Thursday TV: ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ ‘Person of Interest,’ ‘Whitney’ and ‘Prime Suspect’

● Charlie's Angels (8 p.m., ABC) This lousy, third-generation retread of the 1970s original is suitably DOA (dumb on arrival) but also diluted by present-day TV's cookie-cutter hustle and flow. Three ex-cons (a well-to-do blond jewel thief, a black detective caught in a sting and a Latina car thief) are hired as private investigators by the ne'er-seen Charlie Townsend, who now speaks to them from a decidedly upgraded speakerphone. The show's real duds are the Angels themselves — Rachael Taylor, Annie Ilonzeh and Minka Kelly — who come off as interchangeable affirmative-action figures.

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Dan Eggen 22 Sep, 2011

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