This season, Shore represents a couple who are threatened with the loss of their twins, singers at white supremacist festivals. The story was inspired by racist singers Lynx and Lamb Gaede, 14-year-old twins from Bakersfield, Calif., who perform as Prussian Blue.

Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) are far from cute. They may be the most bizarre, perverse, unhappy, sexually preoccupied and wickedly interesting pair on TV.

Troubled character Matt McNamara (John Hensley), who tangled with the deadly white supremacists last season, finds solace with a sexy Scientologist convert (Kelly Carlson).

This infuriates his natural father, Christian, and the father who raised him, Sean. A new episode airs at 10 tonight. Also on this third episode of the season, Sean is searching for a nanny for his unborn son and Christian worries about his weight after he sees himself in a sex video.

Although "Smith" looks good, moves fast and has a great cast, the characters are cold. "Smith" wants to be a cross between "Ocean's 11" and "The Sopranos," but it's hard to root for the bad guys when you don't like them.

The cast also includes people who have done better work: Simon Baker, Virginia Madsen and Shohreh Aghdashloo ("24" and "House of Sand and Fog").

Madsen plays Stevens' wife. She knows about his crimes but looks the other way. Baker is in his gang. And Aghdashloo is a crime boss who handles the stolen goods.

A public memorial service from Australia for "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin airs at 9 tonight on Animal Planet. Irwin, 44, died on Sept. 4 after he was attacked by a stingray.

•The Fox News Channel will bring anchor Shepard Smith and the network's morning show, "Fox & Friends," to the Bay area Oct. 17. As part of the network's 10th anniversary "Thank You America" tour, the show will telecast live from the Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa on St. Pete Beach. Smith will also anchor "Studio B" and "The Fox Report" from the resort.

•Even with the flap over dividing the players by race and ethnicity, "Survivor: Cook Islands" didn't break any ratings records when it debuted last week. The opening episode averaged 17.7 million viewers, down from 19.3 million last season. "Survivor: Cook Islands," which has teams of blacks, whites, Hispanics and Asian-Americans, still won the night easily, but it was up against reruns on NBC and ABC.

•USA's search for the next "Nashville Star" cast comes to Tampa on Thursday. Talent scouts will be at Howl at the Moon, 615 Channelside Drive, for auditions that begin at 10 a.m. They will accept applications until 2 p.m. Singers will have one minute to perform a song from an approved playlist. A select few will be invited back to audition Friday. For details, go to www.usanetwork.com .

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