The new comedy 'White Collar' on USA is a Friday TV pick

'White Collar'

This new buddy comedy from the USA Network sounds promising. A criminal (Matt Bomer) escapes from prison only to be captured by an FBI agent (Tim DeKay) who suggests that they team up to catch other bad guys. Tiffani Thiessen and Willie Garson co-star. Series premiere at 10 tonight USA (seattletimes.com/tvlistings).

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times staff

Also on today

"Law & Order," 8 p.m. (NBC): A doctor who provides late-term abortions (Matthew Boston) is gunned down in church, and Detectives Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) and Bernard (Anthony Anderson) investigate an anti-abortion zealot.

"Friday Night with Jonathan Ross," 9 p.m. (BBC America): Ross chats up Vince Vaughn and three British performers: the singers Alesha Dixon and Paloma Faith, and the comedian Jack Dee.

"Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)," 9 p.m. (IFC): In "The Last Episode Ever ... For Now," the five living members of the British comedy troupe — Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle — discuss the making of "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" (1983) and the memorial service for Graham Chapman, who died in 1989.

"Monk," 9 p.m. (USA): Monk (Tony Shalhoub) finds himself pulled in two directions when his former assistant, Sharona (Bitty Schram), returns to San Francisco to tie up loose ends after her uncle's death and he winds up working with both her and Natalie (Traylor Howard).

"Medium," 9 p.m. (CBS): In this 100th episode, Joe (Jake Weber) begins to worry when Allison (Patricia Arquette) investigates the kidnapping of a baby boy and becomes too attached to the victim.

"Bill Moyers Journal," 9 p.m. (KCTS): Late last year the United Nations Human Rights Council reported that the Israeli Army as well as Hamas militants might have committed war crimes in Gaza — thereby putting Israel on the defensive.

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