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"Nip/Tuck" (11 p.m., FX) has left the cozy confines of Miami for the smoggy skies of Los Angeles.

After all the bad stuff plastic surgeons Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) pulled in Florida, they decide to start anew in the fake breast capital of the world.

The McNamara/Troy practice is not exactly thriving when we find the docs again. The pair lives together, but they have very few patients to say "Tell us what you don't like about yourself" to these days.

Their luck shifts when they meet a publicist who starts throwing dysfunctional clients their way, including Carly (Daphne Zuniga, "Melrose Place"), who is apparently much too old to be the lead actress in movies anymore.

The guys also get consulting jobs on the plastic-surgery TV drama "Hearts ÕN Scalpels."

That's where the real fun starts. "Nip/Tuck" goes from outlandish drama to poking fun at itself.

There will still be plenty of sex and bad behavior, but at least now that's been tempered with some humor.

It's about darn time.

"Reaper" (8 p.m., CW), a comedy about a bounty hunter for the devil, is having hard times in the ratings, and I blame network idiots who scheduled it opposite "House" and the "Dancing With the Stars" results show.

How can you expect a new series to do well when it's competing with TV giants?

They're leading the poor little lamb to slaughter, and it's just plain cruel.

The series has a great premise and an amazing cast. It deserves to do well, darn it.

Sam (Bret Harrison), the minion of Satan (Ray Wise), tracks down evil escapees and returns them to hell - reluctantly, yet always with style.

Tonight, Sam, Sock (Tyler Labine) and Ben (Rick Gonzalez) capture an escaped soul and take the snow globe vessel to the DMV to turn it in. There they discover Gladys (Christine Willes), their soul receiver, is on vacation as all demons take Halloween off.

And Satan's a bit of a downer this episode because he feels Halloween mocks his very existence .

That's the way Arbor Day makes me feel.