Wednesday's Best Bets on TV


“The Baby Borrowers” (9 p.m., NBC): They came, they saw, they got frazzled. Now that the teens involved in “The Baby Borrowers” have completed their caregiving duties, they gather for a “town-hall” meeting to discuss the lessons they learned. Lesson No. 1: Celibacy has its rewards.

“Saving General Motors” (9 p.m., CNBC): Once, a popular saying declared “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” But that long-ago symbol of American manufacturing, capitalism and might is now struggling for survival, battered by decades of bad decisions, poor quality and foreign competition. CNBC’s documentary “Saving General Motors” takes a look under the hood of this troubled carmaker as it tries to re-engineer itself before it reaches the end of the road. The program profiles GM’s “Quality Czar” Bob Lutz, whose mission is to reinvigorate GM’s bland product line and improve the quality of its designs and manufacturing.

“China Inside Out: Bob Woodruff Reports” (10 p.m., ABC): In 1989, Bob Woodruff was an attorney living in Beijing and teaching law to Chinese students. When the uprising in Tiananmen Square occurred, he signed on as a translator for the American networks. Then he caught the journalism bug. Now, on the eve of the Olympics, he returns to the country where his career as a journalist began, to report “China Inside Out.” This ABC News hour explores the global transformation taking place at the outset of what is already being called “The Chinese Century.”

“Hard Knocks ’08: Training Camp With the Dallas Cowboys” (10 p.m. HBO): If you like watching humongous, sweaty men pound the snot out of one another, “Hard Knocks ’08: Training Camp With the Dallas Cowboys” is your show. You might want to wear a helmet.

“Man vs. Wild” (10 p.m., Discovery): With little more than the clothes on his back, survival expert Bear Grylls goes deep into some of Earth’s toughest, most remote environments on this ultra-adventure show. Whether he’s battling sweltering desert heat, icy, raging rivers, or hungry predators, Grylls is able to use techniques he learned as a British Special Forces soldier in order to survive.

“Clean House” (10 p.m., The Style Network): A new season begins. Thank you, America, for being such a messy country.

“Real Vice Cops Uncut” (10 p.m., Spike TV): TV crews go along for prostitution, drug and illegal-gambling busts.