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Inasmuch as its host seems assured of escaping its episode run with his dignity intact, Spectacle: Elvis Costello With … (Sundance, Wednesdays at 9 p.m.

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ET) is a rousing success. To hear that a favorite artist will settle in for a stint as a chat-show impresario is to fret that he’s heading out to pasture for a while to chew cud and make milk for mild cheese. It is a relief to see that Costello allows himself no bit of tackiness beyond the frequent donning of a bolo tie.

Only occasionally does he try to anesthetize the way that you feel.

At the far end of the title’s ellipsis, we find such music-world luminaries as Elton John, Tony Bennett, James Taylor, and Smokey Robinson. All in all, it is a group that invites cuddling, if you make exceptions for the likes of Lou Reed, who turns up as always with his skin looking like papyrus and his wit seeming drier yet.

Costello opens each episode by belting out a relevant song—Elton’s “Bordertown,” Lou’s “Fem