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Highlights for the TV week ahead

(AP) ? It?s as inevitable each summer as sunburn. But you don?t have to go outside or splash on calamine lotion.

It?s Shark Week, which, since 1988, has been a jaws-somely popular programming event on Discovery Channel. It airs Sunday through Friday.

? ?Dirty Jobs: Jobs That Bite? (Sunday, 10 p.m.) Ouch! Host Mike Rowe climbs into a shark cage in South Africa and comes face to face with great whites, then tags great whites for migratory observation, and creates and tests (on himself) a shark repellant.

? ?Shark Attack Survivors? (Monday, 10 p.m.) Chew on this serving of shark-attack case studies and firsthand accounts, which delivers important information on how you can avoid or survive a shark encounter.

? ?Perfect Shark? (Tuesday, 10 p.m.) Who would search for a Perfect 10 version of a shark? Host Mike deGruy would. He?s filmed sharks for more than 30 years, and now heads out to sea looking for the most streamlined and extreme shark specimens. (Bo Derek with a fin?)

? ?Sharks: Are They Hunting Us?? (Wednesday, 10 p.m.) Animal behaviourist Dave Salmoni, a relative novice around sharks, meets with shark experts to ask the questions any ordinary guy might wonder. Like: Do sharks get a kick out of scaring humans?

? ?Shark Rebellion? (Thursday, 10 p.m.) The Brazilian port city of Recife recorded only one shark attack in 75 years. Then, in the past decade, 45 attacks have taken place, with 16 fatalities. What changed? Is something getting sharks hot under the collar?

? ?Dirty Jobs: Jobs That Bite Harder? (Friday, 10 p.m.) When will this guy learn? Mike Rowe is back to test a chain-mail shark suit in the middle of a feeding frenzy of Caribbean reef sharks, among other all-in-a-day?s-work chores.

? ?Science of Shark Sex? (Friday, 11 p.m.) Ooh-lah-lah! Travelling to the Tiputa pass in French Polynesia where grey reef sharks are concentrated, a group of international scientists study their mating habits, which have never before been captured on film. Early findings: Sharks have no intimacy issues, nor do they blush.

? Maybe it takes high-definition television to capture the deep connection between postimpressionist master Paul Cezanne and his native Provence. ?Cezanne in Provence,? a high-def documentary airing on PBS, illuminates how the region and its history fostered the genius of this painter, credited by many as the father of modern art. Featuring footage of some of the same locales made timeless by Cezanne in his work, the one-hour film also delves into the artist?s life in the South of France, from his birth in 1839, through a vital and intensely creative adulthood, to his death 100 years ago. It airs 10 p.m. Monday (check local listings).

? Based on the age-old notion that there?s a Mr. or Ms. Right waiting out there for everyone, ?Love Soup? follows two misfits looking for love in all the wrong places. The BBC America romantic comedy stars Tamsin Greig (?Green Wing,? ?Black Books?) as Alice Chenery, a perfume account manager in a London department store, and Michael Landes (?CSI,? ?Peep Show?) as Gil Raymond, a successful American comedy writer who moved to the English countryside looking for romance. As they endure a series of mismatches, bad dates and sexually promiscuous workmates, Gil and Alice seem to be living parallel lives. Each episode displays their continuing doomed attempts to find the similarly quirky person who will bring them the happiness they deserve. They just might be perfect for each other. But will they ever hook up? Find out when ?Love Soup? premieres 10 p.m. Tuesday.