Reality show is Ted on arrival

The creator of the 1977 hit “Cat Scratch Fever” will be host to a new reality series “Wanted: Ted or Alive” (7 p.m. today, OLN). Five city slicker types will see whether they have what it takes to survive a week in the woods with Ted Nugent, creator of the album “Journey to the Center of the Mind.” But as we know, Ted’s been nowhere near the center for some years now. “Ted Or Alive” will air at 9 p.m., starting next Saturday.

¢ “Category 7: End of the World” (8 p.m. Sunday, CBS) demands that we spend four hours over two weekends watching the cities of the world get slammed by twisters, lightening strikes and hailstorms. As bad as this sounds, it’s a distraction from the film’s lame dialogue and out-of-control casting. Gina Gershon is the head of FEMA; Shannon Doherty is a meteorologist – you get the picture. My forecast: brief periods of amusement followed by a clearing trend of audience indifference.

¢ “Boondocks” (10 p.m. Sunday, Cartoon Network) makes its transition from the comic pages to the small screen. And it’s not a smooth one. The four-panel strip concerns Hughey and Riley Freeman, two precocious young black children who live with their cantankerous grandfather in the suburbs. In the strip, the precocious kids are fluent in conspiracy theories, political invective and frequently speak derisively of black-themed programming on UPN and BET. But while their outbursts are shocking stuff in a medium where “Blondie” shares space with “Love Is,” the “Boondocks” gang are not quite up to the task of seeming more outrageous than “South Park” or stranger than “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.”

Tonight’s highlights

¢ “Saturday Night Live” (10:30 p.m., NBC) airs a collection of sketches about commercials.

Sunday’s highlights

¢ Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): the dangerous road to Baghdad’s airport; NFL star Tom Brady; astronaut Neil Armstrong’s very first one-on-one interview since taking “one small step” on the lunar surface.

¢ The candidates square off in debate on “West Wing” (7 p.m., NBC).

¢ Ghoulish spoofs on the 16th annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode of “The Simpsons” (7 p.m., Fox).