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Eastwick (ABC - 10 p.m.) is no longer looking so desperate. The Desperate Housewives dvd-like take on the 1987 feature film The Witches of Eastwick has relaxed in recent weeks, and is better for it. Eastwick has dropped the moral proselytizing and become what it should have been all along: a silly, feel-good soap opera.
Tonight's episode finds the townsfolk celebrating Halloween with a good old-fashioned witch burning. Desperate Housewives seasons 1-5 The bucolic seaside town was the site of a sensational witch trial in the late 19th century, it seems, and the town fathers have decided a Halloween witch burning would be a wonderful way to celebrate their heritage. The bonfire is meant to be symbolic, but in a town where so many of the women have taken on mysterious powers, it's bound to have people's nerves on edge.
- Talk about apt timing: Conniving Thomas Cromwell (James Frain) plays a prominent role in tonight's outing of The Tudors (CBC - 9 p.m.), Desperate Housewives box setjust weeks after Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize for her historical novel about Cromwell, Wolf Hall.
- Elvis impersonators are a dime a dozen, so leave it to a scheming would-be entrepreneur to come up with an idea for a one-size-fits-all "pro Elvis jumpsuit" on Dragons' Den (CBC - 8 p.m.).
- Why would you even think of watching a kids' Halloween special called Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (NBC - 8 p.m.)? Well, if Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen, Reese Witherspoon and Hugh Laurie lent their voices to the special, how bad can it be?

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