(ALL TIMES ET)
10:30PM | MTV
Death Valley – The New York Times described this new action/zombie/cop comedy as Reno 911! with zombies, and while I think nothing will ever live up to Lt. Dangle and the gang, Valley is laugh-out-loud funny, with a fun cast that includes comedian and Fat Actress alum Bryan Callen, Lost‘s Tania Raymond, The Bold and the Beautiful‘s Texas Battle and underrated Popular alum Bryce Johnson.
8PM | VH1 – SERIES PREMIERE
Basketball Wives: LA – Kimsha Artest and sisters Laura and Gloria Govan are among the stars of this spin-off of the original Basketball Wives reality series. Will this batch of women prove to be as interesting as the Miami Wives? Eh …
9PM | TNT
The Closer – Brenda asks Raydor for help with a case, as the squad members are deposed in the lawsuit against Brenda.
9PM | COMEDY CENTRAL
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – This week’s four-ep marathon includes “Paddy’s Pub: Home of the Original Kitten Mittens” (10:30PM), or kitten “mittons” as Charlie spells it, and “The Waitress Is Getting Married” (9PM), in which Charlie (Charlie Day), in his own weird, but still sweet, Charlie way, shows his love for The Waitress (Mary Elizabeth Ellis, the real-life Mrs. Charlie Day).
10PM | LOGO
The A-List: New York – Austin and Reichen become closer when everyone else washes their hands of Austin, but that creates new drama for Mr. Armacost, when Jake starts to feel left out.
10PM | SHOWTIME
Weeds – Nancy, Andy and Silas plot revenge against Emma (guest star Michelle Trachtenberg), while Doug deals with a financial situation that means he really needs to make his hedge fund work and Shane gets a little more involved with the law than he intended.
10:30PM | THE HUB
Happy Days – It’s the classic “Potsie Quits School” episode of Days, with Potsie’s “Pumps Your Blood” gem.
Worth flipping to during commercials:
– Place your Bachelor Pad (8PM, ABC) bets: Is it Jake or Kasey who leaves?;
– Carter and Allison wear memory-reading devices as a means of appealing the ruling on their relationship on Eureka (8PM, Syfy);
– New episodes of American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior (9PM, Discovery) kick off with the lawsuit between the Pauls getting settled;
– Fiona hopes Charlie will go to the prom with her on Degrassi (9PM, TeenNick);
– Pete and Claudia try to find Stukowski’s partner when Stukowski is interrogated by Warehouse agents on Warehouse 13 (9PM, Syfy);
– On Alphas (10PM, Syfy), Hicks and Nina hook up with a dangerous Alpha cult leader;
– CIA Confidential: 9/11 Mastermind (10PM, NGC) chronicles the CIA’s decade-long hunt for 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed;
– On Rizzoli & Isles (10PM, TNT), a man dies during what appears to be a mugging;
– Sean is annoyed by new neighbors and Adam goes to Poppy’s high school reunion on The Big C (10:30PM, Showtime).
And the late-night line-up:
– Conan (11PM, TBS): Reese Witherspoon and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (REPEAT);
– The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (11PM, Comedy Central): Ali Velshi (REPEAT);
– The Colbert Report (11:30PM, Comedy Central): The Cars (REPEAT);
– The Late Show with David Letterman (11:35PM, CBS): Jason Sudeikis;
– The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35PM, NBC): David Koechner;
– Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05AM, ABC): Aziz Ansari (REPEAT);
– Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35AM, NBC): Robert Duvall;
– The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:37AM, CBS): William Shatner;
– Last Call with Carson Daly (1:35AM, NBC): Walt Goggins (REPEAT).
Charlie Sheen, Russell Brand and Louis C.K. are getting most of the attention, but I’m most excited that one of the best new shows of last TV season — Wilfred — returns for its second season on FX tonight (10PM ET). Season one of the series ended with a cliffhanger — had Ryan (Elijah Wood) […]