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The long-running "Friday Night Smackdown" (7 p.m., CW) won't be back on the CW next fall.

In separate announcements, the network and World Wrestling Entertainment said they had agreed to conclude their decadelong partnership after this season.

No reasons were offered.

WWE said it began talks with other networks after the CW's exclusive period to negotiate a renewal ended Jan. 31. Although no details were disclosed for a possible new home for the show, candidates might include NBC Universal, whose USA cable channel already carries "WWE Raw," and MyNetworkTV, where some affiliates aired "Smackdown" when they were UPN stations.

The two-hour "Smackdown" premiered on then-fledgling UPN in fall 1999 as strategic counterprogramming on Thursdays. "Smackdown" gave UPN a foothold on that night of bruising prime-time competition, but even as a ratings contender, it proved to be a sometimes uncomfortable fit with UPN's image.

When UPN merged with the WB in 2006, "Smackdown" seemed no less out of place on the resulting CW network.

Speaking of the decline of Western Civilization . . .

Mike Judge, the great mind behind "Beavis and Butt-head" and "Office Space," made his movie studio, Fox, really uncomfortable with his 2006 feature "Idiocracy" (7:45, Cinemax).

Luke Wilson stars as an average schmoe who wakes up 500 years in the future to find that the world has been dumbed down to such a crude level that he's a relative Einstein.

While the film's rather ordinary plot and arc make it a struggle in feature-length form, Judge's vision of the idiots out-breeding the brainiacs hits close to home often enough to make you squirm while you laugh. The sight gags are worth the price of admission, particularly the sight of London's Big Ben, now in digital form and constantly flashing "12:00."

Fox buried the film in fall 2006 (it never played theatrically here in Judge's hometown) and released it on DVD in early 2007.

Celine Dion gets her own one-hour concert special on CBS.

On "Celine Dion: That's Just the Woman in Me" (8 p.m., KRQE News 13), the multiplatinum megastar sings hits including "Because You Loved Me," "My Heart Will Go On" and "Taking Chances." The concert was taped last month at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.

Scheduled guests are singer-songwriter Josh Groban and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas.