THE WIZARDS RETURN: ALEX VS. ALEX
Disney Channel, 8:00 p.m. ET
SPECIAL: Talk about timing. There’s a new movie opening today called Spring Breakers, which follows the somewhat steamy escapades of a gaggle of thrill-seeking young women, two of whom are played by actresses who became famous playing much more wholesome roles on the Disney Channel. One is Vanessa Hudgens, star of the hugely popular High School Musical Disney telemovies. The other is Selena Gomez, who starred as teen sorceress Alex Russo in Disney’s The Wizards of Waverly Place sitcom, which ended last year. But here, on the same night Spring Breakers premieres in theaters, Disney presents the TV premiere of a one-hour Wizards reunion special. Fittingly, given her pushing-the-boundaries big-screen role, Gomez plays two roles in this new special: Her regular role of Alex, and an “evil” Alex, who employs black magic, with a leather outfit to match. As a guy who always preferred Serena to Samantha on Bewitched, and Jeannie II to Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie, I know which “Team Alex” I’ll be on.