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What to Watch on Friday: Comedy Awards with Louis C.K. and Donald Glover

Who Do You Think You Are (8pm, NBC) - "Parks and Recreation" star Rashida Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones, explores her maternal family history in a genealogical journey that includes investigative trips to Manhattan and Ireland.

Shark Tank (8pm, ABC) - Products include an elevated monorail bike system from the inventor of Rollerblades, and an update on a towel designed for modesty when changing. 

The Comedy Awards Playlist (9pm, Comedy Central) - Performances by nominees for the 2012 Comedy Awards, including Donald Glover, Daniel Tosh and Louis C.K. (right).

Fringe (9pm, Fox) - Walter reluctantly revisits his painful past after terrifying cases of spontaneous human combustion. Meanwhile, the future of both universes is at stake when the Fringe team faces David Robert Jones in the mother of all battles. 

The Goldfathers (10pm, National Geographic Channel) - The series premiere introduces three crews of Alaskan gold miners, who battle nature, machines and each other in a race against time to get as much gold from the ground as possible before winter arrives. 

Magic City (10pm, Starz) - Ike plots to save Judi from Ben Diamond while Vera tries something new in her attempts to get pregnant. Also, Danny grows closer to Mercedes and Klein's search intensifies. 

What to Watch on Friday: Travel to 'Magic City' requires Starz passport

Who Do You Think You Are (8pm, NBC) - Good luck, Edie Falco, in topping last week's incredible family history episode featuring Rita Wilson.

Grimm (9pm, NBC) - Nick's romantic getaway with Juliette turns problematic when he meets the unsettling neighbors and learns that the troubled wife has valuable treasure to protect.

Fringe (9pm, Fox) - Lincoln goes to the alternate universe to help Fauxlivia and his own doppelganger hunt for a vigilante who may be linked to shape-shifters.

Magic City (10pm, Starz) - For the nine of you who have Starz, a new series chronicling life in and around a luxury hotel in Miami Beach circa 1959. In the first episode, Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) must enlist the help of local mobsters to ensure the hotel's New Year's Eve concert goes well. Adrienne has a review.

Blue Bloods (10pm, CBS) - Danny reopens a closed case in which a fireman's death was ruled a suicide. The decision causes upheaval in the department, but Danny pursues the investigation at the insistence of the dead man's 12-year-old son.

In Plain Sight (10pm, USA) - Mary looks after a bigamist, who is hiding from his former employer and his two wives.

"Magic City's" bag of tricks is, sadly, empty

"Magic City" (10 tonight, Starz) pulls together all the hot motifs: There are mobsters, there's the beautiful Miami Beach scenery and it all takes place in a fancy hotel in the late 50s, so you get the glamour and the great clothes. There's lots of nekkid breasts on display too.

Those elements make for a beautiful series, but sadly the superficial aspects are as good as it gets. "Magic City" is so cool it leaves you cold. It's missing a solid center.

I think part of the problem is the handsome, likable star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays dapper Miramar Playa Hotel owner Ike Evans, a non-religious Jew who lost his wife to cancer, and is remarried to Vera (Olga Kurylenko), a beautiful former showgirl striving to be the perfect Jewish wife.

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