frenzy (1994- 97), the trial (Nov. 2, 1994), the verdict (Oct. 3, 1995) and the aftermath on “The People vs. O.J. Simpson: What the Jury Never Heard” (8 p.m.).
I’m not certain there’s much appetite for O.J. nostalgia. Much like the Tonya Harding story of 1994-95, or the Joey Buttafuoco saga of 1992-94, few people came out of Simpson’s belabored tale looking good.
“Graceland” (9 p.m., USA) enters a second season of asking viewers to believe that a gaggle of good-looking federal agents from the FBI, DEA and U. S. Customs would share a posh beach house as if they were on “Big Brother” or “The Real World.” This show has its fans. I’m just not sure why.
He’s a little bit country and a whole lotta rap. He’s “Big Smo” (9:30 p.m., A&E), “star” of a reality series following a very large Tennessee native who blends country music, Southern rock attitude and hip-hop swagger.
Despite Smo’s in-yourface persona, the series plays it ultra-cute, introducing his manager (his nice gray-haired mother) and his “posse” (his two young daughters). “Smo” sets some kind of record for trying to play it safe on so many levels and in so many overlapping genres. Will it be a crossover hit? Or appeal to no one?
Look for “Smo” after the sixth season premiere of “Duck Dynasty” (9 p.m.).
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
On two episodes of “Growing Up Fisher” (WMC-TV Channel 5): an unexpected visitor (7 p.m.); one last vacation together (7:30 p.m.). The second is the series finale.
Christina Applegate is a guest judge on “So You Think You Can Dance” (7 p.m., WHBQ-TV Channel 13)
The Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers meet in game four of the NHL Stanley Cup Final (8 p.m., NBC Sports).
“Suits” (8 p.m., USA) returns for a fourth season with major changes at the firm.
High school daze on “Modern Family” (8 p.m., WATN-TV Channel 24).
Octavia faces a difficult choice on the season finale of “The 100” (8 p.m., WLMT-TV Channel 30).
A line crossed on “Motive” (9 p.m., WATNTV Channel 24).
Kirstie Alley gueststars on “Hot in Cleveland” (9 p.m., TV Land).
“Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman” (9 p.m., Science, TV-PG) discusses cyberterrorism.