TV Tonight: Hard Choices

(Thursday, December 13th, 2007) Tonight: TLC takes us car shopping at SEMA 2007, and How Do They Do It teaches us all about electricity and cranes. Of course, you can only watch one — unless you have picture in picture on your TV.

All times are central.

• How It’s Made: Episode 23, gummies candy, fish farming, aluminum cans and bronze sculptures (Discovery, 5:00 p.m.)
• Holmes on Homes: Window Well to Hell (Home, 5:00 p.m.)
• Build it Bigger: Super-Stadium (Science, 5:00 p.m.)
• How It’s Made: Episode 8, trucks, adhesive bandages, computer circuit boards and liquors (Discovery, 5:30 p.m.)
• Overhaulin’: Mustang Sting (TLC, 6:00 p.m.)
• How Do They Do It?: Fighter Jet, Baseball, Sports Car (Science, 7:00 p.m.)
• Wrecks To Riches: 1957 Chevrolet (TLC, 7:00 p.m.)
• How It’s Made: Episode 1, aluminum foil, snowboards, soft polymer contact lenses and bread (Science, 7:30 p.m.)
• Classic Tractors (RFD-TV, 7:30 p.m.)
• How It’s Made: Episode 23, windshields, English saddles, butter and post clocks (Discovery, 8:00 p.m.)
• American Chopper: Christmas Special (TLC, 8:00 p.m.)
• Cool Tools (DIY, 8:00 p.m.)
• How It’s Made: Episode 14, three-wheeled vehicles, T-Rex vehicles, baseball bats, artificial bonsais and trombones (Discovery, 8:30 p.m.)
• Cool Tools (DIY, 8:30 p.m.)
• MythBusters: Confederate Steam Gun (Discovery, 9:00 p.m.)
• How Do They Do It?: Episode 3, electricity and the world’s largest floating cranes (Science, 9:00 p.m.) NEW
• SEMA 2007 (TLC, 9:00 p.m.) NEW
• How Do They Do It?: Episode 2, the world’s strongest knives, diamonds in the lab, and bricks (Science, 9:30 p.m.)

Enjoy.