SMALL SCREEN.Byline: - Compiled by Valerie Kuklenski JIMMY TO THE RESCUE: Jimmy Neutron, the boy-wonder cartoon star, has a prime-time special tonight on Nickelodeon. In his regular series, Jimmy spends a lot of time solving problems (or creating and then solving them) in his hometown. This time, he is recruited by a secret spy agency to find and rescue its No. 1 spy, Agent X. Turns out Agent X is really Jimmy's favorite movie star, the ultra-smooth Jet Fusion (Christian Slater Christian Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor. Biography Early life Slater was born Christian Michael Leonard Hawkins in New York, New York, the son of Mary Jo Slater, a casting executive, and Michael Hawkins, an actor who was also known as ). There's plenty of Nick-ified James Bond action as Jimmy and his friend Carl aim to save Jet from the evil Professor Calamitous ca·lam·i·tous adj. Causing or involving calamity; disastrous. ca·lam  i·tous·ly adv. (Tim Curry Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer, perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He also had a career as a rock musician. ) and his daughter, Beautiful Gorgeous (Wendie Malick). OPERATION: RESCUE JET FUSION, 8 tonight, Nickelodeon. `JUNGLE' FEVER: Jeff Corwin and his fellow naturalists-turned-TV hosts make it look so easy, but the reality series ``King of the Jungle,'' debuting tonight, shows just how tricky hosting a wildlife documentary show can be. It's an elimination contest among 12 wildlife experts, most of them staff biologists at zoos and wild animal parks, with the winner getting his or her own series on Animal Planet. The challenges call on them to show physical strength and stamina, knowledge of wildlife, ability to find critters in their natural environment, courage in handling everything from alligators and tigers and, of course, camera presence. May the best biologist win. KING OF THE JUNGLE, 9 tonight, Animal Planet. SURVIVAL OF THE MISFITS MISFITS Minnesotans for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy : Surviving in the wilds of a tropical island amid a bunch of equally greedy, egomaniacal spotlight seekers is nothing compared with the situations presented in the new National Geographic series ``Worlds Apart.'' The series takes a family from some suburban American comfort zone - this week it's the Thurmans from Oakton, Va. - and dispatches them for a 10-day stay in a remote corner of the world to live as its inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. do. The Thurmans, a bunch of type-A overachievers, certainly are out of their element on one of the Trobriand Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (păp`  ə, –y , where the pace is much slower and there is no electricity or running water. WORLDS APART, 9 tonight, National Geographic Channel
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