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“The Haunting of Lisa”: a k a “The Psychic Family.” Lisa is a 9-year-old girl with a sixth sense. Cheryl Ladd is her widowed mother and, as befits the Lifetime cable network’s theme of programming for women, a capable executive for the city of Haven Lake dating the handsome new police chief. When the girl’s psychic abilities become public knowledge during a murder investigation, it is revealed that Ladd, too, has them but has tried to cover them up. People, you see, just don’t understand those with supernatural powers. Remember: There is no 900 number for this movie (8 p.m., Lifetime), just a lot of thinly veiled self-help business (trust your instincts, don’t depend on a man for happiness, etc.). And while it’s admirably low key for its subject matter, and smarter than most movies that would take this plot, soon enough it turns into typical woman-and-daughter-in-peril TV-movie fare. Meanwhile, on free TV, PBS offers 90 minutes with renaissance man and master of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller (8 p.m., WTTW-Ch. 11).