TV tonight: Gene Kelly salute, 'Burn Notice'

By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY

Posted August 22, 2012

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The season finale of USA's 'Burn Notice' is tonight. After that, 'Suits' also bids a seasonal farewell. (Credit: By Glenn Watson, USA Network)

•TCM salutes the work of one of the greatest American dancers and film stars of all time, Gene Kelly.

You really can't go wrong all day — and if you're home during the day, check out The Pirate (2:45 p.m. ET/11:45 a.m. PT), a flawed movie that boasts one of his most robust dance numbers, and for Kelly, that's saying something.

Still, TCM has saved the best for the evening: On the Town (6:15 ET/3:15 PT), Cover Girl (8 ET/5 PT), An American in Paris (10 ET/7 PT) — and what may be Hollywood's best original musical ever, Singin' in the Rain (midnight, 9 ET/PT). These are the kind of movies that make you happy you live in the country that made them.

•On the TV front, we say a seasonal goodbye to two popular USA series. Burn Notice (9 ET/PT) wraps up first, followed by Suits (10 ET/PT).

•This also ends the first 10-episode run of Anger Management (FX, 9:30 ET/PT), but never fear: FX has agreed to make 90 more.

However much sense that makes as a business decision, giving that beneficent a blessing to a quickly produced, under-rehearsed, at-best mediocrity is as cynical a creative message as one could possibly send.