DRAMA

When they were good

Back in 1999, we all thought “The Sopranos” would save television from itself. During that amazing and revelatory first season, the show stunned with its originality, daring and dramatic muscle. How could it lose, with the ferocious Nancy Marchand holding all the cards as malevolent matriarch Livia Soprano? The show was always about a man who hated his mother. Of course, the “Sopranos” has had a few very good seasons since Marchand’s death in season two, and many individually great episodes, but if you want to remember what all the fuss was about, you can watch these cleaned-up reruns.

THE SOPRANOS

Wednesday, 9 p.m., A&E

MADE FOR TV

Double Dutch dilemma

Neighboring teenagers and a jump rope figure prominently in “Jump In,” a new TV movie on the Disney Channel. Izzy is an aspiring boxer who lives on the same street as Mary, leader of the Joy Jumpers, a serious four-girl double Dutch team with aspirations on entering the tournament world. When one of the Jumpers defects to a rival team. Mary asks Izzy to substitute. Izzy has a nervo. Should he jump? Will his peers crucify him? Will his father, who owns a local gym, freak out? Izzy does jump and he jumps high, getting into it and learns that not all boys are meant to wear boxing gloves.

JUMP IN

Friday, 8 p.m., Disney Channel

Kiss me, I’m fat

Based on a true story (uh-oh), “To Be Fat Like Me” tells us something most people probably know anyway: Americans treat fat people differently than they do thin people. To prove this point, a comely, athletic blonde (Kaley Cuoco) dons a fat suit and wears it to school, where she was once popular-until people see that she is FAT. Wow, it’s like there’s this sudden hostility! This revelation like totally blows the blonde’s mind and the girl begins to see that her overweight mom (Caroline Rhea) might be, like, experiencing some difficulties in her life, too. Wow, it’s like empathy, or something.

TO BE FAT LIKE ME

Monday, 9 p.m., Lifetime

REALITY

‘Greasing’ the wheels

It’s hard enough to get a role in a Broadway musical. Thousands of people want the few spots that are ever open. To complicate the casting process further, a new show called “Grease: You’re the One That I Want” proposes to find the leads for a Broadway revival of “Grease.” Danny and Sandy, that is, played in the movies by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Contestants will have to compete on two platforms, singing and dancing. But the real question here is: Will Stockard Channing reprise her role as Rizzo? Your host is the effervescent Billy Bush.

GREASE: YOU’RE THE ONE I WANT

Sunday, 8 p.m., NBC

DRAMA

McSyndication

It’s only been on for two and a half years, but “Grey’s Anatomy” is the kind of show that syndication dreams are made of. It introduced viewers to the best cast currently working on television (take that, Aaron Sorkin) and coined a number of terms that have entered the lexicon: McDreamy, McSteamy, etc. If you’ve been slow to catch on or pretending you were too cool for this sort of shameless addictive TV watching, Lifetime will start airing reruns of TV’s hottest drama. Twenty million people per week can’t be wrong, can they?

GREY’S ANATOMY

Sunday, 11 p.m., Lifetime