Mike Hughes on TV

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: “Saturday Night
Live,” 10 and 11:29 p.m., NBC.

Some hosts immerse themselves in the
full “SNL” experience. That's true in both these reruns.

First is Anne Hathaway's third time as
host, playing everyone from Carrie on “Homeland” to Katie Holmes
on “Ellen” and the woman in the “American Gothic” painting.
She also joins the cast for a mock “Les Miserable” song; Rihanna
is the music guest, in an OK episode

Then is Justin Timberlake for the fifth
time – which means entrance to the “Fifth-Timer Club” and
quick, funny visits by Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Tom
Hanks and Candice Bergen. It's a great episode; Timberlake is also
music guest and plays Elton John, singing at Hugo Chavez's funeral.

TONIGHT'S MIGHT-SEE: “Over the Hedge”
(2006), 9-11 p.m., ABC.

R.J. is kind of a schemer who stole all
the food from Vincent – who menacingly demands its return. His
solution is to trick Vern and the others into pillaging suburbia.

We should probably mention that R.J. is
a raccoon, Vincent is a bear (hence the menace) and Verne is a
turtle. Also, this is a cartoon and a fairly good, low-key one.

TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: “Smash,” 8
p.m.,NBC.

After 27 hours spread over two seasons,
fans got what they'd wanted: Last week's episode had “Bombshell”
(the Marilyn Monroe musical) open on Broadway. With one exception (a
mixed review from the New York Times), it drew raves.

People should be happy; they're not, of
course.

Juliette is bitter because Tom
considered putting their writing partnership on hold while he
directed; now they're near the breaking point. Karen has mixed
feelings about leaving the show to do Jimmy's rock-musical “Hip
List.” Things worsened when he got in a fight with his brother in
the after-show party; tonight, he seems to be falling apart as “Hip
List” wobbles.

Other choices include:

– “Yogi Bear” (2010) and “The
Lion King” (1994), 7:25 and 9 p.m., ABC Family. Here's a
family-film double-feature of total opposites. “Lion King” is
earnest and exquisitely crafted; “Yogi” is oddly charming,
despite its silly plot, as real actors (led by Tom Cavanagh and Anna
Faris) confront special-effects bears (voiced by Aykroyd and
Timberlake).

– “Mayweather,” 8 p.m., CBS. Next
Saturday, Showtime (CBS' sister network) will have the pay-per-view
fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Robert Guerrero. First, CBS
Sport helps nudge things along with this profile of Mayweather, the
undefeated welterweight champion.

– “Criminal Minds,” 9 p.m., CBS.
In a rerun, the team heads to Miami, were prostitutes are being
killed in a style similar to the way some animals were slain.

– “The Voice,” 9 p.m., NBC. Last
week, NBC made a belated decision to move “Smash” to 8 p.m. and
“Voice” to 9. Now that seems to be the new pattern; tonight
reruns Tuesday's “battle round.”

– “Iron Man” (2008), 10 p.m. to 1
a.m., FX. Six days before “Iron Man 3” debuts, here's the
original. The plot is absurd – even by fantasy-film standards –
but Jon Favreau directed it sharply, with actors – Robert Downey
Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard – who are much better than
the story.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: “Happy Endings,”
8 and 8:30 p.m., ABC.

This erratic-but-funny show wraps up
its season with a double dose of family complications.

In the opener, Megan Mullaney and
Michael McKean are back as Penny's mom and Dave's dad. They're still
dating and now they want to adopt a baby.

Then there's a jolt for Jane. She's
worked at achieving personal perfection, including a fine husband;
now she must plan the wedding of her dominant sister (Stephanie
March), who has a perfect fiance.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: “Live From
Lincoln Center,” 9-11:30 p.m., PBS (check local listings).

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
pushed Broadway boundaries with their 1945 “Carousel.”

They had a wordless opening and two
12-minute segments – a ballet by a trouble teen and (earlier) “If
Loved You,” song-and-dialog duet by her parents.. Other songs
ranged from the bubbly “June is Busting Out All Over” to the
demanding “Soliloquy” and the powerhouse “You'll Never Walk
Alone.”

Now Kelli O'Hara, a four-time Tony
nominee, stars with opera baritone Nathan Gunn. Audra Macdonald, who
won the first of her five Tonys in a previous “Carousel”
production, hosts.

TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: “Da Vinci's
Demons,” 9 p.m., Starz; reruns at 10.

As madness ripples through women in a
convent, two cities have opposite responses.

Rome sticks with religion; it sends an
exorcist who will expel Satan, possibly while killing his victims.
Florence sticks with science; Leonardo da Vinci scrambles to save a
loved one.

There's more in this terrific episode,
as Lorenzo Medici tightens his search for a spy. Viewers know it's
his mistress Lucrezia; she's clever, stretching for a way to
manipulate the search.

Other choices include:

– “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007),
8 p.m., TNT. Ever since the 2002 “Bourne Identity” – which
reruns at 10:30 p.m. – audiences have been fascinated by a man
(Matt Damon) scrambling to learn who he is and why people want to
kill him. Sharply directed by Paul Greengrass, this brings action and
answers.

– Newsmagazines 9-11 p.m., NBC.
Tentative plans call for giving “Grimm” a Tuesday shot. That
expands the room for “Dateline” and “Rock Center.”

– “Touch,” 9 p.m., Fox. Martin
(Kiefer Sutherlad) has been reluctant to tell his story – an
extreme one – to authorities. Now, in desperation, he tells it to a
police detective (Mykelti Wiliamson).

– “Vegas,” 9 p.m., CBS. Last week
this show was bumped by news coverage and moved to Saturday oblivion.
That episode saw a romance develop between Yvonne and Dixon; now
there are complications, just as his dad probes the death of a casino
dealer.

– “Blue Bloods,” 10 p.m., CBS.
Danny finds a man who is covered with his girlfriend's blood and
can't remember why. And Jamie helps cover up the intoxication of an
off-duty cop who caught a robber.

– “Al Madrigal: Why is the Rabbit
Crying?” 11 p.m., Comedy Central. Best known for dandy “Daily
Show” bits, Madrigal offers a gentle survey of his life. He ranges
from a gorgeous park that's a gang favorite (“take an Ansel Adams
photo and put a Cypress Hill video inside it”) to being wakened by
his daughter: “That's not an alarm clock you can hit; there's no
snooze button on a 3-year-old.”

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: “Community,” 8
p.m., NBC.

Inspired by the movie “Freaky
Friday,” Troy and Abed announce that they've switched bodies. Soon,
the spindly Dean Pelton claims he's switched with the macho Jeff.

Is this true? Are they putting us on?
And why does the custodian keep checking the light switch? The
answers unfold, sometimes hilariously, while Annie and Shirley
compete to be valedictorian.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: “Project
Runway” finale, 9-11:01 p.m.., Lifetime.

In last week's episode (rerunning at
8), Daniel Esquivel was eliminated. That leave three people showing
their collections, with a shot at being the show's 11^th
champion.

Michelle Lesniak Franklin, 34, is from
Portland, Ore., where she was once an assistant winemaker. Stanley
Hudson, 44, is from West Hollywood, where he also does costumes. And
Patricia Michaels, 46, is from Taos Pueblo, N.M., which her people
created centuries before Columbus.

TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: “Hannibal,”
10:01 p.m., NBC.

The show's strength and weakness are
accented in another extraordinary episode.

The weakness is in the
case-of-the-week. This wraps up suddenly, like an afterthought.

And the strength is in the richly
layered characters. Hugh Dancy is again superb as Will Graham, the
troubled crime-profiler. And for the first time we get some real
depth to his boss (Laurence Fishburne), whose wife (Gina Torres of
“Firefly” and “Suits”) is introduced, with her own troubles.

Other choices include:

– “American Idol,” 8 p.m., Fox.
Now things get tough. The only people left are Candice Glover, Kree
Harrison, Angie Miller and Amber Holcomb. Barring another
rules-changes, a great singer will depart.

– “Vampire Diaries,” 8 p.m., CW.
Will CW double its vampires next season? That depends on the success
of this series, which doubles as a pilot for a possible spin-off
series: Klaus heads to his family's home town of New Orleans, where
schemes swirl.

– “The Big Bang Theory,” 8 p.m.,
CBS. Here's a constant frustration for science-fiction fans: A show
sets up a great premise … then is canceled without resolving it.
Tonight, that happens to Sheldon's favorite show and he turns gloomy;
also Raj learns a secret about his new girlfriend (Kate Micucci).

– “Two and a Half Men,” 8:31
p.m., CBS. Having been dumped (again) by Lyndsey, Alan is despondent.
Walden tries (again) to cheer him up.

– “Glee,” 9 p.m., Fox. When the
power goes out, Will and Finn ask glee-clubbers to do acoustic
numbers. And in New York, Isabelle (Sarah Jessica Parker) asks Kurt
to help at a charity event.

– “Mary and Martha,” 9 p.m., HBO.
If you missed this movie Saturday, catch it now. Hilary Swank and
Brenda Blethyn are superb as opposites, united by pain and hope in
Africa.

– “Elementary,” 10 p.m., CBS.
Refusing to celebrate his first year of sobriety, Sherlock Holmes
tackles a tough task – finding the accomplice of someone who
blackmailed the family of rape victims.

– “Scandal,” 10:02 p.m., ABC. The
First Lady makes a decision that could doom the president.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: “American
Idol,”8-10 p.m., Fox.

Yes, this season may have the show's
best singers. More importantly, it has the best voters.

Each week, they've seemed to get it
right. All five of the guys were eliminated first. When only women
were left, voters dumped Janelle Arthur, a gifted singer surrounded
by gifted-plus. There's been no outrage … and no reason for judges
to use their “save.”

Now four women remain. They'll
reportedly choose one song at will and one from a “one-hit wonder.”

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: “Modern
Family,” 8:30 and 9 p.m., ABC.

“Suburgatory” has finished its
season and a new show debuts next week. Filling the gap, ABC gives us
two reruns of this annual Emmy-winner; both bring trouble for Claire
(Julie Bowen).

In the first, she ends up in the
hospital after some Valentine's Day role-playing with her husband
Phil. In the second, she goes to a reunion alone and meets a
professor she used to date; then Phil arrives.

That first one also catches Cam and
Mitchell, the morning after their Valentine party. They have
hangovers … and no idea why Dylan is now living with them.

TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: “Nova” and
“Nature,” 9 and 10 p.m., PBS (check local listings).

In the old days, Australia had
mega-monsters; now it suburban kangaroos.

“Nova” offers the third chapter of
a four-part series on Australia's natural history. Like the previous
two, it has gorgeous scenery; unlike them, it adds elaborate
re-creations of dinosaurs and more, in surprising places. A bone-dry
town of 170 people has remnants of a giant lake that held
mega-monsters.

Then a delightful rerun offers less
ferocity. Kangaroos form an uneasy co-existence with suburbia.

Other choices include:

– “Survivor,” 8 p.m., CBS. With
last week's elimination of Phillip Sheppard – the former soldier,
former federal agent and current eccentric – “Survivor” is down
to six “favorites” and three “fans.” Tonight, among other
things, they have the annual food auction.

– “Nature,” 8 p.m., PBS (check
local listings). Leading into the Australian double-feature, this
rerun views the harpy eagle, a South American raptor capable of
taking a large monkey back to its nest.

– “The Middle,” 8 p.m., ABC. In
fairly good stories, Axl fears he's no match for his brainy
girlfriend and Sue fumes at the prospect of the cheerleaders taking
over her duties as a wrestling rooter. In a lesser story, Frankie
arranges for her stoic husband to have a “play date” with a
neighbor.

– “Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit,” 9 p.m., NBC. When a sorority pledge say she was raped,
Benson finds administrators are intent on protecting reputations, not
protecting students.

– “How to Live With You Parents
(For the Rest of Your Life),” 9:31 p.m., ABC. Other kids may have
imaginary friends, but Natalie has an imaginary bully. She conjures
it up after hearing that her divorcing parents won't have the annual
family camping trip.

– “Chicago Fire,:”10 p.m., NBC.
Dawson tries desperate steps to help her brother (Jon Seda).

– “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,”
10 p.m., CBS. In this rerun, five bodies have been found in what
seems to be a meteor site. Finlay (Elisabeth Shue) recognizes one and
re-visits her past.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: “New Girl” and
“The Mindy Project,” 9 and 9:30 p.m., Fox.

It's a possible turning point for
“Project,” as Mindy fumes about her medical partners and decides
to be her own boss. Before that is a “New Girl” rerun, with
romance being tattered in hilarious ways.

Jess tries to shrug off the fact that
Nick kissed her, but grants that “I saw through space and time for
a moment,” Now she tries to hide this from her handsome boyfriend
Sam.

Also, Cece goes to a marriage
convention for people who share her East Indian roots. Schmidt –
not even remotely East Indian – goes there to win her back.

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: “NCIS,” 8
p.m., CBS.

Ziva (Cote de Pablo) has been on a
personal mission to catch the man who killed her father, the head of
Israel's Mossad force. Now she believes Bodnar (Oded Fehr) is in
Berlin; she heads there with Tony.

That's in an hour that also has
flashbacks to her early years with her dad. Also, a Mossad operative
has been killed in the U.S.; the NCIS team tackles the case amid
international repercussions.

TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: “The Dust
Bowl,” 8-10 p.m., PBS (check local listings).

A week after Ken Burns' compelling
“Central Park Five,” PBS starts a rerun (on two Tuesdays) of a
Burns classic with a much different time and tone.

The setting is the American prairie.
Lured by speculators, outsiders bought so-so farm land and were
encouraged by the government to plow it up. Then the winds. The
stories – of moving on or of withstanding a decade without money or
hope – are deeply moving.

Other choices include:

– “The Voice,” 8 p.m., NBC. This
is the last of the “battle rounds,” with dueling duos. Next week,
the “knockout “ rounds begin.

--Basketball, 8 and 10:30 p.m., TNT. In
the weeks ahead, the pro play-offs will take up large chunks of
cable. Tonight's double-header has the second game in two
best-of-seven series; it's the Boston Celtics at the New York Knicks,
then the Golden State Warriors at the Denver Nuggets.

– “16 Wishes” (2010), 8:30 p.m.,
Disney. Before getting her own series (“Jessie”), Debby Ryan was
the likable lead in this light (and fairly funny) film. On her 16^th
birthday, wishes start to come true.

– “NCIS: Los Angeles,” 9 p.m.,
CBS.After a task force killed a drug-cartel boss, his body was
stolen. The NCIS people search for a leak … and for the body. Kensi
and Deeks head to Mexico.

– “Golden Boy,” 10 p.m., CBS.
Clark has been secretly dating a reporter. Now he's accused of
leaking information in the latest case, about the murder of an
aspiring model.

– “Frontline,” 10 p.m., PBS
(check local listings). Americans have invested $10 trillion toward
their retirements … but are the financial institutions really on
their side? This probe looks at fees, kickbacks and “self-dealing”
schemes.

– “Body of Proof,” 10:01 p.m.,
ABC. A teen-ager has been killed at a mental institution and another
patient says she saw the killer emerge from a heating vent.
Meanwhile, Megan persists in trying to prove her dad didn't commit
suicide; she wants her mother to approve exhuming the body.